Questionnaire

CS63: Principles of Computer Organization
Fall 1997

Ray Ontko
Department of Computer Science
Earlham College

Name

Intended year of graduation

Phone

Drawer

e-mail

Major(s)

Minor(s)

What programming languages do you know well (i.e., well enough to write a few thousand lines of debugged code over a weekend)?

What other programming languages do you know?

Which of the following courses have you taken?

CS16: Symbolic Logic
CS20: Computer Applications and Society
CS35: Programming and Problem Solving
CS38: Advanced Programming
CS40: Seminar
CS43: Logical Systems
CS60: Theory of Computation
CS61: Algorithms and Data Structures
CS63: Principles of Computer Organization
CS65: Database Systems
CS71: Principles of Programming Languages
CS72: Operating Systems
CS80: Senior Seminar
CS85: Independent Study
MATH20: Calculus A
MATH21: Calculus B
MATH25: Discrete Mathematics
MATH45: Linear Algebra
PHYS45: Electronics and Instrumentation
PHIL64: Philosophy of Minds and Machines

What other courses are you taking this semester?

How often do you check your e-mail?

Never
Once per week
Once per day
Several times per day

Do you have your own personal computer here at Earlham?

If so, what kind of machine and what operating system do you use?

Do you have the ability to connect to the world wide web from your machine?

With which of the following operating systems are you facile?

Unix
VMS
Mac System 7
WinNT
Win95
Win3.x
MS-DOS

Do you know HTML well enough to create a web page with simple formatting tags and links to other web documents?

What previous experience do you have with electronics, if any?

What would make this course successful for you?

What would make the course a failure for you?

Why are you taking this course?

Which of the following learning strategies works best for you:

Highly structured, lots of small assignments.
Preparing, coming to class, participating, study groups.
Independent reading and studying, demonstrating competence on examinations.
Other.

Explain your answer to the above question. Why does it work best for you?

There are at least two schools of thought about attending college. One is process oriented: it seeks to develop life-long learning skills and habits of mind. Another is outcome oriented and seeks to certify that the individual has acheived certain measurable levels of master of knowledge or skills. Is one of these more important to your than the other? If so, which one? In short, what do you hope to get out of your Earlham education?