SUNY Geneseo Department of Computer Science

Peer Critiques of Breaking the Code Essays

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Final exam

• Tuesday, May 13, 12:00 noon
• Comprehensive, but emphasizing material since midterm (e.g., Enigma, Breaking the Code, research and outside sources, setting ideas in context, handling objections, etc.)
• Designed for 2 hours, you’ll have 3
• Otherwise similar to midterm, especially open-book, notes, computer
• Donuts and cider

Furlough days

• I won’t be available...
• Thursday, May 8 and Wednesday May 14

SOFIs

• aka “student opinion of faculty instruction”
• 11 responses so far - thank you!
• Useful to me, especially any comments
• Still open today and tomorrow
• Online form via Knightweb
  • Click “Surveys” button, then “SOFI survey”

Questions?

Peer Critiques of Breaking the Code Essays

Close reading issues: any ideas in play overlooked, misinterpreted, etc?

Be careful that almost everything in this play matters, and is connected to other things, but is said indirectly. It will be very hard to discuss Whitemore’s view of Turing’s suicide without discussing most of the play. For example, part of the reason his view is deeper than the stock “Turing was driven to suicide by an uncaring society” is shown through the string of relationships with other people and places (Morcom, Pat, Bletchley Park, his mother, various lovers) that Turing has, and each relationship shows something different about Turing.