Computing Interests Survey

Offering students interesting and meaningful examples that illustrate and apply computing concepts can improve learning. Your answers to the following optional and anonymous survey will help computer science instructors accomplish that goal.

Please rate your interest in the following topics as possible class and homework examples on a scale from extremely uninterested to extremely interested.

Information about a topic can be displayed by rolling the mouse over the topic.

    Bank account interest

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   Battleship game

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   Body mass index

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   Bridge capacity

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   Business applications

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   Calculator

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   Carbon dating

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   Card games

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   Checkbook register

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   Coin change maker

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   Connect four

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   Daily jumble

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   Dungeons and dragons

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   Econometrics

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   Elevator strategies

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   Encryption

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   Engineering applications

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   Exercise training zone

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   Food dispenser

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   Fractals

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   Heart monitor

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   Instant messaging

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   Language translation

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   Loan calculator

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   Medical diagnosis

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   Music library organizer

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   Music player

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   Password security

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   Personality typing

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   Photo manipulation

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   Photo mosaics

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   Photo viewer

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   Predator-prey interaction

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   Readability

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   Redistricting

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   Rocket payload

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   Science applications

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   Smart appliances

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   Spamming

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   Statistics

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   Sudoku

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   Tax computation

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   Text analysis

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   Text to speech

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   Tic-tac-toe

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   Travel routing

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   Video player

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   Virus protection

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   Wind flow

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Please suggest an interesting idea of your own 

Please suggest another interesting idea of your own 

Please provide some demographic information. Our goal is to determine which topics are of general interest. It may be some application topics are more or less interesting to particular groups of people.

What is your academic year?
  First
  Second
  Third
  Fourth


Other     
What is your sex?
  Female


Male
What is your ethnic origin (check all that apply)?
  Asian
  Black or African American
   Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish
  White
  Other     
What is your intended major?


Unsure
Aerospace Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Engineering Science
Mechanical Engineering
Systems & Information Engineering
Transferring from SEAS

How likely are to stay in the above major until graduation?

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What is your status regarding introductory computing course CS101 (please check all that apply)?
  Received AP credit

Passed school placement test

Received transfer credit
  Took course in a previous semester

Taking course this semester

Taking course in the future
  Other
How many high school or college computer science courses have you taken?
  None
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Other
Do you own a laptop or tablet pc?
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  No

Please write any comments about this survey or your computing interests?

Thank you.

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