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\emph{Computer Science CS 33011-001 Speed Programming Techniques}\\
Call Number 20597\\
\textbf{SYLLABUS}\\
Fall, 2011
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\item[Time and Place:]
Monday, 5:30 - 8:35, in lab 139.

This course is different from many other courses: to begin with, it only
meets once a week, it will also only meet until the end of October, the
date of the field trip to the ACM Programming Contest (unless we win the
contest; if we win the contest, we can decide what we can do about further
training sessions for the finals, next year.
One possibility would be a special elective at the 40000 level for the
Spring that would work similarly to this course).

The field trip will take place on October 21st, we will leave in the afternoon,
for Youngstown 
we will return on either October 22, after the contest, which concludes at
6:30 or so.

Since I am shortchanging you on the contact hours by cutting the course short
on October 22, I will hold longer sessions starting September 26,
eventually as long as 10:30, to simulate the 5 hours of a real contest.
To alleviate hunger pangs, pizza will be made available during these
longer class periods.
\item[Instructor:]
Michael Rothstein, 268 MSB, phone 330-672-9065.
\item[Email address:]
rothstei@cs.kent.edu \\ Although I also receive email at my mrothste@kent.edu
address, I do so less frequently.
\item[Web address:]
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{http://www.cs.kent.edu/~rothstei}
\item[Office Hours:] \hspace{3cm}\\
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Monday:  2:00-5:00\\
Wednesday:  2:00-3:30 and 5:30-7:00\\
Friday:  2:00-3:30\\
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Also, you can always send email with questions and/or to 
set up an appointment. Usual turnaround will be a few
hours during the day. Email use is to be preferred over voicemail, which will
not be checked as often.
\item[Suggested Bibliography:]
Skiena, Steven S. and Revilla, Miguel A. \emph{Programming Challenges, The
Programming Contest Training Manual\/} Springer, 2003, ISBN 0-387-00163-8\\
Any decent C++ reference\\
An Algorithms textbook.

\item[Course Goals:]
The goal of this course is to train for the ACM Programming Contest of 
October 22 and participate in it: participants will get the trip paid, an
Attendance Certificate, a one year student membership in ACM, and, of course,
a T-shirt.
\item[Course Description:]
The idea of this course is preparation for the programming contest which will
happen this year on October 22; the suggested bibliography is designed to be
read independently; in this course, and used as a reference.
I expect you to read the bibliography and ask me
questions; class time will be devoted to solving exercises similar to the ones
in the book, corresponding to the chapters read.

%\item[Material to be covered:]
\item[Prerequisite:]
Though the main prerequisite for this course is CS 33001, Data Structures, we
will use material from other courses; if you already have that material, you
will be better off.
\item[Attendance policy]
By initiative of the Provost of the University, I have been charged with
keeping full attendance records, at least for the first ten weeks of the
semester. As far as this course is concerned, that is the whole course period;
attendance and effort will be a major component of the final grade.

This syllabus may be changed during the semester if necesary: changes will be 
announced in class; they will also show up on the instructor's website.

