CMSC 104 - Fall 2009
Problem Solving and Computer Programming

Announcements

12/10: Exam 3 study guide posted
12/8: Project 4 is extended to Dec. 17th before midnight
12/3: I will be giving another day extension for project 3. Its new due date is Friday 12/4 before midnight
12/3: Dice Solution available under study guides; Follow the link, and view the webpages source (right-click -> view source) to see the code
12/1: Project 3 due date extended to Thursday (12/3) before midnight
12/1: Project 4 out!
11/17: Project 2 due date extended to tomrrow (11/18) before midnight
11/17: Project 3 out
11/10: Exam 2 Study Guide up
11/5: Reminder: Exam 2 is in 1 week (11/12); I will be putting up a study guide soon
11/4: I will not be able to attend my office hours today due to bussiness off campus. If you have any questions please email me and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
11/3: The websites are working again.
11/2: Project 1 is being extended to Thursday Nov. 5 as UMBC is having server problems causing "Forbidden" messages. I have contacted them and hopefully it will be resolved soon. In the mean time you may want to try working on your own personal computer. Any .html files you save you can test on your personal computer as well just by opening the file in Firefox.
10/22: Exam 1 Extra Credit Problems are out! See assignments section of page for link
10/21: The link to check your HW3 that will be graded is: userpages.umbc.edu/~jmac1/gcs104/hw3/yourusername/
That address will take you to what your www directory was, so if your work was in your cs104/hw3 directory you need to add that to the end of the address, or add whatever path led to your work
10/14: Homework 3 part 1 is now due Monday 10/19 before midnight
10/6: More information provided in HW3 page
10/6: The study guide for Exam 1 is online
9/22: Homework 2 is posted
9/15: I will be off campus for 3 class days as I will be at a conference in Greece. There WILL be a subsitute for the days I am out, and so you still must come to class. If you have any questions you can still email me and I will do my best to get back to you. The days I will be gone are Th 9/17; Tu. 9/22; Th. 9/24.
9/3: Our first lab day is is Tuesday September 8th, we will meet in ECS 021 and ECS 021A

Lab

We will have certain days where class will be held in a computer lab.
The computer lab we will be using will be Engineering (ECS) 021/021A

We will meet in the lab on the following days:

Tuesday 9/8
Tuesday 9/15
Tuesday 10/6
Tuesday 10/20
Tuesday 11/3
Tuesday 12/8

Resources

Assignments

Study Guides

Contact Info and Office Hours

James MacGlashan (Instructor)

Offices: ITE 201A or MAPLE Lab ITE 339
Walk-in Office Hours: Tuesday 5:15pm - 6:15pm, Wednesday 2:30 - 3:30pm, Thursday 5:15pm - 6:15pm
By appointment Office Hours: Monday/Tuesday/Thursday 2:00pm - 3:00pm
E-mail: jmac1@umbc.edu

Schedule

Date	Topic	Notes
Tu 9/1	Introduction	Get myUMBC account notes
Th 9/3	Machine Architecture, Binary, Hex	notes
Tu 9/8	Linux, emacs	HW1 out
Th 9/10	Operating Systems and Using Linux	notes
Tu 9/15	More Linux	HW1 due Lab 2
Th 9/17	Algorithms	notes
Tu 9/22	Algorithms and Exercises	HW2 out notes
Th 9/24	More Exercises	-
Tu 9/29	Introduction to Web and HTML	HW2 due notes
Th 10/1	Styling with CSS	notes
Tu 10/6	Web page lab	HW3 Part1 out
Th 10/8	Exam 1	-
Tu 10/13	Introduction to JavaScript	notes
Th 10/15	Variables and Arithmatic Operators	HW3 Part1 due notes
Tu 10/20	Writing Your First JavaScript Program	HW3 Part2 out
Th 10/22	Relational Operators, if and switch statements	notes
Tu 10/27	Continue relational operators, if and switch statements	HW3 Part2 due Proj1 out
Th 10/29	Loops	notes
Tu 11/3	Continue Loops	Proj1 due Proj2 out
Th 11/5	Functions	notes
Tu 11/10	Functions	notes
Th 11/12	Exam 2	-
Tu 11/17	More Functions	Proj2 due Proj3 out
Th 11/19	Arrays	notes
Tu 11/24	More Arrays	-
Th 11/26	No Class (Thanksgiving)	-
Tu 12/1	Arrays Lab	Proj3 due Proj4 out lab
Th 12/3	Other Programming Languages	-
Tu 12/8	Programming Lab	lab
Th 12/10	???
Tu 12/22; 3:30-5:30	Exam 3	-

CMSC 104 - Fall 2009Problem Solving and Computer Programming