Principles of Programming

Lecturer:

Prof. Daniel R. Schlegel, 395 Shineman Center, daniel.schlegel@oswego.edu
Office/Lab hours: Monday: 4-5pm; Tuesday: 9-10am and 12:30-1:30pm; Thursday: 8-9am; and by appointment
Section 800: MWF 9:10-10:05am, Park 315

Teaching Assistants:

We will have five teaching assistants during the Fall 2019 instance of the course: Adrian Naaktgeboren, Kate Gordon, Phoenix Boisnier, Rinaldo Iorizzo, and Thomas Hanley.

Office Hours / Course Schedule:

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
8:00				Prof. Early's Lab (L52) Shineman 446 8:00-8:55 Dan's Office Hours Shineman 395 8:00-9:00am
8:30
9:00	Class Park 315 9:10-10:05	Dan's Office Hours Shineman 395 9:00-10:00am	Class Park 315 9:10-10:05		Class Park 315 9:10-10:05
9:30	Class Park 315 9:10-10:05	Dan's Office Hours Shineman 395 9:00-10:00am	Class Park 315 9:10-10:05	Prof. Schlegel's Lab (L57) Shineman 446 9:35-10:30	Class Park 315 9:10-10:05
10:00	A+P Office Hours Shineman 446 10:15-11:15am		A+P Office Hours Shineman 446 10:15-11:15am	Prof. Schlegel's Lab (L57) Shineman 446 9:35-10:30
10:30	A+P Office Hours Shineman 446 10:15-11:15am		A+P Office Hours Shineman 446 10:15-11:15am
11:00				Prof. Schlegel's Lab (L54) Shineman 446 11:10-12:05
11:30				Prof. Schlegel's Lab (L54) Shineman 446 11:10-12:05
12:00
12:30		Dan's Office Hours Shineman 395 12:30-1:30pm		Prof. Lee's Lab (L55) Shineman 446 12:45-1:40
1:00		Dan's Office Hours Shineman 395 12:30-1:30pm		Prof. Lee's Lab (L55) Shineman 446 12:45-1:40
1:30					R+T Office Hours Shineman 446 1:45-3:45pm
2:00
2:30				Prof. Pantaleev's Lab (L53) Shineman 446 2:20-3:15
3:00	A+K+R Office Hours Shineman 446 3:00-5:00pm Dan's Office Hours Shineman 395 4:00-5:00pm		Prof. Tenbergen's Lab (L50) Shineman 446 3:00-3:55	Prof. Pantaleev's Lab (L53) Shineman 446 2:20-3:15
3:30			Prof. Tenbergen's Lab (L50) Shineman 446 3:00-3:55	K+T Office Hours Shineman 446 3:30-5:30pm
4:00		R+T Office Hours Shineman 446 4:00-6:00pm	Prof. Lea's Lab (L51) Shineman 446 4:10-5:05		A+P Office Hours Shineman 446 4:00-6:00pm
4:30			Prof. Lea's Lab (L51) Shineman 446 4:10-5:05
5:00			K+P Office Hours Shineman 446 5:05-7:05pm
5:30
6:00
6:30

Coming soon: TA Office Hours!

There is also tutoring available from the Office of Learning Services. Contact them for details.

Course Description:

This course provides an introduction to programming and computation, including the concepts and usage of expressions, variables, control structures, functions, compound types, classes, objects, and I/O in a high-level programming language, along with their roles in implementing programs to solve common problems.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, students will demonstrate ability to:

Write, test, and explain the behavior of programs involving fundamental programming constructs, built-in data structures, standard libraries.

Construct, execute and debug programs using development tools; apply and implement structured problem solving; handle abnormal control flow; understand and rely on static type safety to reduce errors

Incorporate class design, encapsulation, and inheritance; incorporate data structures for problem solving; describe positive and negative ways in which software impacts society.

Attendance and Participation:

As per college policy, attendance in all sessions is obligatory. If you cannot attend a class meeting due to religious, athletic, health related circumstance, or circumstance of particular hardship, please notify me in advance via email. Please be ready to present proof, if necessary. It is expected that each person actively engage in each class session.

Classroom Etiquette:

A positive learning environment relies upon creating an atmosphere where all students feel welcome. Classroom discussion is meant to allow us to hear a variety of viewpoints. This can only happen if we respect each other and our differences. Hostility and disrespectful behavior is not acceptable.

Electronic devices may not be used during class by students in this course, including cell phones, laptops, headphones, etc.

Philosophy:

If you construct knowledge you make it your own, and in doing so you get better at using it. For this reason, slides from the course will, in general, not be posted online. Some selected materials, such as handouts, will be posted either on this page or on Blackboard.

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook”
— William James

Grading Summary:

Exam 1	20%
Exam 2	20%
Labs	30%
Final Exam	30%

The default grading for the course will be along the university’s standard grading curve:

A: 93-100	C+: 77-79
A-: 90-92	C: 73-76
B+: 87-89	C-: 70-72
B: 83-86	D+: 67-69
B-: 80-82	D: 60-66
	E: 0-59

Grades may be adjusted downward as a result of poor attendance or poor engagement in programming assignments. If your participation in these is satisfactory your grade will simply be that as calculated above.

