Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:10AM - 11:00AM, Olin Hall 155

Course description, from the Cornell Catalogue
COM S 211 Computers and Programming (also Engrd 211)
Fall, spring, summer. 3 credits.

Prerequisite: COM S 100 or an equivalent course in Java or C++.

Intermediate programming in a high-level language and introduction to computer science. Topics include program structure and organization, modules (classes), program development, proofs of program correctness, recursion, data structures and types (lists, stacks, queues, trees), object-oriented and functional programming, analysis of algorithms, and an introduction to elementary graph theory and graph algorithms. Java is the principal programming language. Knowledge of classes and objects is assumed.

Instructor
David Gries, Upson 4108, gries@cs.cornell.edu. 255-8892. Office hours will appear on the web site soon.

TAs
Their particulars will appear on the website.

Consultants
Undergrad consultants will staff a consulting room. It will be open many hours during the day. Visit it when you need help. You will also pick up graded assignment there. Information about consulting will appear on the web site soon.

Java Bootcamp
A prerequisite for this course is knowledge of programming in some language, at the high school level. Preferably, you received the equivalent of a B+ or A in the course that you took. Most people who don't know Java will know C or C++. We will hold a "Java Bootcamp": three hours of training in Java, at following times:

The bootcamp will introduce you to the basics of object-oriented programming in Java, and CS211 will have one or two review lectures as well. If you got less than B+ in a previous programming course, you may want to take the 1-credit course CS202 instead of CS211. If you are not sure of what to do, sit in on both CS202 and CS211 and make your decision in a week or two. But don't fall behind! Also, talk to Gries

Programming environment
Metrowerks CodeWarrior is the preferred environment for developing and testing programs, although you can use whatever you want. Our assignments will have been tested in CodeWarrior. CodeWarrios is in all the CIT labs. You can by the learning edition version at the bookstore. This version has a Tutorial that will help you learn how to use CodeWarrior, consisting of animated lectures that are taken from ProgramLive by Gries & Gries. 

Required and optional texts
The required text is by Weiss: "Data Structures & Problem Solving in Java, Addison-Wesley, second edition (2002), ISBN 0-201-74835-5.

An optional text is by Gries and Gries, "ProgramLive", Wiley & Sons, 2001. This semester, it is used in CS202, a 1-credit course on Java for those who know another language (usually C++). It contains over 250 recorded lectures with synched animation for a first programming course, with the addition of some other material, like recursion. The lectures makes it easier to learn some material than with a mere book.

CS211 versus CS212
CS211 is a 3-credit course. Every attempt will be made to make the workload that of a 3-credit course. There will be programming assignments, but we will try to give reasonable ones that help you learn and exercise the programmng concepts with a minimum amount of your time.

CS212 is a 1-credit project course. It meets the whole semester. Those enrolled will work on a single project, given in four segments, in temas of two. The project is extremely interesting this semester. You will write a program that has some of the functionality of mapblast or mapquest. Type in two addresses, and the shortest path between them is drawn on the screen. The project involves looking at real data and working with the format in which it is stored, implementing GUIs, drawing a map on the screen (really, a graph), finding shortest paths in a graph, and more.

Tests
There are two evening prelims: 7:30PM, on Thursday, 18 October, and Tuesday, 20 November.

The final is period 16, 9:30AM, 20 December. Generally, Gries makes the final optional; he will give you a grade at the end of the semester. You can accept it or take the final to try to improve it. Taking the final may lower as well as raise your grade, and it lowering your grade by taking the final has been known to happen in the past.

Recitations
Recitations will meet beginning next Tuesday. Go to the one for which you are registered.
 

Number	Section	Day	Time	Instructor
632-503	01	T	1220-0110P
632-567	02	T	0125-0215P
632-572	03	T	0230-0320P
633-009	04	T	0335-0425P
633-040	05	W	1220-0110P
633-280	06	W	0125-0215P
633-530	07	W	0230-0320P
633-558	08	W	0335-0425P
633-617	09	R	0230-0320P
633-753	10	W	1220-0110P
633-829	11	R	0230-0320P