On this page:
People
Communications
Office Hours
General Policies
Lectures
Labs
Computing Environment
Assignments
Pair Programming
Exams
Projects
Grades
6.1.1

General

People

Instructors:


Leena Razzaq


Nada Naji

Instructors design and implement this class, lead lectures, create the labs, assignments, and exams. The instructors are here to teach from life.

TAs:


Maryam Aziz


Jacob Brandt


Ty Coghlan


Mustafa Camurcu

TAs teach labs, oversee the grading of homework sets, help grade the exams, and hold office hours. In general, they are apprentice teachers and are here to learn how to run a course.

Tutors:


Nicholas Bond


Ceridwen Driskill


Nicholas Flanders


David Heyman


Janki Kaneria


Stephen Krueger


Kevin McDonough


Matt Riley


Will Slotterback


Oliver Spohngellert


Daniel Strasser


Chenxi Yuan

Tutors help in labs, grade the homework sets, and hold office hours. In general, they are your peers who have taken the course and can see your problems from your perspective.

Communications

If you need help, you may talk to any of the instructors, the TAs or tutors during their office hours.

You can also post questions and look for answers to similar questions on Piazza. Here is a link to the Piazza site for this course. Do not post answers to assignments to Piazza.

Office Hours

Leena Razzaq

  

lrazzaq

  

WVH310B

  

Mon

  

11:00am-12:00pm

  

  

  

Wed

  

11:00am-12:00pm

Nada Naji

  

najin

  

WVH314

  

Mon

  

2:00-3:00pm

  

  

  

Wed

  

12:00-1:00pm

Maryam Aziz

  

azizm

  

WVH 472

  

Fri

  

1:30-3:30pm

  

  

  

Fri

  

5:30-7:30

Jacob Brandt

  

brandt31

  

WVH 102

  

Thu

  

12:00-2:00pm

  

  

  

Thurs

  

3:00-5:00pm

Ty Coghlan

  

ophirr33

  

WVH 102

  

Tue

  

11:00am-1:00pm

  

  

  

Mon

  

12:00-2:00pm

Mustafa Camurcu

  

camurcu

  

WVH 102

  

Tue

  

4:00-6:00pm

  

  

  

Wed

  

5:30-7:30pm

Nicholas Bond

  

nbond211

  

WVH 102

  

Wed

  

5:00--7:00pm

Ceridwen Driskill

  

cdris

  

WVH 102

  

Mon

  

11:00am-1:00pm

Nicholas Flanders

  

nflans

  

WVH 102

  

Mon

  

3:30-5:30pm

David Heyman

  

heymand

  

WVH 102

  

Sun

  

4:00-6:00pm

Janki Kaneria

  

kaneria

  

WVH 102

  

Wed

  

10:00am-12:00pm

Stephen Krueger

  

kruegste

  

WVH 102

  

Thu

  

5:00-7:00pm

Kevin McDonough

  

kmacdoug

  

WVH 102

  

Wed

  

2:00-4:00pm

Matt Riley

  

mriley

  

WVH 102

  

Thu

  

11:00-1:00pm

Will Slotterback

  

wills

  

WVH 102

  

Wed

  

1:00-3:00pm

Oliver Spohngellert

  

olivers

  

WVH 102

  

Thu

  

3:00-5:00pm

Daniel Strasser

  

dj852

  

WVH 102

  

Tue

  

11:00am-1:00pm

Chenxi Yuan

  

yuan95

  

WVH 102

  

Wed

  

3:00-5:00pm

Communication

Use CCIS email (@ccs.neu.edu) to reach any of the course staff; usernames are given above.

General Policies

Lectures

Section 1: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday at 10:30am-11:35am
         Shillman Hall 315

Section 2: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday at 1:35am-2:40pm
         West Village G 102

Lectures policy:

You are required to read the lecture material for the given lecture before coming to class. During the lectures we will discuss the material covered in the required reading, answer questions, provide additional examples and applications.

It is OK if you do not understand everything when you first read it, but reading about the new concept ahead of the time will give you a chance to anticipate the questions you may have and allow you to follow better the details of explanation during the lectures.

