1. CSCE 121 Introduction to Program Design and Concepts
Spring 2014

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People
Instructor: John Keyser
TA: Michael Nowak
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Prerequisites
We assume some prior programming course
The language doesn’t matter
Assume you will be familiar with some basic programming concepts
Will be going through some material very fast, assuming it is more “refresher”
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Course Communication
Sources of Information
Website
To show up soon…
Piazza
Will be asking you to join piazza
Class and Lab
Come every time!
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Textbook
Bjarne Stroustrup’s Programming Principles and Practice Using C++
4th printing or later
The textbook is very necessary!
We will follow the textbook closely in this class.
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Grades
Assignments (50%)
Will be handed out. Work on at home and in lab
Exams (40%)
Two midterm exams (10% each), one final (20%)
Assume Scantron needed
Attendance and Participation (10%)
Pop quizzes, attendance quizzes, lab quizzes, online participation, etc.
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Grading
Assignments and Attendance/Participation
Each item will have a base score (weight)
Total grade is sum of grades over sum of base scores
Late assignments
Penalized by number of minutes late, m
Penalty is multiplier of m
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Turnin
Turn in to CSNet
Should try to get accounts in first lab
Include honor code statement on assignments
If you have questions on collaboration – assume you cannot and then check with instructor or TA!
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Questions
Questions on the general course structure?
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