Welcome to CS 115

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Welcome to CS 115!

• Introduction to Programming

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Class URLwww.cs.uky.edu/djcich2/115
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Personnel

• Dr. Debby Keen, Coordinator
• Doug Cichon, Teaching Assistant
• Email doug.cichon_at_uky.edu
• Online office hours, AIM UKcs115

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Textbook and Supplies

• Student responsible for material in chapters that
  are listed in schedule and covered in lectures
• Lecture tests are closed note, closed book
• Lab tests are open note, open book

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GOALS

• What are your expectations for this class?
• What do you want to learn?

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Goals of the course

• Designing and implementing well-written programs
  in C to solve problems
• turn you into a GOOD programmer
• problem solving
• testing and debugging programs
• understanding and using the fundamental
  structures of structured programming
• understanding and using the concept of modular
  programming - functions, parameters and arguments
  

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Goals, cont'd

• Understanding and using simple data structures
  strings and arrays
• Understanding and implementing some sorting and
  searching algorithms
• Becoming familiar with OOP - using objects
  filestreams, strings
• Being aware of the professional responsibilities
  and ethical concerns of programmers

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Your Grade is Based on

• Quizzes and Lecture Attendance 10
• Lab Assignments 10
• Programming Assignments 30
• One Exam during the semester 20
• Lab Test 1 5
• Lab Test 2 5
• Final Exam (Comprehensive) 20

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Attendance

• Required at all Lectures
• Taken every class period
• Required at all Lab sessions
• Counts for a good portion of lab points
• Two Lab Tests
• Each worth 5 of overall grade
• Only "UK excuses" accepted
• Death in family, illness, school trips, religious
  holidays

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Class Locations

• Anderson Tower 263 for Lectures
• Ralph G. Anderson building, RGAN
• Room 103 is the lab

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Due Dates/Times

• Labs - Demo Dates, Paperwork Dates
• Labs are NOT accepted late!
• Programs - Electronic AND Paper
• Programs have a Late penalty of 10 for every
  school day late, up to 5 school days

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Cooperative Work

• Lab assignments you will have a lab partner and
  turn in work with them
• But

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Plagiarism / Cheating

• "Unfair academic advantage"
• UK Policy followed
• NO assistance from someone else on Lab tests or
  Lecture tests
• Talk in GENERAL TERMS about program assignments,
  not specifics
• Do NOT "work together" on a program

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Cheating cont'd

• Do NOT show your source code to any other student
• Protect your source code!

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Accommodation

• Please tell me about it if you have a letter - as
  soon as possible!
• Can arrange both lecture and lab tests to be
  accommodated

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For next week

• Work on Lab 1
• We will be having Labs on Monday
• Make sure your University account is activated