However, in recent years the mission of Csci 159 has changed slightly. It is now required for the B.A. in CS, and also required by various departments, such as Mechanical Engineering (among others).

In fairness, then, a new model is appropriate. One where more experienced computer users are teamed with the less experienced. And, further, where the more experienced are held responsible for mentoring the success of their less experienced peers.

General Comments

• You are expected to be here. Come to class -- attendance will be taken semi-regularly. If you miss class, come and speak to me. This WILL affect your grade.
• Participate, cooperate, and help others.
• The general format will be (as cluster reservations allow, see the Schedule):
• Mondays, Lectures;
• Wednesdays, Lab.
• You can expect a substantial amount of outside class effort for this course.
• This document will change over the course of the semester.

You should check here at least once a week.
• Periodically you might be asked to take a survey or some other in-class activity. These will not be graded, but they will be a form of taking attendance.

Relevant Links

• How to Solve It
• Many Useful Links
• How to Scan an Image
• Making an Image Map

Project Outlines

Policy on Late Assignments

The policy is this: late assignments will lose a letter grade immediately, and then another letter grade after one week.

Example: if a 100 point assignment is turned in after the deadline, it can score, at most, a "B", or in other words, if it is "A" work, but late, it is scored on a scale of 1 to 89, instead of 1 to 100. Further, if a 100 point assignment is turned in more than one week after the deadline, it can score, at most, a "C", meaning it is scored on a scale of 1 to 79.

Please Note: this policy is intended to encourage you to turn things in on time, and to reward those who do. So, it's important to note that you only get a "B" for late work if it is at an "A" level after one week, and you only get a "C" for late work if it is at an "A" level, but more than one week late.

Let me stress this: If you turn work in late, you are on a new scale. Therefore, if you turn in "B" work that is late, you do not get a "B", you get a "C", and if you turn in "B" work that is more than a week late, you do not get a "C", you get a "D".

Policy on Extra Credit

Special Needs

Any student with disabilities or other special needs, who needs special accomodations in this course, is invited to share these concerns or requests with the instructor as soon as possible.

Academic Dishonesty or Misconduct

Work in this course must adhere to the Code of Academic Responsibility and Conduct as cited in "Rights & Responsibilities of Community: A Code of Student Conduct" (1993) pp. 29-30. "The academic community is operated on that basis of honesty, integrity, and fair play. Occasionally, this trust is violated when cheating occurs, either inadvertently or deliberately .....Faculty members may fail the student for the particular assignment, test, or course involved, or they may recommend that the student drop the course in question, or these penalties may be varied with the gravity of the offense and the circumstances of the particular case."

Academic dishonesty can be divided into four categories and defined as follows:

• Cheating: Intentionally using or attemping to use unauthorized materials, information or study aids in any academic exercise.
• Fabrication: Intentional and unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise.
• Facilitating academic dishonesty: Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of academic dishonesty.
• Plagiarism: Intentionally or knowingly representing the words or ideas of another as one's own in any academic exercise.