CSCE 3600 Course Information Page

October 25:

Descriptions of Major Assignments 3 and 4 are now available. Who knows? I might even have grades for Assignment 2 by next Tuesday.

October 4:

As requested I've put together a short list of bash exercises for you to work with, if you wish. They can be found here.

October 1:

Sorry, folks, but I need to change my office hours again. Check the new hours on this very page.

Wednesday 2:00-4:15pm; Tuesday, Thursday 10:00-10:45 3:30-4:15pm September 12:

A fellow faculty member suggested that the following "cheat sheet" might be useful when using UNIX.

September 12:

We'll be using the Moodle online submission system this term. To access it, go here to set up an account on the 3600 page.

September 11:

Our next class period, 9/13/07, will be held in a computer classroom, namely NTRP F218. I'll discuss this in class today.

September 11:

The SouthCentral Regionals for the ACM-sponsored International Programming Competition are just around the corner! We would like to field at least 3 teams again (maybe more if there is interest). Each team consists of 3 people - typically undergrad but can be first year grad students as well under certain eligibility conditions. The contest is distributed across multiple sites. This year they are ECU in Okla, Texas A&M, Abilene Christian and LSU. We need to register our teams before 10/1607. The local Student ACM Chapter will hold tryouts with a practice problem set this coming weekend. IF you cannot make the tryout this weekend then other arrangements may be possible.

For more info contact Dr Garlick at garlic@cse.unt.edu or John Rizzo at eleusive@gmail.com

September 11:

Please point your students towards the main page of the CSE web site to find announcements of upcoming organization meetings etc. For example, the Robotics society is meeting this week and the IEEE Computer society is meeting next week. New announcements will be posted all semester. Your assistance is greatly appreciated!

David M. Keathly

September 5:

For those of you interested there is a new Linux Users group starting this fall.

September 5:

I'm making a small change to my office hours, changing Tu, Th to 4:00-5:45pm.

September 4:

Unix accounts have now been created for students who have enrolled in one or more CSE course for the first time this semester.

Their passwords are randomly generated, so they will need to visit our password reset page before they can login the first time:

Set Password.

If they need information on how to get logged in, etc. please refer them to our eSupport site:

eSupport.

August 27:

Here is a Pico Tutorial. Pico is a simple text editor that is available on the CSP computers.

August 28:

Its "official" now. We'll be meeting in NTRP B158 for the remainder of the term.

Textbook

Section Meeting Time

Prerequisites

Topics

• Linux programming utilities
• K&R C programming
• Interaction of compilers, macro processors, assemblers, linkers, loaders, and operating systems to run a high-level program.
• Operating system functions
• Files
• Processes
• Shell programming
• Compilers
• Inter-process communication
• Concurrent programming
• Memory management

Objectives

Class Schedule

Important Due Dates

In-Class ``Handouts''

• Day 1
• Bloom's Taxonomy
• Instructional Objectives
• C I/O
• dice.c
• Unix Commands
• Top
• Program Execution
• UNIX Files
• Bash Programming
• Regular Expressions (again?)
• Compilers
• Recursive Descent Parser Example
• Operating Systems Introduction
• Processes
• Process Scheduling
• Memory

Lab Assignments

• Lab 1 , due 9/13/07 3:20pm

Minor Assignments

• Minor Assignment 1 , due 9/7/07 11:59pm
• Minor Assignment 2 , due 9/13/07, at the start of class
• Minor Assignment 3 , due 9/27/07, at 11:55pm

Major Assignments

• Project, due 11/30 11:59pm
• Major Assignment 1 , due 9/28/07 11:59pm
• Major Assignment 2 , due 10/12/07 11:59pm
• Major Assignment 3 , due 11/9/07 11:59pm
• Major Assignment 4 , due 11/30/07 11:59pm

Attendance Policy

Grading Policy

The various components of your grade are weighted as follows:

Minor Assignments	20%
Major Assignments	30%
Midterm	20%
Final	30%

Grades to Date

Some explanation is likely required. Since I cannot post your grades with any part of your student ID (or SSN) numbers for identification, I will be posting them based upon a magic number that I will assign each of you.

Collaboration and Cheating

As stated in class I insist upon collaboration among students (and even faculty?) in class and labs, as it is my belief that it provides a better learning environment.

On both Minor and Major assignments however, do your own work. I know that leaves a lot to interpretation, but we'll be discussing acceptable cooperation in class. In the final analysis though, it DOES come down to "do your own work."

And of course you need to do your own work on exams as well. Here there should be no ambiguity at all.

In case the above description, and in-class discussion of my views on appropriate and inappropriate collaboration does not answer all of your questions, please look at the university Student Rights and Responsibilities page.

ADA

UNT complies with all federal and state laws and regulations regarding discrimination, including the Americans with Disability Act of 1990 (ADA). If you have a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for equal access to education or services please contact the Office of Disability Accommodation.