Data Structures - CSCI 102L, Spring 2012, Section 30349R

Data Structures - CSCI 102L, Spring 2012, Section 30349R

General Information

Lecture	:	TuTh 12:30pm - 1:50pm in MHP 101
Instructor	:	Bill Cheng (for office hours, please see instructor's web page), E-mail: <bill.cheng@usc.edu>. (Please do not* send HTML-only e-mails. They will not be read.)*
TA #1	:	Rami Al-Ghanmi, E-mail: <alghanmi@usc.edu>, Office Hours: Wed 10:00am - 11:50am in SAL 209
TA #2	:	Lakshmi Kumar Dabbiru, E-mail: <dabbiru@usc.edu>, Office Hours: Tue 10:00am - 11:50am in SAL 229 (location subject to change)
TA #3	:	Sang Yun Lee, E-mail: <lee3@usc.edu>, Office Hours: Wed 1:00pm - 2:50pm in SAL 209
Grader #1	:	Liang Zhu, E-mail: <liangzhu@usc.edu>
Grader #2	:	Chenyang Zhang, E-mail: <zhang56@usc.edu>
Grader #3	:	Sanjay Shanthakumar, E-mail: <shanthak@usc.edu>

Lab #1 (29912D)	:	Wed 5:00pm - 6:50pm in SAL 109 (Kumar & Sang Yun)
Lab #2 (29914R)	:	Wed 3:00pm - 4:50pm in SAL 126 (Kumar & Sang Yun)
Lab #3 (29915R)	:	Wed 12:00pm - 1:50pm in SAL 127 (Rami & Kumar)
Lab #4 (30238R)	:	Tue 5:30pm - 7:20pm in SAL 126 (Kumar & Sang Yun)
Lab #5 (30379R)	:	Thu 5:00pm - 6:50pm in SAL 127 (Sang Yun & Rami)

Midterm Exam #1	:	during class time, Thu, 2/23/2012 (firm)
Midterm Exam #2	:	during class time, Thu, 4/5/2012 (firm)
Final Exam	:	2:00pm-4:00pm, Wed, 5/9/2012 (firm)

Class Resources

Description	:	textbooks, topics covered, grading policies, additional resources, etc.
Lectures	:	slides from lectures in PDF formats
Labs	:	lab assignments
Homeworks	:	homework assignments (please also see important information about programming assignments at the bottom of this page.)

Newsgroup	:	Google Group for discussing course materials and programming assignments. (This group is by invitation only.)
Blackboard	:	link to the USC Blackboard System.
Videos	:	YouTube videos.
Resources	:	additional resources and useful web sites.
Academic Integrity	:	student code of conduct and academic integrity policy.
VARC	:	link to the Viterbi Academic Resource Center which provided free peer tutoring and more.

News

(in reversed chronological order)

2/14/2012: Midterm #1 will be closed book, closed notes, and closed everything (and no "cheat sheet"). Also, no calculators, cell phones, or any electronic gadgets are allowed. Please bring a photo ID. Your ID will be collected at the beginning of the exam and will be returned to you when you turn in your exam. There will be assigned seating.
The exam will cover everything from the beginning of Lecture 2 on 1/12/2012 to slide 24 of Lecture 10 on 2/9/2012. Here is a quick summary of the topics (not all topics covered are listed):
- Lecture 2: software engineering principles, basic memory management
- Lecture 3: C++ data types & I/O
- Lecture 4: C++ data types & I/O
- Lecture 5: struct, classes
- Lecture 6: exception handling, namespaces
- Lecture 7: operator overloading
- Lecture 8: composition, inheritance
- Lecture 9: pointers, dynamic objects
- Lecture 10: polymorphism
- Lab 1: functions, pointers
- Lab 2: I/O streams
- Lab 3: classes & exceptions
- Lab 4: operator overloading & inheritance
- Lab 5: dynamic objects & polymorphism
- HW1: network of friends
- HW2: long division and square root of integers

12/23/2011:
- To access protected area of this web site, please visit the request access page after the semester starts and submit the requested information. (You do not have to be registered for the course to get the password. You just need to have an USC e-mail address.)
- A friend of mine sent me this link: "Students Stop Surfing After Being Shown How In-Class Laptop Use Lowers Test Scores".
- Watch this area for important announcements.

Important Information about Assignments

If a student signs up late for this class, he/she is still required to turn all lab and homework assignments on time or he/she will receive a score of zero for these assignments. No exceptions (other than documented illness and documented family emergency).