Connecting with Computer Science
(CPSC 101, 2007 Summer Term 1)

(Before the first lab, we'll also post news here. But, you must learn how to read the bulletin board! If you have trouble, ask for help from the instructor or a TA.)

Instructor:
	KangKang Yin
	E-mail:
	Office: ICICS/CS, Room 243
	Office hours: Tue+Thu, 3:00-5:00   (Other times by appointment. Please ask if you need time!)

Teaching Assistants:

• Firas Hamze <fhamze at cs dot ubc dot ca>
• Hosna Jabbari <hjabbari at cs dot ubc dot ca>
• Mengxi Hu <Victoire at interchange dot ubc dot ca>: Office hour: Tue 10-11am X151
• Henry Chow <henry_ckh at yahoo dot ca >: Office hour: Wed 11am-12 X151

Students:  As part of the HTML lab, each student made their own web page! Here are the student web pages.

Labs:

Number	Day	Time	TAs
L0A	MWF	9:00-11:00	Hosna and Firas;
L0B	MWF	15:00-17:00	Henry and Hosna on MF; Henry and Firas on Wed;
L0C(cancelled)	MWF	17:00-19:00	cancelled, you can still go in to do your labs, but there won't be TAs

Labs start on Wednesday, 9 May, and are held in ICCS X050.  Here is the floor plan for the basement of that building. So if you take elevator down, you turn right, and turn right again, the lab should be the second room you see. If you still have trouble locating it, just wait at the elevator. Your TAs will pick you up from the elevator.

Most of the lab assignments are encouraged to be done during the lab sessions, unless otherwise specified by the individual lab requirements. If you have extreme difficulty to finish it on time, contact your TA for an extension of up to 48 hours before the next lab session begins. Labs are not mandatory, but they all have bonus marks(40% of the full marks) for students who show up. If you don't show up, you will have to earn at least 70% of the full marks to get the bonus marks. If the above English is confusing or buggy, here is some pseudo-code for the lab marking scheme. Hopefully by the end of this course, you will become a Guru in understanding and writing pseudo-code.

//y stands for the full marks of the lab assignment; 0.4*y is then the bonus marks

//x stands for your original marks from your lab assignment; x' is your final marks

if (x>=0.7*y)
{
    x'=x+0.4*y;
}
else
{
    if you showed up for the lab
        x'=x+0.4*y;
    else
        x'=x;
}

Labs will be marked from in-person demonstrations to TAs, WebCT and email deliverables. Email deliverables should be sent to <ubccpsc at gmail dot com>, with subject line being the lab name, plus your lab section number, plus your last name and the first letter of your first name(e.g.HTML+L0A+YinK). In-person demonstrations will be marked by Firas for morning lab sections, and by Henry for afternoon sections. WebCT and email deliverables will be marked jointly by Henry and Mengxi.

The first lab will only be marked from the WebCT post, and the deadline is 7pm Fri 11 May. If you still can't access cpsc101 from WebCT due to registration problems by the end of the first week, contact the TAs for an extension.

(For official course scheduling information, see the 101 calendar entry.)

PRS clickers are required for the course and will be used (among other things) for regular, marked mini-quizzes. They are available for purchase at the UBC bookstore (and the textbook comes with a coupon for a clicker). (Note: you still only need one PRS clicker even if you're taking multiple courses that require them.) We will practice how to use it during the first two classes.

All lecture notes, handouts, lab materials are based on work by previous instructors and TAs for this course, with additions and modifications by the instructor and TAs of this term. Specific references and acknowledgements are given wherever materials from other sources are used.

Discussion Board:

(Due to cancellation of quiz2, new grades breakdown will be: quiz1(10%), PRS mini-quizzes(3%), labs(13%), project(15%), midterm (21%), final exam(38%).)

Note: PRS mini-quizzes using the PRS clickers are mainly used for interactive activities interspersed during lectures, rather than as formal quizzes. The marking scheme is 1 mark per incorrect and 2 marks per correct answer. The lowest day's worth of PRS marks will be dropped at the end of the course.

Note: the course staff do not schedule the final exam; we can all discover its timing when it's posted on the official final exam schedule!