Instructor

Dustin Adams, PhD
Office: E2 249B
email: duwadams @ ucsc [dot] edu
Phone: 831-459-1339
Office Hours: Tu 12-2pm, Th 1-3pm 

Final Solutions (A)

Final Solutions (B)

 

Extra Credit

Teaching Assistants

Sean Smith (sewsmith@ucsc.edu)

Nehal Bengre (nbengre@ucsc.edu)

Geetanjali Rakshit (grakshit@ucsc.edu)

Text Books

Blown To Bits: Your Life, Liberty and Happiness After The Digital Explosion by Hal Abelson, Ken Leeden and Harry Lewis, 2010; Online Edition (download free)

Snap! Reference Manual 4.0 (This is just for reference. There will be no direct readings from this.)

Snap Examples.

Lectures

MWF 1:20 - 2:25, Media Theater (directions)

Webcasts

All lectures will be recorded and posted to the webcasts webpage within 10 minutes of lecture ending.

Webcasts.

User: cmps-10

Password: fall17

Sections

Lab sections will be held in the Ming Ong computer lab (located in Merrill College room 103). If you have trouble finding the computer lab, visit maps.ucsc.edu to see exactly where on campus it is. The person in the parentheses will be the TA staffing that section.

A: Monday 11am-12pm (Geetanjali, Chloe)

B: Tuesday 11am-12pm (Sean, Janey)

C: Tuesday 3pm-4pm (Sean, Nehal)

D: Tuesday 4pm-5pm (Sean, Janey)

E: Wednesday 11am-12pm (Geetanjali , Rohan)

F: Wednesday 3pm-4pm (Geetanjali, Rohan)

G: Wednesday 4pm-5pm (Geetanjali, Nehal, Chloe)

H: Thursday 10am-11am (Nehal, Chloe)

I: Friday 11am-12pm (Nehal, Chloe)

TA Office Hours:

Sean: Tuesday 1:30pm-2:30 (Engineering building 2 309)

Nehal: Friday 9:30am-10:30 (Baskin Engineering room 121)

Geetanjali: Wednesday 1:30-2:30 (Engineering building 2 392)

LSS Tutoring

 Justin Tse

Mondays at E2: Jack's Lounge from 4:00PM - 5:00PM

Tuesday at E2: Jack's Lounge from 3:45PM - 4:45PM

Wednesdays at E2: Jack's Lounge from 7:15PM - 8:15PM

Signup: https://sserc.ucsc.edu/slug-success

Grading

 

Lab Attendance (10%)

Homework assignments (30%) (Please note that NO LATE HOME WORK IS ALLOWED once the late due date has passed). Homework/lab assignments will generally be due at 8am on the Monday following the week when the work is expected to be completed. As a general rule you should submit your work at the end of lab, or as soon as it is complete. The 8am deadline is to allow those that need a little extra time to finish it up over the weekend if necessary. All homework will be turned in electronically via canvas.

Midterm (30%)

Final (30%)

Midterm Exam

November 1, 2017 @ 1:20pm (normal class time and place)

Resources

This course is modeled after UC Berkeley's "The Beauty and Joy of Computing" which is also in alignment with "Computer Science Principles."

All of the "programming" exercises from this class are taken directly from http://bjc.berkeley.edu/bjc-r/course/cs10_sp15.html?.

The canvas course managment system is where you will find the class schedule (syllabus), all course assignments, complete homework in the form of online "quizzes", submit lab assignments, submit your programming logs for the programming assignments, and find all of your scores collected in one place.

This term we will be using Piazza for class discussion.  The system is highly tailored to getting you help fast and efficiently from classmates, the TA, and myself. Rather than emailing questions to the teaching staff, I encourage you to post your questions on Piazza. If you have any problems or feedback for the developers, email team@piazza.com.

Find our piazza page here

UC Santa Cruz is committed to creating an academic environment that supports its diverse student body. If you are a student with a disability who requires accommodations to achieve equal access in this course, please submit your Accommodation Authorization Letter from the Disability Resource Center (DRC) to me (Dustin Adams) privately during my office hours or by appointment, preferably within the first two weeks of the quarter.  At that time, I would also like us to discuss ways we can ensure your full participation in the course.   I encourage all students who may benefit from learning more about DRC services to contact DRC by phone at 831-459-2089 or by email at drc@ucsc.edu.    

 “On-Campus Recovery Meetings”: Are you or someone close suffering from compulsive use of food, alcohol, other drugs, gaming,  gambling, love, sex and/or co-dependency? Is your life feeling unmanageable? Students like you have found relief from mental obsessions of all kinds. The solution is simple: We help one another and practice 12 steps of recovery.  Coffee and treats provided! See website for more information: http://healthcenter.ucsc.edu/shop/aod-program/aa.html