Lecture 1: administrative and course goals

hours, locations, contact, help (mailing list)

- MWF 1-1:50
- M 5, F 12, TAs
- Attend one or the other or both, but at least one per week manditory
- email, office, office hours, available by appointment

** - mailing list
	- TAs and Me will be always monitoring, everyone on the list
	  see all list mail
	- please sign up for and use the list! invaluable!!
	- put email on sheet for signup (hand around sheet)

- background form to get feel for what they know
- web page, what is on it
	- assignments, grading statistics, test dates, sample
	  solutions, notifications/announcements

course description
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	- programming course, lots of programming
	- covering programming in C and C++ (C first)
	- HUGE percentage of programs are written in C and C++ (ALL
	  games, OSs, major systems)
	- although general, we will be using the UNIX devel environment

course goals
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	- MOST upper division classes use C or C++, possibly java
	- ALL use the UNIX environment
	- goal of this course is to not only learn C/C++ syntax, but
	  to reinforce what you know of translating real problems into
	  programs
	- important point, C programmers understand much of how
	  programs in general work
	- if you know C, other languages can be learned in very short
	  period of time
	- everyone will know C and C++ by the end of the quarter

course flow
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	- we will be reaching the course goals by doing a lot of
	  programming
	- some programming will be difficult, some will be merely
	  exercises in understanding syntax
	- begin by covering basic UNIX usage
	- first 2/3 of quarter will be learning the C programming
	  language
	- C concepts extend trivally to C++
	- last 1/3 will be C++
	- small programming assignment given at the end of many
	  lectures, due next lecture, submit by handin system
		- will excercise the material learned in that lecture
		- will be available at the beginning of each week
		- NOT an excuse to skip lectures as there will be many
	  	  examples in class!
	- larger (1-2 weeks) programming projects will be given pretty
	  much weekly
		- assignments will outline a problem or a system
		- task will be to create, from scratch, a program that
		  solves the problem of impliments the system
		- should be fun :)
	- there will be a mid-term and a final exam of the following form
		- one essay question
		- one programming question (write or interpret a program)
		- multiple choice questions

grading
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	- each small programming assignment (progies) will be worth 5
	  points
	- each project will be worth 100 points
	- midterm and final will be worth 100 points each
	- structured to allow maximum point availability, projects are
	  most important!
		- programming assignments all together can make up for
		  bad project
		- midterm and final each can take case of one
		  programming assignment each
	- extra credit opportunities throughout the quarter
	- late policy: 
		- progies submitted by 1pm on day they're due, no late
		  accepts
		- projects due friday at midnight, 24 hours late for
		  1/2 credit

academic honest
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	- NO CHEATING, CHEATING results in an immediate Fail
	- AMPLE opportunity to get points, in many different ways, no
	  reason to cheat
	- having problems, i will spend ridiculous amount of time
	  helping overcome the problem
	- not doing so well on projects? do well on the tests and progies
	- cheating is defined as the following:
		- handing in someone elses program with you name on it
		- copying someone elses code into your text editor and
		  putting your name on it
		- grabbing code of the net and putting your name on it
		- grabbing code and changing variable/function names
		- moving chunks of code around is like moving food
		  around on your plate to diguise the fact that you
		  havn't eated all your brussel sprouts
		- I will detect cheating!  Code is like painting,
		  nobody paints a picture of the same thing the same
		  way

books, what to do next
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	- show the books, talk about each
	- MUST GET CSIL ACCOUNT (how to do this)
	- start reading/trying out UNIX stuff (check website for a
	  UNIX tutorial link)