There is no textbook for this course.
The first day of classes is Tuesday, August 26, 2014. The last day to withdraw without failure is Thursday, October 9, 2014. The final exam for this course is scheduled to be Tuesday, December 9, at 1600, in the classroom. (See the university exam schedule.) The syllabus in the table below is subject to change.
| Day | Topic |
|---|---|
| (1) August 26 | Presentation by Mr. Taylor Greene of Google. Why Study Computing? |
| (2) September 2 | Presentation by Ms. Jennifer Whetstone-Jackson of the USC Career Center: The Value of Experiential Learning |
| (3) September 9 | Presentation by Chris Pierson of SCANA Corporation: "Computing from an Electric and Gas Utility Perspective" |
| (4) September 16 | Talk by Prof. Duncan Buell on Digital Humanities. |
| (5) September 23 | Talk by Mr. Richard Baldwin of Cyberwoven on Careers in Web Development. |
| (6) September 30 | Talk by Phil Moore and Paul Sagona: "Support for Research Computing: the University of South Carolina Research Cyberinfrastructure Program" |
| (7) October 7 | Talk on Healthcare Informatics by Dr. Denise Koessler Gosnell of PokitDok.com |
| (8) October 14 | Presentation by Dr. Jerrold Heyman of EMC. |
| (9) October 21 | Presentation by Dr. Yoannis Rekleitis of USC on Robotics. |
| (10)October 28 | How Does Watson Work? A Very Brief Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. |
| (11) November 11 | Dr. Mary K. Harris, Savannah River National Laboratory, "SRNL Scientific Computing---Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going!" |
| (11) November 18 | Field trip to IT-oLogy |
| (12) November 25 | Lecture on programming language paradigms |
| (13) December 2 | TBA |