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sheet for the Final Exam
new!!
Unix
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(almost) everything on how to use Bayou and Unix.
How to get started
on Bayou.
Assignments 1-4
Topics covered
in the next lecutures
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COSC 2320 News (last updated: Th., Dec. 18, 1p)
- The final grades for COSC 2320 will be
available no later than Dec. 21, noon!
Your grades
will be posted in the file
~txl19649/cosc2320/grad/cosc2320.grade
on Bayou!
- Check if the posted test scores and assignment scores today(Dec. 18)!!. If
you find any irregularities send an e-mail message to Tau Leng (leng@cs.uh.edu) no later than Friday, 11a.
- The final exam is scheduled for Th., Dec. 18, 11a-1:40p (211 PGH). The final exam will not be returned to the students! However, you
can see your final exam at one of the following times (but
not at any other time): Th., January 15,
3-4p, Th., January 22, 4:30-5:30p, Mo., Jan. 26, 7-8p .
- Assignment 4 is due on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 11p!
To submit assignment4 use:
~txl19649/cosc2320/submit ass#(integer) file1 file2 ....
Only problems 6 and 7 have to be submitted at the due date.
Problem 8 has been reclassified as an ungraded homework!
However, I strongly recommend you try to solve problem 8 as
a preparation of the final exam!
- The following will be available on Dec. 11, noon:
review sheet for final exam (www), some sort of key for TEST2 (library),
and solution of the complexity problem (library)
- All assignments submitted have to be written in ANSI C so that
they are executable on Bayou. Do not use any functions of your C
system that are specific for DOS or WINDOWS (especially Turbo C
has a lot of those functions). Another problem is that you have
to use Standard ANSI C header files. For example, you should use malloc.h
or alloca.h as your
include file (and not alloc.h what you might use on your PC) --- sometimes it might be necessary to use other include files. All header files can be found in
/usr/include
on any Unix system. To find out which header file should
be included for a particular function (e.g. atof()) is using
the manual function
> man atof
which will tell you what's the meaning, how to use it, and
which header file has to be included when the function is used.
- COSC 2320 Program Grading Policy: Programs that are not executable
on Bayou will receive a very low score. Concerning assignment 1, if
you have a program that runs perfectly on your PC (you should
be able to demo the program) turn this version
in on the due date; there will be a grace period to replace this program by a program that runs Bayou, assuming that it runs perfectly
on your PC. The grace period expires on Sa., October 11, 6p.
For assignments 2, 3, and 4 all programs have to be executable on Bayou, and there will be no more grace periods for converting programs to Bayou!
- The grades for TEST0 are now available in the public directory on Bayou:
~txl19649/cosc2320/grade/test_0.grade
The result of TEST1 will be available no later than
Monday, Nov. 3, 4p. Just access the file
~txl19649/cosc2320/grade/test_1.grade
on Monday to find out how you in TEST1.
General Course Information COSC 2320
Instructor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick
office hours: WE 2-3p TH 9:30-10:30a
Teaching Assistant: Leng Tau (problems with computers and C, test-cases for
programming assignings, grading
of tests and assignments)
office hours: TU&WE 5:30-7:30p (366 PGH)
Class Prerequisites: COSC 1410 and Calculus
Textbook: Horowitz&Sahni&Anderson-Freed: Fundamentals of Data Structures in C;
Computer Science Press, New York, newest edition.
0) Exam Dates and Weights
EXAM0 Tu., September 16 9% (covers 60-70%
COSC 1410 material)
EXAM1 Th., October 16 16%
EXAM2 Th., November 20 19%
FINAL EXAM Th., December 18 28%
COURSE PROJECTS 28%
1) CANCELLED CLASSES: none yet
MAKEUP CLASS(if needed): Friday, October 26, 4:30-7p.
2) Assignments and programming projects are
due at noon at the day specified. No late assignments are accepted; that
is, assignment submitted after the due date will not be graded. However,
each student is allowed to turn in one of the four assignments 5 days late.
This semester's due dates are: October 3, October 27, November 13, and
December 2, 1997. Assignments have to be submitted electronically at the
due date; hard copies have to be turned during the next class following the
due date.
3) There will be ungraded homeworks, whose solutions will be discussed in
class. Students are strongly advised to do these homeworks, which are a
good preparation for the exams of COSC 2320.
4) Each student has to have a weighted average of 50.0 or higher for the
exams of the course in order to receive a grade of "D-" or better for the
course. All exams of the class are "open textbook". Tests are curved
immediately; that is, all grades of returned tests are final (there will
be no more curving...)
5) Only machine written reports are accepted (the only exception
to this point are figures and complex formulas) in the assignments.
6) Do not throw away returned assignments or tests.
7) Be aware of the fact that our only source of information is what you
have turned in. If we are not capable to understand your solution, you
will receive a low score.
8) Assignments are individual products. Copying of reports, programs or parts
of programs written by other students, stealing of program listings,
cheating at exams and other violations of the academic honesty code will be
penalized by dropping the involved students from the course (with grade F);
moreover, we will try everything in our power to remove cheaters from our
degree program.
9) Translation number to letter grades:
A:100-90 A-:90-86 B+:86-82 B:82-78 B-:78-74 C+:74-70
C: 70-66 C-:66-62 D+:62-58 D:58-54 D-:54-50 F: 50-0
10) After submission, please leave your files untouched if you want to argue
with me in a later time. I will not keep your files after I grading them.
So, the file on your account is the only source. If the time is later than
the due time, I won't argue with you and you'll have to accept whatever
you've got.
11) Whatever machine you use to develop your program, you must port them to
your Bayou account. Make sure that they can pass the compiler and run
successfully on Bayou. I'd like to warn you that this may not be easy
to do and might take several minutes, or several hours. I'll
test all your programs on Bayou.
last updated: December 4, 1997 at 1:22p
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