SUNY Geneseo Department of Computer Science

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Final exam

• Tuesday, May 13, 12:00 noon
• Comprehensive, but emphasizing material since midterm (e.g., Enigma, Breaking the Code, research and outside sources, etc.)
• Designed for 2 hours, you’ll have 3
• Otherwise similar to midterm, expecially open-book, notes, computer
• Donuts and cider

Furlough days

• I won’t be available...
• Thursday, May 8 and Wednesday May 14

SOFIs

• aka “student opinion of faculty instruction”
• Useful to me, especially any comments on how course worked
• Online form via Knightweb
  • Click “Surveys” button, then “SOFI survey”

Questions?

Reading Breaking the Code

Pick a passage that seems “odd,” out of place, etc.

• Turing’s talk to Sherborne about machines that think/learn/feel
• Morcom’s comment about lying, cheating on Latin exam
• Turing’s openness with Pat about his trial and consequences
• Turing chaining his tea mug to a radiator
• Turing’s long monologue to Nikos about Bletchley Park
• Knox’s story of a bomb knocking a cork out of a bottle

How do you figure out what it means, why it’s there, etc?

• Look carefully for connections (e.g., physical location in play, chronological, subject matter) to other passages
• Secondary connections can also be interesting

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Identifying and countering objections

Read They Say, I Say chapter 6