Course Introduction
Andy Wang
COP 4530 / CGS 5425
Fall 2003, Section 4
Instructor
Andy Wang (awang@cs.fsu.edu)
Office: 264 LOV
Office hours: M 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Th 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Class website:
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~awang/courses/cop4530_f2003
Teaching Assistants
Jerry Hu (zhiqiahu@cs.fsu.edu)
Office: CS Majors Lab
Office hours: T 3:00pm-5:00pm
Nobuyasu Fukuhara
(nff0150@garnet.acns.fsu.edu)
Office: CS Majors Lab
Office hours: M 10am-11am, W 2pm3pm
Course Rationale
 So
far…you know how to program…
 However, to build large and complex
software, you need more powerful tools
 Your software should be…
 Maintainable
 Reusable
 Efficient
in both speed and resource usage
Course Coverage
 Data
structures
 Common
Lego pieces
 Algorithms
 Popular
 Generic
A
methods to solve problems
programming
programming paradigm to reuse code
Learning Objectives
 Data
structures
 Vector,
list, stack, queue, table, map…
 Algorithms
 Running
time analysis of various data
structures
 Generic
 Class
programming
and function templates
Prerequisites
 COP
3330
 Object-oriented
 MAD
programming
2104
 Discrete
mathematics
 CDA 3101
 Computer
(pre- or co-requisite)
organization
You should know the following

Pointers and pointer arithmetic
 Classes/objects
 Constructors/destructors
 Dynamic memory allocation/deallocation
 Operator/function overloading
 Parameter passing by reference/value
 The C++ I/O system
More things you should know
 Binary/Decimal/Hexadecimal
representations of numbers
 Unigraph and directed graphs
 Mathematical induction
Course Material
 Lecture
notes (posted at the class
website)
 Code distribution library
 Progressively
released at
/home/courses/cop4530/fall03 on the
computer science server
 No
required textbook
Recommended textbooks
 Deitel
and Deitel, C++ How to Program
(2nd Edition)
 Ford and Topp, Data Structures with
C++ Using the STL (2nd Edition)
 Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest,
Introduction to Algorithms
Class Grading
 Two
components
 Exams
(50%)
 Assignments (50%)
Exams
 Quiz
(5%)
 Exam 1 (10%)
 Exam 2 (10%)
 Final Exam (25%)
 Extra credit (5%)
Assignments
 Assignment
1 (5%)
 Assignment 2 (5%)
 Assignment 3 (10%)
 Assignment 4 (10%)
 Assignment 5 (10%)
 Assignment 6 (10%)
If each components > 35%
100 – 92
 91.9 – 90
 89.9 – 88
 87.9 – 82
 81.9 – 80
 79.9 – 78
 77.9 – 72
 71.9 – 70

A
AB+
B
BC+
C
C-
69.9 – 68
 67.9 – 62
 61.9 – 60
 59.9 – 0

D+
D
DF
If one component < 35%
 Say…
 30%
on exam
 50% on assignments
 The
highest grade is C-
More on Exams…
 Quiz
(COP 3330 materials & lecture 2)
 Before
 Exam
the drop deadline
1 (lectures 1-7)
 Exam 2 (lectures 8-15)
 Final exam (comprehensive)
 Extra credit (from time to time)
More on Assignments…
 Increasingly
difficult
 At least one group project
Computer Accounts
 Computer
 Various

science account
tools
SSH, E-mail, text editor, g++, make
 ACNS
account (@garnet.fsu.edu)
 Receiving
class emails
 Discussion board
Your Responsibilities
 Understand
lecture materials
 Try out sample code
 Uphold academic honesty
 Attend office hours for extra help
 Turn in your assignments on time
 Check your garnet email account and
class web page regularly
Dos and Don’ts
 Do
share debugging experiences
 Do share knowledge of tools
 Do acknowledge help from others
 Do acknowledge sources of information
from books and web pages
Dos and Don’ts
 Don’t
cheat
 Don’t copy code from others
 Don’t paraphrase code from others
either
 Changing
 Don’t
variable names & indentations
post code to the discussion board
Course Policies

Attendance: required
 Missed exams: no make-up exams…
 Honor code: read your student handbook
 Students with disabilities


Report to Student Disability Resource Center
Bring me a letter within the first week of class
To see or not to see me & TAs
 We
are not psychics
 Please let us know if…
 Class
is too hard
 You don’t have the background
 Class can be improved in certain ways
 When
in doubt, email us…
Survival Tips
 Post
and read discussion board
frequently
 Web search engines are your good
friends
Homework (1% Extra Credit)
 Your
photograph
 Tell me something interesting about you
 Exercise
your cop4530update script in you
.bin directory. Enter command rehash
and test the update command. (Create
new directories as needed.)
 Create
 Review
C++