CMPT 166 Fall 2009 Syllabus: Directed Study

Instructor

Dr. Sean Ho
twu@seanho.com
(604) 513-2121 x3209, Neufeld 5
Office hours: MW 4-5pm, T 12-1pm, R 1-3pm
Directed Study
cmpt166.seanho.com

Description

A second step for students learning programming by showing them how object-oriented concepts are employed in the design and writing of code in a variety of notations. The emphasis is on the theory of OO programming and design of solutions, as well as implementation in a current OO language such as Java or C++. Students will be introduced to the general concepts of object oriented programming and will learn one object oriented language in sufficient detail to be able to produce substantial programs.

Prerequisites

CMPT 140 (145 preferred) or an equivalent course or working experience using a procedural language such as Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon, Python, C, or C++.

Text

Required: Absolute Java, Savitch, 3rd edition, Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2008. ISBN 0-321-48792-3.

Topics

We will be using Sun's Eclipse development environment, using the J2SE 6.0 platform (Java 1.6.0). This is installed on the computer lab PCs. You are free to use your own computer, as long as you set your compiler to produce bytecode compatible with version 1.6 so that your code can be run on the lab PCs. No official support will be provided for installing/compiling on your own computers.

Marking

Letter grade assignment follows the TWU percentage to grade equivalents except that >=85% and <95% is an A; 95% and above is an A+.
Labs (5-6) 40% Approx. every other week
Homeworks (5-6)15%Approx. every other week
Midterm 15% Approx. 28 Oct, TBA
Final Exam 30% TBA within finals week

Notes

  1. Since this is a directed study, regular face-to-face meetings will only be needed approximately once every two weeks. The student is expected to be in regular email contact at least once a week to update on progress. The lecture material will be posted online, and the student is expected to learn independently through the lecture notes, the additional reading resources, the programming assignments, and email/office hours as needed. The student will schedule with the instructor appointments to take the midterm and the final exam.
  2. Every lab must be done; no exceptions! If you do not turn in something for each lab, you will automatically fail the course. But the late policy is fairly lenient: penalty of 5% per calendar day, up to a week late. More than a week late is 50% penalty. More than two weeks late and it will not be accepted unless there are extenuating circumstances. We will use the timestamp on myCourses. It is your responsibility to make sure all parts of your lab are uploaded to the right place in myCourses by the deadline.
  3. During exams, all of the following are not permitted and should be left in your closed/zipped bag and put on the floor:
    • Textbooks, notes, cell phones, laptops, PDAs, iPods, electronic dictionaries, calculators.
  4. During exams, your desk should be clear except for your pencil/pen.
  5. In case of inclement weather, call (604) 513-2147 or see www.twu.ca/conditions. for official campus conditions.
  6. Academic integrity is a core value of the entire TWU community. This includes, but is not limited to, avoiding all forms of plagiarism and cheating. Plagiarism is using someone else's work without attribution. In this course, if you do it once you will get a zero, if you do it again you will automatically fail the course. Any such cases also go into the University's files for future reference; TWU has a strict policy concerning plagiarism. A tutorial describing plagiarism and how to avoid it has been prepared by TWU Librarian William Badke: (PPT file), (14 min flash), (8 min flash)