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Professor: Wes Peterson
303E POST Building
wes@hawaii.edu
Office Hours During the Fall Semester:
I have ICS212 Tu 9:00-10:30 and ICS623 Th 9:00-10:30 and I
have a research meeting Friday 11:00-12:00.
Monday 9:30-12:00
Tuesday 10:30-12:00
Wednesday 9:30-12:00
Thursday 10:30-12:00
Friday 9:00-11:00
BJ Dela Cruz will be my TA this fall. He will be in my office
Mondays from 12:00 to 5:00 and Thursdays from 12:00 to 2:00. His
email address is bjpeter@hawaii.edu. He is willing to consider
appointments.
Of course, you may come in any time when one of us is in the office
for help with the course and assignments, or to discuss anything. In
addition, I will have three computers that you can use--or you can bring
your own, and you can use my office as a lab and work on ICS212 and ask
questions as problems come up any time one of us is in the office.
I have made a short "quiz" for each assignment after the first. When
you are ready, send the answers in an email to BJ--he will read those
and let you know whether you understand those things. Please send your
regular programming assignments to me by email--I will read all of them.
Textbooks: The textbook for the first part of the course, on C, is Kernighan and
Ritchie "The C Programming Language". It should be pretty widely
available. I don't know whether the bookstore has copies. You can get it from
Amazon for $43.80, about 10% off. If you get it by
internet or mail, order it soon so you will have it when classes start. That book
is a little old, but it is excellent and famous. Look it up in
Wikipedia or Google. It seems
to be on line somewhere, but I don't know where. It has been translated into about
30 different languages, if you don't like English.
You don't need a C++ book until the middle of the semester, so there is no hurry
about that. I am thinking about that yet. You might even survive without a C++
book. The Savitch book that I recommended is about $103 from Amazon--I would think
quite a while before buying that. You can get Stroustrup "The C++ Programming
Language" for about $60 from Amazon. It is a better book, but more difficult.
If you can get a second-hand first or second edition of Savitch's book cheap, that
would get you by fine. I will think about that one some more also.
Links:
About ICS212 Spring 2007. Please
read this carefully--Goals, teaching plan, handling questions, assignments,
exams, grades.