• TBA

• In this course, students will engage in multiple course projects whose subject entails building upon various C techniques.
• Projects will be assigned in class and are due at 11:59 pm on the due date specified on the assignment.
• Late projects can then be submitted up to 48 hours after the specified due date for a 30% penalty of the point value of the assignment.
• No assignments will be accepted after that time.
• Projects must be the student’s own work.
• There will be 4 project assignments. Their topics are:
  • C programming
  • Pointers
  • TBA
  • Data Structures
• Graded assignments will be reviewed in class or lab periods.

• Programming assignments/labs will be assigned on Mondays during weeks with labs.
• Labs must be submitted online by 11:59 pm on the date due as specified on the assignment.
• Labs are subject to the same late penalties as assignments.
• Lab sessions must be attended in-person.

• The midterm is closed notes, closed book. No calculators are permitted.
• Midterm will be taken in class (tentatively 10/23)

• The final exam is comprehensive and is closed notes, closed book. No calculators are permitted.
• The exam date and time is determined by the university. Final exams may not be taken early.
• The final will be given during finals week (12/10 - 12/16).

Note: If there are unforeseen emergencies that impact the grading scheme, appropriate adjustments will be made. An example of an unforeseen emergency would be a fire alarm going off during the final exam.

From the weighted average, final letter grades will be determined by the following system:

While generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can support student learning and understanding, they can also bypass important student learning outcomes. To maintain a community of integrity and respect, the following principles must be observed:

• Without clear and explicit permission from the course instructor, using generative AI tools for any course assignment or exam (e.g., by entering exam or assignment questions) will be considered analogous to unauthorized collaboration and/or plagiarism.
• In courses that allow the use of generative AI, students should acknowledge and properly cite the use and default to disclosing such assistance when in doubt.
• Individual course instructors are free to set their own expectations for the use of generative AI tools in their courses and to articulate those policies in course syllabi and in class.

Students who are unsure of policies regarding generative AI tools are encouraged to ask their instructors for clarification.

For CS211: generative AI products like ChatGPT/Claude/etc. are explicitly disallowed unless otherwise noted. Students who are discovered to have used other generative AI tools to assist in course assessments will be reported to the committee on academic honesty.

• Lecture and lab attendance is mandatory.
• Lecture and lab attendance will be checked
• You may miss three classes without penalty.
• After three classes have been missed you will lose 2% of the attendance grade.
• 10 or more unexcused absences will result in an F for the course.
  • This includes the 3 free absences.

Informing me beforehand and being granted an excused absence nullifies the penalty for that day

You are free to use the IDE of your choice for this course; however, do not come to me with problems related to your IDE and IDE related software. For example, if you send me a VS Code related email I will ignore it. You may think this a bit harsh, but the reality is that I do not have much experience with IDEs as I exclusively use Emacs when coding (with the occasional concession to in-browser jupyter notebook editing).

I strongly suggest you use Emacs (or any other buffer-oriented text editor software—like vim). I am more than happy to answer Emacs related questions. Furthermore, all of my in class demonstrations will be using Emacs in a terminal shell.

Electronic devices are prohibited from the classroom unless otherwise noted. If you must use a device at all times, you will need to send me a letter from the Services for Students with Disabilities saying so.