BIT 142:

Intermediate Programming

Winter, 2006
Section 1
W 5:45p-7:50p

Homework

BlackBoard

Lessons

BIT 142 Announcements:

Career Talk @ UWB

CSS and UWB Career Services are co-hosting the CSS Alumni Panel on Wednesday, January 25th from 5:00-6:30 in UW1 103.

The panelist will answer a set of questions about careers, and take questions from students. Themes for the questions will cover topics such as interviewing, job hunting, and personal experience in the job market.
This is a great opportunity to network with CSS alumni so bring your resumes to talk about jobs. I understand at least on company is looking for job candidates.
Drop by before or after class for a little while or for the entire panel.
The UWB Career Center will be providing food.

The CSS Alumni Panelist are:

  • Brady Houck, Software Engineer, Flying Lab Software
  • Ryan Huff, Senior Consultant, Enterprise Risks Services, Deloitte & Touche
  • Bruce E. James, Software Development Engineer/Test, Microsoft Corporation,and Chief Operating Officer, Acirius Corporation
  • Samantha McAulay, Systems Administrator, Adhost Internet
  • Andrew Mikesell, Software Design Engineer in Test, Microsoft Corporation
  • Liyunesh Girma, Avanade Corp
  • Teferi Bekele, Avanade Corp

Jamie Shay, a CSS student and Career Center Intern, will be moderating the panel. Jamie is a former Technical Career Counselor and is available to help with resume writing and practicing interviewing. Please e-mail Jamie at <JShay@uwb.edu> to make an appointment with her at the Career Center. 

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.ctc.edu)
  2. Reading the above "Class Orientation" page
  3. Begin working through Lesson 01 (follow the "Lessons" link in the left-hand column)  

Open Programming/Web Lab Hours

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. 

Room

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

210

 1:15pm -5:30pm 3:30pm-5pm 1:15pm - 5:30pm None

231

None

 5:00pm-7:30pm None None

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
Also, some people have had trouble using the Safari Books Online. Hopefully, this document will clear up any problems.

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.

Course Materials
Syllabus
Pre-Quarter Letter
Personal Data Sheet
Taught by Mike Panitz

Grades, Study Guides:
Self-Grading Tool 
Excel Gradebook 1.0

Final Exam Study Guide