ISC 110 | ISC 150/CSC 120 | CSC/BIO 457 |

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Top Ten (+) List of Writing Issues contains codes I use when grading non-programming papers.

Use a few simple rules to make your writing better.

Research Interests

• bioinformatics, optimization, ecosystem modelling, discrete event and continuous simulation

Some Relevant Publications

• Elaine Wenderholm. Eclpss: a Java-base framework for parallel ecosystem simulation and modeling. Environmental Modelling and Software, Vol 20, Issue 9, pp. 1081-1100 Sept 2005.

• Elaine Wenderholm. Challenges and the Elements of Success in Undergraduate Research. ACM Inroads, SIGCSE Bulletin Vol 36, Issue 4, pp. 73-75, December 2004. Also published in Annual Joint Conference Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education Working group reports from ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE-WGR'04).

Some Helpful Software

• Statistics (Stat::Fit is a product of Geer Mountain)
• download the Student Version of Stat::Fit (Windows) (click on right button and select "Save Link As")
• Statistical Fit Program for Windows machines (this is the older version!)
• Bioinformatics
• BioEdit.zip for Windows machines

Helpful Sites

• William Stallings' Computer Science Student Support Page
• Critical Thinking!

My Tutorials

• A Quick Overview of C
• Graphs: Thinking in Pictures
• Looking at Binary Relations using Tables
• Closure of Relations and Languages
• Recursive Definitions and Mathematical Induction
• Everything you never wanted to know about finite difference methods for solving partial differential equations (pdf)

Programming for Non-Programmers, by Steve Lott is a book about programming in Python. I recommend the beginning part of this book to computer newbies: it explains the basic parts of a computer: harware, operating system, programs, binary numbers - in (what I consider) to be pretty darn clear. FWIW I knew Steve when we both worked at what used to be GE.

Life Sites... Save Our Environment The Nature Conservancy The Sierra Club Environmental Defense National Resources Defense Council ...because the earth needs a good lawyer

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• ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
• Get a Life
• Taking Exams Under Pressure
• Don't Give Up!!

personal favorites...

Gandhi's Seven Sins (and the often overlooked sin)

Quotes

Vonnegut

Sanskrit

authors, books, etc.