Week 3 Learning Journal - A.A.C.

Part 1 

One of the study topics I mentioned last week that I needed improvement in was the time management skill.  This has to do with making "every hour count." So, on the study tactics website that was provided, I chose the link that was about time management. The website gave me a template to fill out about how many hours of the week I do use, and then see how many hours you have leftover for studying. I did the calculation and came out with only 10 hours for studying. I think I over exaggerated some of the hours for the other things I do, because I usually have more than 10 hours per week to study. So, a good guess would probably be closer to 15-20 hours per week to study. However, I am glad I exaggerated, because if and when there is the worst case scenario that I actually do spend that much time per week, I need to be very careful to spend my time on my homework diligently and not get too distracted with other things. I can tackle this problem as follows: 1)Identify my time leaks. What am I doing that is making time drain away and I am not getting important things done? This is important 2) Plan a course of action. Since, I only have so much limited time to study, plan out my days more strictly. Don't say yes, yes, yes to so many activities that I find no room to study when I planned I needed to study. Be strict. 3) Evaluate and assess. After this course of action, I will plan on reviewing the successes and failures and redesign my course of action from there. 

Part 2

Learning about ethics this week has been so extremely interesting. From virtue theory, to utalitarianism, to Kan'ts ethics I have learned so much about a realm of philosophy that was untouched before. I've learned from the articles and videos that ethics has to do with morality - the right and wrong of things, and not so much about your feelings or what "seems" to be right. It involves guidelines to promoting ethics that are the frameworks of ethics. From the "Ethics and Law" document, I learned that ethics differs from the law in that it is a guideline rather than a control, it is free to follow rather than must having it followed, and ethics defines things as "immoral" rather than the law which says it's a "crime". 

Part 3

I've discussed above what i've learned from the philoshophy readings, as for the article "What every computer science major should know" I've learned that a portfolio is of far more importance than a resume. I also learned it's important to know the engineering side of things, as computer scientists *will* work with engineers.  We also must know the Unix philosophy, Systems Administration, some Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Networking and more. I am pleased to find that many of the courses at CS Online CSUMB will focus and deal with these things. 

Part 4

After reading the Code of Integrity for CSUMB CS Online, I learned it is very important to have authentic work in submitting your assignments. Never use others' code, never fail to give credit where it is due (i.e. if someone helped you), and never share your work with others. Mostly, I think the integrity has to fall on the student and they need to take ownership over the very work they are doing. They should never feel they need to "cheat" to get a better handle on the material. So, in conclusion, I think one needs to put in the efforts to truly learn what they are achieving and be an overall virtuous student.