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CS1321Introduction to Programming

• Georgia Institute of Technology
• College of Computing
• Module 1
• Course Details
• and Introduction

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Who I am
Who Monica Sweat Email sweat_at_cc.gatech.edu
(send email only from your prism (gt) account
include that you are in CS1321!) Office Room
120, College of Computing. Course
http//www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2003/cs1321_sp
ring My website http//www.cc.gatech.edu/sweat
Office hours TBA
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Who I am
Who David Smith Email dmsmith_at_cc.gatech.edu
(send email only from your prism (gt) account
include that you are in CS1321!) Office Room
121, College of Computing. Course
http//www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2003/cs1321_sp
ring My website http//www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Dav
id.Smith Office hours TBA
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Who I am
Who Dan Lerner Email lerner_at_cc.gatech.edu
(send email only from your prism (gt) account
include that you are in CS1321!) Office Room
123, College of Computing. Course
http//www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2003/cs1321_sp
ring My website http//www.danlerner.net/ Offic
e hours TBA
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Who I am
Who Saun Shewanown Email saun_at_cc.gatech.edu
(send email only from your prism (gt) account
include that you are in CS1321!) Office Room
123, College of Computing. Course
http//www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2003/cs1321_sp
ring Office hours TBA
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Two Types of Lecture

• Lecture
• Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• Lecture from Instructor.
• Held in large lecture hall.
• Recitation
• Tuesday,Wednesday or Thursday evenings (6-8 p.m.)
• Led by your Teaching Assistant (TA).
• Smaller group setting and is geared for questions
  and answers.
• Your quizzes are held in recitation.

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Two Types of Homework

• Homework
• Due approximately every week.
• Typically Scheme programming.
• Labs
• Due approximately every other week.
• Covers skills such as HTML, Excel, Matlab.
• These are still just homeworks they have nothing
  to do with a laboratory. The name is an artifact
  of days gone by

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Course Text
How to Design Programs Matthias Felleisen
Robert Bruce Findler Matthew Flatt Shriram
Krishnamurthi ISBN 0-262-06218-6 Online copy
available at http//www.htdp.org
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Reading from Text

• You are expected to read the text either online
  (free) or in hardback
• Reading assignment this week Section I from the
  book Processing Simple Forms of Data
• Some quiz questions may come from the reading
  material

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Administrivia

• We work closely with the authors of your book.
  We have been to a workshop with them. Do not
  abuse the textbook website.
• In the past some students asked for access to the
  solutions. As the website clearly says,
  solutions are provided for instructors only.
  Attempts to obtain answers will be dealt with
  harshly.
• 2. Other students in the past sent infantile
  gibberish via the website. You have to be
  kidding me!!!GTs integrity suffers. Let us not
  repeat this.
• 3. Lastly, some students have attempted to sign
  up for the Teach-Scheme program, even though this
  program is for teachers of Scheme only. Dont do
  this.

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Online Resources

• Class Web Site
• http//www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2003/cs1321_spr
  ing
• Lecture slides
• Newsgroups
• HW Skeleton
• HW Examples
• And much more
• Class Newsgroups
• Book DrScheme Website
• How To Design Programs
• Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi
• http//www.htdp.org

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CS1321 Website

• URLhttp//www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2003/cs132
  1_spring
• HW Skeleton
• HW Example
• Lets have a look

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Graded items

• Homework numerous covering Scheme.
• Labs about 5 or 6 covering computer skills such
  as Excel, HTML, Matlab, etc.
• Quizzes 4 quizzes given during recitation,
  dates TBA
• Final exam consult OSCAR for estimated date
  time, but subject to change!

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Collaboration

• Separate Learning Tasks from Assessment
• Homework/labs geared to help you learn and master
  the material
• Quizzes and Final Exam are used to give the
  majority of the assessment of your ability
• We are encouraging an open and collaborative
  learning environment for homeworks and labs.
• More on this in the coming lectures.

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Course Grading Breakdown
Grading Breakdown (there is no
curve) HW 15 Labs
5 Quizzes(4_at_12.5each) 50 Final
30 ------- 100
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Real Live Help

• In addition to the online resources for this
  course, numerous people are available to help
  you.
• Please seek help from the following
• TA (or newsgroup)
• Help Desk in the CoC (details later)
• Senior TA (STA) your TA's supervisor
• Instructor

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Some Tips

• For many students this will be your first
  exposure to Computer Science (unlike Math,
  Chemistry, etc.)

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Some Tips

• Programming (English Writing math
  logic)
• syntax (i.e. grammar)
• (creativity
  rigidity)
• making mistakes
• a lot of work (i.e.
  assigned work)
• extra work (i.e. more
  practice)

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Tip 1
Dont wait until the last minute to get help
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Tip 2
Hey, can I pass if I can get enough partial
credit?
Bad things happen while learning a new skill.
You will probably crash and burn on some
programs. Start early leave yourself time for
mistakes.
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Tip 3
Dont be too ambitious with your course load.
You CANNOT slack off in this class, even for a
few days.
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Tip 4
Watch out for the big picture. Dont forget
this is a programming course, not a Scheme
course. Its dangerous to hide from the
programming part of the course. You may be
crushed on the final.
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