CIS 211 Winter 2004

Introduction to Computer Science

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Class Times
- Lecture: MWF 1:00 - 1:50, 240A McKenzie
- Labs: All labs are in B26 Klamath Computer Lab (basement of Klamath Hall), please attend the one for which you are registered
  Wednesday 9:00 (James) and 4:00 (Joel)
  Friday 10:00 (James)
Instructor: David Atkins
- Office: Deschutes 358, phone 346-4413
- Office Hours: MWF 2:30 - 3:30 and by appointment
- Email: datkins@uoregon.edu

Graduate Assistants:

James Hiebert	Phone: 346-1484, Office: Deschutes 231, email: jamesmh@cs.uoregon.edu



Joel Berghoff	Phone: 346-1488, Office: Deschutes 233, email: joel@cs.uoregon.edu
Office Hours in Deschutes 233: 3:30-4:30 Monday, 10:00 - 11:00 Tuesday
Office Hours in 026 Klamath: 5:00-6:00 Wednesday

Reference Material

Required Text: Java Software Solutions, 3rd edition, by John Lewis and William Loftus, Addison Wesley, 2002.
This is the required book for the course and we will refer to it as Lewis and Loftus or just L&L. One copy is on a two hour reserve in the Science Library. The authors' book web site has the source code for examples used in the text. The lab manual that comes with the book also has useful examples to work through. All of the lab manual exercises may be found online as well.

Another excellent introductory text is An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Java, by Thomas Wu, McGraw Hill, 2004.
Grading and Policy
- Approximate grade weighting: Assignments 30%, Lab Participation 10%, Quizzes 5%, Midterm 25%, Final 30%
- CIS pre-majors must take CIS 211 graded; others may take it graded or P/NP.
- Review the Do's & Don'ts from CIS 210. They apply to CIS 211 as well.

In this course you will continue your development as a computer scientist and programmer. In CIS 211 we will explore in more depth and detail the idea of Object Oriented Design and Programming introduced in CIS 210. The emphasis is on the concepts, but we will continue to learn more about programming as a useful skill for understanding and implementing those concepts. The course will cover more areas of programming: file and stream I/O, exceptions, inheritance, and programming graphical user interfaces. These topics will be explored in a Java language context, but our focus will be the abstractions that are independent of particular languages.
CIS 211 is a required core course to become a CIS major.

All assignments turned in for the course must be your own work. Copying from other class members or other sources is not acceptable. If you collaborate with someone else on any assignment, you must indicate such on the work you turn in, and partial credit may be given.
Academic honesty is expected and cases of suspected dishonesty will be handled according to university policy. In particular, copying someone else's work (including material found on the web) will not be tolerated. If solutions to assignments are obtained from outside sources, the source must be cited.
You are also responsible for protecting your work. That is, you must take reasonable precautions to prevent your work from being copied. This means that if you store your assignment solutions on gladstone, the file permissions must be set to keep others from accessing your files. If you are working on assignments in the lab, you must remove any of your files on the lab machine before you leave.

Last updated 2004/01/30 15:05:48