BIT 142:

Intermediate Programming
2008 Fall
Section 1
Weds 5:45pm-7:50pm

Homework

Google Group

Lessons

A Free, Online C# textbook

I've briefly skimmed through it, and it looks reasonable.  Since it's both free and online, download it & check it out.
http://www.robmiles.com/c-yellow-book/

Career-Advancement Activities:

Activity

Day

Time

Location

Resume Writing & Interviewing Seminar

Tuesday, 10/7

8 – 10:00 PM

UW1 202

Technical Resume Writing Seminar       

Wednesday, 10/8

2:15 – 3:20

UW1 030

Technical Resume Writing Seminar       

Wednesday, 10/8

5:45 – 6:45

UW2 140

International Careers Seminar

Wednesday, 10/15

11:00 - 1:00

UW1  051

How to Handle Tough Job Interviews Seminar

Thursday, 10/16

1:30 - 3:30

UW1 051

Fall Career Fair

Tuesday, 10/21

3:30 - 6:30

North Creek EC 

Fall Career Fair

Wednesday, 10/22

10:30 - 1:30

North Creek EC

Thinking Ahead to Graduate School?

Wednesday, 11/19

3:30 - 4:30

UW1 103

Posters that may be printed to advertise these activities to your students are attached. None of these sessions require pre-registration. The Career Fair poster and details of employers participating will follow as soon as both are available.

Important Information about BIT classes

Make sure that you read through this document, if you're taking any other BIT classes at Cascadia this term!!

Class Orientation
This class is partial online, and partially in person ; it will be important for you to understand exactly what is expected of you, and this document should help you understand that.

  If this is your first time to this web page, you should start by

  1. Emailing the professor to let him know you're here (mpanitz@cascadia.edu)
  2. Reading the above "Class Orientation" page
  3. Begin working through Lesson 01 (follow the "Lessons" link in the left-hand column)
     
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    Email:
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Open Programming/Web Lab Hours (tentative)

 Rooms 230 & 231 is used for open-lab time, so that you can get work done here at school with your classmates and friends in other programming classes. 
Area

Monday

Wednesday

Programming

 5:45pm - 10pm

Room 210

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Web

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Networking

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Help for people doing homework at Cascadia
The various file servers here at Cascadia have been experiencing some instability, and it looks like we may be experiencing more in the future.  I've put together a document detailing some strategies & tricks for continuing to work productively, despite the outages.

Interesting Interviewing Page
Slashdot has an interesting meta-article on interviewing in the high-tech industry.  Definitely interesting reading.

There are a ton of books available to you, as Cascadia students, for free, through Safari Books Online.  Safari has books from publishers such as O'Reilly, and is way cool.  Here's the URL:

http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/?fpi=&uicode=uwash

Interesting article by Charles Petzold

The title is 'Does Visual Studio Rot The Mind?' - definitely a worthwhile read, and makes a lot of good points.  Also has some interesting tidbits on upcoming Windows changes.

Cascadia Announcements:

Printing Limit: Each student is allowed to print 600 black and white, and 30 color pages per quarter.  After that, you can purchase an additional sheets from the cashier, in Enrollment Services.

In the event of inclement weather affecting morning classes, there will be notification on the local media by 5:30 a.m. You may also call the main campus number: 425-352-8000 to hear a message that will be updated with the latest Cascadia closure information. You may also go online to www.schoolreport.org and click on Cascadia Community College to get the latest report. Should the weather deteriorate during the day, you may check online, listen to the main campus message, check the media to hear news about closures or class schedule changes.

Syllabus

Taught by Mike Panitz