The best place to get you CS on. Plenty of available computers, and upperclassmen on hand to help if needed!
Your Responsibilities:
Be a good human being!
Treat each other (and me) with respect and kindness.
Take care of the classroom and the equipment contained within.
Be courteous to your classmates.
Come to class!
“80% of success is showing up.”
If you’re not here, you can’t learn, and you can’t work with your classmates.
If you are absent or late, have a note ready.
A large portion of this class involves working in groups, if you’re not here, you are letting your group down.
If you are absent for a test, you must have a note from your parent/guardian in order to make it up.
Do the work!
There will be homework/classwork assignments and large projects.
All work/projects will be submitted online.
*work assignments
These are small nightly-ish assignments.
Some of these will be pair assignments, be prepared to work with others.
Solutions to these assignments will always be posted afterwards.
This may vary, but will generally be 1-3 days after the assignment is due. Once a solution is posted, you cannot receive late credit.
You cannot submit all missed work at the end of the semester or marking period and expect to get credit.
Projects
There will be ~3 large projects during the semester.
They may be group projects.
You will have time in class to work on them, but they will require outside work as well.
Projects will count the same as tests.
Tests
There will be 2-3 exams during the semester.
Tests will be done on paper, with no electronic assistance.
The class day before a test will have review time, but you must come armed with questions!
CS tests are commonly on Friday, unless the school schedule changes.
My goal is to not overburden you with work, but that means that missing an assignment in this class will have a larger impact on your grade than missing an assignment in a class with nightly homework (because that’s how math works).
Submit your own work. Anyone caught plagiarizing will receive a 0 for the assignment along with further disciplinary action as required by school policy (Check out How to compsci at stuy if you need a refresher on academic dishonesty).
The only way to fail this class is to violate the previous 2 points (I cannot give poor grades for not being a good human being, but there are much larger repercussions for failing in that area that will last much longer than a high school class grade).
My Responsibilities:
Be a good human being.
Create a class environment that is welcoming and conducive to learning.
Provide meaningful (read: not busywork) assignments.
Teach you something about computer science, programming, computational thinking and other cool stuff.