CPSC 203: Fall 2008

Index

(This web page is for Lecture 02 & L03, for information specific to Lecture 01, 05 login to the courses taught by Jalal Kawash in Blackboard, for information specific to Lecture 04 go to the wiki of Mishtu Banerjee.

• Lecture information

• Tutorials & Lab information

• Course topics and notes for the lecture

• Assignments and exams

• Component grades: [Lecture 02, MW] [Lecture 03, TR]

Lecture Information

Tutorial and lab Information (tutorials begin during the second week of lectures)

Tutorials:

• Are mandatory and time will be split between TA's teaching new skills, students completing timed assignments (time box) and if possible some question and answer time.
• Schedule of activities for the tutorials

Tutorials For L02	Date/Time	Location	Tutorial instructor	Email
T08	MW 12:00	MS 237	Mahmudul Hasan	mhasan@ucalgary.ca
T09	MW 18:00	MS 237	Ali Abedi	abedia@ucalgary.ca
T10	TR 9:00	MS 237	Abhinav Akshay	aakshay@ucalgary.ca
T11	TR 10:00	MS 237	Tanvire Elahi	telahi@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
T12	TR 16:00	MS 237	Mostafa Dehghan Shirehpaz	mdehghan@ucalgary.ca
T13	TR 12:00	MS 236	Fatemeh Arbab	farbab@ucalgary.ca
T14	TR 13:00	MS 237	Jeyaprakash Chelladurai	jchellad@ucalgary.ca
Tutorials For L03	Date/Time	Location	Tutorial instructor	Email
T15	TR 11:00	MS 237	Wadhah Saeed Almansoori	wsalmans@ucalgary.ca
T16	MW 16:00	MS 237	Ali Dabirmoghaddam	adabirmo@ucalgary.ca
T17	TR 14:00	MS 237	Ibrahim Mohammad Ismail	imismail@ucalgary.ca
T18	MW 11:00	MS 236	Shang Gao	shangao@ucalgary.ca
T19	MW 12:00	MS 236	Mohammad Jafari	jafarm@ucalgary.ca
T20	MW 13:00	MS 236	Xin Liu	liuxin@ucalgary.ca
T21	MW 14:00	MS 236	Mohammed Sadi Alshalalfa	msalshal@ucalgary.ca

Labs:

• Time lab component for this course consist of getting help or asking questions in the tutorial rooms MS 236 & MS237 (see the schedule posted near the door for the "continuous tutorial" hours provided for this semester. [Schedule for MS 236] [Schedule for MS 237]

 

Course topics and notes for lectures

Tentative schedule (some changes may occur in order to accommodate the scheduling of assignments but the changes will be announced beforehand).
Week	Dates	Main topics to be covered
1	Sept 8 - 12
Course administration and overview, Introduction to Computer Science
2	Sept 15 - 19	Introduction to computers
3	Sept 22 - 26	Introduction to computers (continued)
4	Sept 29 - Oct 3	Introduction to computers (continued), Data analysis through spreadsheets
5	Oct 6 - 10	Data analysis through spreadsheets, Logic
6	Oct 13 - 17 (Thanksgiving holiday, no lecture on  Monday Oct 13 and Tuesday Oct 14)
Second lecture for the week: Logic (continued), Data storage and retrieval with databases
7	Oct 20 - 24	First lecture of the week (Monday or Tuesday): Data storage and retrieval with databases (continued) Second lecture of the week (Wednesday or Thursday): Review
8	Oct 27 - Oct 31
Data storage and retrieval with databases (continued), Introduction to computer programming
9	Nov 3 - 7
Introduction to computer programming (continued)
10	Nov 10 - 14 (Reading days Nov 8 - 11, no lecture on Monday Nov 10 and Tuesday Nov 11)
Second lecture for the week: Software, History of computers (if there is time)
11	Nov 17 - 21
Computer networks, The Internet, computer security
12	Nov 24 - 28
		End of term presentations
Lecture 02: MW schedule
Lecture 03: TR schedule
13	Dec 1 - 5
		End of term presentations
Lecture 02: MW schedule
Lecture 03: TR schedule

 

Assignments (weights and tentative due dates will be added during the term) and exams