- Office: LSRC D237
- Office Hours: Wed 1-2, Thu 1-2 and sometimes Mon afternoons and
Friday mornings. (You can also come by anytime for a quick question,
I'm usually in Mon-Fri til 2,
sometimes later on Mondays and Thursdays.)
- Email:
- Phone: 660-6595
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Graduate TA: Jie Xu
- Office: North 207
- Office Hours: Monday 4:10-6:10pm, Tuesday 8:50am-9:50am
- Email: xu AT cs.duke.edu
- Phone: 660-4020
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Undergraduate TAs
Course Meeting Time
- LECTURE: Tuesday and Thursday: Physics Room 130, 10:05am-11:20am
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Text
- (Required) Java Concepts, 5th Edition, by Cay Horstmann, Wiley, 2007.
- (Optional) If you want another book for reference, a good reference
book is Java: How to program: Early Objects Version by Deitel and Deitel,
now in its 8th Edition (May 2009)
Reading
In general you should read the text in order to be prepared to ask and
answer questions in class. If you've looked at material before it's
discussed in class you'll get much more out of the class discussion.
This is especially true once class has been going for a while.
There will be reading quizes on blackboard due before many
classes! They must be completed before class time, there will not
be second chances.
Web page
Many of the materials for this course (including this page)
are available on
http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/spring10/cps006/
Bulletin Board
You should regularly read the
bulletin board
as it may contain announcements, hints, and information relevant
to this class.
Classwork
Class attendence is required. We will work on problem solving (with and
without computers) during class. Many times classwork will need to be
completed outside of class. This is homework that will count as part of
your classwork grade.
Computing projects
All computing projects will use Java 5 or 6, the Eclipse environment and Ambient
for submitting. See Resources for installing these.
All computing projects should include names as a comment in the program
and a separate README text file that gives information such as name of
authors, how long it took to work on the project, and anyone you received
help from.
LATE POLICY: Projects turned in up to 2 days late are 10% off
(Sunday does not count as a late day).
Projects turned in after 2 days are 20% off. Projects must be turned
in within one week late. See Prof. Rodger immediately if you are
having difficulty with this.
Collaboration
Unless otherwise stated, computing projects should be your own work.
If you are assigned a partner to work with, you can work together
and help each other, but you still both have to write
the code.
In both cases you may consult with one or two other students
(and as many times as you
want with TA's and Prof. Rodger).
Consult means you can discuss the project before writing it,
and get help with debugging your project,
but you should write your own code. Writing one world and making multiple
copies of it is not acceptable! For each assignment
you are expected to include a list of the people with whom you
have consulted (including students, TA's, tutors, professors).
Finally, you may not consult with the same CompSci 6 students on two
consecutive assignments.
Tests must be your own work.
Grading
| classwork/participation | 15%
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| readingquizzes | 5%
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| assignments | 25%
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| two exams
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30%
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| final exam |
25%
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There will be two exams (dates on the calendar), and a final exam on
Thursday, May 6, from 7pm-10pm.
Grading is done on an absolute, but adjustable scale. This means that
there is no curve. Anyone earning 90% or more of the total number of
points available will receive a grade in the A range (A+,A,A-); 80% = B, 70% =
C, 60% = D. This scale may go down, but it will not go up.
NOTE: For 10% of your classwork/participation grade you must drop by
and introduce yourself to me in my office. This must be completed by
Spring Break. Remind me to check you off for this requirement when you
drop by.
The tests and final exam will be closed-book.