Department of
Information Technology
ITFN 1303 -
Foundations of Programming in C#
Fall 2009
GENERAL INFORMATION
CRN 87042 (in class) -
section 01
CRN 87048 (online) - section 90
Instructor:
E-Mail/Website/Phone:
Sandra
Jones sandrajones(at)clayton.edu
http://cims.clayton.edu/sjones
(678) 466-4428
Office/office hours:
Class Hours/Location:
UC 306 87042 – M/W/F 10:00
am – 10:50 am(UC 331)
M/W
11:00 am – 2:00 pm 87048
– Online
T/T
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Instructional
Assistant:
Todd
Dearing
JustinDearing(at)mail.clayton.edu
Todd
will generally be available on Tuesdays, from 12 – 1.
You
may know Todd from The Hub. It is not his job to help you with C# while
he is there. J
E-mail him to make an appointment if you’d like to see him for help!
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Prerequisite |
ITFN 1101;
Math (see the DUCK for more info) |
|
Co-requisite |
None |
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Prerequisite For |
ITSK2313 |
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Offered in Semester |
Fall, Spring and Summer |
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Credit Hours |
3 Hrs (2-2-3) |
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Contact Hours |
3 Hours/week |
The
final exam for the in-class and online sections of the course will be TBA
For the online
section, three MANDATORY on campus meetings are required:
CATALOG DESCRIPTION
An introductory
programming course using C#.
The course contains a "practicum" and a "best practices" didactic.
The practicum focuses on the hands-on business of writing code, knowledge of
basic control structures and language syntax. The best practices didactic
focuses on the craft of software engineering, good programming practices,
performance and portability issues, and advanced syntax and data structures.
TEXTBOOK/REFERENCES
·
Visual
C# 2005 How To Program 3rd Edition, by Deitel & Deitel (ISBN-10: 013605322X, ISBN-13:
978-0136053224)
COURSE OUTCOMES
Students are expected to obtain a
developing level of mastery of programming logic and algorithmic
principles. Students will demonstrate an emerging level of knowledge of
C# syntax, object-oriented programming, and procedural and data
abstraction. Student should show potential to perform independently on
programming assignments. Students will become aware of the basic
principles of good program design, documentation and programming terminology
and develop critical thinking and problem solving skills.
Objectives
Students
coming out of this class will have an understanding of
TOPICAL OUTLINE
|
Week |
Topic |
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1 - 3 |
Intro to
course and programming |
|
4 |
Intro to
classes |
|
5 & 6 |
Control
structures |
|
7 |
Methods |
|
8 |
Midterm |
|
10 & 11 |
Parameters
and Arrays |
|
12 |
Classes |
|
13 - 15 |
GUI Windows
Programming |
|
15 - 16 |
ASP.NET |
ASSIGNMENTS
We'll use a web program
called WebSubmit to turn in your homework. Visit http://zidane.clayton.edu/websubmit
and log in. Your login is your full CSU email address, and your password
is by default your CSU student number (typically starts with 900). You can
change your password. Instructions on how to use WebSubmit are located at
http://cims.clayton.edu/itfn1303/Tutorials/WebSubmitLab.htm.
GRADING
There will
be a MIDTERM EXAM and a COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAM as scheduled by the
university. No MAKEUP or ALTERNATE exams are expected in this course.
Arrangements must be made IN ADVANCE if for some valid reason allowed by the
university you cannot take an exam at the scheduled time. Examples of such
reason could be a medical emergency (with valid documentation).
Midterm exam 35%
(30% if you're in the online section 90)
Final term exam 35%
Programs 30%
(6% each)
Discussion Forum
Participation 5% if you're in the online section
90
(Discussion
is for Online Students, but is open for the in-class section, as well)
PLEASE
NOTE: Your final
course grade can be no higher than one letter grade above your final exam and
midterm average.
As a general guideline for letter grade, following table will be used:
|
Letter
Grade |
Percentage |
|
A |
90-100% |
|
B |
80-89% |
|
C |
70-79% |
|
D |
60-69% |
|
F |
Below 60% |
The programming assignments will be graded
on a progressive scale, so it’s almost always possible to get most credit if
you follow good programming practices, building your solution piecewise with
verification testing. If the program is
incomplete, it is still possible to receive partial credit, provided that you
comment out that portions that do not compile.
Do not
submit an assignment that doesn’t compile.
Please be advised that no credit
will be given for late assignments. If you have a problem that arises
during the course of the semester, please contact me as soon as possible.
Your active
participation in class is expected. Class attendance is expected because it's
much easier to learn if you're coming to class and asking questions in lecture
about things that confuse you.
Students are responsible for knowing
about announcements or assignments made in class, whether the student was
present or not. Attendance may be used to assess
grades in borderline cases.
If class is to be canceled or delayed,
you will be notified you via e-mail as soon as possible. Any missed class
topics will be covered during the following class.
PORTFOLIO
Since this
course has you build solutions that demonstrate your knowledge of core-IT
skills, I advise you to keep a copy of everything you submit to be later placed
into your portfolio. This portfolio is a requirement for the ITFN2001 and
ITFN4003 course, and if you keep a copy of your submitted solutions, you will
be more easily able to fill this portfolio showing your work and IT skills.
