Announcements and Reminders
- This class is an in-person class where attendance, in a timely manner, counts towards a student's course grade. Be sure to attend every class, including those classes in the first week! Moreover, come prepared -- have a writing implement, paper to write on, and your lab manual -- which now includes outlines of notes that students are expected to complete in class!
- Students can order the lab manual from the Textbook Store (select Spring 2025, CSC, 212, Section 800 and the New option ($20.49)) or they can print the lab manual from the pdf posted below under Useful Resources (it's 281 pages and you need all of it!).
- Be sure to bring the section titled Module 1: Algorithms and Algorithmic Thinking to class on the first day!
Instructor and TA Office Hours
Instructor Office/Lab Hours: TBA in 458 Shineman
TA Office Hours: All TA office hours happen in 446 Shineman (the computer lab). Hours will be posted as soon as finalized in the first week of classes.
OLS Drop-In Tutoring Hours: TBA
Getting in touch with your instructor...
- Email: I actually read and respond to emails. I check email frequently during the workday but limit my email time after work hours and on weekends. Please be patient, but if I don't reply by the end of the next working day then feel free to email me again – there's always a chance your first email got buried under urgent emails (or spam ...) and I appreciate the nudge!
- Office Hours: Just stop by! You don't need an appointment to drop by my office. If you want to meet over Zoom, you will need to make and keep an appointment, because I am uncomfortable sitting on Zoom with no one there. I am also available over Discord (username in the syllabus, behind the SUNY Oswego login...). Join the CSA Discord server (link in digital syllabus) and send me a message! We can use the voice channels and the text channels to stay in contact. Just be aware that if you message me in Discord outside of office hours, I won't respond until office hours or until I'm free.
- Other times: If my office door is open then you are welcome to stop in and ask if I'm available. I may be! If I'm busy, we can make an appointment to meet up later on.
Course Calendar
Calendar
This Google calendar has each class day entered, with big events (like exams and deadlines) entered as "All Day" so you can see them clearly. The topics for each day will be entered into the description for each class day, too.
Useful Resources
- Required Lab Manual: Graci, C. and Schlegel, D.R. A First Course in Computer Programming: Laboratory Manual.
- Textbook Draft: A First Course in Computer Science by Daniel Schlegel. This draft of a textbook currently being written is available for our class to thanks to the author. The draft is in our Course Documents folder.
- CS1 Software and WebSite Materials
- Helpful Textbook Suggestions:
- Helpful Websites:
- Student Wellness: There are a variety of events and concerns that affect a student's overall wellness. Learning is challenging, and life continues even while a student is learning. The college has a variety of resources available, and there are a variety of policies regarding student wellness. I've collected several of them on this Student Wellness site.