Qingyao Cai WRIT 25.01 Dr. Helmer The Introduction of research paper March 17,2016 XXXXXXXXXXXXX Title 1. Introduction In Rebekah Nathan’s My Freshman Year (2005), as a professor, she involved in university community again as a freshman to know about how different between International and American students. She becomes a freshman to know the students better. She did everything as a “participant observer” and studied the college culture and students as a real student. It’s just like when you want to discover whether one food is delicious or not, you cannot get true feelings if you not try it yourself. She studied like a real freshman and lived in the dormitory. I am an international student, when I first come to UCSC community. I always feel so different between my China high school and UCSC community. International students have different culture; they are have different life style and use different language to talk. When I came in Cowell College, have a lot of local American students talk to me, but we just have the exterior communication we cannot talk with each other deeply, because I do not talk to much with a new friend. During International orientation, I make a lot of Chinese friend. But they are would like talk to the friends before International orientation they meet. No matter about the person is a Chinese student or local American student. However this is because of different culture. Also I interview ten Chinese students in UCSC, have 8 people, they are in China did want talk with a Chinese new friend. If the friend talk too much and with deeply communicate to they, they will feel so strange. Only have two people feel that is well. As me, I feel with mostly people. But I saw a lot of local American student in dinning hall, they did not know another before but they are talk very much and with deeply. When I first day came to Cowell core class, I found out UCSC students showing different between Chinese students (in China) in classroom. UCSC students would like to talk with professor in class. But Chinese Rarely communicates with the professor. As an international student, I really feel the difference between Chinese students and American students So According to these findings and feelings, my research question are: 1.“How are Chinese students and UCSC students different from one another.” 2. “How are Chinese students and UCSC students different from one another in classroom.” 2.  Research and Data Collection Methods 2.1 Research context: UCSC Founded in 1965, UC Santa Cruz is considered a Public Ivy institution. It began as a showcase for progressive, cross-disciplinary undergraduate education, innovative teaching methods and contemporary architecture. Since then, it has evolved into a modern research university with a wide variety of both undergraduate and graduate programs, while retaining its reputation for strong undergraduate support and student political activism. The residential college system, which consists of ten ...

1. Qingyao Cai
WRIT 25.01
Dr. Helmer
The Introduction of research paper
March 17,2016
XXXXXXXXXXXXX Title
1. Introduction
In Rebekah Nathan’s My Freshman Year (2005), as a professor,
she involved in university community again as a freshman to
know about how different between International and American
students. She becomes a freshman to know the students better.
She did everything as a “participant observer” and studied the
college culture and students as a real student. It’s just like when
you want to discover whether one food is delicious or not, you
cannot get true feelings if you not try it yourself. She studied
like a real freshman and lived in the dormitory.
I am an international student, when I first come to UCSC
community. I always feel so different between my China high
school and UCSC community. International students have
different culture; they are have different life style and use
different language to talk. When I came in Cowell College, have
a lot of local American students talk to me, but we just have the
exterior communication we cannot talk with each other deeply,
because I do not talk to much with a new friend. During
International orientation, I make a lot of Chinese friend. But
they are would like talk to the friends before International
orientation they meet. No matter about the person is a Chinese
student or local American student. However this is because of
different culture. Also I interview ten Chinese students in
UCSC, have 8 people, they are in China did want talk with a
Chinese new friend. If the friend talk too much and with deeply
communicate to they, they will feel so strange. Only have two
people feel that is well. As me, I feel with mostly people. But I
saw a lot of local American student in dinning hall, they did not

2. know another before but they are talk very much and with
deeply. When I first day came to Cowell core class, I found out
UCSC students showing different between Chinese students (in
China) in classroom. UCSC students would like to talk with
professor in class. But Chinese Rarely communicates with the
professor. As an international student, I really feel the
difference between Chinese students and American students So
According to these findings and feelings, my research question
are:
1.“How are Chinese students and UCSC students different from
one another.”
2. “How are Chinese students and UCSC students different from
one another in classroom.”
2. Research and Data Collection Methods
2.1 Research context: UCSC
Founded in 1965, UC Santa Cruz is considered a Public Ivy
institution. It began as a showcase for progressive, cross-
disciplinary undergraduate education, innovative teaching
methods and contemporary architecture. Since then, it has
evolved into a modern research university with a wide variety
of both undergraduate and graduate programs, while retaining
its reputation for strong undergraduate support and student
political activism. The residential college system, which
consists of ten small colleges, is intended to combine the
student support of a small college with the resources of a major
university. UC Santa Cruz was tied for 82nd in the list of Best
National Universities in the United States by U.S. News &
World Report's 2016 rankings. In 2015 Kiplinger ranked UC
Santa Cruz 63rd out of the top 100 best-value public colleges
and universities in the nation, and 7th in California. Money
Magazine ranked UC Santa Cruz 114th in the country out of the
nearly 1500 schools it evaluated for its 2015 Best Colleges
ranking.
2.2 College Life – Cowell colleg
Most noteworthy is that UCSC has 10 different colleges with
different core theme. Founded in 1965, Cowell was the first

