Announcements and Reminders
- Friday 5/9: Last day to demo PC#7 or PC#8. TA office hours end at 5 pm sharp!
- Regularly scheduled instructor office hours end on Friday 5/9 (1:50 - 2:45). Finals week office hours: Monday 1 - 4.
- Labs 11 & 12 should be posted by Tuesday, May 13.
- Our final ex(am)perience is on Wednesday, May 14, from 8 am until 10 am in our classroom. Bring your notes and lab manual. It is a 2-hour exam, and it is cumulative. However, you've seen most of the question types on Ex(am)periences 1 and 2. The new content/question types include: a question where you model a complete class, a question from PC#7, and questions about the content in the last week of classes (streams).
- You are invited! Feel free to come check out the MAT/CSC 332: Cryptology projects during any of the three sessions listed below. Students have been working on their projects
for the past 7ish weeks, and projects are finally ready to be presented! If you want to know what sorts of projects CS students make in their upper division classes, this will be
a fun way to unwind for a little bit during finals week -- you get to sit back and enjoy!
- Tuesday 1 - 3 in 448 Shineman
- Friday 10:30 - 12:30 in 172 Shineman
- Friday 1 - 3 in 444 Shineman
Instructor and TA Office Hours
Instructor Office/Lab Hours: Mondays 11:30 - 12:25, Tuesdays 2 - 3:30, and Fridays 1:50 - 2:45 in 458 Shineman
TA Office Hours: Mondays 4 - 5:30, Tuesdays 4 - 6, Wednesdays 4 - 5, Thursdays 2 - 6, and Fridays 2 - 5.
All TA office hours happen in 446 Shineman (the computer lab).
OLS Drop-In Tutoring Hours: Wednesdays 6-8 in Shineman
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.