Labs

Labs are held in 210 or 212 WVH

  • Sec 1: Fridays at 9:50–11:30am in 210 WVH
         TA: Ty Coghlan
         Tutors: Will Slotterback, David Heyman

  • Sec 6: Fridays at 9:50–11:30am in 212 WVH
         TA: Maryam Aziz
         Tutors: Daniel Strasser, Steve Krueger

  • Sec 2: Fridays at 11:45am–1:25pm in 210 WVH
         TA: Maryam Aziz
         Tutors: Oliver Spohngellert, Kevin McDonough

  • Sec 5: Fridays at 11:45am–1:25pm in 212 WVH
         TA: Mustafa Camurcu
         Tutors: Nicholas Bond, Janki Kaneria

  • Sec 3: Fridays at 1:35–3:15pm in 210 WVH
         TA: Jacob Brandt
         Tutors: Nicholas Flanders, Matt Riley

  • Sec 4: Fridays at 3:25–5:05pm in 210 WVH
         TA: Ty Coghlan
         Tutors: Ceridwen Driskill, Chenxi Yuan

Labs policy

The goal of the labs is to see in practice problems that illustrate the concepts covered in the lectures, and to prepare you for the next programming assignment.

There is a lot of technical detail related to running Java programs that will be covered in the early labs. Later labs will focus more on design questions and on good Java programming practice.

In-lab Quizzes

We will be running quizzes during some of the labs, possibly without prior warning. The goal of the quizzes is to see that you are familiar with the most basic concepts covered during the recent lectures, labs, and assignments.

Quizzes will be graded, and are counted as part of your exam scores (see Exams below). The intent is to assess your progress in the course in smaller chunks rather than just through lengthy midterm exams.

If you do not pass the quiz, you need to meet with the instructor within the next week, to identify the problems you may have and to help you get back on track. Failure to follow up on a failed quiz may lead to grade zero on the related programming homework.

Computing Environment

You will complete your assignments (other than the first one) using the Eclipse IDE. Though, if you feel more comfortable, you may choose to use another IDE (e.g. NetBeans) or work directly from the command line, but you and your partner must both be comfortable with the chosen programming environment, and the staff may not be able to assist you with issues encountered in other environments.

You will use Web-CAT to work on your homework sets, to keep track of revisions, and to submit your homework.

Assignments

There will be one problem set each week, comprised of two parts: practice problems and pair-programming problems.

The practice problems will be a series of practice problems that every student must be able to solve. You should work out these problems on your own, and keep your solutions as an electronic portfolio. You may ask the instructor to give an informal review your portfolio at any time, but there will be a formal review at least once during the semester.

In the pair-programming problems you and your partner will apply the concepts from lectures and labs. The problems will consist of structured programming assignments that may be based on the work done in previous weeks, and may also include more creative projects where you can practice your design skills.

Due Date: Thursdays at 7:00pm, unless otherwise specified.

Pair Programming

You must work on your problem sets in pairs. We will assign you a partner. Every few weeks, you may get a new partner.

Important Pair programming means that you and your partner work on the problem sets jointly. You read them together and you work on the solutions together. One of the lab’s purposes is to teach you how to work in pairs effectively; indeed, pairs are provably more effective than individuals in programming. The rough idea is this: One of you plays pilot, the other co-pilot. The pilot works on the keyboard and explains aloud what is going on; it is the co-pilot’s responsibility to question everything. After a problem is solved to the satisfaction of both, you must switch roles.

Every partner must be able to solve every homework problem in the end. In other words, You must be able to solve every homework problem on your own.

All programs must be completed strictly by you and your partner. You are free to discuss the problem sets with others, so long as you acknowledge discussants. However, you may not share code in any way. Submitting code that is not your own will be considered a violation of the University’s Academic Integrity Policy (pages 38—40 of the 2011-2012 Underaduate Student Handbook). Violations of academic integrity will be reported to OSCCR and will have a negative impact on your grade.

If you are having difficulties working with your partner, please inform your lab TA or your instructor.

Exams

Projects

There will be one or two substantial class projects implemented over the last several weeks of the course. You will present your project to the class during the last two weeks of the course. You will also be required to comment on the projects presented by your peers.

Grades

You will get a GPA for your homework (including the project) and for your exams and quizzes. You must have both a passing homework GPA and a passing overall GPA to pass the course. For the final grade, we will assign a weight of 40% to the homeworks and the project grade and a weight of 60% to the exams and quizzes.