CMPE 003: Personal Computer Concepts
Spring 1997

Final course grades have been submitted. To ensure privacy, I have decided not to post the final grades to the class home page. If you wish to know your grade, send e-mail to supulver@cse.ucsc.edu. Send the e-mail from your own account and include your student I.D. number for verification; I will e-mail your final course grade back to you.
--KDS 6/10/97

This course provides a practical introduction to computers: hardware, operating systems and applications packages; developments in the computer industry from an engineering perspective. Personal computing on a IBM-PC platform is emphasized, with lab exercises designed to provide working knowledge of basic application packages of word processing (Microsoft Word) and spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel) as well as programming concepts via Pascal. An introduction to the Internet and associated topics such as e-mail, Netscape, and the World Wide Web will also be presented.

Lecture: Applied Sciences, Room 152 MWF 3:30pm-4:40pm
Labs: Social Sciences I, Room 135 Mon
Tue
Wed
Fri
6:00pm-8:00pm
9:00am-11:00am
10:00am-12:00pm
1:00pm-3:00pm
1A
1B
1C
1D
Instructor: Kim Supulver
supulver@cse.ucsc.edu
Applied Sciences, Room 237
MW 2:00pm-3:00pm and by appt.
T.A.: Ted Dunn
tdunn@cse.ucsc.edu
Social Sciences I, Room 135
Applied Sciences, Room 309
MT
Th
during lab sections 1A and 1B
10:00am-12:00pm
Tutor: Laura Chiorello
lmc@cats.ucsc.edu
Social Sciences I, Room 135
WF during lab sections 1C and 1D
Textbooks: 1) Computing Unbound, Patterson, Kiser, Smith (1989).
New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc..
2) Microsoft Office Professional, Parsons, et al. (1995).
Cambridge, MA: Course Technology, Inc..

A course syllabus and the class policies are available, as are guidelines for term projects and sample questions from midterm and final exams.

CHECK OUT YOUR GRADES: To look at your current overall grade and grades for each assignment, go to the Grade Viewer page. This page will show you your grades compared to the class average and to the 70% passing limit.

REMINDER: Work turned in after the due date set for a given assignment will not be accepted unless expressly authorized by the course teaching staff in advance. You may turn in work which is incomplete on the due date for partial credit. You will not receive full credit for any work turned in late unless authorized in advance. For late labs, you will have one point taken off for each day the lab is late. After Friday at 3:30pm on the week a lab is due, the lab will no longer be accepted and you will receive zero credit for that assignment.