1. CSCE 1040

2. “Session” Objectives After class “today”, students will be able to:
Describe how instructional objectives are useful in course design and student prep
Find an electronic version of the web page for Fall 2013’s CSCE 1040, section 1
Log on to the CSE computers
Find the CSCE 1040 lab – homework
Hit a life-sized picture of Phil Sweany with a dart from 8 feet away while standing on one foot and imbibing a beverage of choice

3. New and Different Mandatory lab sections in NTDP F270 No Praktomat
Friday 11:30am – 2:20pm (starts 8/31 ??)
Tuesday 8:00am – 10:50am
Tuesday 1:00pm – 3:50pm
Wednesday 2:30pm – 5:20pm
Wednesday 6:30pm – 9:20pm
Thursday 2:00pm – 4:50pm
Thursday 6:30pm – 9:30pm (???)
No Praktomat
We WILL use Moodle

4. Instructional Objectives
“An intent communicated by a statement describing a proposed change in the learner” (Mager 1962)
Describes how learner demonstrates that objective reached
Describes important conditions
Indicates how to evaluate performance

5. Objectives Answer Where am I going? How shall I get there?
How will I know I’ve arrived .
(What will be on the exam?)

6. Why ? Leads teacher, student towards goal(s)
Allows prioritizing topics
Leads to well-structured course (???)
Makes preparing exams easy
Study aid for students

7. Examples (The student will be able to:)
Solve quadratic equations
Given a list of 35 chemical elements, recall and write the valences of at least 30
Demonstrate an appreciation of music
Know the rules of football
Given a list of algebraic equations with one unknown, solve for the unknown without aid of references, tables, or calculating devices

8. Quiz 1
What programming language(s) are you comfortable using to write programs?
Have you used Unix/Linux systems?
Have you used command-line operating system(s)?
Have you taken CSCE 1030 at UNT at least as recently as Fall 2010?

9. Quiz 2
Please PRINT you name as legibly as you can on an otherwise blank sheet of paper. (I’ll use this to determine who has shown up to class “at least once.”)