- Office: LSRC D237
- Office Hours: Tue 1:15-2:30pm, Wed 1:15-2:30, and sometimes Mon afternoons and
Friday mornings. (You can also come by anytime for a quick question,
I'm usually in Mon-Fri til 2:30,
sometimes later on Mondays and Thursdays.)
- Email:
- Phone: 660-6595
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Graduate TA: Jie Xu
- Office: North 207
- Office Hours: Tues: 9:05-10:05am, Tues 6:15-7:15pm, Thu 9:05-10:05am
- Email: xu AT cs.duke.edu
- Phone: 660-4020
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Undergraduate TAs
- UTAs
- Tori Reynolds
- Hannah Sieber
- Salwa Zahalka
- David Howdyshell
- Rui Dai
Course Meeting Time
- LECTURE: Tuesday and Thursday: LSRC D106, 11:40am-12:55pm
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Text
- (Required)
NOTE: DO NOT buy the Brief Edition! Buy the complete version and make
sure it is the 2cd Edition, 354 pages.
Learning to Program with Alice, 2nd Edition - by Dann, Cooper, and
Pausch, Pearson Prentice Hall, 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/fall10/cps004/
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 be programming in class every day.
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 the tool Alice for most of the semester.
We may use Alice 3 at the end of the semester.
LATE POLICY on Assignments: Assignments turned in up to 2 days late are 10% off
(Sunday does not count as a late day).
Assignments turned in after 2 days are 20% off. They must be turned
in within one week late. See Prof. Rodger immediately if you are
having difficulty with this.
LATE POLICY on Classwork: Classwork is due by the next class period.
Classwork turned in late or not checked off
by the due date is 10% off. Classwork must be turned in within one week
of the due date to receive any credit.
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).
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
Wednesday, Dec 15, from 9am-noon.
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.