Syllabus: CS 310 Computer Science III, Section 001

Summer 2004

Tuesday and Thursday 4:30pm to 7:10 pm

Innovation Hall 208

Instructor: Prof. Yih (Ian) Huang (Tentative)
Office: S&T II, Rm. 443
email: huangyih@cs.gmu.edu
Office Hours: Thursday 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Course Home Page: www.cs.gmu.edu/~huangyih/310

Course Content

This course is a continuation of CS 211 and is intended to provide you with additional experience in building software and includes an introduction to basic tools and techniques that facilitate software development. You will also be further exposed to object-oriented techniques and gain additional experience with complex data structures and recursion. This course is programming intensive.

Textbooks

Required: Data Structures and Program Design in C++ by Robert Kruse and Alexander Ryba.
Class Handouts

Grading

Programming - 40%
You will be given 3 data structure oriented programming assignments, which may be weighted differently. These are to be individual efforts, meaning that no code sharing or discussion of problem solutions with anyone except me or the TA. Documentation is required. Due to the class size, I will not accept late programming assignments. I also suggest that you start programming assignments when I hand them out - they often take more time than you expect.
Homeworks - 10%
Some assignments may involve some programming but will be less intensive than the regular programming assignments. Late assignments will not be accepted.
Midterm - 20%, Final - 30%
You must have a written excuse (doctor's note, for example) to miss an exam.

Grading is proficiency based (no curve). Cutoffs will be in the vicinity of (but not higher than) A > 95%, A- > 90%, B+ > 85%, B > 80%, B- > 75%, C+ > 70%, C > 65%, and D > 60%.

Honor Code

You are expected to abide by the honor code. Programming assignments and exams are individual efforts. Information on the university and department honor codes can be found at:

http://www.cs.gmu.edu/students/hnr_cds.html

Important Dates

First class: June 8th
Drop deadline without tuition liability: June 16th
Add deadline: June 16th
Last day to drop: June 21st
Midterm: June 29th (Tentative)
Last class: July 26th
Final Exam: July 27th

Course notices and assignments will be provided via email. Student must have an email account on osf1.gmu.edu and are obligated to check GMU email accounts periodically. Students are responsible for assigned readings and all material outlined in lecture slides.

Yih Huang (huangyih@cs.gmu.edu)