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Meeting time: 9:45-11:15am |
UAF CS F202 |
Instructor: Dr. Orion Lawlor |
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Required Textbook: Starting out with C++, by Tony Gaddis |
ADA Compliance: Will work with Office of Disabilities Services (203 WHIT, 474-7043) to provide reasonable accomodation to students with disabilities. |
Course Website:
http://www.cs.uaf.edu/2010/spring/cs202 |
This is the second half of your introduction to C++. The first half of the semester, up to the midterm, includes fundamental C++ concepts like file I/O, classes and methods, inheritance, and exception handling. The second half of the semester will cover a variety of data structures including linked lists, stacks and queues, and recursive structures like binary trees. Throughout, you will learn both the principles and examples of good programming style, and how to work with other programmers. To succeed, you will need to understand the simple C++ covered in CS 201: variables and arithmetic, looping and branching, arrays and pointers, strings, structures, and pointers.
First day of class: Thursday, January 21. Last day to drop: Friday, February 5. Spring break: March 6-14. Midterm exam: Thursday, March 18. Last day to withdraw: Friday, March 26. Last day of class: Thursday, May 6. Final exam: 3:15pm Tuesday, May 11.
Academic Help: Google, Rasmuson Library, Academic Advising Center (509 Gruening, 474-6396), Math Lab (Chapman Room 305), English Writing Center (801 Gruening Bldg, 478-5246).
You'll get better grades by attending class, doing homework, and understanding the material than by cramming before the exam.
Your overall grade comes from:
HW: Homeworks and machine problems, to be distributed through the semester.
PROJ: one substantial group project, together with a short presentation of your results.
MT: Midterm Exam.
FINAL: Final Exam (comprehensive).
The final score is then calculated as:
TOTAL = 30% HW + 20% PROJ + 25% MT + 25% FINAL
This percentage score is transformed into a
plus-minus letter grade via these cutoffs: A >= 93%; A- 90%; B+
87%; B 83%; B- 80%; C+ 77%; C 70%; D+ 67%; D 63%; D- 60%; F. The
grades “C-”, “F+”, and “F-” will
not be given. “A+” is reserved for truly extraordinary
work. At my discretion, I may
round your grade up
if it is very close to a grading boundary. Students taking the
graduate course will have extra exam questions, and be expected to
complete more complex projects.
Individual
assignments and tests may
(rarely) be curved. Homeworks are normally due at midnight on the day
they are due. Late homeworks will receive no credit. At my
discretion, I may
allow late assignments without penalty when due to circumstances
beyond your control. Projects that are up to two weeks late may
be accepted at a 50% grade penalty (e.g., on-time grade: 86%; late
grade: 43%). Everything you turn in must be your own work--violations
of the UAF Honor code will result in a minimum
penalty equal to THAT ENTIRE SECTION OF YOUR GRADE (e.g., one
plagiarized homework question will negate an otherwise perfect grade
on all
homeworks). Group projects are required; group homeworks are
forbidden! However, even substantial reuse of other people's work is
fine (and not plagiarism) if
it is clearly cited; you'll be graded on what you've added to others'
work. Department policy does not allow tests to be taken early; but
in extraordinary circumstances may be taken late.
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