Recitations (CSB 215)

Recitation sections are required. Attend the recitation for which you are enrolled every week. The one exception is that in the first week of classes, if you have already missed your recitation, please attend any of the other two sections. Recitations cover auxillary material, often not covered in the lecture. The first week recitations will have information needed for your first assignment.

• Wednesday 2-2:50PM
• Thurssday 11-11:50PM
• Friday 11-11:50PM

Lab Hours (COMSC 1st floor)

• M 12-1, 5-7, F 12-1

Class Communication

All class discussions and e-mail will use RAMCT. Make sure to check this regularly as we may send important class announcements via e-mail. If you would like to foward this e-mail to a different account we will cover how to do this in one of the first recitations.

Course Requirements

Pre-requisites

• CS 161
• Math 141/155/160
• CS 200 (co-req)

Text

• Introduction to Computing Systems from Bits and Gates to C and Beyond, by Y. Patt and S. Patel, McGraw Hill, 2nd ed.

• McGraw-Hill slides: ch4 ch5 ch6 ch7

• Other slides:  History C & Java  Pointers in C

Responsibilities

• Read the announcements on the course webpage daily.
• Finish assigned reading before the corresponding class meeting.
• Do the programming assignments listed on the Assignments link off the course webpage.
• Attend recitation.

Grading

(Grades will be posted on RamCT)

• Programming Assignments, 20-25%
• Homework/Quizzes, 20-25%
• Midterm 1, 15%
• Midterm 2, 15%
• Final, 25%

To pass this course, you must maintain at least a 50% average in the homework grade (programming assignments + labs) and the test grade (midterm + final). For example, a 100% in the homework grade combined with a 49% test grade will NOT result in a passing grade.

Course Policies

• Students must read and be familiar with the CS Department Student Information Sheet available at http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~info/student-info.html.

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