For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.
For want of the shoe, the horse was lost.
For want of the horse, the rider was lost.
For want of the rider, the battle was lost.
For want of the battle, the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a nail ... 

WORK SCHEDULE FOR CS 1500 -- Spring 2011

• No class on Monday or Wednesday (2011 Spring Semester starts on Thursday)
  
  
• WEEK #1 First class: CS 1500 meets on Friday.
  
  
• Reading Assignments:
  • Class handouts - read the entire course description and skim this schedule.
  • Savitch: Sections 1.1 (Computer Systems), 1.2 (Programming and Problem Solving), and 1.3 (Introduction to C++)
  
  
• Administrative Tasks:
  • Professor discusses course description.
  • Professor creates waiting lists.
  • Students sign up for computer accounts.
  • Professor assigns lab partners
  • Handout computer accounts (login name & password) to class members.
  • Point to online list showing lab partner assignments.
  • If necessary, try to determine what to do with waiting list.
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • Material from the course description
  • Course goals & procedures
  • How to do the Hello World! get-acquainted assignment found here:
    
    http://www.cs.csustan.edu/~john/Classes/General_Info/helloWorldExercise.html
    
    The Hello World! assignment is an exercise designed to teach you how to create a computer program with an editor, how to compile the program, how to make a script of a test run of the program (the script is evidence that you tested the program), and how to e-mail a copy of the program and the script to me.

• We have class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  
  
• Reading Assignments:
  • Savitch: Sections 1.4 (Testing and Debugging), 2.1 (Variables and Assignments), 2.2 (Input and Output), plus the information about comments on pages 94-96
  
  
• Administrative Tasks:
  • Finish up tasks left from last week.
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • Material from course description
  • Course goals & procedures
  • How to do the Hello World! get-acquainted assignment.
  
  
• Laboratory Assignment: Students pick a time outside of class to visit the Computer Science Department Laboratory, try logging into their accounts, maybe get some help from their unix book, if they have one. (There will probably be a a lab assistant around who can help answer questions.)
  
  
• Friday, Feb 04 - PERFORM: "Lab00" (Hello World! assignment) together in the CS Lab. We meet in the Computer Science Laboratory: P-288, NOT the lecture classroom, P-103. E-mails are DUE at the end of the class time in lab. (See the directions in the assignment.)

• We have class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Savitch: Sections 2.3 (Data Types and Expressions) and 2.4 (Simple Flow of Control)
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • Outcome of the Hello World! assignment
  • How to perform parts of Lab01
  • C++ programming
  • Using unix
  
  
• Laboratory Assignment: Early in the week choose time outside of class to
  • Visit the computer science laboratory and practice using your account, and
  • Rehearse Lab01 before performing the lab Friday (02/11/2011). Rehearse by yourself, as a homework assignment. This is very important to help you learn and to reduce the likelihood you and your partner will run out of time during the lab.
  
  
• Friday, Feb 11 - PERFORM: Lab01: (Pretty Boy Floyd) during class time in the CS Lab: P-288 (NOT in the classroom downstairs). Each student works on the lab with his or her partner. Your partner relies on you to be prepared. Printouts are DUE early next week.

• We have class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Savitch: Sections 2.5 (Program Style) and 3.1 (Using Boolean Expressions)
  
  
• Programming Assignment: Students read the directions for Solo Program #1 this week and make a beginning on the program. This assignment is "homework." Students may ask Professor Sarraille for help but they may not accept help from others. Students may come to the lab any time it is open and work on a solo program. Solo programs are separate from lab assignments but students may work (alone) on their solo's during class lab time if they wish -- after they have finished the lab assignment.
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • Outcomes of Lab01
  • Performance of parts of Lab02
  • Solo Assignment #1
  • C++ programming
  • Using unix
  
  
• Laboratory Assignment: Students rehearse Lab02 before performing the lab Friday. Rehearse by yourself, as a homework assignment. This is important - to help you learn and to reduce the likelihood you and your partner will run out of time during the lab.
  
  
• Wednesday, Feb 16 - DUE: Lab01 printouts: before class time begins, one partner from each team puts the printouts required for Lab01 on the 'counter' in front of me (see the directions for the lab). All partners check the printouts in advance to make sure they are correct.
  
  
• Friday, Feb 18 - PERFORM: Lab02: (Pythagorean Triples) during class time in the CS Lab: P-288. Each student works on the lab with his or her partner. Your partner relies on you to be prepared.

• We have class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  
  
• Monday, February 21: QUIZ #1 on chapters 1 and 2 of Savitch, and the skills learned in the Hello World! assignment and Lab01.
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Savitch: Section 3.2 (Multiway Branches)
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • Solo Assignment #1
  • C++ programming
  • Using unix
  • Preparation for Lab02
  • Results of quiz #1
  • Outcome of Lab02
  
  
• Wednesday, Feb 23 - DUE: Lab02 script and source code: (see the directions for the lab.) One of the partners on each team sends me the e-mail: one copy each of the script and source code. All partners are to first verify that the work is correct.
  
