CS110 - Computer Science I
Section 101 Syllabus

Grade Components

Grade Scale

Bibliography

You may find the following texts useful during the course:

Schedule of Topics

This is a tentative schedule, subject to change as we progress through the semester.

Course Policies

Attendance

Students are expected to attend all class sessions and participate in class activities. Students are required to take exams at the scheduled class period. Students may take an exam at a different time under one of the following conditions:

• They present a University Excused Absence
• They present a valid medical excuse
• Other extraordinary circumstance as determined by the instructor

Academic Conduct

Learning about programming is a hands-on activity, not something that you can pick up by just reading a book or listening to a lecture. It is important that you do the work yourself to gain this experience. To that end, you may discuss programming concepts and techniques with others, consult the web or other textbooks, or study code that is available from various sources but the work you submit must be your own. Here are some examples of appropriate and inappropriate conduct:

• You need to insert an IF statement in your program and you can't remember whether or not parentheses are required. You ask a friend who says, yes, they are required. This is acceptable.
• You're running late on an assignment and in order to hand a program in on time, you copy ten lines of code from a classmate. This is NOT ACCEPTABLE conduct by either student: you must neither directly copy code from someone else nor offer your code to another student or allow it to be copied.
• After struggling for some time, you do a search on the internet and find a snippet of code that you adapt to your problem and insert into your program. You comment your code to acknowledge the source. This is acceptable.
• After struggling for some time, you do a search on the internet and find a program that does exactly what you need. You submit it as your own work. This is NOT ACCEPTABLE.

It is your responsibility to satisfy the spirit of this conduct. If you have any questions, please ask one of the instructors for clarification. Depending on the severity of the offense, the instructors may:

• Take no action
• Penalize the student on the assignment in question
• Assign the student a failing grade in the course

Communication

Assignments, lecture notes, class communications (e-mail), etc, are all handled via the course WebCT/Vista site. Be sure to log into WebCT/Vista regularly to check for course news.

Late Homework

Homework and programming problems will be assigned during the semester. They must be submitted by the due date. Assignments turned in after the due date will be worth, at most, 50% of the point value of the assignment.

GH206A Room Schedule

This is the current schedule of classes scheduled to meet in GH206A. The lab is available during non-class hours between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm. As you can see, this is pretty much every morning of the week and all day on Friday. Feel free to stop by and use the lab. These machines have software that may not be available in the other labs on campus (the TextPad editor and the Java SDK, for example).

Modified 24-Aug-04