CS 152L; Computer Programming Fundamentals for CS Majors; Spring 2005

Last modified: 06/22/05

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Textbooks: JAVA an Introduction to Programming by Adams, Nyhoff, and Nyhoff, Prentice Hall, 2001; The Essential Java Class Reference for Programmers by Brian Durney, Prentice Hall, 2004.

Class meetings

Education Room 103; Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10-11. Students are required to attend all lectures and a weekly laboratory session. If you miss a lecture or laboratory session, you should make arrangements with a student who did attend the session to find out what you missed.

Labs

Homework Assignments

Throughout the semester, exercises will be assigned from the textbook.  Homework assignments will be made on Wednesdays and due the following Monday. There will be homework assignments every Wednesday, except the week before Spring Break (March 9), the week of Spring Break (March 16) and the last two weeks of classes ( April 27 and May 4). Assignments are due at the start of class.  Late assignments will not be accepted. Your homework assignments will constitute 15% of your grade in this class.

Programming Assignments

There will be six programming assignments during the semester. Your programming assignments will constitute 45% of your grade in this class. The tentative schedule for programming assignments is shown below:

Programming assignments must be turned in by 5pm on the due date. You have six late days to use as you would like throughout the semester. Late days are not divisible: a program turned in at 5:01pm will be charged a full late day (as will a program that is turned in at 4:59 the next day). There is no penalty associated with using a late day; however, once you have used up your six late days, late programs that you submit will not be accepted.

Exams

There will be three midterm exams and one final exam.  All exams will be cumulative All exams will be administered as in-class, close book exams . Each midterm will be worth 10% of your grade in the class. Your lowest midterm exam score will be dropped, meaning that midterm exams will represent a total of 20% of your final grade. If you miss a midterm exam for any reason, this is the score that will be dropped in computing your final score. If you miss two exams, you must provide documentation justifying your absence. Any absence that could reasonably be anticipated (e.g., work related travel) should be cleared before hand.

The final exam will be administered on Monday, May 9th from 10:00 until noon. The final exam will be worth 20% of your final grade. You must attend and take the final exam to pass the class.

Academic Honesty

While you are encouraged to work with your fellow students to better learn the material covered in this class, grades will be assigned on an individual basis. As such, the work that you turn in must reflect your own effort and understanding of the material. When cheating is identified, it is often difficult to determine who copied from whom. To avoid this difficulty, you should be careful to make sure that copies of your programs and homework assignments are not available to other students in the class.

Grading

This raw score used in determining your final graded will be based on the following weights: