Announcements

• April 14 -- ***final announcement*** The final exam has been graded.  The overall average on the final exam was about 75%.  Here are the grades sorted by the last 5 digits of your student number.
• April 14 -- Program 2 is available in the CLAS lab.  They are sorted by AML login -- please keep them sorted for the benefit of your classmates.  The marking scripts are given here for your own testing: test input file, test output file.  Please confirm the validity of your program before making regrading requests (which can be submitted to me under my door).
• Mar. 31 -- Reminder: all students who wish to take 3000-level ITEC courses over the summer must get at least a C in this courses.  Students may be de-enrolled after grades are finalized.  Note: I will try to have them posted by Monday, April 14.
• Mar. 31 -- ITEC Speaker Series.  The third speaker in this new series will be Dr. Julio Cesar Leite, PhD.  He will be speaking on Friday, 4 April at 1:30pm in Vari Hall 1152A.  His talk outline is available on the ITEC Arts homepage.
• Mar. 31 -- An excellent article on why style matters.
• Mar. 28 -- The sample final has been posted.
• Mar. 27 -- Lecture notes for material not covered in the text have been posted.
• Mar. 21 -- *** Final Exam Room Assignments ***  Students with surnames beginning with A-M will write in CSB C, and students with surnames beginning with N-Z will write in CSB B.  Lecture 12b will cover exercises assigned in lecture 12a, an overview of the sample final exam (which will be posted by the end of next week), and course evaluations.
• Mar. 12 -- The final exam has been scheduled for Wednesday, April 9 from 7:00-10:00pm.  I will provide the room assignments by last name in a future post.  I have booked CSB B on Sunday, April 6 from 3:00-5:00 pm for a tutorial session where I will review the forth-coming sample final exam.
• Mar. 11 -- Program 1 is available in the Head TA's office.  The marking scripts are given here for your own testing: test input file, test output file.  Please confirm the validity of your program before making regrading requests.
• Mar. 10 -- ITEC Speaker Series.  The second speaker in this new series will be Prof. Younes Benslimane.  He will be speaking on Friday, 14 March at 1:30pm in Vari Hall 1152A.  His talk outline is available on the ITEC Arts homepage.
• Mar. 7 -- Programming project 2 has been posted.  It is due Monday, March 31 at 4:00 pm.  Note: at this time, you should be able to handle the data entry and the RPN calculator.  We will cover the "error checking" over the next two weeks.
• Mar. 6 -- The lab tutor hours have been set for project 2.  From March 11 to March 28, Stephen Morris will be available in CLAS on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 5:30-9:30 pm (except Tueday March 18 and 25 when he will instead be available from noon-4pm), and Jian Zhou will be available on Fridays from 3:00-7:00 pm.
• Mar. 3 -- Midterms are available from the Head TA (his office is in the CLAS lab).  If you would like your midterm regraded, please attach a regrading form (see below) and return it with your midterm to me in class or tutorial, or to the Head TA.
• Feb. 24 -- Unfortunately, 20 students have decided to submit copied programs.  If you have copied and you send me an email saying that you submitted a copied program, I will waive the 5% penalty.  If you have copied and do not wish the person that you copied off of to also get zero, send me an email saying that you accept full responsibility AND the 5% penalty.  Emails must be received by Friday.  Academic dishonesty procedures will begin on Monday, March 3.
• Feb. 11 -- Due to a conflict, Stephen Morris will hold his Thursday lab hours from 12:00-4:00pm in CLAS.
• Feb. 6 -- The sample midterm has been posted.  I will cover it in depth during the tutorial on Monday, February 24.
• Feb. 4 -- A supplement on complexity estimation has been developed.  Please provide any feedback on the forum.
• Feb. 3 -- ITEC Speaker Series.  The first speaker in this new series will be Prof. Andre Kushniruk.  He will be speaking on Friday, 14 February at 1:30pm in Vari Hall 1152A.
• Jan. 28 -- Due to today's fire alarm, the next three lectures will be rearranged as follows:
• lecture 4b -- Binary search trees, Recursion
• Exercises -- 5.16
• lecture 5a -- Tree traversals, Quicksort
• Exercises -- 5.18, 5.19, 8.8
• lecture 5b -- Mergesort, Programming project discussion
• Exercises -- 8.16
• Jan. 22 -- Programming project 1 has been posted.  It is due Monday, February 24 at 4:00 pm.
• Jan. 16 -- The lab tutor hours have been set for project 1.  From January 27 to February 14, Stephen Morris will be available in CLAS on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 5:30-9:30 pm, and Jian Zhou will be available on Fridays from 3:00-7:00 pm.
• Dec. 16 -- Final syllabus posted.
• Oct. 17 -- Page posted with tentative syllabus.

Syllabus

• Syllabus

Tutorials

• Complexity Estimation
• Sorting
• Suggested Text Problems

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 9a
• Lecture 9b
• Lecture 10a
• Lecture 10b
• Lecture 11b

Midterm

• Sample Midterm
• Midterm

Final

• Sample Final

On-line Help

• Please post all questions related to this course to the discussion forum.

On-line Submission Guidelines

• Standard ITEC submission procedures

Regrading Form

• If you would like to have something regraded, please fill out the following regrading request form, and return it to me in class.

Programming Assignments

• Program 1
• Program 2

Course Links

• Where have you been, where are you headed, and why -- The ACM Computing Curricula 2001 Report
• JAVA docs
• JAVA docs for York package
• Horstmann's style guide