CS 227
Syllabus
Winter 1997
The Instructor
I
can often be found in CMC 327. My office phone number is 646-4364,
and my home number is 663-7123. My office hours for the fall
term of 1996 are: Monday 2A, Tuesday 2:00-3:00, Wednesday 3A, and
Friday 2A. I try to protect my Thursdays for research and
attending first grade, so if you can, try to hit me up for
help on other days. If you need help at some time other than office
hours, you are welcome to drop by.
Book
The textbook for this class is
Computer Algorithms, 2nd edition, by Sara Baase. It's a good
book. Please read it, preferably more than once.
I have put Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming,
volumes 1-3, on closed reserve in the library. Reading Knuth is always
a pleasure, so I encourage you to go browse through his books.
I may also occasionally send you to these books with a more specific purpose.
Your Grade
Your grade in the course will be determined by your performance
on two takehome midterm exams, a takehome final exam, and homework.
Each of these four pieces
will count for 25% of your grade.
Working Together
There will be some programming assignments for which I will insist
that you work in groups. Otherwise, you may work alone or together
on programs. For paper-and-pencil homework (the majority of the
work in this class), I want you to do your write-ups
on your own, but you may discuss the problems with each other.
In any kind of work, if you use some other person's idea, you
should give that person credit in writing.
Jeff Ondich,
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
55057
(507) 646-4364,
jondich@carleton.edu