News/Announcements

• April 9, 2008
  Exam date: April 14, 7:00-10:00pm
  Exam locations: section M will write in CSE-B; section N in CSE-C

• Mar. 27, 2008
  The exam from the F07 term is available here.
  Note that the exam includes material directly from lectures in the Fall term class - such material (unless it was discussed in both sections) will not be on the Winter term exam. Also material from Ch. 7 will be minimal on the Winter term exam.

  The following information will also be given to you at the exam. You may not bring your own copy of this material. Exam reference material.

• Mar. 26, 2008
  To transfer the weight of Test 1 and/or Test 2 please use the form available from the Main Office of Computer Science (CSE1003, near the exercise drop boxes). This form will become available next week.

  The form may be submitted up until just before the final exam.

  Email requests to your instructor will not be accepted.

• Mar. 20, 2008
  We will modify slightly the exercises and material to be covered in the last weeks of the term.
  The TBA exercise will be Ex. 6-13 - newly added to VB:PL web site - and it will be worth 3%, to be handed in on Monday April 7 (the last day to submit term work). It is a fairly substantial piece of work relative to previous exercises - so do not leave it to the last minute!
  Ex.7-4 will not be required for handing in.
  Lectures will still cover material from Ch. 7 - but in much reduced amount - and consequently material from Ch. 7 of VB:PL will not figure prominently on the final exam. Previous final exams have contained about 10% on Ch. 7 - the final exam for this term will probably contain perhaps 5% or less on Ch. 7 material.

• Mar. 18, 2008
  Please note that the the last day of classes for sec. N is Tuesday Apr. 1.
  Section M continues to have classes on Wed. April 2, Thurs. April 3, and Friday April 4 to make up for holidays during the term.

• Mar. 4, 2008
  Test 2 from the F07 term is available here.

• Feb. 5, 2008
  Ex. 4-8 is due on the morning of Tuesday Feb. 19, i.e. after reading week. The TA will be asked to collect it from the assignment box any time after 12:00 noon, so you should hand it in before 12:00 noon.

• Jan. 29, 2008
  Test 1 from the F07 term is available here.

• Jan. 2, 2008
  Welcome to CSE1530 for the Winter 2008 Term.

  There are section specific web sites - links below - look here for announcements that are common to both sections.

• Jan. 2, 2008
  

  Important: Limits on HOW you work together

  Students often seem to be unclear about what constitutes plagiarism in this course. Therefore, some Do's and Don'ts ...

  Do discuss the basic algorithmic approach to solving a problem.
  Do separately write the code trying to implement the approach.
  Do assist someone else in debugging their code.
  

  Don't share your code, particularly ....
  Don't send a file to someone else.
  Don't sit together in the lab writing the code jointly
  

  The code you write is somewhat like an essay - usually how one person writes it is distinctive to them, and close "collaboration" is easy to spot. Cases of non-individual work will be dealt with severely.

Instructor and Contact Information

1. Section M
   • Instructor: L. Lowther
   • E-mail: lew at(@) yorku.ca
   • Office: CSEB 2008
   • Office Hours: MWF 11:30-12:20 pm
     
   • Section web site: here
2. Section N
   • Instructor: P. Cribb
   • E-mail: peterc at(@) cs.yorku.ca
   • Office: CSEB 2010
   • Office Hours: Mon 1-2pm, Tues. 1-2pm, Thurs. 1-2pm
   • Section web site: here

Main links for course materials and administration:

• Lab. Handbook - Visual Basic: Programming for Literacy

• Course Outline, schedule and assessment - here

• Here is a link for a simple machine simulator that illustrates assembly and machine language and the execution of instructions by the CPU. HERE

• Access your marks -- HERE

TA Advising Schedule (in Glade Lab)

• Jan. 29, 3-5pm
• Jan. 31, 3-5pm
• Feb. 1, 9-11am
• Feb. 5, 3-5pm
• Feb. 26, 4-6pm
• Feb. 28, 4-6pm
• Mar. 4, 3-4pm
• Mar. 6, 3-5pm
• Mar. 11, 3-5pm
• Mar. 12, 9-11am
• Mar. 13, 4-6pm
• Mar. 25, 4-6pm
• Apr. 1, 3-4pm
• Apr. 2, 9-11am (new)
• Apr. 3, 12-2pm (rescheduled)
• Apr. 3, 3-5pm (Cancelled - rescheduled above!!)

• Please make use of your instructor's office hours and e-mail.

Submitting Exercises

• What to Print:
  1. A cover page:
     Nothing fancy - just name, student number, and exercise (eg. Ex 2-2) - all centered in the middle of the page.
  2. The code:
     In the VB 2005 environment the File/Print menu selection is only active when the Code Window is selected. The code is one thing you should print.
  3. The Form (actually running):
     Start Debugging the application, i.e. your program is running. Interact with your program in some appropriate way to demonstrate how it works. Press the Alt key (hold it down) and then the Print Screen key. This captures an image of the current window (i.e. your program running) to the clipboard which you can then paste into a document. E.g. open Microsoft Word, and paste the clipboard (just choose Edit/Paste). You can then print this Word document.
• Where to Hand it in:
  Place in the correct drop box for your section of the course. This will be located either in the main hallway (opposite the elevator) or on the atrium side wall of the main office for Computer Science and Engineering (CSE1003).
• When to Hand it in:The drop box will be cleared every Tuesday morning. Any submissions for a previously-due exercise will not be marked.