Class Agenda
4/29/99 Version (of www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/tenpp/agenda.html)

I. Talks. Formal presentations by students are the first and most important agenda item.

The purpose of the talks is practice in speaking to one's peers. Another benefit comes from dealing with questions and comments. A presentor gains from the knowledge of those in the audience. The listeners' reactions to what one has said are a vital part of the presentations.

Preparing to speak is essential. It could be as simple as listing one's ideas in the form of an outline, whether they concern a project, subtask, or information from an article or book one has read. Measures helpful to finding a project can come from rating talk points numerically, 10 for greatest interest to the speaker, 0 least. Asking listeners to do the same can start discussion. Here are some possible questions.

A. Is something interesting or worthwhile do-able in ten weeks?

B. Is there much likelihood of this topic attracting partners?

C. Are there others interested in this item, a client?

Ideas in an initial talk outline can be reordered based on the values of triples (A,B,C values) given by all the listeners.

What follows is unchanged from a 12-31-98 Version.

Create detail about the first-ranked topic. List jobs that need to be done (potential work tasks). Indicate some detail from pursuing a source [discussion with client, book chapter or article read, reading about item on web]. Present what you did on one or two pages. Talk about the pages.

II. Oral. We always spend at least 5-10 minutes talking with one another. This time can extend to 20 minutes if the group wishes. The Administrator asks whether people need more time. A record of group discussions tracks the number of times each person participates. Participants rate each other's contribution to the class and to their own growth.

III. Written. We exchange drafts and look at each other's written comments on work by people in the class and not in the same group. We work all quarter toward a professional product describing the project. The material handed in is timely and high-quality.

IV. Review. The Administrator can add/change dates for talks on a sheet brought to each meeting. Drafts of previous term interim and final project reports are in the library: note they aren't authoritative; your report can look very different.

V. Return. Hand in pages describing your project ideas in the first three meetings; combine them with others' to form a group submission within the first three weeks. Hand in an interim report to the Administrator within the first six weeks. Finish a final report within the last week of classes.

Assignment 1

1. One-page reaction comments on something you read.

2. Preferred schedule for your talks.

3. Days you will serve as recording secretary.

4. A paragraph describing your project preference. This is a preliminary statement and it isn't binding.

5. A statement about which CS 190 web material you would like amplified.

6. Willingness to discuss one or another of the CS 190 exercises on the web

or the organizational issues raised in class.

7. Statement on your interests regarding guest lecturers: entrepreneurship, intellectual property, and marketing.

8. List of meetings in the first four weeks when you will definitely make a class presentation or lead a discussion.

Hand in all items on a page headed by your name, keeping a copy for your records.