CSE 373: Syllabus (Spring 2004)

Grading

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

Assignments (not including project): 25 percent.
Project: 20 percent.
Participation: 5 percent. This may include peer reviews, selected in-class exercises, and other class-related activities.
Midterm: 20 percent.
Final Exam: 30 percent.

Late policy

up to one hour late: 10 percent off.
up to one day late: 20 percent off.
up to 3 days late: 40 percent off.
up to 1 week late: 50 percent off.
over 1 week late: no credit.

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 handled 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 Goodrich and Tamassia, Data Structures and Algorithms in Java, 2d ed published by Wiley. The 3rd edition is also acceptable.
the UW uniform access computing resources, 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 J2SE 1.4.2 for Windows or Linux. You can download it free of charge. The size of the download file is is about 49 MB.
the Eclipse integrated development environment. To run this, you will need a reasonably powerful computer -- roughly a 1 GH processor and 512 MB of RAM. If you do not have a machine at this level, you can either use the JDK tools from the command line, or you can go to the MSCC lab and use Eclipse there. The Eclipse software is available free from the eclipse.org web site.
the World Wide Web and its resources related to data structures, algorithms, and programming.

Particular topic-oriented resources:

The Visual Stack Applet. This Java programs can be used to produce demonstrations of other data structures.
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.