Instructor: Gordon S. Novak Jr., GDC 3.824; Office Hours: T Th 3:30 - 5:00.
Guns are prohibited in the instructor's office. I do not want any guns to be brought to my class. I will not write recommendations for anyone who brings a gun to campus.
Web Page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/novak/cs314.html
Prerequisite: CS 312 or 312H with a grade of at least C-.
Teaching Assistant:
Optional Text: Mark Allen Weiss, Data Structures & Problem Solving Using Java, 4th Ed.; Amazon; textbooks.com. Reading in Weiss
Optional Text: Eric S. Roberts, Thinking Recursively with Java ; Amazon.
Course Notes:
Available in printed form at Copy Center, GSB 3.136 .
Strongly recommended.
Online by Contents
(http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/novak/cs314contents.html)
or Index
or PDF
Do not print out the slides on CS printers.
iClicker: Each student is required to buy/rent an iClicker (any version of iClicker device; not iClicker GO app). This will be used for attendance and to reinforce and practice with the class material. Two iClicker points are given just for voting, and an additional point is given for a correct answer. Most iClicker questions and answers are online at Clicker Questions, and it is okay to review them in advance. The clicker scores will be converted to a grade by making the highest student score at least 108 and linearly scaling other scores; this gives some extra points to account for minor illness, forgotten or malfunctioning clicker, etc. Adjustments to clicker scores will only be made for significant causes such as major illness. Bringing another student's clicker to class is considered to be cheating.
Programming assignments will mainly be done in Java, with options to do some in Lisp. Program files may be provided for use with the assignments, in the directory /projects/cs314/ or in the FTP directory for Program Files, ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/novak/cs314/, and in http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/novak/cs314/. It is legal to use any of these files as part of your programs.
Grades are kept on Canvas. It is your responsibility to check your grades often to make sure that your assignments have been received and graded.
Course grades are assigned on the scale A = 93-100, A- = 90-93, B+ = 87-90, B = 83-87, B- = 80-83, etc. provided that the Final Exam grade is at least 65; if the Final Exam grade is below 65, a lower course grade may be assigned at the instructor's discretion. Grades are averaged using the following weights:
| Clicker Participation | 10% | |
| Midterm Exam | 20% | Tuesday, October 24, in class |
| Final Exam | 30% | Thursday, December 14, 9-12 AM |
| Programming Assignments | 40% |
There will be a 10% per day late penalty for late programming assignments up to 4 days; no late assignments will be accepted after 4 days. It is the student's responsibility to submit assignments correctly using Canvas.
Programming projects must be your own individual work. Students may discuss concepts or help with specific problems in another student's code. However, sharing code constitutes plagiarism. The Moss program will sometimes be used to detect duplicated programs. It is not possible to pass the course without doing the programming assignments.