Career exploration and planning is a continuing theme in our curriculum.

1. Go to the UMGC Career Services webpage and explore all of the services available to you as a UMGC student.
2. Click on and explore the CareerQuest feature and consider joining CareerQuest to take advantage of all of the help offered.

Career Exploration Resources

The resources below will assist you in completing the required Career Exploration Assignment for our class.

1. CareerQuest (For Job Seekers, CareerQuest provides access to an e-resume review process allowing you to submit your resume and receive a helpful report so you can make improvements. It also allows you to submit your resume to a job posting of interest.)
2. CareerQuest ToolBox (access os limited to those who register with UMGC Career Quest)

Report Requirements

1. Prepare a one-page report, single-spaced, with double spacing between paragraphs.
2. What is your experience with the UMGC Career Quest account system?
3. If you set up an account describe any benefit you experienced.
4. If you are not a job seeker, consider the UMGC Career Quest resources you might recommend to others.
5. Explain how our course, ACCT 220 Principles of Accounting I, also known as Financial Accounting, relates to your academic and career goals. The course objectives are listed below to help you consider this question.

Course Objectives:

• define the fundamental principles of accounting to describe basic business transactions
• identify and analyze basic business transactions to record them in an accounting information system
• prepare financial statements and documents in the appropriate format
• identify and communicate with users of accounting and financial information to facilitate analytical decision making

• The Fourth Amendment of our U.S. Constitution states: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”   Considering the Fourth Amendment and the U.S. Supreme Court’s interpretation of the amendment, does an individual who places their garbage bags outside have a reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to the contents of the garbage bags?  Why or why not?
• Then, respond to the posts of at least two (2) other peers with comments that continue to drive the discussion.

Week 5 Hot Topic: Extra Credit:
A Louisville police officer who was shot during the botched raid that killed Breonna Taylor is suing her boyfriend claiming Kenneth Walker caused him “severe trauma,” according to reports.
Louisville Metro Police Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly who authorities say was shot in the thigh and needed five hours of surgery to repair his femoral artery after the March 13 raid  filed a countersuit against Walker alleging battery, assault and emotional distress, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported late Thursday.  Mattingly’s civil suit claims Walker’s response to officers barging into Taylor’s apartment on a no-knock warrant as part of a narcotics probe was “outrageous, intolerable and offends all accepted standards of decency or morality,” the newspaper reported.
“Sgt. Mattingly was shot and nearly killed by Kenneth Walker,” the sergeant’s attorney told the Courier-Journal in a statement. “He’s entitled to, and should, use the legal process to seek a remedy for the injury that Walker has caused him.”  Mattingly’s countersuit seeks a jury trial, as well as damages and attorney fees, according to the report.
The countersuit is a response to a lawsuit filed by Walker, 28, against Louisville police, the city and others this summer seeking immunity from prosecution based on Kentucky’s “Stand Your Ground” law. He also insisted in September that he didn’t fire the bullet that nearly severed Mattingly’s femoral artery.  Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend says he didn’t wound cop during shootout.
Walker, a licensed gun owner, was initially arrested for attempted murder and assault for allegedly shooting Mattingly, but those charges were later dropped. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has said the six shots Mattingly fired into Taylor’s apartment was a “justified” response to him being shot during the raid.  Detective Myles Cosgrove and former Detective Brett Hankison also opened fire, squeezing off a total of 32 rounds and striking Taylor six times, killing her in her apartment. No drugs were found inside the apartment, police later said.
Walker’s attorney, meanwhile, dismissed Mattingly’s countersuit as a “baseless attempt to further victimize and harass Kenny,” Attorney Steve Romines said Walker is “immune from both criminal prosecution and civil liability” since he was acting in self-defense in his own home.  “One would think that breaking into the apartment, executing his girlfriend and framing him for a crime in an effort to cover up her murder would be enough for them.  Even the most basic understanding of Kentucky’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ law and the ‘Castle Doctrine’ evidences this fact,” Romines told CBS News.
What are your thoughts?  Does the officer have a legitimate case, or is it frivolous?

Using one of the many financial apps (most of them are free) that are available for your tablet or smartphone these days, you can become your own banker. In fact, trips to the bank or even to an ATM could soon become a thing of the past. The new apps let you do all the functions that you could do on a bank’s Web site and more. For example, to deposit a check into your banking account, you can simply take a photograph of the front and back of the check, after which the app will ask you for the amount you want to deposit. Then you type the account number and then press “OK” to complete the deposit. With the Mint app (mint.com) from Intuit, you can even perform all sorts of analytics on your account. For example, you can establish a budget and keep track of the expenses in various categories, such as food, gas, and groceries. Another app that offers similar services is HelloWallet (hellowallet.com). Still other apps help you track and report work-related travel expenses. An example is an iPhone app called QuickShot. It allows you to take photos of your receipts, and the photos are automatically stored in an account on Dropbox, an Internet file-storage service. Banks, brokerage firms, and other financial institutions have developed their own apps that simplify their customers’ financial interactions with the institution. In addition, computers and robots are increasingly playing a role in the areas of finance and banking; for example, high- frequency trading in which bots account for up to 80 percent of the daily volume on the stock market and can buy and sell stocks in microseconds. Another growing application is the rise of the “robo advisor.” This is a method to automate the asset allocation of investments using a computer algorithm. When it comes to investing a typical investor has three choices: do-it-yourself, a robo advisor, or a financial advisor. Which option to choose depends on several factors such as the cost of the investment, age of the investor, amount of investment, his or her risk tolerance, and knowledge of investing. According to research, using “robo advisor” is certainly a viable choice. The three largest robo advisors by assets under management are Vanguard, Schwab Intelligent Portfolios, and Betterment. Some are fully automated, and some are run in human-assisted mode.
Answer the following questions in a Microsoft® Word document and save the file on your computer with your last name in the file. (Example: module_02_case1_Jones.doc)

1. What technology is used when you deposit a check into your account using your smartphone and your banking app?
2. What are some examples of analytics that can be done using financial apps?

This assignment is for you to gain hands-on experiences of our weekly (week 9) covered topics including Queue, Heap, and Priority Queue. In this assignment, you need to write Java programs that meet the following requirements:
=== Basic Requirements (100 ‘pts) ===
1) (50 ‘pts) Implement a MyQueue class that supports the following interfaces within O(1) time:
1.1) int size(); //return the total number of stored elements
1.2) boolean isEmpty(); //return if the queue is empty
1.3) void offer(E val); //enqueue an element val for generic type E
1.4) E poll(); //remove head and return the removed value, return null if isEmpty()
1.5) E peek(); //return head, return null if isEmpty()
2) (50 ‘pts) Based on our class demonstration of MinHeap implementation, write a MaxHeap class that at least supports all the queue interfaces stated above as in 1).
=== Bonus (20 ‘pts) ===
a) (10 ‘pts) In the above requirement 2) MaxHeap, can you implement a class method: heapify(E[] arr) that takes in an array input, and transfer that array into a max heap?
b) (10 ‘pts) Inspired by the above practices, now revisite Leetcode 912. Sort An Array, this time use heap sort to conquer this coding challenge. Make sure your submission passes all Leetcode test cases.