UNM Computer Science for All @ CEPi
Reading Assignments: “Blown to Bits” – DUE DATE: week of Final Exam ____________
Reading materials are online at http://www.cs4all.org/NM-CS108L-FINAL ,
in our UNM folder on our SmartLab computers,
and on thumb drives you can check out from your lab instructor.
(list created from online reading assignments at the bottom of each week’s webpage)
Directions: This college course, like most college courses, requires reading. The goal of any reading is
comprehension and understanding of new concepts and ideas related to the course’s content and focus.
You can get more out of a course when you take the necessary time to read all the assignments, attend
and watch all lectures, take notes, record lectures, and interact with the new material in some fashion to
help retain it. The readings started in week 2, and there is no reading in week 8. Each reading
assignment is worth 5 points, for a total of 60 points toward the 825 points that can be earned in the
course.
> To demonstrate reading of each assignment, you may select which writing assignments to complete.
Each writing assignment should contain specific terms, ideas, concepts, facts and definitions from the
reading. Choose from the following:
a) Paragraph Summary of at least five sentences with terms and definitions from the reading
b) an Idea Web graphic organizer– a visual web collection of terms, ideas and definitions from
the reading (see attached instructions)
c) a Reading Connections graphic organizer - (see attached instructions)
d) and lastly, create your own Reading Quiz (with answer key) of at least four short answer
questions from the reading.
Week 2’s reading: Blown to Bits Appendix (Reading Assignment pp. 301-309)
2) Week 3’s reading: Blown to Bits Appendix (Reading Assignment pp. 309-316)
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reading:
reading:
reading:
reading:
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Chapter
Chapter
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(Reading
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(Reading
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Assignment
Assignment
Assignment
Assignment
pp.
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1-9)
9-17)
19 – 28)
28 - 38) (no Week 8
reading during mid-term exam)
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Week
9’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter 2 (Reading Assignment pp. 38 - 48)
10’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter 2 (Reading Assignment pp. 48 - 60)
11’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter 2 (Reading Assignment pp. 61 - 72)
12’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter 3 (Reading Assignment pp. 73 - 80)
13’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter 3 (Reading Assignment pp. 80 - 90)
14’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter 3 (Reading Assignment pp. 90 - 108)
Reading Checklist
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Reading assignment
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Week 2’s reading: Blown to Bits Appendix
(Reading Assignment pp. 301-309)
Week 3’s reading: Blown to Bits Appendix
(Reading Assignment pp. 309-316)
Week 4’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter 1
(Reading Assignment pp. 1-9)
Week 5’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter 1
(Reading Assignment pp. 9-17)
Week 6’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter 2
(Reading Assignment pp. 19 – 28)
Week 7’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter 2
(Reading Assignment pp. 28 - 38
Week 9’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter 2
(Reading Assignment pp. 38 - 48)
Week 10’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter
2 (Reading Assignment pp. 48 - 60)
Week 11’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter
2 (Reading Assignment pp. 61 - 72)
Week 12’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter
3 (Reading Assignment pp. 73 - 80)
Week 13’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter
3 (Reading Assignment pp. 80 - 90)
Week 14’s reading: Blown to Bits: Chapter
3 (Reading Assignment pp. 90 - 108)
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Written
demonstration you
chose: Paragraph
Summary, Idea Web,
Reading Connections, or
Quiz
Date turned in
5 points each
(points earned)
Your writing from these reading assignments are due during the Final Exam week and no later.
Alternative, if you have experience and practice in other forms of reading comprehension
exercises, like Cornell Notes, and you prefer this other method to demonstrate your reading
comprehension, you may request permission from your lab instructor to use that method. You
may have to demonstrate or give an example to be approved.