Team Gauss

Are you an undergraduate computer science major who wishes to improve your academic skills and increase your academic accomplishments? I can help strengthen your academic core. It will, hopefully, be fun too. If you are looking for a way to better connect with our school, our computer science department, and a faculty member, perhaps this program is for you. You do not have to be the strongest student in the class, but you will need to learn how to become the best student you can be. Briefly stated, I will expect you to complete a suite of varied assignments. You will read textbooks, you will read novels, you will create computer programs, you will watch movies, you will do mathematics, you will write, and you will learn trivia. If you stay with the program for awhile, you will finish a resume building project. The project would be in the systems domain, this is typically building a compiler or writing scientific application for a parallel machine. You can do all of these things and more.

Do not let others eat your academic lunch.

If you are willing to put in the time you can strengthen your academic core.

Would you like to join the program?

How about a one month trial?

What do members do?

They improve their progamming skills.
They read great books.
They strengthen their understanding of mathematics.
They work on becoming better writers.
They complete individual assignments given to them.
They watch movies.
They help others.
They work on a resume building project.
They learn how to study.
They take tests.
They learn Jim's trivia.
They complete exercises in mathematics and grammar.
They learn to speak a second language.

These are life skills.

If you wish to join the lab and embark on an academic enrichment program, contact:

Dr. James Canning
Director of the Systems Lab
canning@cs.uml.edu
Olsen Hall 231

Are you game? I can help some of you.

Let's get started.

Family first, Your classes Second, Your enrichment program third.

You can find the time.

Students Active in the Program are:

Krithika	Kyle	Ramon
Krithika is a joint Math and CS major. She joined the program in October 2009.	Kyle is a joint Math and CS major. He joined the program in October 2009.	Ramon is a CS major. He joined the program in mid-November 2009.

Krithika has completed the following tasks.

1	Read and Programmed	Read chapter 9 in The New Turning Omnibus and then implemented a mandlebrot program. She outputs her data to a pgm file and then displays it.
2	Watched	Watched 12 Angry Men starring Henry Fonda as Juror #8.
3	Wrote	Wrote her updated resume and got it approved by the experts in UMass Lowell's Career Services Department.
4	Read	Read Lyddie by Katherine Patterson
5	Read	Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
6	Watched	Watched The Miracle Worker starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.
7	Read	Read Flatland by George Abbott.
8	Watched	Watched Lillies of the Field starring Sydney Portier.
9	Programmed	She has completed the first 50 of Jim's 100 computer programs.
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Kyle has completed the following tasks.

1	Read and Programmed	Read chapter 9 in The New Turning Omnibus and then implemented a mandlebrot program. His C program uses calls to GTK and GDK to display the output.
2	Watched	Watched 12 Angry Men starring Henry Fonda as Juror #8.
3	Wrote	Wrote his updated resume and got it approved by the experts in UMass Lowell's Career Services Department.
4	Read	Read Lyddie by Katherine Patterson (did this awhile ago).
5	Read	Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
6	Watched	Watched The Miracle Worker starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.
7	Read	Read Flatland by George Abbott.
8	Watched	Watched Lillies of the Field starring Sydney Portier.
9	Programmed	Wrote a program in C that computes the convex hull of a set of points using the Graham Scan method. He has a gtk/gdk interface display.
10	Programmed	He has completed the first 50 of Jim's 100 computer programs.

Ramon has completed the following tasks.

1	Watched	Watched 12 Angry Men starring Henry Fonda as Juror #8.
2	Obtained	Obtained a library card from Lowell Public Library.
3	Wrote	Wrote his updated resume and got it approved by the experts in UMass Lowell's Career Services Department.
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Programming

1	Complete Jim's 100 Programming Problems
2	Complete all Scheme code within The Little Schemer
3	Finish all the programs in Data Structures, An Advanced Approach Using C
4	Strassen's Matrix Multiply
5	Mandlebrot Set w/ a GTK interface
6	Naive String Matching - Knuth Morris Pratt - Boyer Moyer
7	Fourier Transform - Fast, 1D and 2D
8	Convex Hull: Graham Scan, Jarvis March, Divide and Conquer
9	Universal Turing Machine
10	A Polymorphic Implemenation of AVL Trees
11	Linker for the MASM assembler

	Title	Author	Level	Pages	Year	Comment
1	Lyddie	Katherine Patterson	Middle School	182	1991
2	Across Five Aprils	Irene Hunt	Middle School	188	1964
3	Anthem	Ayn Rand	High School	105	1946
4	The Little Prince	Antoine St. Exupery	Young and Old	111	1943
5	Charlotte's Web	E.B.White	Children	184	1952
6	The Call of the Wild	Jack London	High School		1903
7	Animal Farm	George Orwell	High School		1945
8	Flatland	Edwin Abbott	High School/College		1884
9	A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	Middle School	122	1843
10	My Antonia	Willa Cather	HS/College/Adult		1918
11	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	HS/Lifelong		1960
12	A Separate Peace	John Knowles	HS/Lifelong
13	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	Washington Irving	Children	52	1820
14	Rip Van Winkle	Washington Irving	Children	30	1819
15	The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexander Dumas	HS/College/Adult

	Title	Author
1	No Fear Grammar - Just the Basics	Spark Notes
2	Coping with College	Alice Hamachek
3	How to Study	Harry Maddox
4	Elements of Style	William Strunk/E.B. White
5	A Guide to Public Speaking	William Steadman
6	The Constitution of the United States	Floyd G. Cullop

	Topic
1	A Path to Modern Mathematics	W.W. Sawyer
2	The Fourier Transform
3	Solving Systems of Linear Equations
4	Linear Algebra
5	Proving Theorems

	Title	Starring	Year	Comment
1	12 Angry Men	Henry Fonda/Lee J Cobb/Martin Balsom/Jack Klugman	1957
2	It's a Wonderful Life	Jimmy Stewart/Donna Reed	1946
3	The Wizard of OZ	Judy Garland	1939
4	The Miracle Worker	Anne Bancroft/Patti Duke	1962
5	My Cousin Vinnie	Joe Pesci/Marissa Tormei	1992
6	Sandlot		1993
7	Les Miserables	Frederic March/Charles Laughton	1935
8	High Noon	Gary Cooper/Grace Kelly	1952
9	Mary Poppins	Julie Andrews/Dick van Dyke	1964
10	The Sting	Paul Neuman/Robert Redford	1973

1	Build a compiler.
2	Encode a substantial scientific application that will effectively run in parallel on a 32 core machine.


1	Pythagorean Theorem
2	Sum of the first n integers
3	Sum of squares of the first n integers
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5	Square root of two is irrational.

	Name of the Series
1	The Andy Griffith Show
2	Leave it to Beaver
3	Alias Smith and Jones
4	The Waltons
5	Gunsmoke

	Article	Author
1	Reading Types Using the Right Left Walk Method	Jim Canning, Bill Moloney, Demetrio Rey, Ali Rafiemyhr
2	The Perils of Java Schools	Joel Sposky
3	Advice to a CS Major	Joel Sposky
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	Individual	Description
1	Karl Fredrick Gauss	Greatest mathematician of all time
2	Bill Russell	Captain of the Boston Celtics. 11 NBA championship in 13 years. Two NCAA titles, an olympic champion, 55-0 in his last 55 college games. Greatest winner in team sports.
3	Jean Valjean	Most heroic character in literature.
4	John Wooden	Greatest coach of all time.
5	Atticus Finch	Greatest father in the history of literature.
6	Edwin Moses	9 years, 9 months, 9 days.
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