CSC153, Class 55: Wrapup/Eval

Admin:
* Monday, 11:30, Darby lot.  Be there.  After this summer, new students won't know about "Darby lot" (partially because Darby won't exist, partially because the lot won't exist, eitehr)

Overview:
* Evaluation forms (Done)
* Sam's rant on evaluation forms
* What we may have learned in this class
* Final thoughts

The "old" raise process:
* Faculty members write "What I did last year"
* Department chairs read, give us a 0-3 score on each category
* Division chairs reread everybody's, fix the scores
* Magic formula: .5 * teaching + .33 * research + .17 * service
* Those numbers can then be used to determine raises

The problem:
* Research is easy to evaluate: Count papers
* Service is comparatively easy to evaluate: Count hours
* Teaching is comparatively hard to evaluate

Reflections on the class ... What is the subject matter of the course?

The basics:
* The Scheme Programming Language
* The Java Programming Language

Computer science:
* Algorithm design
  * Divide and conquer
  * Greed
  * Dynamic programming (caching in array or table)
  * Etc.
* Important algorithms
  * Sorting: 
  * Searching:
  * Etc.
* ADT design
* Important ADTs
  * Lists
  * Arrays/Vectors
  * Stacks/Queues
  * Dictionaries/
* Data Structures
  * Trees
* Functional programming
* Object-oriented programming

General academic skills:
* Take risks
* Think on your feet
  * The most important thing you gain from a liberal arts education is the ability to bullshit coherently and persuasively
* Some problem-solving strategies that can be applied to other stuff
* Some formal thought

Moral modeling:
* Treat others well (People are important)
* Take advantage of cultural and academic opportunities

That is a lot of different stuff to learn in one semester.  Congratulations!

Questions:
* How do I keep up this knowledge?  Lunch discussion Monday.