UCSD COSMOS Cluster 1 2018

In the first 1800 minutes of class time of COSMOS, we had lots of fun and learning!  If you want to view all our photos from the first week, please visit  https:// ucsdcosmos2018cluster1. shutterfly.com/ .

On Thursday, we presented our first projects.  We create our own original Android apps using AppInventor.  Congratulations to Bwang (Brian W.) and Rebecah, "People's Choice Award" winners for their iPaint app, and Archita and Anthony, "Faculty Choice Award" winners for their Mole Breaker app. Below you can view a video of us presenting, the slide presentation and the demo of our apps! Gianna and Danny - COSMOS Pizza Maker Video Part 2 | Presentation   | Demo Jackie and Andy - Password Generator Presentation   |  Demo Anika and Blyn (Bryan U.) - Tap Tap! Presentation   |  Demo Kristen and Joseph - Animal Game Presentation   |  Demo Zara and Baby Bri (Brian P.) - Doodle Battle Presentation   |  Demo Skylar and Ian - Animal Trivia Presentation   |  Demo Sandy and Ishaan - Fantastic Fortunes Presentation   |  Demo Alina and Wayne - Feed Pusheen Present...

It was a great first day of class.  We learned about the ubiquitous nature of computing and what we are going to do over the next four weeks.  Before lunch we got a chance to learn about AppInventor and what we will use to start our own apps.  We began to get our feet wet with AppInventor with some tutorials then started working on our own apps.  Demos of our final apps will be posted later.  First day of class Ice breaker - Scavenger Hunt First lesson... Coding is like a recipe. Write out the directions to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Professor Leo following the instructions he was given to make a sandwich. Working on our first lab -  an Android app. Our lab

Curt Schurgers Curt Schurgers received his Ph.D. from UCLA in integrated circuits andsystems, and his MS in EE from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (KUL). Before coming to UCSD in 2002, he was a lecturer at UCLA in VLSI System Design and a postdoctural associate at MIT. He also held research assistantships at UCLA Networked & Embedded Systems Lab and the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) in Belgium. From 2004 until 2010, he was an Assistant Professor at the ECE Department at UCSD, leading the Wireless Information Systems Lab. Since December 2010, he has been appointed as a Project Development Engineer at Calit2, leading a large NSF program on underwater networked systems. Leo Porter I am an Assistant Teaching Professor of Computer Science at UC San Diego interested in computer science education research and computer architecture. I was co-PI on an NSF-TUES grant which studied the impact of Peer Instruction (an active learning pedagogical technique) in Co...

Welcome to UCSD COSMOS's Cluster 1 "Computers in Everyday Life" blog site. Here you'll be able to see photos, find out what we are learning and doing as well as links to our presentations and videos!