{"id":195,"date":"2020-04-16T00:13:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T00:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orbital.comp.nus.edu.sg\/?p=195"},"modified":"2020-04-16T00:13:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T00:13:34","slug":"orbital-2013-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comp.nus.edu.sg\/orbital\/2020\/04\/16\/orbital-2013-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital 2013 Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Posted on February 15, 2013 by orbital<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Orbital<\/strong> is a new School of Computing programme, designed to give first year students the opportunity to 1) self-learn and 2) build something useful. It is designed as a 4 modular credit (MC) module that is taken pass\/fail (CS\/CU) over the summer<sup>1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the School\u2019s traditional modules which emphasize academic learning, this module leverages the growing opportunity that computing students at all levels have in building useful applications. This skill does not normally come by formal training, but rather requires time, experience, trial-and-error to hone. Information foraging for technical details on the Web can be difficult, but we feel that through a combination of self- and peer-help, students will be able to put together useful systems and generate confidence in being able to go beyond the basics, and seek solutions on their own. In fact, computing is the only discipline whose output can scale dramatically; a single person\u2019s work can affect millions of lives, everyday.<\/p>\n<p>Our School does not teach programming prowess as formal coursework, as it is not academic in nature. <strong>Orbital<\/strong> is one mode where young energetic students can fill this gap by their own initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the <strong>Orbital <\/strong>programme\u2019s structure in pages tagged with \u2018<strong>orbital<\/strong>\u2018.<\/p>\n<p><small><sup>1<\/sup>Credit will be provided under CP3108B Independent Work.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on February 15, 2013 by orbital Orbital is a new School of Computing programme, designed to give first year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comp.nus.edu.sg\/orbital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comp.nus.edu.sg\/orbital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comp.nus.edu.sg\/orbital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comp.nus.edu.sg\/orbital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comp.nus.edu.sg\/orbital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comp.nus.edu.sg\/orbital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comp.nus.edu.sg\/orbital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comp.nus.edu.sg\/orbital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comp.nus.edu.sg\/orbital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}