Your Start with Informatics at Leicester Reiko Heckel

Your Start with Informatics* at Leicester Reiko Heckel Head of Informatics * Yes, you are in the right place …

Welcome to the Department • Get excited, engaged, employable • Your first modules • Continuous assessment • Help and advice • A 1 st highlight

Get excited, engaged, employable • Foundations • Programming languages • Algorithms • Software engineering • Human computer interaction • Computational intelligence • Data analytics • Business and Entrepreneurship Comp. Soc: Join our Computing Society (see their activities on social media). Get involved planning your new lab. Wi. CS: Female students can join our Women in Computer Science forum SSC: Course representatives meet us in the Student Staff Committee Research talks will give an insight into the other half of our work We’ll have lunch together once per term to get to know each other better

From Hardware and Requirements … • Computer Systems – Computer Science Year 1 – Computing Year 2 • Requirements Engineering and Professional Practice – All Year 1

… to Java, the Internet and GUI Design. • Program Design – All Year 1 • Internet Computing – BSc Computing Year 1 • User Interfaces and HCI – Year 2 Only

So it’s up to you now …

Continuous Assessment (Coursework) requires Continuous Attention All assessments scheduled announced at the start of the term. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Relevant content delivered during lectures, surgeries, labs and supplementary materials. Samples discussed in surgeries, published with model solutions. Worksheets are published or tests announced with marking criteria. Answers are submitted or tests sat. Marking either within 10 working days or 3 weeks of assessment. Feedback, general and individual, provided and explained. Opportunity for questions about feedback by student before marks are finalized. Often in a 2 -weekly cycle, so – check lectures, module pages and email regularly for updates – attend classes, and let us know if there any issues because …

There is help! • Module convenors and teaching assistants • Year Leaders: Roy for Y 1 and Tom for Y 2 and Irek for Y 3 • Your Personal Tutor, who you’ll meet later today. • Welfare Tutor, Fer-Jan if your PT is not around or if you need special support • Progression Tutor Tom watches your performance, might send a friendly letter … • Open door policy: happy to talk when we are free. • Sally, Tony, and Gavin at cs-admin@le. ac. uk – our admin team in the Departmental Office at College House or email me at cshod@le. ac. uk.

… and advice, with best wishes from our IAB • Have a side-project outside your studies. Develop other interests, volunteer. • Be a programmer, or be programmed. • Take the lid off technology. • Be prepared to learn for the rest of your life. • Learn to reflect. Start a diary, record your successes and failures. • There are some great people out there, interested to meet you. Get to know them, start building your network. • Find the part of the course that you enjoy and go for it. • Be ambitious, prepared to try and fail.

A 1 st Highlight on Thursday • 15. 00 Presentations by Placement Students • 16. 00 Departmental Welcome Event and Prize Giving – – Introduction to Computing Society Prizes and distinctions Guest lecture by Tejash Chouhan from Teachers 2 Parents Buffet with wine and soft drinks