CIS 252   —   SPRING 2008

Administrative Details

Instructor

Jim Royer
Email:
Office: CST 3-132   x1028
Office hours: Tuesday 2:45–3:30pm, Friday 10:00am–11:15am, and by appointment.
(These hours may change!)

Teaching Assistants

Paul Talaga
Email:
Office: CST 4-206F
Office hours: TBA

Derek Messie
Email:
Office: CST 4-118
Office hours: TBA

When & where

Lectures

Tuesday & Thursday 9:30–10:50pm in the Hall of Languages, Room 215.

Lab sections

Day	Time	Place
Tuesday	12:30pm-1:50pm	CST 1-214
Tuesday	3:30pm-4:25pm	CST 1-214
Wednesday	10:35am-11:20am	CST 1-214

Textbooks

• Simon Thompson, Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming, 2/e, Addison-Wesley, 1999.
• Jerry Peek, Grace Todino-Gonguet, and John Strang, Learning the Unix Operating System, Fifth Edition A Concise Guide for the New User, 5/e, O'Reilly, 2001.

Coursework

Your final grade will depend on

Homeworks	30%
Labs	15%
Quizes/Tests	55%

Homeworks

There will be one about every week. The lowest homework grade will be dropped.

Labs

There will be one about every week. The lowest lab grade will be dropped.

Quizzes

There will be six during the course. For the schedule see here. The lowest quiz grade will be dropped.

The optional final

The final will be a two-to-three hour, comprehensive test and is optional. If you take the final, your test grade will be the larger of:

1. the cumulative grade on your in-class tests
2. your grade on the final

Example:     Suppose you have a cumulative grade of 85% on your in-class quizes.   Then:

• If you earn 91% on the final, then the quizes/tests component of your grade becomes 91%.
• If you earn 81% on the final, then the quizes/tests component of your grade stays 85%.