3. residential college of UCSC. The college is named after Henry
Cowell and the Cowell family, who lived on the land that is now
UCSC. The land was acquired by the University of California
for the purpose of founding a university based on innovative
teaching methods, cross-disciplinary undergraduate education,
progressive and modern research. Cowell resides on what was
previously the Cowell ranch, flanked by redwoods and over-
looking the Monterey Bay. It is also near the University
restaurants, gym, libraries, pool, track, and bookstore. Cowell
also houses the Philosophy department, Language program, and
is located near the Humanities building.
Interview (Data collection)
1.I have been interviewed my neighbor, ask he some questions
about normal actives about daily life, my neighbor is an
American student. Also I have been interviewed my Chinese
friend. Compared to Chinese students and UCSC students
different from one another.
In dinning hall I often observe American students during
conversation with another American students and then compared
with Chinese students.
1.When I first day come to Cowell core class I feeling very
different with my China high school classroom. I think the
different maybe just because high school between University’s
distinction. So I use the Wechat App to interview my Chinese
friend in China, about Chinese classroom, and what are the
Chinese students doing in classroom. It’s for sure that Chinese
students and America students have difference in class room.
2.3 Study participants and 2.4 Data analysis
I am planning my interview step by step. Firstly, I will prepare
some I did interviewed people. They are all the guys who I am
not really familiar. Because this will help me do the interviews
more objective and I really hope nothing external factors can
affect my research results.
1. John is an American student he form Los Angeles, I ask John
about what he doing in weekend. John tells me he is very like
party; John often joins party in weekend. In the party they drink

4. alcohol and dance during in might night. (Of course John has
enough age to drink alcohol) in my inquiry American students
think have party in weekend is a very normal thing. They are
join party want to get relax after weekdays.
Adam is a Chinese student, I ask same questions to him. Adam
in the weekend, he usually with friend goes eat together. When I
get the answer, I feel John and Adam have different activity in
weekend. And then I ask Adam: “do you like party in weekend.”
Adam do not like party in weekend, he thinks join party drink
alcohol is very bad, like playboy.
Carry and Alisa, Actually I do not know them and did not
interview them. I just during my lunch in the dinning hall
sitting next to them and observe them. Carry and Alisa are girls;
they do not know each other before. Because they asked the
question was the names. They talked a lot about themselves,
getting to know each other from asking each other’s names to
talking about activities and classes. If people did not know
about their previous discussion about introducing each other,
people would thought that they were good friends.
2.Aaron is my Chinese friend he is in China. I use the Wechat
App to interview he about China classroom. In China, student in
classroom talk with professor is seldom. In classroom student
just copy what professor write down in class. There are also no
communication between students and students. The classroom is
very quit.
3.Key finding a
1. The people I interviewed, they are want to get relax in
weekend. But they have different ways to get relax. To
American students they are in the weekend want to join party
drive a lot and to craze to get relax. To Chinese students they
are want go to eat with friends in the weekend. Chinese use an
easy way to get relax. I through interviewed American students
in dining hall compared with what I meet Chinese students
during in orientation. I found American students could like to
talk a new friend has more open. Chinese students not really
want talk with a new friend.

5. 2. After interviewed my Chinese Aaron, I found in UCSC the
large classrooms is same with China classroom. I have Math
11A, Math 3 and Eonmins 1, these class is same with my
Chinese friend Aaron description China classroom. Students did
not talk a lot in class; students did not small group conversation
in class and seldom ask to professor. But in the smaller was
showing different with classroom students would like talk to
professor. In smaller students usually has small group
conversation in classroom and would like asking questions to
professor. Classroom has more conversation and more happy in
classroom.
4.
CSC 106 - SPRING 2016
THE PRACTICE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
ASSIGNMENT 4
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
Due: Tuesday, March 15th, 2016 at 11:00pm.
This assignment will be submitted electronically through
conneX (as described in
‘Submission Instructions’ below). Do not submit a hard copy of
your answers; paper
submissions will not be marked. All code submissions must be
your own work. How-
ever, you are permitted to use the code discussed in lectures and
labs (or code posted
on conneX) as the basis for your submissions if proper
attribution is given.
Question 1: Survey of Programming Languages [30 marks]

