We’re glad you’re here! Welcome to the First-Year

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We’re glad you’re here! Welcome to the First-Year Experience! This is CSE1300 First Things First http://ccse.kennesaw.edu/fye The FYE site includes: Up to date schedule These powerpoint presentations Instructor Office Hours GTA Hours Access to tutoring Course policies Lots more... Why are you here? You might be a college of computing major: IT, CS, SWE, Data Analytics, Cyber Security, etc. You may not have any experience programing and need a soft introduction to problem solving and coding. You might be a non computing major, who is interested in learning more about how computers work and get an introduction to problem solving. Problem solving While the primary topic of this class is computing, a big part of what we teach here is problem solving. These are real life skills which work in all fields. Being able to take on a task that is scary, that you’ve never seen before, that you have no idea how to solve, and work through it is life changing. It’s one of the highest predictors of success in a career. How does this class work You’ll have lecture every week. Slides are posted on the FYE site (see first slide) Videos of class are also posted, thus if you need to miss a class you can watch the video if necessary WARNING: Class attendance is HIGHLY recommended. Folks who do not attend and pay attention have a much lower success rate. Many of these topics will see obvious when you listen in lecture or watch the videos. However, you won’t understand them until you do them. Actually Learning You’ll have Quizzes most week. They are taken in D2L. They are open notes, open book. We drop your lowest quiz grade at the end of the semester. As such you should be able to get close to 100% average on quizzes. You’ll have assignments to do multiple times per semester. You should attempt these assignments yourself. This is how you’ll know if you’ve learned the material or not. If you are stuck, you should ask questions. You can come to my office hours (virtually or in person) or you can come to the GTAs live sessions. Each time you go to live sessions, you earn extra credit. Do not just find someone to give you the answer. If you do, you’ll almost certainly fail the final and the class. We’ll drop your lowest assignment. Exams You’ll have 3