Description

Students will develop fundamental skills such as problem solving and abstract reasoning through computer programming, and will learn how to analyze a problem by looking at it from different angles; breaking it down into elementary subproblems, solving the subproblems, and combining their solutions.

Students will master programming techniques by writing computer programs using the C and the Java programming languages, and will develop good design practices that result in correct, robust and maintainable programs.

Instructor

Antonella Di Lillo (dilant [at] cs dot bc dot edu)
Office: 124 Volen Center for Complex Systems
Office Hours: TBA, or by appointment

Class meetings

Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday 12:10pm - 1:00pm
Location: Gerstenzang 123

Teaching Assistants

• Amber Stubbs (astubbs [at] cs.brandeis.edu)
  Office: Volen 110
  Office hours: 2pm - 3pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday


• Alex Pagan (apagan [at] brandeis.edu)
  Office: Berry Patch
  Office hours: Thursday 1-2pm, Friday 1:30-3:30pm


• Betsy Hilliard (bhill11 [at] brandeis.edu)
  Office: Berry Patch
  Office hours: Monday 1-2pm, Tuesday 2-3pm, Wednesday 7-8pm


• Charles Hu (cjhu [at] brandeis.edu)
  Office: Berry Patch
  Office hours: Tuesday 12-2pm, Thursday 5-6pm


• Jeremy Patton (jrpatton [at] brandeis.edu)
  Office: Berry Patch
  Office hours: Sunday 8-9:30 pm, Tuesday 5-6:30pm


• Michael Shafir (mshafir [at] brandeis.edu)
  Office: Berry Patch
  Office hours: Monday 5-6:30pm, Thursday 10-11:30am


• Nadav Havivi (nhavivi [at] brandeis.edu)
  Office: Berry Patch
  Office hours: Monday 9:30-11am, Thursday 3-4:30pm


• Sarah Goliger (sgoliger [at] brandeis.edu)
  Office: Berry Patch
  Office hours: Tuesday 10:30am-12pm, Friday, 10:30am - 12pm

Textbook

Programming in C (3rd Edition) by Stephen Kochan, Developer's Library. ISBN:978-0-672-32666-0. Lecture notes and sample programs will be posted on the class website.

Grading

Homework:	25%
Midterm Exam:	25%
Final Exam:	30%
Quizzes:	20%

Late policy

There will be a penalty for late homework:


• 5 points off if submission is 1 day after the due date.
• 10 points off for every additional day.
  

Academic Honesty

As stated in the Rights and Responsibilities handbook, "Every member of the University community is expected to maintain the highest standards of academic honesty. A student shall not receive credit for work that is not the product of the student's own effort."