CompSci 4, Fall 2007: Information

Professor: Susan Rodger

  • Office: LSRC D237
  • Office Hours: Tuesday 1-2pm, Wednesday 9:30-11:00am,
    (or anytime for a quick question, I'm usually
    in Mon-Fri til 2, sometimes later.)
  • Email:

  • Phone: 660-6595

Graduate TA: Sam Slee

  • Office: LSRC D206
  • Office Hours: By appointment, most any time,
    but Mon/Wed/Fri are the best days.
  • Email:
  • Phone: 660-6512

Undergraduate TAs

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Consulting Hours

Follow this link for complete information.

Course Meeting Time

  • Section 1: Tue, Thur: LSRC Room D106, 8:30am-9:45am

    • UTAs: Alex T., Maggie, Sejin

  • Section 2: Tue, Thur: LSRC Room D106, 11:40am-12:55pm

    • UTAs: Alex H., Wendy, Anna, Tiffany, Daniel, Joonhahn, Sarah

Text

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/education/courses/fall07/cps004/

Bulletin Board

You should regularly read the bulletin board as it may contain announcements, hints, and information relevant to this class.

Computing projects

All computing projects will use the tool Alice.

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

Some projects will be pair projects and some projects will be individual projects. On both 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 4 students on two consecutive assignments.

Tests must be your own work.

Class Participation

This is a working class, almost every class is a lab in which you will program. As a result, class participation is required. Please let me know in advance if you can not attend class and the reason why.

Grading

class participation 10%
classwork 20%
readingquizzes 5%
assignments/homework 15%
two exams 30%
final exam 20%

There will be two exams on October 4 and November 13, and a final exam. The final exam for section 1 is on Friday, Dec. 14 from 7pm-10pm. The final exam for section 2 is on Saturday, Dec 15 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.

The tests and final exam will be closed-book.

Last modified: Sun Aug 26 17:00:25 EDT 2007