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# CSC-105: Thinking With Machines

_Prompt engineering and AI fluency_

**Class Meetings:** Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:30–3:45pm, Riley 106

**Office Hours:** After class, Tues/Thurs 4:00-5:00pm, in 200D (2nd floor, end of left hallway on the left)

[View the Course Path](./course.path.md)

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## What to expect

- **Personalized.** Shared weekly themes; projects branch toward your interests as the term goes on.
- **Project-based.** You learn by making things for real problems, not by collecting scores on homework sets.
- **Agentic.** You use AI on purpose — to learn, to build, and to judge the result — not to outsource the thinking.

[Class principles](./resources//class.principles.md)

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## Weekly rhythm

One lecture and one project each week.

- **Tuesday:** New topic, plus review of recent project work.
- **Thursday:** Last week's project is due at 2:30pm, at the start of class. No late submissions. Then we start the next project in class.

After week 1 you get a **personal path** that updates as your goals and gaps become clearer. The short weekly write-up is how that path stays current.

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## Exams and quizzes

Assessment is project-based. Exams are in-class challenges without the network; quizzes are short in-class builds. Pen and paper or a local editor are fine. See the [syllabus](syllabus.md) for weights and timing.

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