Biosketch
Assignment

Warning: required assignment

Completion of this assignment is required in order to pass the course; anyone who does not turn in the completed assignment may as well drop the course because no matter how many points they accumulate, they will earn an E.

Deliverables

The purpose of this assignment is so that Dave can learn a little (or a lot) about you and to help him learn the names of his students. To that end, you are to write a "biographical sketch" as outlined below.

First page, upper right-hand corner

• Legal name
• Course number (e.g., CIS 3020) you are taking

First page: photo and name

• A recent photograph of you (preferably doing something you enjoy). The photo must be good enough that someone who does not know you could pick you out it a crowd just by looking at the photo.
• Your preferred name (what you want to be called) and a phonetic guide to pronouncing both your preferred name and family name. Note: if you want to use the International Phonetic Alphabet, that's fine, but what I really have in mind is most easily explained with an example: "Peir Tochswell sounds like pay tox+vull (box with a 't' + full with a 'v')."

All about you

Write at least 500 words (single spaced) telling me about yourself; a person reading this section should have a sense of who you are. Things that you may choose to talk about might include what makes you special, where you are from, what is important to you, your hopes, dreams, and aspirations, things you are proud of, things you regret, hobbies, etc. Note: an informal, first person tone is fine.

An alternative

You have the option to substitute a well-thought out essay (of at least 500 words) explaining why you don't want to write about yourself in lieu of writing 500+ words about yourself.

Course expectation

The answers to this section do not count as part of the 500 word minimum.

• Why are you taking this class?
• What do you hope to get out of this course?
• What should an instructor expect from you?
• What do you expect from an instructor?
• What makes a course "excellent?"

Programming background

The answers to this section do not count as part of the 500 word minimum. If you have no programming back ground, say so and skip the questions in this section.

• How long have you been programming?
• What programming languages are you proficient in?
• What is your favorite programming language and why?
• How much programming experience do you have?
• What is the most complicated program you have written from scratch? How long was it? What language did you use?

Note

This assignment does not require the cover-page with learning experience and honesty pledge that regular assignments require. However, by submitting the assignment, you are implicitly asserting that all the information your are providing is accurate and truthful.