Time: TuTh 11:00AM-12:20PM
Room: Junkins 205
Instructor: Dr. Yuhang Wang
Office: Room 800J in Expressway Tower
Office Phone: (214) 768-3716
Email: yuhangw@engr.smu.edu
Office Hours: Tu 9:30am-10:30am, Th 1pm-2pm in SIC 314 or 312, and by telephone or email. You can also schedule an appointment.

Grader: Sudheer Chelluboina (chsudheer291985@gmail.com)

Syllabus

09/03/2009: Homework 1 assigned. Also note the change to office hours on Thursdays.
09/10/2009: Homework 2 assigned.
09/17/2009: Homework 3 assigned.
09/24/2009: Homework 4 assigned.
10/01/2009: Homework 5 assigned. Midterm scheduled on 10/8/09.
10/08/2009: Homework 5 due date extended to October 15.
10/20/2009: Homework 6 assigned.
10/27/2009: Homework 7 assigned. Homework 7 due date extended to November 5.
11/05/2009: Homework 8 assigned.
11/12/2009: Homework 9 assigned.
11/19/2009: Homework 10 assigned.

• Finite Automata Simulator: JFLAP
• ML: Standard ML of New Jersey Home Page
  • Compiler: http://www.smlnj.org/install/index.html [local copy of smlnj.exe]
  • Tutorial: Cumming, Gentle Introduction to ML, Harper, Programming in Standard ML
  • SML basic library (smlnj.org)
  • SML/NJ library extensions
• Java:
  • Compiler: The Sun JDK 6.
  • Tutorial: An online tutorial.
  • Java SE 6 API
• C#:
  • Compiler: Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition
  • Documentation: C# Programming Guide, Visual C# Guided Tour, MSDN Library
  • Functional C# example code library
• Prolog: The SWI-Prolog
  • Compiler: http://www.swi-prolog.org/download/stable
  • Tutorial: Introduction to Prolog (Tasmin Treasure-Jones and Paul Brna, Leeds), Prolog: - tutorial. (J.R. Fisher, CSU Pomona),
• Perl: CPAN
  • Compiler: http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html
  • Tutorial: perlintro, Perl data structures intro, Perl regular expressions quick start

Grading: Homework and mini projects (40%), Quizzes (5%), Midterm exam (25%), Final exam (30%).

Weekly homework assignments will be posted online. Homework will be due at the beginning of class on the due date, unless otherwise noted. Late homework (due before 5 pm) will receive a 25% penalty per day. In case of emergencies, please talk to me to make special arrangements. If you will be out of town for a non-emergency (such as an interview), you should turn in the assignment early, rather than late, to avoid a penalty.

There will also be several mini programming projects assigned together with homeworks. Every student is expected to compete it on his/her own. Copying code (please don't try to fool me by simply changing names of functions/variables in someone else's code) is prohibited and will result in zero credit.

• Homework 1, due September 10 before class.
• Homework 2, due September 17 before class.
• Homework 3, due September 24 before class.
• Homework 4, due October 1 before class.
• Homework 5, due October 8 before class. (Extended to October 15)
• Homework 6, due October 27 before class. (MSDN Magazine article about jagged arrays and rectangular arrays)
• Homework 7, due November 3 before class. (Extended to November 5)
• Homework 8, due November 12 before class.
• Homework 9, due November 19 before class.
• Homework 10, due December 1 before class.
  

There will be one midterm and one final exam.

• Midterm is scheduled on 10/8/2009 in class. Close book, close notes, no computer allowed.