Assignments:

All assignments will be completed alone, but working together without writing or sharing code to come up with general solutions is encouraged. You are expected to post all of your programming assignments to your Web site.

Assignments will be demoed in-person to one of the TAs during their office hours. You will only have one chance to demo each assignment to the TA. They may ask you to modify your program in certain ways, or use specific input during the demo.

Assignments are considered on-time if they are demoed on or before the due date. Assignments may still be demoed up to two weeks after the due date, but with a 5% penalty per weekday past the deadline.

Note that no credit will be given for assignments which do not work, and partial credit will be given if only parts of the assignment are shown to work during the demo. From Assignment 2 onward, only assignments posted on your work site will be graded.

Your programming assignment grade does not figure directly into your course grade, unless your work is unsatisfactory, in which case your course grade (exam/lab grade) will be lowered by 1 letter grade. (Of course, it figures indirectly into your grade, since the learning that accrues as a result of completing the assignments will help you to prepare for the exams.)

Labs:

You are required to attend the lab in which you are enrolled, and no other. For each lab, you will get a grade based partly on engagement in the lab during your regularly scheduled lab period, and partly on completion of the lab, on your own time, if need be. These grades will be assigned by your lab instructor. TAs cannot grade labs. Completion will be assessed by examining your web site.

The recommended approach for engaging in the laboratory component of the course is to do the following sequence of tasks for each lab:

Prepare for the lab ahead of time by (a) attending class, and (b) reading through the lab in the Lab Manual.
Refrain from beginning the lab ahead of time. The idea is for you to actually commence work on the lab when your lab period actually begins.
Engage in doing the lab during your lab period. If you finish early, you should study your notes or one of the online textbooks listed in the Useful Resources section of this page. You will earn up to 70 points of the lab’s 100 points for appropriate participation in the lab during your laboratory period.
Complete the lab on your own time, and indicate that you have done so by placing the relevant artifacts on your course web site. You will earn up to 30 points of the lab’s 100 points for doing so.

It is important to note that appropriate participation requires that you work from a hard copy of the lab. Should you fail to bring your Lab Manual or a hard copy of the lab to class, and determine to somehow proceed to work from an on-line copy of the lab, you will only be awarded 30 of the 70 points, at most, for being there and working on the lab.

Working on previous labs during your lab period is prohibited. If you need help in completing a lab that you did not finish during the lab period, you should seek help from a TA during one of their office hours.

Starting with week 3 of the course, it is required that you post artifacts from the labs on your web work site within two weeks of the lab period in which the lab was introduced.

If you miss no more than one lab period this semester, your point total will not be adversely affected. Your lab grade will be calculated as follows:

grade = minimum(100,score), where:
• score = ( ( ( pt + 70 ) / ( n * 100 ) ) * 100 )
• n = the number of labs
• pt = your point total based on the n labs

Exams:

You may bring your three-ring lab binder to the exams, including any additional documents or notes you decide to augment it with. You may not bring any loose documents – they must be hole punched and organized in your binder. I recommend building this binder up incrementally as the course progresses.

Exams will be given during weeks 6 and 12 of the semester, as well as during finals week.

Each exam question will be assigned a point value, where the following general scheme will be used in grading it:

0 – Did not attempt / No serious attempt / Completely incorrect
1 – Mostly incorrect solution
2 – Somewhat incorrect solution
3 – Perfect solution

If the problem is a multiple of 3, then intermediate scores will be given as appropriate. If the problem is worth less than 3 points, partial points may be assigned. The total points received on all questions will then be summed and divided by the points possible and scaled as appropriate according to the percentages given above.

Schedule/Outline:

During the semester we will cover a great many topics, including:

Problem-solving strategies in programming
Good programming technique
Java syntax
Control flow of programs
Modeling classes in terms of state and behavior
String processing
Making use of external libraries
Recursion
Array processing
Basic data structures such as ArrayList
File I/O

This syllabus and the course schedule are subject to change by the instructor. All changes and related justifications will be announced in class, and updates will be reflected in this web version.

