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First Year Dept. of Computing Student Mentoring

This page is dedicated to the mentoring program run by the Department of Computing. Mentoring is available to new students enrolled in BSc(Computer Science), BSc(Information Technology) or BSc(Software Engineering).

More information about the uni-wide mentoring programme that our mentoring is part of, see the Uni Life Mentoring Page

Signing Up For Semester 2 2009

Click on the link showing the current booking, select an empty slot and email Mike Robey with your booking request

You can check your mentor booking by examining the booking sheet.

Contents

What To Do Once You've Signed Up

When it's time for your mentor session, here's what you do:

How To Find Your Mentor:

  1. Go up to level 4 of 314
  2. Call 3145 from the phone in the foyer
  3. Hang around till your mentor comes to get you

To Bring:

What is the mentoring program?

To help combat the high dropout rates for students in their first semester, the Department of Computing has introduced the mentoring scheme for new students.

There is a great difference between life at high school and university life. Our student mentors are all currently studying one of our undergraduate degrees with great success. This makes them the best advisers possible because they have recently experienced, with a high degree of success, what you are about to.

The goal of the mentoring scheme is to make sure that students are keeping their study on track and getting the assistance they need, when they need it, in order to do well at university. Every new student will be assigned a mentor. Every student will meet with their mentor for 20 minutes each week to discuss their progress and any problems they are having.

The attendance records for all new students will be kept and students with poor attendance records may not be considered for supplementary exams.

Location

The mentoring is taking place on level 4 of building 314. You can either take the lift or the stairs (which are to the left of the lift). Students don't have access to level 4 so you need to call your mentor from the phone just outside the security door.
Use extension 3145 to call your mentor (this number is on the sheet next to the phone).

How to sign up

Simply send an email to Mike Robey with the time you want. You can get any of the available slots below that doesn't have a student number.

Useful Stuff

Here are a few useful tips and resources:

Files

Copies of the files that we give you can be downloaded from here:

Some other useful things your mentor might have told you about:

Putty

Putty is a program that you can use to log in to uni from home. I've written these notes from memory, so the details might be a little different - I will check & update if necessary.

  1. Download Putty: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html - the one you want is "putty.exe".
  2. Run Putty & connect to uni: Fill in the name of the server you want to connect to (either "moses.cs.curtin.edu.au" or "ark.cs.curtin.edu.au"), and choose "SSH" as the protocol. You can save these details so that you don't have to type them in each time. Click "connect". Put in your username and password, and you're in...