UNIVERSITY    of     HOUSTON
Department of Computer Science

COSC 1304 - C Programming
(for non-Computer Science major)
Section 07585
Fall 1999

• As 12/19/1999: I forgot to mention that the answer sheets of your final exam will not be returned. But, you can come by and take a look (please send me an e-mail to make an appointment, since I will not have regular office hours during winter break.)

  Happy holiday.
   

• As 12/16/1999: Your grade for final exam is posted here. The cut off point for grade of C is 53.0. If your final grade is above 53.0, you will receive a grade of C or better.

  Letter grades and grade distribution will not be posted. Please check VIP for your letter grade.
   

• As 12/14/1999: The grade for final exam (and avarage) will be posted by Friday 5 pm. The letter grade for this course will not be posted. Please check VIP.
  I will be in this Thursday (Dec. 16) and you can come by and check your grade from 4 PM to 6 PM. I will turn in the grade sheet by 5 PM, Friday. But it will need couple days to enter the system. So I will reply your e-mail for querying your grade before next Tuesday (Dec. 21).
   
• As 12/13/1999: There was an email asking which functions he/she should preprare for the final exam. As I mentioned in the review, all you need to know about string functions are toupper/tolower, strcmp, strcpy, gets/getchar, puts/putchar, sprintf/scanf, and strcat.
   
• As 12/12/1999: You can pick up your Assignment #7 outside TA's office (374 PGH).
   
• As 12/11/1999: Updated grade list has been posted here.
   
• Click here for old announcments.

• Midterm #1, September 16th, Thursday, 8:30 - 9:50 AM.
  (detail see here)
• Midterm #2, October 21st, Thursday, 8:30 - 9:50 AM. (detail see here)
• Final Exam, December 14th, Tuesday, 8:30 - 10:50 AM, in 108 AH.
  • Comprehensive. Closed book.
  • Cover chapter 2 - 6, 7.1 - 7.5, 8, 10.1 - 10.7, 11.1 - 11.5, and 13.1 - 13.5.
  • There will be at lease 30% of questions of final exam from Midterm #1 and #2 (same questions but values changed). The solutions to Midterm #1 and #2 have been posted outside my office (520 PGH).
  • Review Midterm #1 and #2 will be sufficient for the part before (including) Midterm #2 (chap 2 - 7.5). And work on the practice problems for (chap 8, 10, 11, and 13 - self-review exercise in the text).
  • And you will find the solution to Assignment #6 helpful.

• Assignment #1 - due Sep. 2nd (last update: 08/27/1999)
• Assignment #2 - due Sep. 9th (last update: 09/07/1999)
• Assignment #3 - due Sep. 30th (last update: 09/26/1999)
• Assignment #4 - due Oct. 14th (last update: 10/12/1999)
• Assignment #5 - due Nov. 2nd (last update: 10/30/1999)
• Assignment #6 - due Nov. 11th (last update: 11/10/1999)
• Assignment #7 (term project) - due Nov. 30th (last update: 11/25/1999)

Here are some materials which will help you go through this course.

• Practice problems for Midterm #1 (09/14/1999)
• Supplement to Assignment #3 (09/27/1999)
• A C program simulating coin tosing (coin.c) (10/04/1999)
• A C program illustrating scope rule in C (scope.c) (10/04/1999)
• Practice problems for Chapter 4 (10/04/1999)
• C programs for Chapter 6, Test Score Distribution (array.c) and Bubble Sort (bubble.c) (10/07/1999)
• Practice problems for Chapter 5 (10/07/1999)
• A C program illustrating Multiple-Subscripted Arrays (multi_array.c) (10/12/1999)
• Practice problems for Chapter 6 (10/12/1999)
• Practice problems for Chapter 7 (newly updated) (11/11/1999)
• Practice problems for Chapter 8 (11/11/1999)
• Sample program for Chapter 11 (11/16/1999)
• Practice problems for Chapter 10 and 11 (11/19/1999)
• Solution to Assignment #6 (11/19/1999)

Your grade is posted according to a three-digit code assigned to you. (last update 12/11/1999)
If you don't know your code, you can get your code from me or TA (in person or send an e-mail with your name and student ID).

The general rules for calculating your final grade:

• You will not compete with Computer Science major students (who are supposely doing better than rest of the class and we have 13 of them), since this course is for non-Computer Science major students.
• I will not set a cut-off points/limits for each letter grade now, i.e., there will be no "over 90 for A", "80 to 89 for B", or something like that before the end of semester and all your scores are in.
• Your grade will be assigned relatively to your fellow classmates.
• If your grade is somewhere around average of the class (excluding Computer Science major students), you will expect your final grade is somewhere near a C (could be C-, C, or C+). Other grades (B- to A) will be assinged relatively to those who receive a C. For example, if someone gets final grade of 58 and the non-Computer Science major average is 58. This student should expect to receieve a C for this course. (Actually case might vary.)
• For Computer Science major students, you will be treated same way as other students. Your grade will be compared to non-Computer Science major average.

• Syllabus - General Information (last update: 08/25/1999)
• Equipment needed for this course (last update: 09/06/1999)
• Get Help (last update: 09/17/1999)
• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions (last update: 09/07/1999)

Acknowledgment

Last modified: December 19, 1999.

tihuang at cs . uh . edu