CS 127: Data Structures, Fall 2002
Syllabus

Instructor Information

• Instructor: Dave Musicant
• Office: CMC 326
• Email: dmusican@carleton.edu
• Office phone: (507)646-4369
• Home phone: (952)882-8571 (before 10 pm, please)

Textbooks

• Data Structures and Program Design in C++, Robert L. Kruse and Alexander J. Ryba, Prentice Hall, 1999.
• Practical C++ Programming, Steve Oualline, O'Reilly & Associates, 1995.

Important Dates

• Exam 1:  Wednesday, October 16 in class
• Exam 2:  Wednesday, November 20 in class
• Last project due:  5 PM of last day of finals

Class Website

• http://www.mathcs.carleton.edu/faculty/dmusican/cs127f02

Your Grade

• Assignments: 45%
• Exam 1: 20%
• Exam 2: 20%
• Final Project: 15%

Working from Home

• We will be programming in C++, using the GNU g++ compiler version 2.96 under Redhat Linux. This will be set up for use in the Computer Science labs. You may use other compilers at home if you wish, but you are then responsible for making sure that your programs work under the compiler that we have installed in the labs. I am glad to informally provide whatever advice I can to help you get the software running on your own machine, but home use is technically "unsupported."

Homework Policy

Each assignment will have a specific time for which it will be due, and your electronic submissions are timestamped. An assignment turned in late within one day of the due time will be docked 25%. An assignment turned in later than one day of the due date but within two days will be docked 50%. An assignment turned in any time after this until the last day of classes will be docked 75%. This policy is to protect the grader, but also to encourage you to begin your work as early as possible.

Getting Help

• If you need help with a project, you can consult with other students, talk to the prefector, ask a lab assistant, or come to me. I am happy to answer your questions either in person or via email.

Collaboration, Cheating, and the Difference Between the Two

Collaboration

• Collaboration is good.
• You are encouraged to collaborate on ideas and program design.
• Programming is often a social effort, and there is much you can learn by talking out the ideas in this class with each other.
• You are encouraged to talk to each other and share ideas.
• If a piece of your program utilizes someone else's idea, you must give that person credit in program comments.

Plagiarism

• Plagiarism is bad. DON'T DO IT!
• Any programs that you turn in should be your work.
• Even if you work with someone else and share ideas, you must still write your own program.

• Taking someone else's program changing the name of the programmer at the top, and turning it in.
• Taking someone else's program, changing the variables and comments around, and turning it in.
• Finding a similar program on the internet, putting your name at the top, and turning it in.
• Finding a similar program on the internet, changing the variables and comments around, and turning it in.