- Organize them into six groups of five students each - Tell them about textbook - Explain the group assignment - Divide the chapters among the groups - Point them to course website - Capture how much people know right now - Do an introduction of operating systems: history, motivation

Chapter 2	Computer system structures
Chapter 8	Memory management
Chapter 3	Operating system structures
Chapter 4	Processes
Chapter 5	CPU scheduling
Chapter 6	Process synchronization
Chapter 7	Deadlocks
Chapter 9	Virtual memory
Chapter 10	File system interface
Chapter 11	File system implementation
Chapter 12	I/O systems
Chapter 13	The secondary storage structure

- Explain objectives of course - Capture what they know about programming - Introduction to BlueJ. Shapes project. See the README file. - Manipulating it via clicking. - Manipulating it with expressions. - Opening Picture project - Ask the picture to draw itself - Change the color of the roof

education

What worked: CS21A and BlueJ

I have a small class of 8 students. Most are taking CS21A for the first time because they're interested in shifting into either CS or MIS; this course will help them decide if it's worth it! =)

BlueJ was a great idea. The students quickly got the hang of creating and manipulating the different objects. I demonstrated how to create a circle and make it visible, then I asked them to figure out how to make the circle yellow. People started out by typing yellow in the parameter box - they'd figured that out quickly! - and BlueJ reported an error. Some students figured out that they had to put quotes around the word. That prompted a discussion on the difference between "yellow" and yellow.

When I showed them the Picture project and the source code for the Picture class, they realized that it was the same as what they had been doing before, and they were able to modify the code to make the roof green. (Most did it in drawColor, though, so I'll have to reinforce methods by asking them to get it to work in draw()).

I asked the students what they wanted to learn how to do next, and one said that she wanted to learn how to make the shapes move to a precise position. I showed them how to modify Circle.java, basing my work on moveHorizontal. I declared an empty method first and then showed how it turned up in the method list, then I filled in the method body based on their prompting. A student observed that Java is case sensitive, and I repeated that for the benefit of the class. Another student asked about spaces, and I asked her to check it out while I squeezed the code I'd just written into a single line. I demonstrated that it produced no errors, but said that spaces were useful for people.

On Friday, I plan to talk about methods and variables. =)

In the future, I might want to ask them how to perform every step of the way.

What didn't:

- Trying to capture what students knew in CS161 was difficult,

probably because they were fresh from a vacation and they didn't have a clear idea of it. Sir Maguyon's way of explaining CS161 was a lot more vivid; I should sit in his 9:30 class and go on straight!

- I had a hard time lecturing because I didn't have a lot of anecdotes

prepared. They laughed a bit at my cooking thing, though.

I can just hear it now.

Welcome to Day 2 of CookOrDie: Adventures of a Desperate Cook! I'm Sacha Chua and I'll be your host for today's segment, "Veal sausage and potatoes".

It has all the makings of a bad survival show... Hey, now there's an idea - grab a bunch of geeks who have no idea how to cook, turn them loose in a supermarket with a budget of PHP 100 (~ USD 2) a day, and see how long they can survive without repeating recipes and using only a microwave and a toaster oven!

This meal was a bit more expensive than it should have been, but I know how to fix it now. It came to a total of (+ 44 9.25), or 53.25. I can improve this by using more potatoes, thus ensuring that I can keep half of the bratwurst for breakfast the next day. If I doubled my portion of potatoes and added some herbs and spices - would you believe that I have neither salt nor pepper? - then I could have a good meal for (+ 22 (* 2 9.25)), or 40.50.

Microwave chopped potatoes (1/4 ~ 1/2 inch) for 2.5 minutes.

Must find correct way to use butter to flavor these things. Trying to put garlic in butter didn't really do anything either.

You know what? I should learn how to toast garlic, or however they prepare the garlic that goes on top of arrozcaldo...

Realization #1: Pita pockets are named pita pockets for a _reason_. I should try Hungarian-sausage+tomato+cheese stuffed pita pockets. Maybe tomorrow; I can bring neat little sandwich bags to the UPSA rehearsal.

Realization #2: If I slice the sausages before putting them in the oven toaster, then they have nice texture.

Tomorrow: Pita pockets of slice-toasted Hungarian sausages, mushrooms and cheese.

CookOrDie still okay. A surprisingly affordable meal, actually, considering I had bratwurst and potatoes. All I need to do is add more herbs.

School somewhat fuzzy. CS21A lots of fun; lecturing in CS161 difficult. Am seeing pattern here - having problems with higher-level courses. Will sit in Ariel's class as look up to him a great deal.

Conversed with Eric about a certain personal topic. He's convinced it's a good idea. I think it's not a bad idea. Pending approval and consensus.