The Logical Dilemma

Keeping Students Enrolled in Logic

It’s important to get through Logic

Enrollment changes

The Three Structures

Sequence Selection Loop

Camtasia

StructureBrief\StructureBrief.html

The most common program

Pascal and me

The most common program

Analogies

Analogies

Analogies

Analogies

Black boxMailboxes for memoryPolymorphismPlus sign(+)Addition, positive number, letter grade,

international phone number, names on tree

Puns and jokes

Puns and jokes

What is the object-oriented way of getting rich?

Inheritance.

Puns and jokes

There are 10 types of people in this world – those who understand binary and those who don’t.

Help in the business world

MnemonicsAssemblerEvery good boy does fineRoy G BivHOMES

Help in the business world

Acronym3GL, 4GLALU, CPU, RAM, ROMTLA

Backronymsic: Said in context or Spelling is correcttip: To insure promptness

Help in the business world

Programmer abbreviationsmmddyyssn

Help in the business world

IdiomsTime-and-a-halfBitter pill to swallowBite the bulletStep up to the plateBallpark estimate

You never finish a program;

You just stop working on it.

Help in the business world

Don’t look stupidDon’t make anybody else look stupid

“Interger”Data isSQLchar

Easter Eggs

Notepad.LOGF5

Word=rand(x,y)

IE7God mode:{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-

99712043E01C}

Quotes

Not my favorite.“Tell me and I forget.  Teach me and I

remember.  Involve me and I learn.”– Benjamin Franklin

“First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.” – John Johnson

Debugging

Pseudocode with Logic bookTestProgram.cs

A quote I read

The biggest changes in college since I was a student:40 yearsPowerPoint

Sources for PowerPoint

Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds10/20/30 Guy Kawasaki

10 slides20 minutes30-point fontTake age of oldest person in audience and

divide by 2)

Evil slide

Attention

Cheating

Water bottlesRubber bandsLegal cheat sheet?

Cheating

Stanford StudyComputer science students make up 6.5

percent of studentsThey account for 23 percent of violations

of the university's honors code

Why do CIS students cheat?

Marketability of majorThe material is cumulativeUnlike other disciplines, it is not

possible to merely submit inferior work.Work is more often done near othersAssignments are reused because they

improve with time and debugging

MOSS

Measure of Software SimilarityA system for detecting software

plagiarismFree to educators

A Vision of Students Today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

Remember

Bad teachers think a college campus is a nice place to be when there are no students around.

Good teachers think a college campus is a nice place to be when there are no administrators around.

Administrators think a college campus is a nice place to be when no one is around.

Bibliography 2009 Drop in Business Majors http://www.heri.ucla.edu/index.php Why do computer science students cheat? http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_14351156?nclick_check=1 Attention Span graph from Hartley J and Davies I, “Note Taking: A Critical Review”, Programmed Learning and Educational

Technology, 1978, 15, 207-224. Administrator joke: http://www.tcnj.edu/~hofmann/lessons.htm MOSS: MOSS http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/ Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery by Garr Reynolds, New Riders Press, 2008. ISBN:

0321525655 Guy Kawasaki: www.guykawasaki.com Free photos stock.XCHANGE: http://www.sxc.hu/ 40 years and PowerPoint: ellenfinklestein.com