  
• Friday, Feb 25 - DUE: Solo Program #01: (ascii figures).

• We have class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Savitch: Sections 3.3 (More About C++ Loop Statements) and 3.4 (Designing Loops)
  
  
• Programming Assignment: This week students get started on Solo Program #2.
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • Lab #3
  • Solo Assignment #2
  • C++ programming
  • Using unix
  
  
• Laboratory Preparation Assignment: Students rehearse Lab03 before performing the lab Friday. Rehearse by yourself, as a homework assignment. This is very important to help you learn and to reduce the likelihood you and your partner will run out of time during the lab.
  
  
• Friday, Mar 04 - PERFORM: Lab03: (Fahrenheit <--> Celsius ) during class time in the CS Lab: P-288. Each student works on the lab with his or her partner. Your partner relies on you to be prepared. E-mail of script and source code are DUE at the end of the class time in lab. (See the directions in the assignment.)

• We have class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Savitch: Sections 4.1 (Top-Down Design), 4.2 (Predefined Functions), and 4.3 (Programmer-Defined Functions)
  
  
• Programming Assignment: This week students continue working on Solo Program #2.
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • Lab #4
  • Solo Assignment #2.
  • Other
  
  
• Friday, Mar 11 - PERFORM: Lab04: (Maximum Test Score ) during class time in the CS Lab: P-288. Each student works on the lab with his or her partner. Your partner relies on you to be prepared.

• We have class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Savitch: Sections 4.4 (Procedural Abstraction) and 4.5 (Local Variables)
  
  
• Programming Assignment: By this week, students have to finish Solo Program #2.
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • Lab #5
  • Other
  
  
• Monday, Mar 14 - PERFORM: Lab04: (Maximum Test Score ) during class time in the CS Lab: P-288. Each student works on the lab with his or her partner. Your partner relies on you to be prepared.
  
  
• Wednesday, March 16 - DUE: Solo Program #02 (federal taxes)
• Friday, Mar 18: QUIZ #2 on chapters 2 and 3 and sections 4.1 and 4.2 of Savitch, and the skills learned in labs 1-3.

• We have class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Savitch: Sections 4.6 (Overloading Function Names) and 5.1 (void Functions)
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • Loops and Functions
  
  
• Wednesday, Mar 30 - FINISH: Lab04: (Maximum Test Score ) during class time in the CS Lab: P-288. Each student works on the lab with his or her partner. All three versions of the source code and the script are DUE at the end of the class time in lab. Students who are finished with Lab 04 may work on Solo program #03, or Lab05.
  
  
• Wednesday, Mar 30 Friday, Apr 01 - PERFORM: Lab05: (Make A Fence ) during class time in the CS Lab: P-288. Each student works on the lab with his or her partner. Your partner relies on you to be prepared. E-mail of script and source code are DUE Friday, April 01 Monday, April 04. (See the directions in the assignment.)
  
  
• Friday, Apr 01 - FINISH: Lab05: (Make a Fence) and/or WORK ON: Solo Program during class time in the CS Lab: P-288. E-mail of script and source code of Lab05 are DUE at the end of the class time in lab. (See the directions in the assignment.)

• We have class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Savitch: Sections 5.2 (Call-By-Reference Parameters) and 5.3 (Using Procedural Abstraction)
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • TBA
  
  
• Monday, Apr 04 - FINISH: Lab05: (Make a Fence) and/or WORK ON: Solo Program during class time in the CS Lab: P-288. E-mail of script and source code of Lab05 are DUE at the end of the class time in lab. (See the directions in the assignment.)
  
  
• Friday, Apr 08 - DUE: Solo Program #03 (future value)

• We have class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Savitch: Sections 5.4 (Testing and Debugging Functions), 5.5 (General Debugging Techniques), and 6.1 (Streams and Basic File I/O)
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • TBA
  
  
• Friday, Apr 15 - DUE: Solo Program #04 (head stack)

• We have class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Savitch: Sections 6.2 (Tools For Stream I/O) and 6.3 (Character I/O)
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • TBA
  
  

• We have class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  
  
  • Savitch: Section 7.1 (Introduction to Arrays)
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics
  • TBA
  
  
• Friday, Apr 29: QUIZ #3 on chapters 3-5 of Savitch and the skills learned in labs 4-5.

• We have class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Savitch: Section 7.2 (Arrays in Functions) and
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • TBA
  
  
• Monday, May 02 - DUE: Solo Program #05 (laying tile)

• We have class on Monday and Wednesday.
  
  
• Friday is Warrior Day
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Savitch: Sections 7.3 (Programming with Arrays) 7.4 (Multidimensional Arrays)
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • TBA
  
  

• We have class on Monday and Wednesday.
  
  
• No class on Friday (Wednesday is the last day of 2011 Spring Semester Classes)
  
  
• Reading Assignment:
  • Savitch: Catch Up!
  
  
• Possible Lecture Topics:
  • TBA
  
  
• Monday, May 16 - DUE: Solo Program #06 (grader)
  
  
• Wednesday, May 18: QUIZ #4 on chapters 5, 6 and 7 of Savitch