1. CSE 2341 H ONORS Professor Mark Fontenot Southern Methodist University

2. O VERVIEW Introductions Administrative Material – Syllabus & Outline What we’re going to cover in this class

3. C ONTACT I NFO Instructor Prof. Mark Fontenot mfonten@lyle.smu.edu Caruth 441 TA Maya El Dayeh meldayeh@smu.edu

4. O FFICE H OURS Official MW: 9 - 10 Open door policy The hours above won’t work for everyone If my door is open, feel free to stop in. Electronic: Send me an email any time. I always try to respond within 24 hours.

5. W HO ARE YOU ?

6. G ETTING A SSISTANCE Ask questions in class!!! Office Hours Help Desk Located in CSE Suite on 4 th Floor of Caruth Staffed by most TAs throughout the day. Schedule forthcoming Email Instructor or TA

7. C OURSE E VALUATION Exams – 30% Programming Projects – 50% Homework and Quizzes – 10% Attendance and Active Participation – 10% Additional Grade Constraints: Must maintain at least a 60% on exams Must maintain at least a 60% on programming projects

8. A TTENDANCE You’ve got to come to class! Your grade will reflect your attendance Participating is required and essential Don’t surf the net, do Sudoku puzzles, or txt at inappropriate times Act like an adult…

9. A CADEMIC E THICS Pillar of higher education: the work you produce should be your own. SMU Honor Code applies to all classes If an assignment is to be done individually (i.e. exams), it is expected that they will be completed in that manner If an assignment is collaborative, then you may work with your team members as much as you want

10. I NAPPROPRIATE C OLLABORATION Penalties 1 st Occurrence – Zero on Assignment 2 nd Occurrence F in course Honor Council We reserve the right to modify these penalties on a case-by-case basis.

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12. W HAT SHOULD YOU KNOW ? Comfortable with Basic/Intermediate C++ data types, variables, expressions, methods, control structures, classes, pointers, arrays, etc. Debugging code Understanding of the concepts of OOP Inheritance, Polymorphism, Encapsulation Problem solving

13. W HAT WE ’ LL COVER … As much as possible Topics Object Oriented C++ STL Generic Programming/Templates Basic Data Structures (linked list, stack, queue) Trees, Binary Trees, Binary Search Trees B+ Trees Sets Hashing Priority Queues

14. WHAT YOU NEED Computer. Laptop is nice, but not required. It will be hard to take some notes in this class on laptop because of pictures. You can try if you’d like. Mac/PC/Linux Textbook is required!!!!! 3-ring binder for notes and handouts.

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