Survey of CS Curriculum; CS Major Must Know; Wrapping up Industry Paper - Week 3

With our teams, we reviewed the CS online curriculum and provided summaries of the course contents as well as how it will benefit us.  The curriculum progresses as one would expect of a CS program.  I'm looking forward to getting into all of these courses.

 One of the lecture materials "What a Computer Science Major Needs to Know" was a doozy of a read.  I've bookmarked several topics that I don't know much about or don't know about at all.  I know nothing about formal methods, cryptography or parallelism, for example.  I'm also inspired to instantiate a Unix VM and go over some of the points brought up.  Finally, I want to research what a 'theorem prover' is and how it relates to our coding style.

In the writing course, we wrapped up our industry analysis paper.  I suspect I made several mistakes in the formatting of my APA references, which I found extremely frustrating to work with.  I did take a certain enjoyment from writing out the essay, however.  I could not include every bit from my outline, but having the outline well established made an impact on my ability to write the paper.

We provided our topics for the argument paper.  My topic will involve AI models being used for commercial profit.  It has been fairly widely discussed that the models that can generate fantastic visuals and music were trained on creative works without the permission of the original artist.  That itself may not be too bad, but using output from such models for commercial endeavors may have an impact on both copyright / compensation concerns as well as an impact to the livelihood of creative professionals.