60-100 Key Concepts in Computer Science - Fall 2009

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The makeup Final Exam will be held on Thursday 21st January from 4pm to 7pm in room 3105 Lambton Tower. This room is in the North-East corner of Lambton Tower behind the elevators. Please contact Dr. Frost for question about the makeup exam - rfrost@cogeco.ca

NOTE - The tentative final grades have now been posted - see links below

IMPORTANT NOTE - every student was given full marks for each individual assignment submitted. Please check your individual assignment marks to make sure that they are correct. ALSO if you did not submit all individual assignments, you can still do so IF IT WOULD INCREASE YOUR GRADE. For example, if a student has an F grade with an average of 48%, but only has 60% for the individual assignments, then it is worth submitting 2 of the missing assignments in order to obtain 2 marks and increase the grade to a D-. However, if a student has a C- with a 60% average and has 80% for the individual assignments, then it is not worth submitting 2 assignments as it could only increase the average to 62% which would not change the grade. Please make sure that you carefully work out whether or not you would benefit from submitting more assignments before contacting Dr Frost (at rfrost@cogeco.ca)to see which assignments, if any, you need to submit.

FINAL EXAM marks, grades, and all other marks Fall 2009

Please also contact Dr. Frost at rfrost@cogeco.ca if your group assignment marks are not what you expected. Please note that you were allowed to miss 2 group labs. without penalty.

NOTE THAT THE MAKEUP EXAM WILL BE HELD DURING THE THIRD WEEK OF JANUARY. DETAILS WILL BE POSTED SOON.

NOTE : SAMPLE ANSWERS to previous final exams have now been added - see link below

  • Answers to previous final exams

  • Copies the final exams for 2005, 2006 and 2007 for those students who have an older copy of the notes

    Individual assignment #10 has been added. Follow the link "Individual Assignments"

    The marks for Class Test #2 have now been posted, follow the link below.

    The answers to class test #2 for 2009 have now been added. Follow the link to "ANSWERS TO PREVIOUS CLASS TESTS and FINAL EXAMS, Answers to previous second class tests"

    The marks for Class Test #1 have now been posted, follow the link below.

    The answers to class test #1 for 2009 have now been added. Follow the link to "ANSWERS TO PREVIOUS CLASS TESTS and FINAL EXAMS"

    Teaching assistants are available for consultation in the Java lab. Consulting Hours can be found here Word PDF

  • Course Outline for 2009 - minor changes may be made during the first week of the Fall semester - Word For the pdf version: course outline in PDF

  • Answers to previous first class tests

  • Answers to previous second class tests

  • Career Information

  • Lecture Slides

  • How to create and run Miranda programs on Sol (Word) (PDF)

  • How to access Sol from home USING A PC and run Miranda programs remotely (Word) (PDF)

  • How to access Sol from home USING A MAC (Written by Ali Karaki) (Word) (PDF)

  • Individual Assignments

    NOTE: Robert Mastronadi, a 60-100 student, has found a web site with software to help understand truth tables. It may be of interest to you: here it is

  • Answers to Individual Assignments.

    LABS and GROUP ASSIGNMENTS - NOTE THERE ARE NO LABS on THURSDAY 10th/Friday 11th September 2009.

    Labs start 17th and 18th September

    At the labs, students will be allocated to groups of around 5 students and will work together on group assignments, some of which will involve use of the Sol compute server. Other assignments will involve problem solving and written assignments.

  • Group Assignments

  • Answers to Group Assignments

  • Some example programs can be found here More wil be added as the course progresses. Do not worry if you cannot understand the program at first. The programs will become more clear as the course progresses.

  • An example natural-language database query interface written in Miranda

  • a puzzle - for fun(.gif) Where did the space come from?.

  • Students who are interested in Dr. Frost's research can find out more at the following links:
  • A presentation to High School Students - Fall 2007 PowerPoint Slides