CS 3195 Junior Professional Orientation

Spring 2009

Schedule: Tuesdays (Kreinovich) or Thursdays (Novick) 3:00 - 3:50 p.m., Room 322

Instructors:

• David Novick, Room 203 CS Building, novick@utep.edu, 747-6031
• Vladik Kreinovich, Room 215 CS Building, vladik@utep.edu, 747-6951

Overview: This class is an introduction to the Computer Science profession, with emphasis on job placement, graduate study, and professional ethics.

Course Materials

• Syllabus
• Course Outline
• Video of Randy Pausch's talk on time management
• Time management advice from Penn State University
• Time management advice from academictips.org.
• How to give an effective PowerPoint presentation, by David Novick
• How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science: A Speaker's Guide for Students, by Ian Parberry (2000)
• Schedule of practice talks for Thursday section

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