Welcome to CS 221

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Welcome to CS 221!

• First Course in Computer Science for Engineers

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Class URLwww.cs.uky.edu/keen/221/221.htmlWr
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Personnel

• Dr. Debby Keen, Lecturer and Coordinator
• Teaching Assistants
• Pictures
• get to know your TA!
• You can talk to ANY TA about general problems!

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Thank you very much!!
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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 test is open note, open book
• 3x5 cards - get some!

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For Attendance on the 3x5 card

• Write your NAME
• Write the DATE
• Write your SECTION
• if you don't know your section, hold up your hand
  and we will look it up and tell you
• AND...

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GOALS - write them down

• What are your expectations for this class?
• What do you want to learn?
• Make a LIST of your 3 most important expectations
• SHARE with a neighbor and ADD to your list

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Goals Activity - continued

• COMPARE your list with the one from the syllabus
• COMMENT on your card as desired
• TURN in your card at the end of class by laying
  it on your SECTION NUMBER at the front of the room

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Goals of the course

• The goals or desired outcomes of this class are
  that the student should
• Acquire a basic understanding of computer
  architecture and data representation.
• Learn basic algorithmic problem-solving
  techniques.
• Be able to design, document, implement and test
  solutions to typical engineering-related,
  first-semester programming problems.

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Your Grade is Based on

• Quizzes Lecture Attendance 10
• Lab Assignments 10
• Programming Assignments 25
• Two Exams during the semester     30
• One Lab Test 5
• Final Exam (Comprehensive) 20

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Attendance

• Required at All Lectures
• taken at random by 3x5 cards, cooperative
  activities, quizzes
• Required at All Lab sessions
• counts for a good portion of lab points
• One Lab Test
• done during regular lab sessions
• only "UK excuses" accepted
• death in family, illness, school trips, religious
  holidays

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Class Locations

• Lectures
• Classroom Building 102
• Lab sections
• Ralph G. Anderson building, RGAN Room 103 is the
  lab classroom
• Office Hours
• Electrical Engineering Annex Multilab 203
• Robotics (Center for Manufacturing Systems) 229

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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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Plagiarism / Cheating

• "Unfair academic advantage"
• UK Policy followed
• NO assistance from someone else on Lab 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!
• If you talk to anyone outside the class, do not
  let anyone "inject code" into your program! YOU
  are the one who is writing it!
• Penalties START with a zero on the assignment and
  a LETTER in your permanent file!

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Cooperative Work

• On the other hand!
• Talk to your neighbor in lectures
• Lab assignments you will have a lab partner and
  turn in work with them

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Accommodation

• Please tell Dr. Keen about it if you have a
  letter - as soon as possible!
• Letters are not retroactive!
• Can arrange both lecture and lab tests to be
  accommodated

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Software we will use

• Visual Studio Pro 2005
• MSDNAA
• Engineering students get for free download

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For next week

• Read first set of notes
• Work on Lab 1
• Demo due this Thursday, paperwork due by next
  Thursday
• Make sure your University account is activated

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Today's Exit

• Know your SECTION
• Have your NAME, SECTION, DATE, GOALS on the 3x5
  card
• Bring your card to the front and drop it on the
  sheet with your section number on it
• Don't forget it or you will lose attendance
  credit!