COS 109 Survey Results (2018)

Sun Sep 16 10:44:43 EDT 2018

Here are the survey results, undoubtedly with transcription errors and double counting, with 32 responses out of 41 or 42.

Your year:

Frosh 12, Soph 12, Junior 7, Senior 11

Your major or likely or possible major:

ENG 7, HIS 7, WWS 3, PHI 3, PSY 2, NES 2, ARC 2, and 1 each of SOC, SLL, REL, CLA, SPO, ANT

Your life outside class, e.g., sports, music, theater, service, job, sleep, ...:

Varsity and club sports, a wide variety of service activities, music in its myriad forms, writing in various venues, plenty of performing arts like theater and dance, a variety of jobs and work, and much wishful thinking about getting enough sleep. A word of warning for anyone with heavy time commitments, especially if they involve travel: there are weekly problem sets and labs in 109, and there is apenaly for lateness, so please plan ahead.

Your computer experience:

a lot 1     some 11     a little 8     none 12

What kind of computer(s) do you have here?

Windows PC 7 Mac 29
The Mac fraction has been around 80% for a long time.

What kind of cell phone(s) do you have?

iPhone 31, Android 3
Android outsells iPhone worldwide by a large margin, but evidently not locally.

Who is your cell phone provider?

Verizon 11, AT&T 13, Sprint 6, T-Mobile 3

What three apps do you use most often on your phone?

Instagram 17, messaging 16, email 12, Snapchat 11, Facebook 7, Spotify 6, and smaller numbers for WhatsApp, Uber, Tinder, Clash, Headspace, GroupMe, Tiger Menus (!), etc.
Not surprisingly, I am out of touch; I've never heard of some of these.

Are there any topics you would especially like to hear about in class? <

The high runners were security/privacy, AI, Internet, programming, big data, with a variety of other interesting suggestions that we might get to.