General Class
Information
Other course materials and communications will be available through the campus WebCT system. If you are having difficulty with WebCT, try the student documentation page. The Create your WebCT account link is particularly useful.
New students: Activate your UCSC email account, known as CruzMail, log in to the student portal (my.ucsc.edu) and click the link that says Activate UCSC Account.
Continuing students: If you have forgotten your CruzMail password, call the ITS Help Desk at 459-HELP between 8am-5pm, Monday-Friday.
Class Number:
13513
Instructor:
Gerald B. Moulds
Use the WebCT Email tool to contact me:
- Click “Compose Message”
- Click “Browse” (to the right of the “Send to” box)
- I’m at the top of the list – Gerald Moulds (CMPE003_Moulds)
- As a last resort, you may contact me at gmoulds@soe.ucsc.edu, but it may take longer for me to respond to these messages.
Office: Engineering-2 Room #237A
Instructor Office
Hours:
Tuesday 12:00-1:30pm, or by appointment.
Office: Engineering-2 Room #237A
Lecture times:
Monday and Wednesday: 5:00pm-6:45pm, Classroom Unit #2.
Teaching Assistants:
Rigo Dicochea – contact through WebCT Email as “rgdicoch”.
Andrew Trapani – contact through WebCT Email as “atrapani”.
Required text:
Computer Confluence, Introductory 7th edition, by George Beekman.
Another version of this text, Computer Confluence, Complete 7th edition, covers the same course material. (Sometimes, used copies of the Complete edition are less expensive than new copies of the Introductory edition.)
Labs:
NOTE: Labs are not
mandatory. You only need to attend a lab
if you would like some help from one of the course TAs or the instructor. You may drop in on ANY of the six labs for
help, even if you are not enrolled in that lab.
If the labs are full (which tends to only happen when one of the tougher
assignments is due soon) enrolled students have first priority for open
computer stations and the TAs’ attention.
All labs are held
either in Baskin
Engineering 109 or in the Ming Ong PC Lab on the East side of
1A Monday,
7:00pm-8:45pm - Baskin 109 - TA Andrew
1B Tuesday,
12:00pm-1:45pm - Baskin 109 - TA Andrew
1C Thursday, 4:00pm-5:45pm - Baskin 109 - TA Rigo Dicochea
1D Friday,
2:00pm-3:45pm - Baskin 109 - TA Andrew
1E Monday, 9:30am-11:15am - Ming Ong PC Lab - TA Rigo Dicochea
1F Wednesday, 12:00pm-1:45pm - Ming Ong PC Lab - TA Rigo Dicochea
Exam times:
Midterm Exams (worth 15% each):
· Monday October 16th (Chapter/Week 0-3)
· Monday November 13th (Chapter/Week 4-7)
Final Exam (worth 15%):
· Wednesday, November 29th (Chapter/Week 8-10 plus some Chapter/Week 0-7 review)
Bring a pink Scantron form (form F-1712, available at the Bay Tree Bookstore) and pencils on exam days.
If you know you cannot make an exam, or need special arrangements, inform me at least a week ahead of the scheduled exam time.
Academic Integrity:
Cheating in any part of the course may lead to failing the course and severe academic discipline.
Special Accommodations:
If you have special needs, we will accommodate you. Also, the Disability Resource Center offers services which are confidential and free of charge.
Course Outline:
This course covers the concepts of hardware and software used in personal computing. The lectures provide a background in terminology and fundamental concepts. The assignments provide hands-on practice using basic office applications and web tools.
Credit:
This course is 5.0 credits. The course satisfies an IN requirement. Students cannot repeat this course for credit. Students cannot get credit for this course and CMPS 2.
Evaluation:
Your grade will be assigned: A=100%-90%, B=89.99%-75%, C=74.99%-60%, Fail=Below 60%
Assignments and quizzes submitted after the due date will receive a grade of zero. Missing quizzes, assignments, or exams will receive a grade of zero.
Assignments:
Assignment 0 - Send WebCT email to your TA – Due Thursday, September 28 – First week of class! Do this RIGHT AWAY.
-If you are in a lab, send email to the TA in charge of that lab.
-If not in a lab, if your last name begins with A-M Rigo Dicochea is your TA.
-If not in a lab, if your last name begins with N-Z, Andrew Trapani is your TA.
-Click "WebCT EMail" from the left menu.
-Click on "Compose Message."
-In the "Send to:" box type in your lab TA email name, either "atrapani" (for Andrew Trapani) or "rgdicoch" for Rigo Dicochea.
-In the "Subject" type in "CMPE003 Assignment 0".
-In the message area, type in your favorite color (Red, Blue, etc.).
-Click "Send" in the lower left box.
-Worth 100 points (1%).
Assignment 1 - Word Processing – Due October 5th
(Note, I made some minor modifications to this on Tuesday, October 4th at 9:00am, to address some students’ issues)
-Submit "assignment1.doc" through WebCT.
-Do not use the Computer Engineering major.
-If you use a major that requires few prerequisites, you won't get full credit.
-100 points for indentation depth of 5 or more classes at some point (5 x 20) If your major does not have classes with this many prerequisites,
at the end of your assignment provide an example of a class that does, to demonstrate you know how to do so.
-100 points for submitting this as a Word 2003 document titled "assignment1.doc" (-50 for wrong filename)
-100 points for using 2 different font sizes (2 x 50)
-100 points for using normal, bold, italic, and underline (4 x 25)
-100 points for using bullets with at least two levels of indentation (2 x 50)
-100 points for no spelling errors (-10 for each error)
-100 points for correctness to complete the major (-10 per error)
-100 points for use of centering and left justify (2 x 50)
-100 points for including a web link which links to a UCSC department site
-100 points for using 3 different font styles (one serif, one sans-serif, one mono-spaced from pg. 10 of Beekman) (3 x 33)
-Sample page 1 and Sample page 2 are available as a model for your solutions.
-Worth 1000 points total (10%) plus up to a possible 100 points extra credit.
Assignment 2 - Spreadsheet link and example – Due October 19th
Assignment 3 - Web Page link and example - Due November 2nd
Assignment 4 - Programming link and hello_java.html - Due November 16th
Assignment 5 - PowerPoint link - Due December 1st
Quizzes:
