CSCI 101 sec. 6: Intro To Computer Science, Spring 2016
Joanna Klukowska
Clinical Associate Professor,
Computer Science Department,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University
Email address
Mailing address
Warren Weaver Hall, Room 423
251 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10012
Office hours
Tue 9:00am-10:30am, Wed 11:00-12:30pm, OR by appointmnet
Current courses
CSCI 102 sec. 1, 3
CSCI 201 sec. 3
Tweets by @joannakl_nyu
Textbook
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Introduction to Java Programming, Brief Version, 10/E |
Prerequisites
Students without programming experience should take the more introductory course -- CSCI.UA.0002.
Students with a lot of programming experience may take a test out exam to move directly to CSCI.UA.0102 (Data Structures).
In this course you will be using Java, an object oriented language. You do not need to have any experience specifically with Java, but you need to be familiar with the basic concepts of some programming language:
- variables: types integer and real (int and float or double in Java),
- arithmetic and Boolean operators and expressions,
- the assignment statement,
- the if--else statement, including nested if--else statements,
- the for loop, including nested for loops,
- basic input and output.
Grading
Your grade will be based on
- exams (75%): 2 midterms (20% each) and the final (35%),
- quizzes (5%): weekly online quizzes based on the assigned chapter readings
- homeworks (20%): mostly weekly or bi-weekly programming assignments.
In addition class attendance and participation will count towards your final grade.
Grades will be determined using the following scale:
A 95-100 A- 90-95 B+ 87-90 B 84-87 B- 80-84 C+ 76-80 C 72-76 D 65-72 F less than 65
The grade of Incomplete is reserved for students who, for legitimate and documented reason, miss the final exam.
Assignments
There will be weekly (sometimes bi-weekly) programming assignments. In general, the assignments will be due 5-7 days after they are assigned. All assignments will be graded out of 100. All assignments will count towards your final grade (I do not drop any assignment grades).
Late assignments: You get one "freebie" assignment, i.e., you can hand it in up to one
week late without penalty (no questions asked, you decide when to use it and why, but there is only
one of those for the whole semester). When you want
to use your "freebie", you need to follow the instructions in the assignment for requesting the "freebie".
Any other assignments that are not submitted on time, will receive a grade of zero.
Restriction: You cannot request a freebie for the first or last assignment.
No assignments can be accepted after the last day of classes.
Broken assignments: If you hand in an assignment that does not compile or crashes when it is run, you will get a grade of zero on it. As you are working on your code, make sure that it compiles and does what you expect it to do. Test frequently, not only after you write all the code.
Challenging assignment grade:
You can challenge your grade on any assignment. To do so, you need to come to see me during the office hours,
or schedule an appointment.
Exams
There will be two mid-semester exams and a final exam. All exams are cumulative, although they will have
larger emphasis on the new material covered since the previous exam.
On all exams you will get to chose which questions (one or two) you do not wish to answer.
There will be no extra credit for answering all questions.
Missing an exam: There will be no make-up exams. Failure to take an exam counts as a zero grade on that exam. The only exception to this rule is for students who have a legitimate medical or personal emergency (documented). These students need to talk to me as soon as possible (trying to excuse an exam absence a week after it happened will not work).
Academic Integrity Policy
I use MOSS (a system for detecting software plagiarism) to make sure that the submitted assignments are not duplicates of one another. Your code has to be your own.
I follow the department's
academic integrity rules.
In short, it is fine to talk to other students about your ideas and your programs, but it is not
fine to work together on assignments or copy someone else's assignment. You cannot copy other
people's work without giving them a proper credit (and part of your grade).
Any sharing or copying of assignments will be considered cheating. By the rules of the College of
Arts and Science, I am required to report any incidents of cheating to the director of undergraduate studies.
If you have any doubt if something that you are doing qualifies as academic dishonesty, talk to me!
So what is cheating?
- Sharing code: by copying, retyping, looking at, or supplying a file
- Coaching: helping your friend to write a lab, line by line
- Copying code from previous course or from elsewhere on WWW. You are only allowed to use code from the textbook and what we supply on the course website.
What is NOT cheating?
- Explaining how to use systems or tools
- Helping others with high-level design issue
Topics Covered
This is a list of the topics we will cover:
- Part 1: Fundamentals of Programming
- Chapter 1, Introduction to Java
- Chapter 2, Primitive Data Types (Elementary Programming)
- Chapter 3, Selection Statements
- Chapter 4, Loops
- Chapter 5, Methods
- Chapter 6 and 7, Arrays
- Part 2: Object Oriented Programming and Design
- Chapter 8, Objects and Classes
- Chapter 9, Strings
- Chapter 10, Thinking in Objects
- Part 3: Advanced Concepts
- Chapter 11, Inheritance and Polymorphism
- Graphics and Animations (using Processing)
- Chapter 14, Exception Handling and Text I/O
- Chapter 15, Abstract Classes and Interfaces
- Chapter 20, Recursion (if time permits)
For detailed schedule, see the Daily tab of this page.
Academic Email Etiquette
- Check the school email address on a regular basis. You can simply forward its content to another email account that you use regularly.
- Use your school's email account to send emails to professors, instructors, TA's, graders, administrators, etc. OR make sure that your email address contains your true name, not "frabjous@gmail.com", "BabyGurl@yahoo.com" or some other cool alias.
- Start your email with proper salutations! Use the correct titles (Professor, Dr., etc.) and spell first and last names correctly. If you are on the first name basis with your instructors, use their names, not "Hey". For example: "Dear Professor Drummer" or "Dear Robert", not "Hey Bob".
- Sign your name under the body of your email, otherwise you expect people to read emails from anonymous.
- Do not write everything in upper-case letters. Do not write everything in lower-case letters.
- Make sure you included everything you wanted before hitting send. Don't send three emails one after another because you forgot something in the first one.
- Proofread the text in your email before sending it. Most of the email clients check for typos, but they cannot tell if your email makes much sense. Read it, before you send it.