Tentative ScheduleIntroduction to ProgrammingCOMP 14, Fall 2000Personnel, Meeting Times, & Internet ResourcesCourse personnel include laboratory assistants (LAs), teaching assistants (TAs), and the instructor. They have the following duties:- LAs will be present in the ATN computer laboratories to assist you with computer system usage, the Java software and language, and debugging.- TAs will conduct recitation sections and hold regularly scheduled office hours. Questions about algorithm design should be taken to your teaching assistant, as well as any questions that cannot be handled by an LA. Problems with or questions about course details and administration should initially be discussed witha TA.- The instructor is available for assistance with any administrative problem that your teaching assistant can’t handle, or to register complaints. Please take your programming problems to a TA (or LA), but by all means bring questions that your teaching assistant cannot handle to the instructor.InstructorPrasun Dewan, Sitterson 150, Phone 962-1823, E-mail: [email protected],Office Hours: T / R 3:15-4:15 pm. Teaching AssistantsQiong Han, Sitterson 034, Phone 962 1709, E-mail: [email protected], Office hrs TBA.Gopi Meenakshi, Sitterson 040, Phone 962 1789, E-mail: [email protected], Office hrs TBA.Stephan Sherman, Sitterson 040, Phone 962 1782, E-mail: [email protected],Office hrs TBA.2Bian Wu, Sitterson 372, Phone 962 1852, E-mail: [email protected], Office hrs TBA.Laboratory AssistantsJeffrey McLamb ([email protected])Sahil Parikh ([email protected])Ryan Weddle ([email protected])????????????SecretaryMarie Tarjan, Sitterson 154, Office 962-1763, E-mail: [email protected], Office Hours: M-F 9:00 - 5:00Lectures: TR 12:30 – 1:45, MU 111.Recitation Sections601 Wed 2:00 – 2:50, SN 14602 Wed 3:00 - 3:50, SN 14603 Wed 4:00 - 4:50, SN 14604 Wed 5:00 - 5:50, SN 14Recitations are an integral and important part of the course. Some course topicsare presented only in recitation sections. Attendance: Attendance at both lectures and recitations is mandatory. If you have a scheduling conflict, you should take this course another semester. No attendance will be takenbut neither the instructor nor the TAs will repeat material covered in class.Course Web Page and Emailhttp://www.cs.unc.edu/~dewan/comp14Send email to: [email protected] for any programming problems, clarifications on assignments, etc. This email will be read frequently by all the TAs and LAs so you will get a reply more quickly than by sending email to your TA (or aspecific LA). Mail to [email protected] for communicating with the whole class.We assume that you have a UNC electronic mail account and are familiar with using email and the World Wide Web. Email will be used extensively in this course. We will use it to communicate to the class essential information concerning programming assignments. You will use it to ask questions and give3us feedback on the assignments and course. You should check your email at least four times per week, and every time you sit down at a computer to work on a COMP 14 assignment you should first check your email - there may be important information about the current assignment. The web page for this course will contain copies of many of the handouts, programming assignments, information on the reading assignments, etc. Course OverviewThis is an introduction to algorithms, their design, and their representation in a computer programming language. You will learn several programming language constructs including variables, types, conditionals, loops, functions, procedures, arrays, files, classes, interfaces, and inheritance. In addition you will include several techniques for using these constructs including stepwise refinement, modularity, recursion, design patterns, and abstraction. If you already know most of these constructs and techniques, then you should take Comp 114. In this course, we will assume you have never programmed before. If you want to learn how to use acomputer rather than program it, you should take Comp 4.Although this course will teach you the programming language Java, it is a course in programming rather than a course in Java. We will emphasize conceptual material rather than practical skills.By the end of the semester you will be practiced in the skills of algorithmic thinking. Your approach to complex problems will be more precise and logical. You will devise solutions in a step by step manner creating abstractions that clarify and simplify, and you will gain experience in analyzing and predicting the behavior of complex systems. After this course, even if you never program a computer again, your thinking skills will be augmented and sharpened. In fact, you will approach problem solving in a different way. This will be of value to you throughout your life and in a surprising variety of contexts. PrerequisitesThere are no prerequisite course requirements for the course. However, you will need to be skilled in the use of basic mathematics and algebra. In the first recitation, the TAs will give information on email and web usage.4Text and MaterialsClass NotesI plan to make class notes describing all the concepts covered in class. Web will be the distribution mechanism for these notes. I plan to make them into a textbook. Please let me know of all of the errors you find.Required TextThere is no required text because in the past students have found the class notes sufficient.Recommended TextWalter Savitch, Java: An Introduction to Computer Science and Programming,Prentice Hall, 1999, ISBN 0-13-287426-1.This is my favorite among current textbooks. Buy it only if you do not find the notes sufficient.SoftwareAll software for this course is installed on the UNC ATN computers in the ATN labs . We will be expecting you to use Visual J++ version 6. Those of you without computers, find a convenient lab and make sure you can log in. Look at http://help.unc.edu/labs for lab locations and schedules. The Venable lab will be the only one manned with Las.For those of you with your own PCs, you will be given a free copy of the softwarecourtesy Microsoft. Collect a copy from the front desk of Sitterson ASAP, ideally right after class. You are free to use some other implementation of Java. But we do require the implementation to support JDK 1.1. Another implementation of JDK 1.1 is Café, which is also installed on the ATN machines.