6. Consider the problem of finding the median of three numbers x,
y and z. Recall that the median
of a set of numbers is the value which lies in the middle when
the numbers are sorted. For example,
the median of 4, 9 and 1 is 4 and the median of 2, 5 and 3 is 3.
Choose 3 of the languages listed below and, for each language,
write a program which reads three
integer values from the user and prints the median of the three.
Some of the languages listed will
not be officially covered by the course, so they may be more
challenging to use.
• Ada
• C or C++ (but not both)
• C#
• FORTRAN (any version, including Fortran-95, is fine)
• Java
• Common Lisp
• Pascal
• Perl
• Pep/8 assembly
• Python
All of the languages above (except Pep/8) are supported by the
online tools at http://www.
tutorialspoint.com/codingground.htm. If you develop your
program using the tools on that
website, you can download the source file by right-clicking on
the file in the left-hand pane of the
IDE and selecting “Download file”.
Your submission for this question will consist of three files
(one for each chosen language). Each
program will be worth 10 marks. Please name your files

7. according to the table below.
1
Language Filename
Ada median3.adb
C median3.c
C++ median3.cpp
C# median3.cs
FORTRAN IV median3.f
FORTRAN 77 median3.f
Fortran 90 median3.f90
Fortran 95 median3.f95
Java Median3.java
Lisp median3.lisp
Pascal median3.pas
Perl median3.pl
Python median3.py
Bonus (optional): You will receive 10 bonus marks if you
submit implementations for all 10 options

8. above. (This is mostly a character building exercise, since the
work required far outweighs the
number of bonus marks offered)
Question 2: Database Systems [30 marks]
One example of a large scale database system is the University
of Victoria’s registration database,
which tracks the enrollment and scheduling for all courses
offered at the university. Consider the
three tables below, which contain a subset of the course
scheduling information for Spring 2016.
The table course names maps each course to its name, the table
course sections specifies the
instructor for each section of each course, and the table
prerequisites maps each course to its
prerequisite courses. Note that a course may have multiple
sections and multiple prerequisites.
Table course names
subject code course number course name
CSC 106 The Practice of Computer Science
CSC 110 Fundamentals of Programming I
CSC 115 Fundamentals of Programming II
CSC 205 2d Graphics and Image Processing
CSC 225 Algorithms & Data Structures I
CSC 226 Algorithms & Data Structures II
CSC 230 Intro. to Computer Architecture

9. SENG 265 Software Development Methods
CSC 370 Database Systems
SENG 310 Human Computer Interaction
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Table course sections
subject code course number section name instructor firstname
instructor lastname
CSC 106 A01 Bill Bird
CSC 106 A02 Bill Bird
CSC 110 A01 Tibor van Rooij
CSC 110 A02 Tibor van Rooij
CSC 115 A01 LillAnne Jackson
CSC 115 A02 LillAnne Jackson
CSC 115 A03 Tibor van Rooij
CSC 115 A04 Tibor van Rooij
CSC 205 A01 Bill Bird
CSC 225 A01 Venkatesh Srinivasan
CSC 226 A01 Frank Ruskey

10. CSC 226 A02 Frank Ruskey
CSC 230 A01 Sudhakar Ganti
SENG 265 A01 Daniel Hoffman
SENG 265 A02 Daniel Hoffman
CSC 370 A01 Alex Thomo
SENG 310 A01 Peggy Storey
Table prerequisites
subject code course number prereq subject prereq number
CSC 115 CSC 110
CSC 225 CSC 115
CSC 226 CSC 225
CSC 230 CSC 115
SENG 265 CSC 115
CSC 370 CSC 226
CSC 370 SENG 265
SENG 310 SENG 265
A file courses.sql has been posted to conneX (in the Lectures
section) which creates a database
containing the three tables above (and the data for each table).
In the space indicated in the
courses.sql file (without modifying any of the existing SQL

11. statements), write SQL queries for
each of the questions below. Your submission for this question
should be a single modified version
of courses.sql, with all of the table data intact, containing your
answers for all of the questions
below.
Note that it is acceptable for errors to be reported on lines 3, 4
and 5 of the courses.sql file (since
those lines are used to clear any existing data from the
database).
When you experiment with sqlite3, you may want to use the
.mode column and .header on
commands to improve the readability of the output.
The sample output given below was generated after running
.mode column and .header on. It
is not necessary for your queries to produce output in the same
order as the samples, unless the
ordering is specified in the question.
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(a) Write a query to print the subject code, course number and
course name of every course listed
above, sorted by the course number.
Sample output:
subject_code course_number course_name
------------ ------------- --------------------------------
CSC 106 The Practice of Computer Science