IDE
Be sure to remove any previous
"beta" versions of Visual Studio before loading. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/uninstall/#Uninstall
for more info.
This course uses the Visual Studio 2008
C# Express IDE (Integrated Development Environment). This is freely
available. You can obtain this program from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/,
or you can load the program using a CDrom from my
office. Also, if you have a full version of Visual Studio 2008 loaded on
your computer (or want to load it using a CDrom/DVD
from my office), this is OK too (though it takes up more space than the express
edition). Other compilers/IDEs are not officially supported in this
course as we will be using some of the .NET 2.0 controls, but if you want to
chance it and develop and submit with another IDE, this is your choice (at your
own risk).
Online
Discussion Forum (online section only)
You are expected to actively
participate in this forum to post and answer questions; use this space to get
help. You will be given details about
joining the discussion group after the drop/add period of the current semester.
ACADEMIC STANDARDS
Students are expected to uphold the
school's standard of conduct relating to academic honesty. Students assume full
responsibility for the content and integrity of the academic work they submit. The
guiding principle of academic integrity shall be that a student's submitted
work, examinations, reports, and projects must be that of the student's own
work. Students shall be guilty of violating the honor code if they:
1. Represent
the work of others as their own.
2. Use or
obtain unauthorized assistance in any academic work.
3. Give
unauthorized assistance to other students.
4. Modify,
without instructor approval, an examination, paper, record, or report for the
purpose of obtaining additional credit.
5. Misrepresent
the content of submitted work.
The penalty for violating the honor
code is severe. Any student violating the honor code is subject to receive a
failing grade for the course and will be reported to the Office of Student
Affairs. If a student is unclear about whether a particular situation may
constitute an honor code violation, the student should meet with the instructor
to discuss the situation.
Students must abide by policies in the
University Catalog, Student Handbook, and if applicable, program
handbook. Academic misconduct will not be tolerated.
Students should read and understand
the Basic Student Responsibilities policy posted at
http://adminservices.clayton.edu/registrar/BasicUndergraduateStudentResponsibilities.doc.
These responsibilities should be considered part of this class syllabus and
should be adhered to.
Students must activate their CCSU
email account and are expected to check their email on a regular basis.
MISSING CLASS
Prior approval is
required for any extended class absence, missing a test, or missing a required
presentation.
All students at CCSU are required to
state that they have on-demand access to a notebook computer that meets the
recommended hardware/software specifications that have been established by
Students with disabilities who require
reasonable accommodations need to register with Disability Services (DS) in
order to obtain their accommodations. You can contact them at 678-466-5445 or disabilityservices@clayton.edu.
If you are already registered with DS and are seeking accommodations for this
course, please make an appointment with your instructor to discuss your
specific accommodation needs for this course and provide your accommodations
letter.
All students in an IT, CS, or
other IT-taught course have access to free software from Microsoft (Operating
Systems, Visual Studio, Visio, Access, Project, OneNote) but not
Word/Excel/PowerPoint/
The site for our MSDNAA
access is https://msdn06.e-academy.com/clayton_it/
Students log in using their
full CSU email address, and the system can email them
their passwords (we do not have access to their passwords). As always, students
can download the software or order CDroms (for a
nominal shipping fee).
If you have logged into
MSDNAA and downloaded an ISO file (for example, Visual Studio 2005
Professional), you may not know what to do with such a file once acquired.
You can use Roxio or Nero or some other CD/DVD burning tool if you have
one to burn this ISO to disc (don’t just copy the file to the disc – you need
to process it first), but if you don’t have software to handle ISO files or
don’t want to use a CD/DVD burner, you can use a free program called ISORecorder.
ISORecorder extracts ISO file contents to a
directory on your hard drive (similar to a ZIP extraction program); from there,
you could run the SETUP file to install the needed software.
To get ISORecorder,
search the internet, or go download the XP (sp2) version at http://cims.clayton.edu/jpreston/ISORecorderV2B2.zip
ELECTRONIC
MESSAGES
· You will be
required to use your CSU e-mail account for all electronic communications. Please include in the subject line of ANY
communication your name and the course name.
Do not include your SID number.
The instructor will not be responsible for lost or discarded e-mails not
conforming to these standards.
·
The
instructor may send e-mails with information vital to your success in the course.
Check your e-mail often, at least once a day.
· Any voice-mail or e-mail messages are
returned during the regular workweek.
· ABSOLUTELY NO GRADED ASSIGNMENTS WILL
BE ACCEPTED VIA E-MAIL. Assignments must be turned in as the instructor
directs.
· The instructor will NOT email or
telephone to tell you everything you missed in class if you did not attend that
day - please consult the course calendar, which is kept up to date.
· Because of the number of students we
typically have, there may be some delay in the instructor's response to an
individual's e-mail.
· Do not send time-sensitive information
via e-mail, speak to the instructor in person. A
delivered e-mail does not relieve you of the responsibility of informing the
instructor about some concern.
· Do not send a personal email
correspondence to the instructor via the email class list.
Distractions:
The
use of pagers, radios, and cellular phones in class is PROHIBITED. Instant messaging and e-mailing while in
class are analogous to talking during lecture.
If you choose to participate in these activities during class, expect to
be called on to present the item under discussion to the class.