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%In summary, serious violators will be subject to:
%\begin{enumerate}
%\item Instructions to cease and desist, usually indicated by class being
%  stopped.
%\item A request for the offender(s) to withdraw from the classroom.
%\item If that fails, Campus Police will be called in.
%\end{enumerate}
%In all cases, the matter will be referred to University Authorities.
%\item[Lab:] This course has a mandatory lab associated with it.
%  \emph{Lab attendance is required.}The lab has a different instructor and
%  details on how the lab is conducted will be given in the lab meetings. The
%  lab instructor gives the lab scores to the lecture instructor. You must pass
%  both the lab and the lecture part of the course to pass the course.
%
%  The lab grade is worth 30\% of the total grade
\item[Grading:]
Your grade in this course will depend both on effort and on results;
since there will be very little homework after the first few weeks,
attendance will be an integral part of the grade; so is class participation;
if you do not come to class, you will get an ``F''; coming to class and
doing a bare minimum of work will get you a ``D'' or a ``C'' depending on
attitude; a sustained effort will either get a ``B'' or an ``A'' depending
on the degree of success.
%Your grade will depend on the quizzes, midterms and the final; no
%homework will be collected: this does not mean there is no homework: as
%mentioned before, ALL exercises should be attempted as homework; a sampling
%will be given in the quizzes and the exams.
%There will also be a grade participation grade, based on the number of relevant
%questions asked: though I don't believe there are any dumb questions, questions
%like ``What day is it?'' do not qualify; specially good questions or catching
%my mistakes get extra points.
%The weights are:\\
%\begin{tabular}{lr}
%Quizzes and Class Participation & 10\% \\
%Midterm 1 (June 26) & 15\% \\
%Midterm 2 (July 17) & 20\% \\
%Final (July 31) & 25\%\\
%Lab & 30\%
%\end{tabular}
%
%All quizzes and exams will be comprehensive. This includes the final.
%\item[Test make-up policy:]
%I will need signed
%documentation to verify {\em each} individual absence in order to
%provide make-ups; only university accepted reasons will be honored.
%\item[Averaging algorithm:]
%The three tests will be worth 20\%, 30\% and 40\% respectively.
%The exercises are (collectively) worth 10\% of the grade.
%%Each test will be worth 20\%, and the final will be worth 40\%.
%\item[Grading scale:]
%(I usually give a grading scale which is quite rigorous: if it is
%in place from the beginning, there is little room for complaint:
%in addition, I DO NOT follow it: I actually use something more like:
%\par
%\begin{tabular}{cl}
%92-100 & for an A\\
%84-91 & for a B\\
%76-83 & for a C\\
%68-75 & for a D
%\end{tabular}
%\par
%or sometimes even lower: a lot depends on the severity of the tests
%and final and your gut feelings. In order to allay their feelings about
%arbitrariness, I fill this space in as follows:)
%\par
%I will assign number grades during the session
%and only convert them to letter grades when I turn them in at the end
%of the session. No decision can be made regarding a converion table 
%until the very last minute due to such imponderables as test difficulty, class
%attendance and participation, etc. which will influence the grade. However,
%I guarantee the following, worst case, table:
%\par
%\begin{tabular}{cl}
%97-100 & will convert into an A\\  %93
%94-96 & will convert into at least an A-\\  %90
%91-93 & will convert into at least a B+\\   %87
%88-90 & will convert into at least a B\\    %83
%85-87 & will convert into at least a B-\\   %80
%82-84 & will convert into at least a C+\\   %77
%79-81 & will convert into at least a C\\    %73
%76-78 & will convert into at least a C-\\   %70
%73-75 & will convert into at least a D+\\   %67
%66-72 & will convert into at least a D      %60
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\item[Special accommodations for Students with Disabilities:]
University
policy 3342-3-01.3 requires that students with disabilities be
provided reasonable accommodations to ensure their equal access to course
content. If you have a documented disability and require accommodations, please
contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to make arrangements
for necessary classroom adjustments. Please note, you must first verify your
eligibility for these through Student Disability Services (contact
330-672-3391 or visit:\\
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{http://www.kent.edu/sas}
for more information on registration
procedures). 
\item[Registration Requirement:] The official registration deadline for this
course is September 11, 2011.
University policy requires all students to be officially
registered in each class they are attending. Students who are not officially
registered for a course by published deadlines should not be attending classes
and will not receive credit or a grade for the course. Each student must
confirm enrollment by checking his/her class schedule (using Student Tools in
FlashFast) prior to the deadline indicated. Registration errors must be
corrected prior to the deadline.

The last day to withdraw is November 6, 2011.
%You are encouraged to discuss class problems with other students
%but required to work independently of anybody else except your teammates,
%and the  instructor.
%%All work for this class should be done individually.
%In the case of homework, the only cooperation implicitly allowed is that
%students may discuss between themselves the broad outline of the work.
%Copying other people's work, allowing your work to be copied (even
%inadvertently!) and plagiarizing work will not be tolerated and
%will be dealt with according to University regulations,
%as described in the University Policies and Procedures, a condensed version
%of which is attached.
\item[On cheating, plagiarism and other unethical behavior]
For this course, cheating consists in subverting system security to obtain
gain in either the training or the contest.\\
Notes:
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\item By default, the penalty for cheating in this course is an ``F'' in the course.
\item University regulations require me to notify Student Conduct in case of violations.
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%{\em Digest of Rules and Regulations}, available through:\\
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%{http://www.kent.edu/policyreg/chap3/3-01-8.cfm}

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