PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS

Find your section area. See the white board.
Form teams of 3 or 4. Each section should have exactly 8 teams.
One person from each team should get the team materials.
Arrange yourselves to be able to work together.

Part 1
When is our written final exam?
Fri, May 1 at 8am
Mon May 4 at 8am
Fri, May 1 at 10:30 am
Mon May 4 at 10:30am
What is the blogging / discussion tool for CS 139?
Plaza
Pizza
Picatta
Piazza
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Part 2

Print each team member’s name on the back of the form.
1 scratch – 10 points
2 scratch – 7 points
3 scratch – 4 points
4 scratch – 0 points
Sum the points and put the team score at the top.
Pass IF-ATs to the center.

classroom activities labs homework classroom quizzes weekly quizzes midterms programming assignments final exam

Work is due by the deadlines:
◦ labs, weekly quizzes, homework will not be accepted late
◦ I drop about 10% of these grades.
◦ For weekly quizzes, you will be scored on your best 10.
◦ Programming assignments will have a late penalty for each day late and will not be accepted after 5 days (Saturday does not count as a day).
◦ Late arrival for in class quizzes will result in your getting a zero for the portion of the quiz that you miss usually the individual part.

Religious or JMU sanctioned activity
◦ See me at least two weeks ahead of the planned absence.
◦ Provision for turning in your work early or late will be made.
◦ You will not be able to make up in class activity work that may be collected for a grade.
(That’s what the drops are for.)
◦ You will have an “excused” absence for that day. (It does not count against you.)
Emergency absence or illness
◦ I don’t need to know about individual missed days.
◦ For longer absences, see me as soon as you are able to return.
◦ If able, e-mail me for assignments during your prolonged absence.
◦ It is hard to keep up with this class if you have missed a week or more.

Measure of Software Similarity
Standford University tool to catch similar code.
It will be used on all Programming Assignments.

RESULTS FROM THE SURVEY

Plan and execute the videos.
Plan the reading, practice exercises.
Plan the in class labs and activities.
Help coach, guide and challenge you.
Provide prompt feedback about your labs and in class work.
Provide prompt feedback for programming assignments and exams.

Prepare for class by finishing any labs and reviewing the video tutorials and reading before class begins.
Be an active participant in your team. If you don ’ t understand something, ask for help.
If someone on your team doesn ’ t understand something, offer your help.
Listen to one another and respect one another.
Ask for clarification, assistance from the instructor where pertinent.
See what other students are putting on the board and offer suggestions or question your own answers.
Understand, don ’ t just memorize.

RESULTS FROM THE SURVEY

CS major requirement recommendation of advisor would be good for the major requirement for another minor seeing if CS major/minor is right think Java would be useful skill
Good for major interesting elective
CS minor requirement

International Affairs
Engish
Health Service Administration
Psychology (3)
Communication
Philosophy and Religion
Economics B.S.
Justice Studies
SMAD & Engineering
Industrial Design
Switching to CS major very soon
CS&ISAT
Health Sciences

Other - please specify
Taking lessons on CodeAcademy (2)
EGR 126 at NVCC: C++ for Engineers
I have taken ISAT 252 at JMU (2)
I took cs 101 last semester (2)
I've taken math 248
I have some knowledge about programming
I took essentially a BS easy class in programming my senior year. Hardly learned anything

The set of instructions we used in explaining how to calculate an average.
Each of the instructions you provided in solving the puzzles.

Come up with a definition for “algorithm”. What do you think this is?
Elect one “presenter” to speak for your team if called upon.

We will explore Scratch, another block language.
There is a video by one of the developers of Scratch that provides a nice overview of the language.
Come to lab prepared to be creative. 