Social RPG — http://www.jellywars.com/something
Ben Morrison
Hoo's Junk — http://people.virginia.edu/~rar8j/html/
Alex Rawls
Metro Router —
http://people.virginia.edu/~mwl3k/metrorouting/
Kristen Henderson, Michael Lew
The Awesome Tank Game —
http://people.virginia.edu/~msk2c/cs150/tank/main.html
Jessica Geist, Mark Berry, Meghan Knoll
The Apartment Complex —
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mvs6f/cs150final
Sara Alspaugh, Ellen Clarke, Becky Elstad, Mike Szlamowicz
vBay — http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jkb4s/auction/
Andrew Baker, Jonathan Faulkner, Jordan Buller
On the course pledge, you signed:
I will provide useful feedback. I realize that CS150 is an evolving course and it is important that I let the course staff know what they need to improve the course. I will not wait until the end of the course to make the course staff aware of any problems. I will provide feedback either anonymously (using the course feedback form) or by contacting the course staff directly. I will fill out all course evaluation surveys honestly and thoroughly.One way to honor this pledge is to submit the two course evaluations:If I like the course, I will help promote it by telling my friends about it. If I really like the course, I may even tell professors and deans about it. If I don't like the course, I will make sure the course staff know why.
Who can forget that stream of English undefiled, so smooth, so deep, and yet so clear, that passed from point to point with gentle touch, that commonly flowed along with the quiet of conscious power, yet sometimes became tumultuous with feeling, and then came the music of the cataract and the glory of the rainbow!History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919, Vol. 2
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customer got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.Although CS150 has striven to be consistent with Perlis' spirit, when you fly in an airplane, put your money in a bank, get LASIK eye surgery, or live near a nuclear power plant, you would be worried if the people who programmed those things agreed with Alan Perlis that their job was not to make then "error-free". If you want to learn how to make robust programs and reason about their correctness, take CS205: Engineering Software in the fall. CS205 focuses on engineering, not computer science. That means the course is mostly about ideas and methods for building programs that behave reliably under constraints of cost and time (how long does it take to get the program working, and how expensive will it be to change it). The ideas and techniques you learn from CS205 will enable you to think about design more clearly (whether of software, or something else), and will lead you to build more useful and exciting programs than you would without them. In Fall 2007, CS205 will be taught by Professor Paul Reynolds. Class meetings will be Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 1-1:50pm in Olsson 009.Alan Perlis, quoted in Abelson & Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
If you are interested in Malware Detection and Response, System Security, or Physical Cryptography and Security or you have your own idea for and interesting project, talk to me about opportunities for students in my research group.
If you want to learn more about the history of computing, take MDST 110.
If you want to learn more about Ada Byron's father, take ENNC382.
If you want to learn more about logic, take PHIL 242.
If you want to learn more about how language works, try AMEL 365.
If you want to learn about music and computers, take MUSI 339.
If you want to learn more about cryptology, take CS588. (You have enough background to take this next time it is offered.)
If you want to learn more about how biology programs, take BIOL 405.
If you want to learn more about quantum physics, try PHYS 355 (at your own risk!).
If you finish reading GEB and want to read more by Hofstadter, try Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (a collection of his essays for Scientific American) and then Le Ton Beau De Marot : In Praise of the Music of Language (all about translation). Hofstadter also has a new book out that revisits many of the ideas in GEB: I Am a Strange Loop.
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