COMPUTER SCIENCE 503
INFORMATION and SYLLABUS
Fall 2000

Contents:

Staff:

Lecture Instructor TA
TTH2:50-4:10PM, SEC-203 K. R. Kaplan N. S. Joo

General Information:

Prerequisites:

Some background - perhaps minimal - in data structures is assumed, as well as programming experience in C, C++, or Java. Pascal programmers will have to work extra hard to catch up - and will certainly experience difficulties. If you do not have the background, do not assume that you can catch up; you should NOT be taking the course.

Office hours for TAs and Instructors .

Textbooks and Other Materials:

The following required text can be purchased at the Ferren Mall bookstore:

"Data Structures and Algorithms in Java", Drozdek, Brooks/Cole, 2001

Computing:

Check the DCS labs listed in: Hill Center, Tillett, Satellite and Loree and other campus sites.

Please respect the equipment and keep the rooms tidy. After all, you and your peers will be spending a lot of time there, and you will only be hurting yourselves if you don't keep the environment in good shape. Report any problems to the RUCS staff.

Accounts:

If you a registered for any CS class, you can create an account for yourself. You do this by telnetting to paul, and at the log-in prompt you type: classact. This will lead you through a questionnaire that will create an account for you. Once you have gone through the questionnaire, wait 15 minutes, and you should be able to log in to paul. If you want more details, see Creating an account (on the web page).

If you are not registered for the course, or officially completing the coursework from a previous semester, do not hand in homeworks or assignments, or take any exams. Any such work will not be graded.


NOTE WELL: You may discuss the programming assignments with other students at a general level, but all coding, debugging, refinement, and testing should be entirely your own work. Just as copying or "collaborating" on an examination is dishonest, turning in a programming assignment which is a "clone" of someone else's is dishonest, and puts you at some risk.


Last updated August 22, 2000
kaplan@cs.rutgers.edu