CMPS 12A: Introduction to Programming
Spring 2006

Final Exam Review Times

• Instructor: Cormac Flanagan. Office hours are Thursdays, 1-2pm, or by appointment, in E2, Room 367.
• Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday, 8:00am-9:45am, initially Soc Sci 2 075. All lectures from April 6 on will be in the Simularium in the Engineering 2 building.
• Audience: This course is for CS, CE and ISM majors and prospective majors. These are disciplines which emphasizes mathematics and problem solving. There are computer literacy and computer programming courses that are offered for the non-major. If you are shaky in your preparation you should consider taking CMPS010, which is highly recommended for all CS majors.
• Teaching Assistants:
  • Mark Slater (mslater AT soe.ucsc.edu). Office hours: 1-2pm, Tuesdays, E2-392.
  • Jacob Telleen (jtelleen AT soe.ucsc.edu). Office hours: 1-2pm, Wednesdays and Fridays(starting April 7), E2-386.
  • Tim Bisson (tbisson AT soe.ucsc.edu). Office hours: 3-4pm Thursdays, E2-380.
• Modified Supplemental Instruction:
  • Alana Muldoon (newmoon AT ucsc.edu).
  • Section Monday 5-6:15pm at the Jack Baskin White boards.
  • Section Thursday 10:30-11:45am also at the Jack Baskin White boards.
  • Extra review session Sat June 10th from 1-3pm also at the Jack Baskin White boards
• Required Text: Java by Dissection 2nd Edition (unpublished). Pohl and McDowell A pdf version can be found in the WebCT "Course Content and Related Materials" section for the class. A print version is available from SlugBooks.
• Labs: Concurrent registration for one of the following labs is required. (Lab Schedule)
  • CMPS 12L-a: BE105 Tuesday 3:00-4:30 and Thursday 4:00-5:30.
  • CMPS 12L-b: BE105 Tuesday 4:30-6:00 and Thursday 5:30-7:00.
• Class Newsgroup: ucsc.class.cmps012a

Evaluation

• Bi-Weekly programming assignments (25%).
• Bi-Weekly quizzes (best four out of five) (40%).
• Final exam (35%). The final exam will be Monday, June 12, 7:30 to 10:30 P.M. in the usual Simularium room.

Working Together: The programming assignments are to be done in two person teams. You are free to choose your own partner, but you and your partner must be enrolled in the same lab section. BOTH partners in a pair should submit the program through WebCT. This is required for two reasons. First, it avoids the "I thought my partner was going to submit it" problem. Second, it facilitates the online grading by letting WebCT know that each student has actually submitted a solution.

Academic Dishonesty: Any confirmed academic dishonesty including but not limited to copying programs or cheating on exams, will constitute a failure of the computer ethics portion of this class and result in a no-pass or failing grade. You are encouraged to read the campus policies regarding academic integrity.

You may freely give and receive help with the computer facilities, editors, UNIX, debugging techniques, the meaning and proper use of Java constructs, etc.. You should not discuss your design or implementation of the programming assignments with students other than your partner until after they are turned in. In particular you should not view another person/pair's program, or allow someone (other than your partner) to view any part of your program, prior to successfully completing that assignment (see below). Obviously, copying any part of another person/pair's program, or allowing your program to be copied is not permitted. A program will be in use to detect copying. If you have any questions on this important point, please see me.

Facilities: This quarter you will using the Unix operating system for your programming assignments.

Quizzes: There will be a quiz every other Tuesday with the first quiz on April 11.

Additional Materials

• Lecture slides and some quizzes and solutions
• Lecture example programs
• Here is a nice reference card for emacs. If you can print postscript, the reference card prints nicely on two sides of an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper.
• In the lab we will be using the standard/free SDK from Sun Microsystems running under Solaris (UNIX). You can download a version for Windows for free from the link in the previous sentence.
• Javadoc is a tool that contains class definitions for all of the class types that are included in standard java, including String and Math. Check it out.
• FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions): See if your question is here!

Schedule