OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AND DATA ABSTRACTION QUESTIONNAIRE

You may answer these questions on separate sheets of paper and turn them in at the time of your office visit. Or you may print out this questionnaire and answer the questions on it, using the back if needed.

1. Name (please print clearly):
2. Preferred phone number:
3. Preferred e-mail address:
4. Year (first-year, etc.), major:

5. Have you taken this course at Rowan before? If so, when? Why are you retaking it?

    

6. The key prerequisite for this course is
   • CS 04.113 Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (minimum grade of C minus), or
   • AP exam credit (a score of 4 or 5).
   Which of these two ways applies to you? If the former, write down your IOOP final letter grade. If the latter, write down your AP exam score, when you took the exam, and the high school where you took the AP course.

    

7. What other courses are you currently taking?

    

    

8. Were you enrolled last semester in LiBBy, the CS Learning Community? If not, why not?

    

    

9. Are you enrolled this semester in LiBBy? If not, why not?

    

    

10. Characterize your usage of and experience with computers, for example, use for Web surfing and word processing, guru, regularly hack into the Pentagon, took one apart to install bigger disk or more RAM or faster CPU, built one from parts obtained at flea market or garage sale, found one or more bugs in the Linux kernel, read the Linux kernel source code for relaxation, etc.

     

11. What is computer science, that is, how would you define this term to one of your friends who doesn't know and asks?

     

12. Why are you a computer science major or minor? Be honest!

     

13. What programming languages (VisualBasic, Java, C, C++, Perl, Python, etc.) are you comfortable using?

     

14. What operating systems (Windows XP/7, Linux, MacOS/iOS, Android, etc.) are you comfortable using?

     

15. Briefly describe your most recent summer job, part-time job, or intern experience.

     

16. What on-campus activities, clubs, organizations are you involved in or plan to become involved in?

     

17. Briefly describe your hobbies and outside interests.

     

18. Look through the syllabus. What is an ``office visit'' and how long (by what date) do you have to do it?

     

19. Look through the syllabus. Are make-up exams given?

     

20. Look through the syllabus. What is my attendance policy?

     

21. If people often mispronounce your name, describe how to pronounce your name correctly using rhymes or a phonetic spelling. If you have a preferred nickname, please give it.

     

22. Please make up a code name or number that will be used for posting your grades on the Web. To protect your privacy, choose something that people who know you would not easily guess.

     

23. Other than being required, why are you taking this course? What are your goals and expectations? What do you want out of this class? Give a list of several specific things that you hope to learn in the course.