| Role: | Name | Office & Hours | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instructor: | Prof. S. Shekhar | EE/CS 5-203, Tu Th 1:45-2:45pm | 624-8307, | shekhar@cs.umn.edu |
| TA: | Weili Wu | EE/CS 2-209, M 1:30-3:30pm | 626-7512, | wuw@cs.umn.edu |
| TA: | Baek Young Choi | EE/CS 4-205, Tu 10am-12noon | 625-0330, | choiby@cs.umn.edu |
| TA: | Vijaymohan Deshmukh | EE/CS 2-209, M 11:00-12:00, F 10:00-11:00am | 626-7512, | deshmukh@cs.umn.edu |
| Schedule: | lecture, homework, examination , and recitation |
|---|---|
| Homeworks: | homework descriptions and recommended exercises |
| Lecture Notes: | postscript/pdf |
| Web Pages: | Main (http://www.cs.umn.edu/~shekhar/4061), |
| TA-Announcements , Instructor-Announcements , | |
| Copy Shop: | Copies on Campus, Coffman Union Basement. |
| Textbook: | K. A. Robbins, and S. Robbins, Practical Unix Programming: A Guide to Concurrency, Communication, and Multithreading, Prentice Hall, 1996, ISBN 0-13-443706-3. |
| Supplement: | Jerry peek, Grace Todino, and John Strang , Learning the UNIX Operating System, 4th Edition, O'Reilly, 1997, ISBN:1-56592-390-1. |
Examinations and Assignments: Submission of all
assignments
and scoring >= 50% on the final examination are the two necessary conditions
for passing this class. The weighting scheme used for grading is: Midquarter
exam - 25%, Final exam - 40%, Assignments - 35%.
Assignments are due at the beginning of the lecture on
first meeting in the designated week. UNITE students should have their
homeworks postmarked by this date and pursuade their site coordinators
to fax it to "Weili Wu, TA for Csci 4061" at 625-0572 the same day. However,
assignments put in the TA's office (EE/CS 5-202 ) by 5:00 pm will be counted
as having been submitted that day. DO NOT submit assignments in EE/CS 5-203.
All assignments must have your name,
student ID and course name/
number. There would be five assignments, some of which may require
programming.
Late submission policy: Assignments submitted
late will be penalized at the following rate, 1 day - 30%, and >= 2 days
- 70%. Weekend days will be counted. For assignments, you are encouraged
to type or typeset your answers. For programming assignments you
are encouraged to use pretty printers to make your listings more readable.
Following is (roughly) the weight distribution for case-study/project problems:
Correctness - 60%, Test Results Summary - 10%, Style and Documentation
- 15%, Approach - 10%, and Report - 5%.
Exams: Students are responsible for all material
covered in lectures, as well as that specifically mentioned as part of
the supplementary reading assignments. Examnations will heavily emphasize
conceptual understanding of the material.
Cheating/ Collaboration: Getting help from services
like general debugging service (GDS), web-sites (e.g. cheaters.com), or
copying someone else's assignment, or the common solution of written or
programming assignments will be considered cheating. The purpose of assignments
is to provide individual evaluation as well as a tool to get you thinking.
Interaction for the purpose of understanding a problem is not considered
cheating and will be encouraged. However, the actual solution to problems
must
be
one's own.
Helpful Comments: This class is Very Interesting
(for your personal understanding of software development process) and useful.
Practitioners may be invited as guest lecturer during discussion of topics
such as system administration, Win32 etc. To get full benefit out of the
class you have to work regularly. Read the textbook regularly and start
working on the assignments soon after they are handed out. Plan to spend
at least 10 hrs a week on this class doing assignments or reading.
Good Luck, and Welcome to CSci 4061!
Shashi Shekhar