Lecture and Lab Schedule

Lectures: Tuesday and Friday, 4pm
Lab 1: Thursday, 9am-11am
Lab 2: Thursday, 11am-1pm
Lab 3: Thursday, 9am-11am
Note: There is no lab on September 10

All lectures and labs will be conducted via Zoom video conferencing. The Zoom links are available on the Moodle (eClass) page of the course. If you do not have access to the course Moodle page, email the instructor.

Prerequisites

General prerequisites;
LE/EECS 1021 3.00 or LE/EECS 1022 3.00 or LE/EECS1030 3.00.
Recommended prerequisite: LE/EECS2030 3.00

Instructor

Uyen Trang (UT) Nguyen [home page]
Office: LAS-2024 (Lassonde Building)
Phone: (416) 736-2100 ext. 33274
Email: utn @ eecs . yorku . ca
Office hours before December 9:

• Tuesday, 3:00pm-3:45pm (except reading week)
• Friday, 3:00pm-3:45pm (except reading week)
• By appointment in special cases

Teaching Assistants

• Jia (Cary) Ou caryou @ eecs . yorku . ca
• Telemachos (Tile) Pechlivanoglou tipech @ eecs . yorku . ca
• Feng Wei fwei @ eecs . yorku . ca

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students are expected to be able to:

• use the basic functionality of the Unix shell, such as standard commands and utilities, input/output redirection, and pipes;
• develop and test shell scripts of significant size;
• develop and test programs written in the C programming language;
• describe the memory management model of the C programming language;
• use test, debug and profiling tools to check the correctness of programs.

Textbook

Programming in C with zyLabs
Publisher: zyBooks

This online book comes with pre-class homework and weekly labs, so it is mandatory for student assessment. Following is the instruction to subscribe to the book.

1. Sign in or create an account at learn.zybooks.com
2. Enter zyBook code: YORKULEEECS2031NguyenFall2020
3. Subscribe.

Note: In your zyBooks profile, please use the same first name and last name as they appear on your York University transcript. This will allow us to quickly merge your pre-class homework and lab marks produced by zyBooks with the marks of quizzes, assignments and final exam produced by TAs.

Additional Required Readings

BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO by Mike G
BASH Guide for Beginners by Machtelt Garrels

References (optional readings)

The C Programming Language (2nd edition)
by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
Prentice Hall Software Series

100 Useful Unix Commands by Oliver
Advanced BASH Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper

Grading Scheme

• 10% - Pre-class reading and homework
• 10% - In-class quizzes
• 10% - Weekly labs
• 30% - Assignments
• 40% - Final exam

Note: Students with a letter of accommodation from Student Accessibility Service may choose to write a proctored test worth 10% before the final exam in lieu of the in-class quizzes.

Conversion from numeric to letter grade is applied to the overall mark only, in accordance with the following departmental standard:

Test and Exam Policy

• Students are required to have a computer with a functional webcam for the online proctored final exam. Refer to "Important Notes" below. Students can borrow laptops from the university.
• To accomodate students encountering unexpected problems or illness, the best 85% of the grades of pre-class homework, in-class quizzes and weekly labs will be used in the final grade calculation.
• All assignments are to be submitted and counted toward the final grade. An extension can be given only under extraordinary circumstances, with proper documentation. If the reason is illness, your doctor must complete the Attending Physician's Statement form. Only this form, completely and properly filled, will be accepted.
• In this course, all assignments, tests and exam are individual work. We use MOSS (Measure Of Software Similarity) to detect software plagiarism. Plagiarism and cheating will be dealt with according to York University's Senate Policy on Academic Honesty.
• Students who enrol in the course late are responsible for all material and all evaluations prior to their enrolment in the course.

Academic Honesty Guidelines

"Academic honesty is essentially giving credit where credit is due. And not misrepresenting what you have done and what work you have produced. When a piece of work is submitted by a student it is expected that all unquoted and uncited ideas and text are original to the student. Uncited and unquoted text, diagrams, etc., which are not original to the student, and which the student presents as their own work is considered academically dishonest." - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Academic Honesty Guidelines

For more information about Academic Honesty Guidelines, check the above link, as well as York University's Senate Policy on Academic Honesty.

Useful Suggestions

• When sending emails to the instructor or TAs, please indicate "EECS 2031" in the subject line (e.g., "EECS 2031 - Lecture notes unreadable"), or they may be deleted by mistake as spam. Include your name and student ID in the email.
• For questions related to course materials, it is best to ask during lectures, labs or office hours. Email is not an effective or time-efficient way to explain course materials.
• Get help from TAs and the instructor for labs and assignments.

Important Dates

• September 9: Fall classes start. No lab or office hour this week.
• September 11: First lecture of EECS2031
• September 23: Last date to announce components of final grades
• October 10-16: Reading week
• November 6: Last date to drop fall courses without receiving a grade
• December 8: Last lecture of EECS2031. Winter classes end.
• December 9: Last date to submit Fall term work
• December 10-23: Fall exams

Important Notes

This course requires the use of online proctoring for examinations. The instructor may use an online proctoring service to deliver the exam(s), which would be administered through the Learning Management System (e.g. Moodle, Canvas, etc.). Students are required to have access to minimum technology requirements to complete examinations. If an online proctoring service is used, students will need to become familiar with it at least five days before exam(s). For technology requirements, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and details about the online proctoring service visit [link to be posted]. Students are required to share any IT accommodation needs with the instructor as soon as they are able.

Several platforms will be used in this course (e.g., Moodle, Canvas, Zoom, etc.) through which students will interact with the course materials, the course director / TA, as well as with one another. Please review the syllabus to determine how the class meets (in whole or in part), and how office hours and presentations will be conducted.

• Zoom is hosted on servers in the U.S. This includes recordings done through Zoom.
• If you have privacy concerns about your data, provide only your first name or a nickname when you join a session.
• The system is configured in a way that all participants are automatically notified when a session is being recorded. In other words, a session cannot be recorded without you knowing about it.

Technology requirements and FAQs for Moodle can be found here