Course Reference

ICS H22

Fall 2004

Instructor

Sandy Irani, 352D Computer Science, 824-6346, irani@ics.uci.edu .
Office hours: MW 1:00-1:45PM, F 12:00-12:45PM

Teaching Assistant

Minh Ho-Dac: hhodac@ics.uci.edu .
Office hours: by appointment.

Class Home Page

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~irani/f04-h22/h22.html .

Meeting Places and Times

Lecture will be held MWF 2:00-2:50 in ELH 110. You are responsible for anything said in class, including class announcements. If you have to miss lecture for any reason, please ask one of your classmates to fill you in on what you missed.

There are two hours of lab time scheduled for this class: Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:00-5:50. Both are scheduled to meet in ICS 192. During this time, you have priority over other students in the CS 189 lab. Note, however, you only have priority over other students if you are working on class work (i.e. not playing games). Minh will be available in the lab during these times to answer questions. This is an ideal opportunity to get some help with your lab homework in front of a computer.

There are several department labs which you can use for working on your lab assignments. Information about the locations and hours of the labs can be found at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~lab . Keep in mind that some of these labs may be reserved for other classes during the day, so you may not have first priority to these machines at all times. It is possible that the labs will be very crowded on the day an assignment is due. It is your responsibility to take this into account as I can not accept crowded labs as an excuse for late lab assigments.

Minh will hold two hours of discussion section each week: Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00-4:50 in CS 243. Every Tuesday, there will be a short quiz at the end of section. (So don't skip section!) The graded quizes will be handed back by the end of the week. There will be no solutions distributed to the quizes, so it is your responsibility to attend section or attend office hours to make sure you understand the solutions to the quizes. Sometimes questions reappear on subsequence quizes.

Obtaining Assistance

The best way to get your questions answered is by coming to lecture, section, office hours or lab and asking them there. In general, if I'm not busy with something else, I am happy to answer short questions while I am in my office, so feel free to stop by during other times in the week. In addition, you can send email to h22-questions@ics.uci.edu which will automatically forward the mail to Minh and me.

If you are experiencing difficulties in the lab with the equipment, let the lab attendant know. If they can not solve the problem, they will contact support.

Assignments

Each new lab assignment will be made available by Friday morning through the class home page. An electronic copy of the lab will be due the following Friday at noon. In addition, there is a written homework assignment that will be due Wednesday at noon in lecture.

Grading of Homework Assignments

No late lab or homework assignments will be accepted. For this reason, I strongly recommend that you get started on your homework assignment early in case of unexpected delays. In particular, you should read through the lab assignment on the day that it is given and make sure that you understand the instructions.

Minh will grade the lab and homework assignments. If you have questions about your score, please see her during discussion or his office hours. I will be grading the quizes and you can contact me about grading questions regarding those.

Quizes

There will be a short quiz at the end of sections on Tuesdays. I will drop your lowest quiz score in determining your grade. I will not give any make-up quizes for any reason, even legitimate excuses. If you are sick or have another valid reason for missing a quiz, that will be the quiz that is dropped. The first quiz will be given on Tuesday October 12. There will be a total of eight quizes.

Text

We have one required text for this course.

You may also find it useful to purchase a Java reference book if you do not already have one. Different styles suit different people, so I will leave it up to you to select your own.

Course Structure

The grading criteria for the course is:

Academic Dishonesty

I encourage you to discuss you lab and homework assignments informally with your classmates. However, it is critical that when you write up your homework or sit at the computer to write your programs that you do so without assistance. This is the only way to ensure that it is your own work. Group work or sharing code is a violation of the honesty policy of the School of Information and Computer Science and UC Irvine. You are expected to be familiar with these policies. They can be found at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ucounsel/continuing_students/policies.html.

Any violation of these policies result in a letter describing the incident which is placed in your file on campus. Since abiding by the the honesty policies is an academic requirement of this course, failure to do so will typically result in an F in the course. Very severe incidents of academic dishonesty can result in suspension or expulsion from the university.