CS 201 - Introduction to
Computing
Fall 2007
3 credits
Instructor: Albert Levi
FENS 1091, x9563, levi@sabanciuniv.edu
Office Hours:
Whenever I am in my office (I am generally in my office)
Caution: There is another
Albert
Levi who is a graduate of SU Material Science and Engineering. Check
the email address while
writing!
Syllabus is here
Schedule
Lectures:
Section
A: Monday 11:40 - 13:30, Tuesday 15:40 - 16:30, FASS
G062 (auditorium)
Section B: Monday 15:40 - 17:30, Tuesday 16:40 -
17:30, FASS
G062 (auditorium)
Labs/Recitations:
Sections A1,A2, A3, A4, A5, A6: Thursday 13:40 – 16:30, see schedule
for
the places
Sections B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6,
B7:
Thursday 16:40 – 19:30, see schedule for the places
Sections C1, C2,C3, C4, C5, C6,
C7:
Friday 11:40 – 14:30, see schedule for the places
Sections D1, D2, D3, D4, D5, D6: Friday 14:40
–
17:30, see schedule for the places
Announcements
- You may see your final exam papers only on Friday January 25,
2008, 15:30 - 17:00 in FENS G032
- Final Exam will be held on January 22,
2008, Tuesday, at 9:00 a.m.
- Final Exam
- will be on January 22, Monday, at
9:00. The exam will last 140 or 150 minutes.
- Exam places (in Turkish alphabetical
order of the last names of the students)
- Abdullahoğlu - Altunlu: FASS G049
Anmaç - Başgezer: FASS G022
Bayrak - Çetin: FASS G052
Çevik - Ege : FENS G032
Egemen - Gümüşdere : FENS G035
Günal - Özgözen: FENS G077 auditorium
Özgül - Şeftalicioğlu: FENS L045
Şen - Zeki: FASS G062 auditorium
- Please do not forget to bring your
student ID card to the exam.
- Two pages (in A4 size) of cheatsheet
is allowed in the exam (You
may write to the both sides of two sheet). However you cannot exchange
them
with your friends during the exam. Any books or notes will be closed
during the exam. Also you are not allowed to use any calculators or
computers in the exam.
- A
detailed email about the
exam is sent to class email list; the same message is also available at
SUCourse announcements.
- Solutions to the sample question set
are posted below (under the "exams" heading). I also sent two old
years' final exams to the class email list.
- Check out the midterm dates below
- Seventh and the last homework is
assigned at
WebCT
- Although we use SUCourse for
announcements, grades, etc., homeworks will be assigned and collected
at WebCT (due to poor design of SUCourse Assignments tool).
Textbook
A Computer Science Tapestry, 2nd Edition, Owen L. Astrachan
The book has a good website at which you can access the codes shown
in the book as well as partially the book itself in pdf form.
Its address is http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/tapestry/
The syllabus that is/will be distributed in the first class is here.
The course description and the a list of topics that will be covered in
class are there.
Lecture Notes and Codes discussed in class will be distributed
here
Visual C++ 6.0 and MSDN library installation from CDs
(CDs are available from reserve desk at IC)
Visual C++ 6.0 and MSDN library installation from network
The programs in the book are in these zip file
Lecture notes week by week (notes will
be posted after the classes)
week1
week2
recitation1
week3
no recitations due to holiday
week4
recitation2
weeks 5 and 6
recitation3 recitation4
week7
recitation5
week8
sample exam questions are solved in recitations
week9
recitation6
week10
recitation7
week11
recitation8
weeks 12 and 13
recitation9
weeks 14 and 15
END OF CS201
Exams
First midterm exam will be on Saturday, November 24, 2007, 10:40 -
12:20.
Second midterm exam will be on Saturday, December 29, 2007, 10:40 -
12:20.
Final Exam will be on Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 9:00 - 12:00.
Sample question set for Midterm 1 is here
(only questions).
Solutions are here (both
questions and solutions).
Midterm 1 Solutions are here.
Sample question set for Midterm 2 is here
(only questions).
Solutions are here (both
questions and solutions).
Midterm 2 Solutions are here.
Sample question set for Final Exam is here
(only questions).
Solutions are here (both questions
and solutions).
Final exam solutions are here.
Homework - assigned and
collected at WebCT.
Seventh and the last Homework is assigned at WebCT (due January 10,
2008, Thursday,
11:00 a.m.)
Tentative Grading
Two Midterm Exams: 23% (each)
Final Exam: 34%
Homeworks: 20% (total) - 7 homework will be assigned and they are not
of equal weight
Important
Notice about grading: Weighted average is not the only criterion in
letter grading; exam average may also be taken into consideration.
Important dates
Midterm 1: November 24, Saturday, 10:40
- 12:20.
Midterm
2: December 29, Saturday, 10:40 - 12:20.
Final exam: January
22, Tuesday, 9:00 - 12:00
Expectations form Students
- Students are expected to attend all classes, recitations and
labs.
Learning
a programming language is much easier when a person explains it. You
have
to spend more time tocompensate a missed class. So absenteeism does not
buy time.
- Students are responsible for the material covered in class even
if it
is
not part of the lecture notes published on the website (Sometimes I
explain
some stuff on the board). That is why attendance is important.
- Students are responsible to check their emails (Sabanci
University accounts), SUCourse (the newly established WebCT
replacement) and course
website
daily for any announcements related to this course. For homework
assignments, we use WebCT.
- PLAGIARISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. Please read
the
related policy.
- Please also read the make-up
policy, if you ever plan to take a medical report for any exam.