CS110 - Computer Science I
Section 201 Syllabus

Semester	Spring 2006
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	Hours posted on door	Hours posted on door

Grade Components

15%	In-class quizzes
15%	Programming assignment
15%	Exam 1
15%	Exam 2
15%	Exam 3
20%	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 the approximate schedule of topics, subject to change as we progress through the semester.

Week	Mon	Wed	Fri
1	09-Jan Course Introduction	11-Jan Introduction to Computing	13-Jan
2	16-Jan MLK Jr Birthday – No Class	18-Jan	20-Jan Introduction to Classes
3	23-Jan	25-Jan	27-Jan
4	30-Jan Data Types	01-Feb	03-Feb
5	06-Feb	08-Feb Exam 1	10-Feb
6	13-Feb Decisions	15-Feb	17-Feb
7	20-Feb Iteration	22-Feb	24-Feb
8	27-Feb Arrays	01-Mar	03-Mar
9	06-Mar	08-Mar Exam 2	10-Mar
10	13-Mar	15-Mar	17-Mar
-	20-Mar Spring Break	22-Mar Spring Break	24-Mar Spring Break
11	27-Mar Designing Classes	29-Mar	31-Mar
12	03-Apr	05-Apr	07-Apr
13	10-Apr	12-Apr Exam 3	14-Apr
14	17-Apr Testing/Debugging	19-Apr	21-Apr
15	24-Apr	26-Apr	28-Apr Last Class
-	01-May Start of Finals Week	03-May	05-May Final Exam 8-10am

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 02-Jan-06