CS110 - Computer Science I
Section 101 Syllabus

Semester	Fall 2005
Class Sessions	Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9:00 - 9:50
Class Location	Gullickson Hall - Room 206A
Catalog Description	Object-oriented and algorithmic problem solving principles and techniques; programming with classes in an integrated programming environment; and program debugging.
Prerequisite	Standing as a Computer Science major; or ACT Mathematics score of at least 23
Credit Hours	3
Textbook	Horstmann, Cay, Java Concepts 4e, Wiley
ISBN	0-471-66704-4

 

Instructors	Joe Fuller	Jonathan Thompson
Office Phone	304-696-6204	304-696-6349
Office Fax	304-696-5454	304-696-5454
EMail	FullerJ@marshall.edu	ThompsonJ@marshall.edu
Office Location	Gullickson Hall Room 205B	Gullickson Hall Room 205C
Office Hours	TBA	TBA

Grade Components

25%	Homework & Quizzes
5%	Program Project
20%	Exam 1
20%	Exam 2
25%	Final Exam
5%	Class Attendance & Participation

Grade Scale

A	90-100
B	80-89
C	70-79
D	60-69
F	0-59

 

Bibliography

You may find the following texts useful during the course:

Flanagan	Java in a Nutshell Describes the set of standard Java classes and methods that are available
Eckel	Thinking in Java An electronic version of the text is available on the web.

Schedule of Topics

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

Week	Mon	Wed	Fri
1	22-Aug Course Introduction	24-Aug Introduction to Computing	26-Aug
2	29-Aug Introduction to Classes	31-Aug	02-Sep
3	05-Sep  Labor Day - No Class	07-Sep	09-Sep
4	12-Sep Data Types	14-Sep	16-Sep
5	19-Sep Review	21-Sep Exam 1	23-Sep Exam Results
6	26-Sep Decisions	28-Sep	30-Sep
7	03-Oct Iteration	05-Oct	7-Oct
8	10-Oct Arrays	12-Oct	14-Oct
9	17-Oct	19-Oct	21-Octr
10	24-Oct Review	26-Oct Exam 2	28-Oct Exam Results
11	31-Oct Designing Classes	02-Nov	04-Nov
12	07-Nov	09-Nov Testing/Debugging	11-Nov
13	14-Nov	16-Nov	18-Nov
14	21-Nov Thanksgiving Holiday	23-Nov	25-Nov
14	28-Nov Programming Graphics	30-Nov	02-Dec
15	05-Dec Programming Devices	07-Dec Wrap-Up	09-Dec
-	12-Dec Exam Week	14-Dec	16-Dec

 

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.

Modified 17-Aug-05