Steve Vincent's Web Site

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Welcome to my website. It is currently used to provide study aids to my students at Baker College, Flint, Michigan. Others are welcome to browse as well.

Below, you will find links to lecture notes for my classes at Baker College, study guides, and review questions. I have also included links to other helpful web sites here and there.

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References

Useful reference sites on the Internet:

One Look - a search engine that looks up any word in multiple dictionaries
What Is...? - great for looking up technical terms
How Stuff Works - great articles on technology
Tech Web Encyclopedia - general technical references
Cartoon Brew - animation news blog
Polygon Blog - tutorials for 3DS Max

More links to other sites are on various class menus.


Baker Classes

Notes for students with Test Anxiety

  Fall 2023, first 8 weeks:
ITS4350A: Incident Response and Disaster Recovery - Fall 2023 version: online only, 8 weeks, no classroom meetings
  Fall 2023, second 8 weeks:
CIS2750: Securing Information Systems - Fall 2023 version: online only, 8 weeks, no classroom meetings

Selected Previous Courses:
(you only get so much room on a server)
INF 111: Information Systems Theory

CAP 101: Concept and Character Development
CAP 151: Introduction to Computer Animation Winter 2010, 2011 version
CAP 151: Introduction to Computer Animation Winter 2009 version
CAP 161: Digital Imaging for Animation Spring 2013
CAP 161: Digital Imaging for Animation Spring 2011
CAP 201a: Computer Animation I Fall 2011, 2012, 2013 version
CAP 201a: Computer Animation I Fall 2009, 2010 version
CAP 201: Computer Animation I Fall 2008 version
CAP 202: Computer Animation II Winter 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 version
CAP 202: Computer Animation II Winter 2009 version
CAP 203: Computer Animation III 2013 version
CAP 203: Computer Animation III 2010, 2011, 2012 version
CAP 203: Computer Animation III Spring 2009 version
CAP 211: Interactive Design and Game Development Winter 2012, 2013 version
CAP 211: Interactive Design and Game Development Winter 2011 version
CAP 211: Interactive Design and Game Development Winter 2010 version
CAP 211: Interactive Design and Game Development Winter 2009 version
CAP 271: Computer Animation Portfolio Project

CIS 106a: Introduction to Operating System Concepts
CIS 107a: Introduction to Hardware Concepts
CIS 1110A: Computer Operating Systems and Maintenance - 2020 version
CIS2210: Database Management - 2019 version
CIS2210: Database Management and Design - 2018 version
CIS 251: System Development Methods - Fall 2016 version
CIS 251: System Development Methods - Fall 2015 version
CIS 251: System Development Methods Fall 2014 version
CIS 251: System Development Methods 2013 version
CIS 303a: Computer Architecture
CIS 314: Advanced Software Solutions
CIS 331: Database Management Using SQL
CIS 361: Data Communications and Networks
CIS 421b: Database Administration I

CS1110: Introduction to Programming Fall 2017 version
CS 205: Introduction to UNIX
CS 211: UNIX Shell Programming
CS 215: UNIX C Programming
CS 216: Advanced C Programming
CS 218: Object Oriented Programming with C++
CS 231: Microprocessor Electronics
CS 311: Object-Oriented Concepts and Designs
CS 331: HTML Programming
CS 332a: Advanced HTML Programming
CS 422A: Database Programming I
CS 481: Trends in Computer Science
CS 491 - Senior Seminar: Computers and Society

CSS 111: Introduction to Information System Security
ITS2110: Introduction to Network Security 2019 version
CSS/ITS 211: Introduction to Network Security 2014 version
CSS 211: Introduction to Network Security 2011 version

ITS 2310: Linux I - spring 2021 version
ITS 2320: Linux II - fall 2021 version
ITS 2330: Linux III - spring 2021 version
ITS 305: Security Policies and Auditing 2016 version
ITS 305: Security Policies and Auditing 2015 version
ITS 305: Security Policies and Auditing 2014 version
ITS3050: Security Policies and Auditing - Winter/Spring 2023, 8 weeks, online only, no classroom meetings
ITS3050: Security Policies and Auditing Fall 2018 version
ITS3050: Security Policies and Auditing Fall 2017 version
ITS 311: IT Communications
ITS 321: Legal and Ethical Issues in Information Technology
ITS3250: Securing Systems Fall 2018 version
ITS3250: Securing Systems Fall 2017 version
ITS 421: Tactical Perimeter Defense
ITS4210: Access Control, Authentication, and PKI 2019 version
ITS4050: Internet and Web Security - 2021 version
ITS4050: Internet and Web Security - 2020 version
ITS4050: Internet and Web Security - 2019 version
ITS4250: Computer Forensics and Investigation - Winter/Spring 2023, 8 weeks, online only, no classroom meetings
ITS4350: Disaster Recovery - Fall 2018 version
ITS4350: Disaster Recovery - Fall 2022 version: online only, 8 weeks, no classroom meetings
ITS4450: Fraud, Risk Assessment Tools, and Investigation - 2019 version
ITS4550: Fraud Prevention and Deterrence - 2019 version
ITS4910: Information Trends/Research and Design Project
LUX 205: Introduction to Linux/UNIX
LUX 211: Shell Scripting
LUX 263: System Administration III

NET 101: Networking Essentials I
NET 102: Networking Essentials II - Fall 2016 version
NET 102: Networking Essentials II - Fall 2014 version
NET 121b: Essentials of Networking
NET 211: Wireless Networking
NET 222: Introduction to Routers and Routing
NET 224: Advanced Routers and Routing
NET 226A: Designing Internetwork Solutions


PPM 301: Project Management


"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

-- Robert A. Heinlein  (Click the silver button for more Heinlein quotes.)

Some thoughts from Mark Twain on "Perplexing Lessons"

Feeling perplexed and bothered? Spider Robinson writes about life, humor, sadness, and the potential to find joy. His work is often science fiction, which is a plus for me. Follow the link above to his web site, and the next one to a web version of his story, "Melancholy Elephants". It is a fine sample of his writing. (Do him a favor: buy a book. We can't do any more for the writers we love who are gone. We should encourage the one's we admire, who are still around, by buying their work.)


Steve Vincent

skvincent@gmail.com

Copyright © 1997-2021 Steve Vincent

This is the Table of Contents for this site: http://stevevincent.info/index.html
Legend: Blue Links are unvisited, Burgundy Links are visited.
: notes.
: class menus, assignments, outlines
: review/study guides.
: handouts.
: WWW references