{"id":284,"date":"2018-10-05T14:59:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T14:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-albany-programmingforproblemsolving\/?post_type=front-matter&p=284"},"modified":"2018-10-05T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T16:06:06","slug":"acknowledgments","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-albany-programmingforproblemsolving\/front-matter\/acknowledgments\/","title":{"raw":"Acknowledgments","rendered":"Acknowledgments"},"content":{"raw":"I would like to acknowledge Cara Bas, an undergraduate intern, and Ed Beck, a SUNY UAlbany Ph.D. student, for their tireless work on preparing this textbook for publication.\r\n\r\nCara was a previous student of mine in the INF108, Programming for Problem Solving, course, the course that I modeled this textbook after. She graciously offered the following review.\r\n

Based on my experience as an INF 108 student, this book is effective and user - friendly. It addresses many of the questions that arose as I worked through INF 108; and now the information is all in one place. Chapter 4 also seems to prepare the student for the next course, INF 308 [Programming for Informatics]. <\/em><\/p>\r\nIf I recall the main modules of INF 108, the tasks we did most are all covered in this book. I think functions could be expanded a bit. The exercises hold interest and are demonstrative of the skills taught. I think some of the earlier exercises were a bit difficult for that stage, but I wondered if they were designed to raise questions that the student could revisit later in the book and course.<\/em>\r\nCara Bas\r\nInformatics B.S. Program, SUNY University at Albany\r\n\r\nLastly I would like to acknowledge the textbook cover designer, Steve Meditz, a Senior Designer at Penguin Random House and longtime family friend, and his dog, Finley, who together produced the awesome cover design for this textbook.\r\n\r\nMany thanks to all!\r\n\r\nLenore G. Horowitz","rendered":"

I would like to acknowledge Cara Bas, an undergraduate intern, and Ed Beck, a SUNY UAlbany Ph.D. student, for their tireless work on preparing this textbook for publication.<\/p>\n

Cara was a previous student of mine in the INF108, Programming for Problem Solving, course, the course that I modeled this textbook after. She graciously offered the following review.<\/p>\n

Based on my experience as an INF 108 student, this book is effective and user – friendly. It addresses many of the questions that arose as I worked through INF 108; and now the information is all in one place. Chapter 4 also seems to prepare the student for the next course, INF 308 [Programming for Informatics]. <\/em><\/p>\n

If I recall the main modules of INF 108, the tasks we did most are all covered in this book. I think functions could be expanded a bit. The exercises hold interest and are demonstrative of the skills taught. I think some of the earlier exercises were a bit difficult for that stage, but I wondered if they were designed to raise questions that the student could revisit later in the book and course.<\/em>
\nCara Bas
\nInformatics B.S. Program, SUNY University at Albany<\/p>\n

Lastly I would like to acknowledge the textbook cover designer, Steve Meditz, a Senior Designer at Penguin Random House and longtime family friend, and his dog, Finley, who together produced the awesome cover design for this textbook.<\/p>\n

Many thanks to all!<\/p>\n

Lenore G. Horowitz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99026,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"front-matter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-284","front-matter","type-front-matter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-albany-programmingforproblemsolving\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-albany-programmingforproblemsolving\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-albany-programmingforproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-albany-programmingforproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-albany-programmingforproblemsolving\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-albany-programmingforproblemsolving\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/284\/revisions\/293"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-albany-programmingforproblemsolving\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/284\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-albany-programmingforproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-albany-programmingforproblemsolving\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-albany-programmingforproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-albany-programmingforproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}