CSE 373: Syllabus (Winter 2002)

Grading

The following is an approximation to the formula that will be used to determine overall scores at the end of the quarter.

Assignments (including online-discussions and presentations) 50 percent.
Participation: 10 percent. This may include peer reviews, selected in-class exercises, and other class-related activities.
Quiz 1: 5 percent.
Quiz 2: 10 percent.
Final Exam: 25 percent.

Late policy

up to one hour late: 5 percent off.
up to one day late: 10 percent off.
up to 3 days late: 20 percent off.
up to 1 week late: 30 percent off.
up to 2 weeks late: 40 percent off.
more than 2 weeks late: 50 percent off.

Academic misconduct

In each assignment, each student shall make an accurate and complete attribution of credit for the material presented. Any quotations must be marked as quotations. Complete references must be given for each source of information used, whether the information came from the web, a printed book, or personal verbal communication. Any direct help on an assignment must be mentioned and attributed to the helper. Any apparent deliberate misrepresentation will be treated as a case of academic misconduct and will be prosecuted according to standard procedures of the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering, or other university division.

Resources

Students are encouraged to take advantage of the following categories of resources for this course:

books, including the assigned textbook by Sahni and books on reserve at the Engineering Library.
the UW uniform access computing resources on Dante and Vergil, esp. for posting web pages.
the MSCC computing resources.
personal computers and publically available Java compilers. The recommended compiler for this course is the one in Sun Microsystems' Java Development Kit JDK 1.1.8 for Windows. You can download it free of charge. The size of the download file is is about 8 MB.
the World Wide Web and its resources related to data structures, algorithms, HTML, and computer technology in general. Online Java tutorials, general documentation, the JDK1.1 API in particular, and demos of algorithms and data structures will be particularly useful.
class meetings and instructor and TA office hours.
our course community and email list.

Particular topic-oriented resources:

Online tutorial on set theory from Prof. S. Toida's course at Old Dominion Univ. Among other things, it covers set notation, cartesian products, and binary relations.
An illustration of mathematical functions in descriptions of abstract data types.
Here is the OnOffApplet and its source code.
Here is the TextTestApplet.
Here is the LineApplet.
Here is the TimedLineApplet.

Class Email List

Each student should subscribe to the course email list. Instructions for subscribing will be given later. This list will serve both as a means of announcement from the instructor and TAs and as a forum for discussing course-related issues. The archive will be available on the web.