CST300 - Week 3

Part 1: Time Management & Study Strategies

    I checked out the topics that I was interested in reading first. The public speaking section really needed more than just the "relax and take a speech class" tip. This really felt like the section was added to cover a base, but not to actually give advice.

    The Golden 20 tips are generally useful, with many of them I already use. Having a partner for studying is extremely useful, in my case. I am able to bounce ideas and concepts off another person, and do the same with them, which leads to both of us understanding the text better.

    Much of the university life tips are not relevant to CS Online students, it seems. However, the first few points about university social life is still applicable. I still feel a bit detached from the rest of my cohort, but that is something that takes time for me.

Part 2: Module 3's Learning

    I learned the difference between em dashes, en dashes, and hyphens through my industry analysis essay's peer review comments. You might be seeing a lot more em dashes from me now!  

    My ethics essay will be about whether AI chatbots are a viable replacement for mental health therapy. The topic was something I know I am against, so I had to research a bit for points to argue in favor of the topic. I had a few different ideas for an ethics topic, but were more contentious to write in an unbiased university setting. One topic was if AI is causing more harm than good in a political environment, and if it facilitates fascism via sycophancy/yes-man arguments.

Part 3: What Every Computer Science Major Should Know

    The Unix philosophy section is something I need to study! I am less fluent with vim and CLIs, and the exercises proposed here are very useful – like the direct microphone routing exercise. Data structures are also a topic that I struggled with in community college, so I need to practice these concepts more. Cryptography is a topic of interest for me, so the further reading recommendations is greatly appreciated. I find the Parallelism section to be a bit funny to read, since it reads from a point of view that is absolutely tired of this topic. I also find it interesting that the recommendations are not complete, because a universal solution has not been found yet. Overall, this site is a fantastic resource – I have it bookmarked for reference later.

Part 4: Code of Integrity

    The code of integrity is important for students to understand how a solution is created from a problem. Knowing how to arrive at this solution is the most important procedure that students will learn in any course. Not knowing how to do so will be reflected in interviews – in-person meetings will not grant applicants with the time to ask another person or software the solution to the interview. 

    The code also allows students to find creative solutions to problems that they would otherwise have not arrived at if they had plagiarized. Student groups will also feel more trusting with each other if they know that there is a code of integrity to follow.

Isopod Update: I went to Petco to buy some supplies, but found a dry container of panda king isopods. The clerk helped me open it, and fortunately there was a moist clump of dirt that they were huddled around! With this, I ended up getting these panda kings rather than supplies. A few days later, I ended up buying the supplies I needed at the reptile expo. I saw pineapple isopods there!