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Section 1, CPSC 210, 8:00 - 9:15 a.m., Tuesday, Thursday
Section 2, CPSC 210, 8:00 - 8:50 a.m., Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Laboratory Grade:
The laboratory grade will be determined by your laboratory instructor and will count 10% of the final grade.
You must be enrolled in a section of L210 and lab attendance is mandatory. A passing grade in laboratory is required to pass the course.
Individual Programming Assignments:
Individual Programming Assignments will be made at class meetings and will count 15% of the final grade. A grade of at least 50% must be earned in the individual programming assignments to pass the course.
Short Quizzes and Class Work:
Short quizzes, class work, and short homework will be given/collected frequently. If N is the number of such quizzes and class work, the number of such grades computed in the average will be ceiling(0.8N).
No makeups of these quizzes/class work will be given for any reason. Since only the best eight out of ten grades will be counted, there is an allowance for absences (excused and unexcused).
Short quiz/class work grade will be 22.5% of the final grade. Some grades will result from work in small groups. In the case of group work, one paper will be handed in for each group.
Hour Quizzes:
Hour Quizzes will be given on the following:
Section 1: Tuesday, Sept. 14, Thursday, Oct. 21, Tuesday, Nov. 23
Section 2: Monday, Sept. 13, Friday, Oct. 22, Monday, Nov. 22
No makeups of hour quizzes will be given for any reason. If an absence from an Hour Quiz is excused, the final exam will count an additional percentage to replace the missed quiz. If you know in advance that you will miss an Hour Quiz, the instructor will attempt to allow you to take the quiz before the regularly scheduled date. Each Hour Quiz will count 10% of the final grade, making the hour quizzes contribute 30% to the computation of the final grade.
Final Exam:
The final exam will be cumulative and a grade of at least 50 on the final exam is required in order to pass the course.
The Final Exam will count 22.5% of the final grade. Exams and quizzes will usually be closed book, closed notes.
Section 1 (TTh) Final Exam is Friday, December 10, 8:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Section 2 (MWF) Final Exam is Wednesday, December 8, 8:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Attendance Policy:
Attendance is required. At the discretion of the instructor, you may be dropped from the class upon missing 3 or more class meetings.
Mastery Topics:
There are some topics in this course that are
so important to your understanding of future courses that failure to understand
these topics will present major problems. These topics are:
- The ability to trace recursion of complex code. You will be expected
to trace recursive code, using the standards handed out in class.
- The ability to explain correctly the linked list implementation of
stack. You will be expected to know how to initialize linked list
data structures, perform push and pop, and explain the time and space
complexity of the operations on he data structure. Drawing the data
structure may be required.
- The ability to explain correctly the linked list implementation of
queue. You will be expected to know how to initialize linked list
data structures, perform enqueue and dequeue, and explain the time and
space complexity of the operations on the data structure. Drawing the
data structure may be required.
Mechanism for testing mastery: At least three opportunities will
be given to demonstrated mastery of each ability. At least one of these
opportunities for each ability will appear on an hour quiz. At least
one of these opportunities for each ability will appear on a short
(daily) unannounced quiz. The third opportunity to demonstrate mastery
may appear on a short quiz, on a second hour quiz, or on the final exam.
Such opportunities will be clearly labeled "Mastery". Failure to
achieve "Mastery" at the 90% level on any of these three areas will
result in a grade for the course no higher than 'D'.
Grading Scale:
90 to 100 = A
80 to 89 = B
70 to 79 = C
60 to 69 = D
below 60 = F
Instructor:
Eleanor Hare
email: ehare@clemson.edu or ehare@cs.clemson.edu
office: 433 Edwards Hall
phone: (864)656-5874
Tentative office hours: 9:00 - 11:00 Monday;
9:30 - 11:30 Tuesday;
9:00 - 11:00 Wednesday;
9:00 - 11:00 Friday;
and by appointment