12. CSC 110 Fundamentals of Programming I
CSC 115 Fundamentals of Programming II
CSC 205 2d Graphics and Image Processing
CSC 225 Algorithms & Data Structures I
CSC 226 Algorithms & Data Structures II
CSC 230 Intro. to Computer Architecture
SENG 265 Software Development Methods
SENG 310 Human Computer Interaction
CSC 370 Database Systems
(b) Write a query to print the subject code, course number,
section name and instructor name
(first/last) for all sections of CSC 115.
Sample output:
subject_code course_number section_name instructor_firstname
instructor_lastname
------------ ------------- ------------ -------------------- ---------------
----
CSC 115 A01 LillAnne Jackson
CSC 115 A02 LillAnne Jackson
CSC 115 A03 Tibor van Rooij
CSC 115 A04 Tibor van Rooij

13. (c) Write a query to print the subject code, course number and
course name of all second year
(200-level) courses.
Sample output:
subject_code course_number course_name
------------ ------------- --------------------------------
CSC 205 2d Graphics and Image Processing
CSC 225 Algorithms & Data Structures I
CSC 226 Algorithms & Data Structures II
CSC 230 Intro. to Computer Architecture
SENG 265 Software Development Methods
(d) Write a query to print the subject code, course number,
course name and section name of all
courses taught by Tibor van Rooij.
You should use the command .width 15 15 30 15 before your
query to prevent the course
name from being truncated.
Sample output:
subject_code course_number course_name section_name
--------------- --------------- ------------------------------ ------------
---
CSC 110 Fundamentals of Programming I A01
4

14. CSC 110 Fundamentals of Programming I A02
CSC 115 Fundamentals of Programming II A03
CSC 115 Fundamentals of Programming II A04
(e) Write a query to print the instructor name (first/last), course
name and section name for
every SENG course.
You should use the command .width 15 15 30 15 before your
query to prevent the course
name from being truncated.
Sample output:
instructor_firs instructor_last course_name section_name
--------------- --------------- ------------------------------ ------------
---
Daniel Hoffman Software Development Methods A01
Daniel Hoffman Software Development Methods A02
Peggy Storey Human Computer Interaction A01
(f) Write a query to print the subject code, course number,
course name and the total number
of sections for each course, sorted by course number. Note that
your output is not required
to have num sections as the heading for the last column (you
should use the SQL COUNT
function).
You should use the command .width 15 15 30 15 before your
query to prevent the course
name from being truncated.
Sample output:
subject_code course_number course_name num_sections

15. --------------- --------------- ----------------------------------- -------
--------
CSC 106 The Practice of Computer Science 2
CSC 110 Fundamentals of Programming I 2
CSC 115 Fundamentals of Programming II 4
CSC 205 2d Graphics and Image Processing 1
CSC 225 Algorithms & Data Structures I 1
CSC 226 Algorithms & Data Structures II 2
CSC 230 Intro. to Computer Architecture 1
SENG 265 Software Development Methods 2
SENG 310 Human Computer Interaction 1
CSC 370 Database Systems 1
(g) Write a query to print the subject code, course number and
course name of every course
which has CSC 115 as a prerequisite.
You should use the command .width 15 15 32 before your query
to prevent the course name
from being truncated.
Sample output:
subject_code course_number course_name
--------------- --------------- --------------------------------
CSC 225 Algorithms & Data Structures I

16. CSC 230 Intro. to Computer Architecture
SENG 265 Software Development Methods
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(h) (Bonus - 4 marks - optional) Write a query to print the name
(first/last) of every instructor
who teaches more than one section, sorted by last name.
You should use the command .width 20 20 before your query to
prevent the output data
from being truncated.
Sample output:
instructor_firstname instructor_lastname
-------------------- --------------------
Bill Bird
Daniel Hoffman
LillAnne Jackson
Frank Ruskey
Tibor van Rooij
Submission Instructions
All submissions for this assignment will be accepted
electronically. You are permitted to delete and
resubmit your assignment as many times as you want before the
due date, but no submissions or

17. resubmissions will be accepted after the due date has passed.
Ensure that each file contains a comment with your name and
student number, and that the files
for each question are named as dictated by the question. If you
do not name your files correctly, or
if you do not submit them electronically, it will not be possible
to mark your submission and you
will receive a mark of zero.
After submitting your assignment, conneX will automatically
send you a confirmation email. If you
do not receive such an email, your submission was not received.
If you have problems with the
submission process, send an email to the instructor before the
due date.
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