Schedule

CS46B Schedule

Spring 2012 | Cay S. Horstmann | Department of Computer Science | San Jose State University

Homework 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8A 8B 8C 9A 9B 9C 10A 10B 10C 11A 11B 11C 12A 12B 12C
Homeworks are due at 18:00, but you have a grace period for submitting them to D2L. See the D2L drop box for due dates.
Homework grade reports are at http://cs12.cs.sjsu.edu:8080/scores/cs46b/homeworkN/ID, where N is the homework number (1,2,3,4,...) and ID is your nine digit student ID.

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Due every Monday (draft) and Thursday (final), except for homework 0
Homeworks are due 6 pm. Desire2Learn gives you a grace period until 11:59 pm. That should give you enough time to upload your work, driving to the nearest Internet café if necessary. You will receive no credit for any homework received after 11:59 pm.
If Desire2Learn is unavailable after 6 pm, put out a query on Piazza before 11:59 pm, and I will extend the dropbox deadline by one day once the system is back up. I will not answer any other questions about the homework between 6 pm and 11:59 pm.
Only work in the Desire2Learn dropbox will be graded.
Be sure to check your submission in the dropbox to see that all your files are there, that they are all correctly named, and that they are not empty.
Use netbrat for sanity checks (correct file names, class names, method names, basic unit tests). Check the link in each assignment.
Solutions will be published in Desire2Learn
Use NetBeans for all work, not BlueJ
For programs, submit only Java files, no NetBeans projects
For text documents, submit only plain text file. No Word or RTF!
For images, submit PNG, GIF, or JPEG. Absolutely no BMP!!! (They are humongous.)
Solutions are in the Content section of Desire2Learn

One quiz before each class meeting except for exams, i.e. every Monday and Wednesday night
Quizzes are in Desire2Learn

A lab assignment in every class
Bring your laptop every time
You work with a buddy who is assigned to you
Once you know your buddy, sit next to her/him during class so we don't waste a lot of time when the lab starts
One of you is the driver, one is the scribe
Switch roles each day
Each of you submits a report into D2L (change from last semester)
- Driver submits one-sentence report: "I was the driver and the scribe was ..."
- Scribe submits full report (including name of driver)
- Sometimes, the lab instructions ask for the full code of something. Then it's ok if the driver submits that part.
- Scribe: 2 points, driver: 1 point, as incentive to rotate
For text documents, submit only plain text file. No Word or RTF!
For images, submit PNG, GIF, or JPEG. Absolutely no BMP!!!

Have a question? Ask it on Piazza (link at top)
Have an answer? Submit it.
You get a point for each question or answer.
If you email me a question about the course material, I will repost it on Piazza and answer it there. You won't get a point for that.
Only email me with personal and confidential questions.

Once or twice per class, I'll ask a “clicker” question.
Real clickers are hardware devices that cost money. We use Piazza instead.
Occasionally, you'll see survey questions with titles such as Clicker Question 1 in Piazza. Leave them alone until I announce in class what the question is :-)
Once I put up a slide with the question and options, log in to Piazza and answer it.
You get a point for each answer (even if it's wrong).