COSC 122: Computer Fluency

For Winter 2025 Term 1

• Download the course outline that covers course objectives, grading, and various course and university policies. We will review this in the first lecture but if you miss it or forget the information, you can always come back and reference this document.
• Office Hours: Wednesdays 1pm and by appointment.
• Important Dates: See the university calendar for important dates and deadlines.

How Each Week Works (Roughly)

This is a fun course, but learning is mandatory. =)

This course introdcues some basic programming concepts which may seem intimidating at first, but I hope to make it relevant and fun for you. From time to time, I'll be asking about your interests so I can think about how best to tailor the course to you. Feel free to share with me whatever you are comfortable with.

• Wednesdays:
  Lectures with small activities that are designed to ensure you understand how the technical concepts work. The focus is to discuss these activities, compare multiple working solutions, and talk about common misconceptions and mistakes.
• Fridays:
  Reviewing the main technical concepts and working on a larger technical problem. You may need time outside of class to finish the activity. All group activities are due Sunday 11:59pm of that week.
• Labs:
  Each lab has exercises for you to complete. They are designed for you to be able to finish the activity during lab time, and show the results to the TA for grading. The TA is available to support you if you have any difficulty with any part of the lab. You can use the extra time in the lab to ask about anything computing related, something you've seen in the course that you're not sure about or something you saw in the news and are curious about. Labs are spread out throughout the week so we will align labs with the topics covered in the lectures from the previous weeks. All lab deliverables are due at the beginning of your next lab session. The required documents must be uploaded to Canvas and you must demonstrate your work to the TA before leaving the mark to obtain full marks.