Gerhard Fischer (gerhard@cs.colorado.edu)				Spring Semester 2005

A Joint Graduate and Undergraduate Course  — CSCI 7212-001 and CSCI 4830-002

Brief Questionnaire for the Participants of the Course
“Design, Learning and Collaboration”

due: Wed, January 12, 2005; 12pm (noon) on the class website 

1.	your name:
David West
2.	your field of study:
Psychology
3.	in which semester are you:
2^nd semester Senior
4.	why are you interested to take this course:
I've been interested in collaborative web art for a few years.  I am very interested in how computers can be used productively and creatively.
5.	which courses  / work activities / background knowledge  do you have which might be relevant to this course
I have taken a few programming classes from when I used to be in electrical engineering.  I worked at a financial company in New York for a little while, working with Perl and SQL databases.  I have made a number of personal websites and websites for hire (freelance).   
6.	your own digital literacy / fluency:
6.1.	describe your programming experience  (languages, projects) 
Perl, PHP, C, HTML, Actionscript.  Projects include working on the backend for a 	thin-client financial browser (with Perl and SWIG), websites for companies, various 	generative art projects. 
6.2.	which applications are you familiar with (e.g. Photoshop, Canvas, Dreamweaver,… )?
Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, MAX/MSP, CoolEdit, Reason, PureData

7.	use one or two sentences to describe how you would define 
7.1.	design – A systematic process by which something is constructed and refined.
7.2.	learning – The process of acquiring new information or body memory (as with learning a musical instrument or sport.)
7.3.	collaboration – A group effort involving emergent properties (the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.)

mention the most important book / article which you have read with respect to these three topics
Design By Numbers by John Maeda. 

8.	Have you heard the following names of researchers /scientists
8.1.	Herbert Simon - no
8.2.	Alan Kay - no
8.3.	Seymour Papert - I believe I have heard this name
8.4.	Donald Schˆn - I believe I have heard this name, too.
8.5.	Jerome Bruner - no

9.	Remark: you can visit the websites of a pervious version of the course  — while the course in the Spring 2005 will contain new activities and new material, this website will give you a good impression what you might expect
http://webguide.cs.colorado.edu:3232/dlc-2004