BIT 142:

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

Homework

Google Group

Lessons

XNA

BIT 142 Announcements:

Paying Internship!

UWB is spearheading a project that will attempt to create an online, social space for students to learn and explore math concepts together - MathWorld!  There's more information here.

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)
     
    Google Groups
    Subscribe to CCC_BIT_142_2008Sp
    Email:
    Visit this group

Domain Name Change
Cascadia Community College has recently received it's own, independent accreditation (previous to that, it was operating by the accreditation and oversight of another community college).  As a result, we've now obtained a top-level .EDU domain.  Please note that instead of (for example) mpanitz@cascadia.ctc.edu, it's now mpanitz@cascadia.edu 

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

 Room 230
3:45 -
5:45pm		 3:45 - 5:45pm
in Room 230
 
5:45 - 8:00pm
in the OLC

Web

   Room 230
3:45 -
8:30pm

Networking

 Room 180
3:20 - 5:20pm		 Room 180
3:20 - 5:20pm

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 600 sheets (from the cashier, in Enrollment Services) for $20

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