Course info | Prerequisites | Textbooks | Grading | Homework policy
Announcements | Homework | Schedule | Grade Sheet
| Meeting time: | MWF 9:30-10:20 / TTh 12:00-1:15 |
| Meeting room: | Ryerson 251 |
| Name | Office | Office hours | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Kirby | Ryerson 259 | Tue: 2:30-3:30/Thu: 1:30-2:30 | kirby<at>uchicago<dot>edu |
| Aren Jansen | Ryerson 178 | Tue: 1:30-2:30/Thu: 2:30-3:30 | aren<at>uchicago<dot>edu |
| Hariharan Narayanan | Ryerson 178 | Mon: 1:30-2:30/Wed: 1:30-2:30 | hari<at>uchicago<dot>edu |
This course has a prerequisite of CMSC15100 (Introduction to Computer Science-1). That course is taught using the Scheme programming language. While you will not be programming in Scheme this quarter, I will assume you have internalized many of the principles from last quarter and will often make comparisons between C++ and Scheme.
Textbooks are available for purchase at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.
Your grade will be determined by your homework scores (20%), performance on two exams (25% each), and final exam (30%). The exams will be during fourth and eighth week. Makeup exams will not be given except in cases of personal or medical emergencies.
[The following is due to Stuart Kurtz]
The University of Chicago is a scholarly academic community. You need to both understand and internalize the ethics of our community. A good place to start is with the Cadet's Honor Code of the US Military Academy: "A Cadet will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do." It is important to understand that the notion of property that matters most to academics is ideas, and that to pass someone else's ideas off as your own is to lie, cheat, and steal.
The University has a formal policy on Academic Honesty, which is somewhat more verbose than West Point's. Even so, you should read and understand it.
We believe that student interactions are an important and useful means to mastery of the material. We recommend that you discuss the material in this class with other students, and that includes the homework assignments. So what is the boundary between acceptable collaboration and academic misconduct? First, while it is acceptable to discuss homework, it is not acceptable to turn in someone else's work as your own. When the time comes to write down your answer, you should write it down yourself from your own memory. Moreover, you should cite any material discussions, or written sources, e.g.,
/* Note: I discussed this exercise with Jane Smith. */
The University's policy, for its relative length, says less than it should regarding the culpability of those who know of misconduct by others, but do not report it. An all too common case has been where one student has decided to "help" another student by giving them a copy of their assignment, only to have that other student copy it and turn it in. In such cases, we view both students as culpable and pursue disciplinary sanctions against both.
For the student collaborations, it can be a slippery slope that leads from sanctioned collaboration to outright misconduct. But for all the slipperyness, there is a clear line: present only your ideas as yours and attribute all others.
If you have any questions about what is or is not proper academic conduct, please ask your instructors.
Homework will be turned in using the hwsubmit script on the Computer Science
department Linux machines. Late homework will not be accepted except in cases of personal
or medical emergencies.