CIS 352   —   SPRING 2009

Administrative Details

Instructor

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

Teaching Assistant

Phuong Tran
tvphuong@syr.edu Email:
Office: CST ?-???
Office hours: TBA

When & where

Lectures

Tuesday & Thursday 11:00–12:20pm in the Life Sciences 105.

Lab sections

Day	Time	Place
Tuesday	3:30pm-4:25pm	CST 1-216
Wednesday	11:40am-12:35pm	CST 1-216

Textbooks

• Essentials of Programming Languages, 3/e, by Daniel P. Friedman and Mitchell Wand, MIT Press, 2008.
• The Scheme Programming Language, 3/e by R. Kent Dybvig, MIT Press, 2003.
  • Online version and errata (courtesy the Chez Scheme folks).

Coursework

Your final grade will depend on

Homeworks	30%
Labs	15%
Exams	55%

Homeworks

There will be every week or two. The lowest homework grade will be dropped.

Labs

There will be one about every week near the beginning of the course and tail-off when the homeworks get longer.

Exams

There will be three during the course. For the schedule see here.

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 exams.   Then:

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