Week	Day	Date
1	Monday	8/26	First day of class Syllabus, Overview ~~Be sure to answer office hours survey!~~
	Wednesday	8/28	TA office hours will begin 9/3! Discussion of Lab 1 Algorithms and Algorithmic Thinking Reading: Read Chapter 1: Entrance in the lab manual
	Friday	8/31	Some thoughts on IntelliJ as a Cognitive Artifact Introduction to Computational Microworlds
2	Monday	9/2	No Class - Labor Day
	Wednesday	9/4	Nonrepresentational Painting World (NPW) Modular Melodic World (MMW) Selected Sounds Bring headphones to lab this week!
	Thursday	9/5	Add Deadline
	Friday	9/6	MMW, continued MMW Example 2 CSA IDE Setup Workshop tonight at 6PM in Shineman 425
3	Monday	9/9	MMW, concluded Big Idea: Program like a tailor
	Wednesday	9/11	Big Idea: Stepwise Refinement A few notes on Lab 3 Assignment 1 due (demoed to a TA!) 9/25
	Friday	9/13	How to Read a Program Data Types CSA Review Session: 6PM in 425 Shineman
4	Monday	9/16	Drop Deadline Variables, Constants and Expressions
	Wednesday	9/18	Shapes World Problem Solving Imaginative Construction Assignment 2 due (demoed to a TA!) 9/27
	Friday	9/20	Imaginative Construction Data Types Revisited Exam 1 is in 2 weeks!
5	Monday	9/23	Practice Exam for Exam 1 on Blackboard Exam Rules + Tips Control Flow: Selection Assignment 3 due (demoed to a TA!) 10/3
	Wednesday	9/25	Introduction to Iteration Superficial Signatures Additional exercises for you to do to practice superficial signatures on Blackboard!
	Friday	9/27	Anatomy of Methods Iteration: Headers and Trailers CSA Exam 1 Review Session 6PM in 425
6	Monday	9/30	No Class - Rosh Hashanah
	Wednesday	10/2	Examples of Headers and Trailers
	Friday	10/4	Exam 1
7	Monday	10/7	Start going over Exam 1
	Wednesday	10/9	No Class - Yom Kippur
	Friday	10/11	Finish going over Exam 1 Be sure to demo Assignment 2 by the end of the day today! Be sure labs 1-5 are complete and on your website by Sunday! Assignment 4 due (demoed to a TA!) 10/25
8	Monday	10/14	Note-Taking Tips Introduction to Arrays 446 closed from 10:30-1:30 for CSC241 Exam 10:15-11:15 office hours moved to Friday at the same time
	Wednesday	10/16	Arrays, continued
	Friday	10/18	Arrays & For Loops
9	Monday	10/21	For loops, revisited Arrays and ArrayLists
	Wednesday	10/23	ArrayLists Do Lab 9a this week
	Friday	10/25	Some ArrayList Tasks Withdraw Deadline
10	Monday	10/28	Interfaces List Processing Assignment 5 due (demoed to a TA!) 11/11
	Wednesday	10/30	Streams and Stream Pipelines Practice exam for exam 2 on Blackboard! Do Lab 9b this week Dan's Thursday 8am office hours moved to Thursday 1pm this week
	Friday	11/1	Class cancelled due to wind storm! CSA Review 6PM in Shineman 425
11	Monday	11/4	Streams, continued
	Wednesday	11/6	Intro to Object Orientation CSA Linux Workshop Wednesday 6PM in 425 Shineman CSA Review Session Thursday 6PM in 425 Shineman
	Friday	11/8	OO: The `Card` Class
12	Monday	11/11	The `Card` Class, continued Answers to the Stream exercises on Blackboard
	Wednesday	11/13	Exam 2
	Friday	11/15	The `Card` Class, continued Test "Corrections" due November 22, start of class Ground Rules for Test "Corrections"
13	Monday	11/18	The `Card` Class, concluded Dan at AMIA - video lecture to be posted on Blackboard 11/18 at 9am
	Wednesday	11/20	Creating and Using Interfaces Dan at AMIA - video lecture to be posted on Blackboard 11/20 at 9am
	Friday	11/22	If you're registered for CSC221 next semester, there's an added section! Consider switching to it! What Does it Mean to Learn Something New? Assignment 6 due (demoed to a TA!) 12/6
14	Monday	11/25	Exam 2 returned & reviewed Final Exam Structure on Blackboard
	Wednesday	11/27	No Class - Thanksgiving Break
	Friday	11/29	No Class - Thanksgiving Break
15	Monday	12/2	Lecture on Blackboard: Finish reviewing Exam 2 Reminder: Labs 1-12 must be posted to your website by the morning of 12/9. Reminder: Last day to demo assignments is 12/6
	Wednesday	12/4	Developing some algorithms...
	Friday	12/6	Selection Sort Last Day of Class
Finals Week	Wednesday	12/11	Final Exam 8:00-10:00am in 315 Park

Academic Integrity:

SUNY Oswego is committed to Intellectual Integrity. Any form of intellectual dishonesty is a serious concern and therefore prohibited. You can find the full policy online. While it is acceptable to discuss general approaches with your fellow students, the work you turn in must be your own. You may not turn in code found on the internet. If you have any problems doing the assignments, consult the instructor. See my page on plagiarism for an explanation of what I consider cheating.

Accessibility:

If you have a disabling condition which may interfere with your ability to successfully complete this course, please contact Accessibility Resources located at 155 Marano Campus Center, phone 315.312.3358, access@oswego.edu

Clery Act/Title IX Reporting:

SUNY Oswego is committed to enhancing the safety and security of the campus for all its members. In support of this, faculty may be required to report their knowledge of certain crimes or harassment. Reportable incidents include harassment on the basis of sex or gender prohibited by Title IX and crimes covered by the Clery Act. For more information about Title IX protections, go to https://www.oswego.edu/title-ix/ or contact the Title IX Coordinator, 405 Culkin Hall, 315-312-5604, titleix@oswego.edu. For more information about the Clery Act and campus reporting, go to the University Police annual report: https://www.oswego.edu/police/annual-report.

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CSC212 – Fall 2019