http://www.austincc.edu/baldwin/Fall07/Cosc1315WebPage/COSC1315.htm
This section of COSC 1315, Fundamentals of Programming, will be taught using the Alice Interactive 3D Graphics environment.
To learn more about the Alice programming environment, visit Learn to Program using Alice. Also see Introduction to Alice Programming and the main Alice website.
If you have a specific need to complete this course using the C++ programming language, you should enroll in a different section of this course.
You should not purchase the C++ textbook if you are enrolled in this section. An Alice textbook is specified in the syllabus.
This is the web page that will be used for communicating information between Professor Baldwin and students enrolled in this course.
Orientation
All students enrolled in this course are required to complete
online orientation.
I typically receive hundreds (occasionally thousands) of email messages each day, many of them from my students.
When you send an email message to me, make absolutely certain that the Subject line contains the following information as a minimum:
Include your current telephone number somewhere in the body of the message, and make it easy to find. If my email or your email goes down, I may try to call you on the telephone.
If you don't comply with the above, don't expect me to answer
your
email messages.
The following information is requested by the Computer Studies department, but is not a requirement of the course in which you are enrolled. Whether or not you provide the following information will not be taken into account when determining your grade in the course.
If you are willing to provide this information, please compose an e-mail message containing the following information and send it to Baldwin@DickBaldwin.com
If you do provide the information, please make the subject line of your e-mail message read as follows:
Last Name, First Name, Course Number, Student Information Form
DO NOT include this information in the message that you send confirming that you have completed online orientation. Send separate messages for those two purposes.
You should be able to copy and paste the following form into your e-mail client and then fill in the blanks. Don't be too concerned about neatness when filling in the form.
Last Name:_____________________
First Name:_____________________
Student ID:_____________________
Course Number: IT__ ____
Telephone Numbers
Home:___________Any issues that the instructor should be aware of:
Work:___________
Other:___________
E-mail address:_________
_________________________________________________
Reasons for taking the course:
_____Personal InterestPlease indicate the following:
_____Required by degree program, which is ______________
_____Work related - please explain in comments section below
_____Recommended by ______________________________
_____Other, please explain in comments section below
_____Hours working per weekWhat computer courses have you completed at ACC or elsewhere?
_____Number of credit hours enrolled in this semester
_____Number of computer courses completed at ACC
_____Highest degree earned
_____________________________________________________
What computer or computer related work experience do you have?
_____________________________________________________
Comments:
_____________________________________________________
08/20/07 EMAIL VIRUS WARNING
I receive approximately 1,000 email messages each day. Many of the
messages that I receive contain viruses or worms. Most of the
rest are SPAM.
As a result, I have been forced to become very selective regarding the
messages that I am willing to open and read. I can't trust that simply
because a message is received from someone that I know, it is safe to
open and read. Unless something in the
Subject line of the message causes me to believe that I can trust the
message, I will simply delete the message without reading it.
Therefore, if you send email messages to me, your Subject line MUST be
formatted as follows:
Last name, First name, COSC1315, Brief topic of message
When I see that format, I will trust that the message is safe to open
and read. Otherwise, I will assume that your message contains a
virus or constitutes SPAM, and I will simply delete your message
without reading it.
Therefore, if you want me to read your message, you
MUST format your Subject line as shown above.
I normally respond to student email messages within
24 hours except on the weekends. If you send a message to
me and you don't receive a response within 24 hours (allow 72 hours
on weekends), make certain that your Subject line is correctly
formatted and send the message again.
08/20/07 Do not send executable attachments
If you send an email message to me and expect me to read it, DO NOT attach any
executable files, even if they are encapsulated in a zip file. This
includes files with the following extensions, just to name a few:
.exe
.com
.scr
.bat
.pif
.vb
If you do send such files, my virus blocker will simply reject the message and I will never see it. In addition, you probably won't know that it was rejected.
The following file extensions should be OK:
.a2w
.java
.class
.htm
.html
.css
.xml
.xsl
.doc
.zip (Provided the zip file doesn't contain any executable files.)
If you find it necessary to send a questionable file for any reason, you should also send another message without an attachment notifying me that you sent the questionable file as an attachment so that I can be on the lookout for it.
08/20/07 Online practice tests
I have published a practice test for each of the tutorials that
I use to teach this course. You are strongly encouraged to take advantage of the availability of the
practice tests. You should continue re-taking the practice tests until you you can score 100 on
each practice test. Among other features of the practice tests, they
contain links back to the online tutorials where the correct answers to the
practice-test questions are explained.
You will probably find the questions on each of your exams to be very similar (but not necessarily identical) to the questions on the practice tests. If you can do well on the practice tests, you should be able to do well on your exams as well.
On the other hand, you should not simply memorize the questions and the answers on the practice tests. You should make certain that you understand both the questions and the correct answers so that you can answer similar, (but not identical) questions on the actual exams.
08/20/07 My Alice tutorial publications
I have published a set of tutorials along with practice tests and classroom
slides for this course at
http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocalice.htm. Lab projects are included in
most of the tutorials.
08/20/07 Exam 1 and Exam 2 are ready for you to take
Exam 1 and Exam 2 are ready for you to take whenever you are ready to take them. Don't
miss the deadline. There are several versions of the exam. If you
get hold of a copy of the exam that was taken by another student, you should not
assume that the version that you will be required to take will contain the same
questions.
10/09/07 Extended exam and assignment deadline
Because of the Labor Day holiday, we are running about one week behind where I
wanted us to be by this date. Therefore, I am extending the deadline for
submittal of the first exam and the first four lab projects by one week.
See Schedule and Requirements.
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