• All the handouts for the class will be posted on the web at the URL http://engr.smu.edu/~yuhangw/classes/cse3342_f09/index.htm
• Even though office hours are provided, you may contact me any time through email or meet me with an appointment.
• Late Homework Policy: Homework will be due at the beginning of class on the due date, unless otherwise noted. Late homework (due before 5 pm) will receive a 25% penalty per day. In case of emergencies, please talk to me to make special arrangements. If you will be out of town for a non-emergency (such as an interview), you should turn in the assignment early, rather than late, to avoid a penalty.
• Academic dishonesty may be defined broadly as a student's misrepresentation of his or her academic work or of the circumstances under which the work is done. This includes plagiarism in all papers, projects, take-home exams, or any other assignments in which the student represents work as being his or her own. It also includes cheating on examinations, unauthorized access to test materials, and aiding another student to cheat or participate in an act of academic dishonesty. Failure to prevent cheating by another may be considered as participation in the dishonest act.
• Honor Code. Intellectual integrity and academic honesty are fundamental to the processes of learning and evaluating academic performance; maintaining them is the responsibility of all members of an educational institution. The inculcation of personal standards of honesty and integrity is a goal of education in all the disciplines of the University. The faculty has the responsibility of encouraging and maintaining an atmosphere of academic honesty by being certain that students are aware of the value of it, that they understand the regulations defining it, and that they know the penalties for departing from it. The faculty should, as far as is reasonably possible, assist students in avoiding the temptation to cheat. Faculty must be aware that permitting dishonesty is not open to personal choice. A professor or instructor who is unwilling to act upon offenses is an accessory with the student offender in deteriorating the integrity of the University. Students must share the responsibility for creating and maintaining an atmosphere of honesty and integrity. Students should be aware that personal experience in completing assigned work is essential to learning. Permitting others to prepare their work, using published or unpublished summaries as a substitute for studying required materials, or giving or receiving unauthorized assistance in the preparation of work to be submitted are directly contrary to the honest process of learning. Students who are aware that others in a course are cheating or otherwise acting dishonestly have the responsibility to inform the professor and/or bring an accusation to the Honor Council. Students and faculty must mutually share the knowledge that any dishonest practices permitted will make it more difficult for the honest students to be evaluated and graded fairly, and will damage the integrity of the whole University. Students should recognize that their own interest, and their integrity as individuals, suffer if they condone dishonesty in others.
• The Honor System. All undergraduate students at SMU are under the jurisdiction of the Honor Code, and as such will be required to sign a pledge to uphold the Honor Code. The Honor Council is composed of 22 students appointed by the Student Senate to represent the undergraduate schools and classes of the University. The Council's responsibility is to maintain and promote academic honesty. Students are required to warn or to report to the Honor Council or faculty any student suspected of violating the Honor Code, and to inform the instructor of a course in which violations are suspected that he or she may not be achieving an atmosphere conducive to academic honesty. Suspected violations reported to the Honor Council by a student or by an instructor will be investigated and, if the evidence warrants it, a hearing will be held by a Board composed of five members of the Honor Council. Suspected cases of academic dishonesty may be either handled privately by the appropriate faculty member in whose class the alleged infraction occurred, or referred to the Honor Council. Appeals of actions by the Honor Council shall be submitted to the All-University Judicial Council in writing no later than three class days after the hearing. Appeals of actions taken by instructors independently of the Honor Council may be made through the traditional academic routes.
• Disability Accommodations: Students needing academic accommodations for a disability must first contact Ms. Rebecca Marin, Coordinator, Services for Students with Disabilities (214-768-4557) to verify the disability and establish eligibility for accommodations. They should then schedule an appointment with the professor to make appropriate arrangements. (See University Policy No. 2.4.)
• Religious Observance: Religiously observant students wishing to be absent on holidays that require missing class should notify their professors in writing at the beginning of the semester, and should discuss with them, in advance, acceptable ways of making up any work missed because of the absence. (See University Policy No. 1.9.)
• Excused Absences for University Extracurricular Activities: Students participating in an officially sanctioned, scheduled University extracurricular activity should be given the opportunity to make up class assignments or other graded assignments missed as a result of their participation. It is the responsibility of the student to make arrangements with the instructor prior to any missed scheduled examination or other missed assignment for making up the work. (University Undergraduate Catalogue)