CS1631 - Fall 2006

Instructors:

Prof. L. Keliher, Dunn 223, Office hours: 2-3pm Wednesday and 2-3pm Friday
Prof. R. Rosebrugh, Dunn 203, Office hours: 10am-noon Thursday

Solutions to Java questions on Lab Test

Homework List

Extra Challenge Problems

Cryptography PowerPoint Slides


General Information

Section A meets MWF at 9:30 in Dunn 108; Section B meets MWF at 10:30 in Avard Dixon G12; the text-book is \emph{Invitation to Computer Science}, Third Edition: Java Version, by G. Schneider and Judith Gersting, and we will also be using the Lab Manual. At the rate of about one chapter per week, we will cover approximately Chapters 1 to 5 (before the Midterm Test), 8, 10, 11, 15 and possibly parts of other chapters. There will be assigned three hour labs held in the PC Lab in Dunn 102. Labs start the week of September 11. There will be homework assigned from the text from which quiz problems will be drawn. One in-class Mid-term Test will be held on October 13. The Lab Test will be held during labs on Nov. 20 to 23.

Slides from Sept. 6, 2006 class.

For official detail see the Department Web Page.

Examples

SumSquares
Reverse
Assembler example

Grades

Note: In order to pass the course: The final grade in the course will normally be assigned with approximately the following weighting:

Solutions to Java questions on Lab Test


Homework

Remember that quiz questions will be selected from these homework problems. Any question below may be on a quiz November 24 or later.

Chapter 1
Exercises: 3,4,7,8,13

Chapter 2:
Practice Problems: p45 3,5; p54 2,4; p66 2,3; p73 2,3 (answers at back of text).
Exercises: 1,3,7,8,14,19,23

Chapter 3:
Practice Problems: p84 3; p94 1; p105 2,4; p110 1,2; p113 1; p117 1,2 (answers at back of text)
Exercises: 2,5,7,10,11,14,20,25,28,31

Chapter 4:
Practice Problems: p.142 #1,2,4; p.150 #2; p.159 #1,3; p.169 #2,3; p.178 #1 (answers at back of text)
Exercises: 1, 7, 10, 15, 16, 17

Chapter 5:
Practice Problems: p.201 #1,2,4; p.207 #1,2,3; p.215 #1-5 (answers at back of text)
Exercises: 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16
(Note that most of the Exercises for this chapter are suitable for quiz problems.)

Chapter 6:
Practice Problems: p.252 #1,2,3; p.256 #1,3; p.261 #1-3 (answers at back of text)
Exercises: 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 15, 21

Chapter 8:
Practice Problems: p.347 #1,4; p.356 #2; p.366 #1-5; p.371 #3,4 (answers at back of text)
Exercises: 2, 6, 7, 12, 16, 17, 18, 21

Three Important Homework Notes:

  1. If you wish to pass the course, it will not be enough to do only the listed problems.
  2. You should do all of the Practice Problems while you are reading the text. Read all of the exercises at the end of each chapter. Be sure to complete several of them.
  3. If you have questions about homework problems (or others) in the text-book be sure to ask about them in class.

Extra Challenge Problems

Laboratories

Instructor:

Rob Allen, Dunn 103
Office hours: 11:00-12:00 Wednesday and 9:30-10:30 Thursday

Laboratory attendance is mandatory. As noted above, you must complete 9 of the 10 labs to pass the course (unless excused). Please contact Robert Allen rallen@mta.ca concerning lab absences.

The Lab Test will be held during labs between Nov. 20 and Nov. 23.

Course Ethics

You are expected to be familiar with and you must follow the Computing Services Department Policies . Note especially items 4, 5 and 10.

By its nature much of the work in Computer Science is done in collaborations. Indeed, in later courses in the subject you will often be assigned to work on projects in small groups. Thus, it is important that students in CS1631 have a clear idea of what is appropriate collaboration and what is cheating.

You are encouraged to discuss any CS1631 topic, including lab assignments, with other students in the course but exchange of any code by any written or electronic means between CS1631 students is not acceptable. It is dishonest either to read someone else's solution or to provide a classmate with a copy of your work.

Penalties for cheating are severe and may result in a failing grade for the course. See Calendar Regulation 6.13.

Do not expect that small changes will avoid detection. If you cannot do the work yourself, it is extremely unlikely that you will succeed in disguising someone else's work.

Useful Links

A recent article in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery about Computer Science as a discipline is
here, also in PDF .
Another article on the same topic is here.

Last updated: September 21, 2006.