CS 2110 Fall 2022
Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures

Course Information

Time & Place

Lecture:

• Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:10-11:00am, Statler Auditorium

You are expected to attend all lectures and one discussion each week. Cornell guidelines related to health must be followed.

• Prelim 1: September 20, 5:30-7:00pm (KND 116, RCK 201) or 7:30-9:00pm (BLY 101)
• Prelim 2: November 15, 5:30-7:00pm (KND 116) or 7:30-9:00pm (BLY 101)
• Final: December 14, 7:00-9:30pm (TBD)

Course Staff

TA office hours are held in Rhodes 405 unless otherwise specified.

Teaching Assistants

Prerequisites

Very good performance in CS 1110 or an equivalent course, or permission of the instructor. If you are unsure whether CS 2110 or CS 2112 is the right course for you, please talk to the instructor of either course. Both courses cover similar material and satisfy the same requirements, but CS 2112 covers material in more depth and has more challenging assignments.

Texts

You are expected to read the course notes posted on the web site. These will often contain more detail than what was presented in lecture.

Other Sources

• • Prof. Gries’s Java HyperText has many online learning aids and tutorial videos, including introductory videos on Java and Eclipse.

• • Data Structures and Problem Solving Using Java, 3rd edition, Mark Allen Weiss, Addison Wesley, 2006. ISBN 0-321-32213-4. See also Weiss's website for additional material. A required text from previous years.
• • Program development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design, B. Liskov and J. Guttag, Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN 0-201-65768-6. An excellent source of material on designing and specifying abstractions.
• • Java Precisely, 2nd edition, P. Sestoft, MIT Press, 2005. To access the entire book for free, login via the Cornell Engineering Library.
• • Java in a Nutshell, 5th edition, David Flanagan, O'Reilly, 2005. ISBN 0-596-00773-6.
• • Effective Java, 3rd Ed., Joshua Bloch. Addison-Wesley, 2018. This book is packed with good programming advice and even agrees with what we will cover in class (mostly).

These titles will be on reserve in the Engineering Library (@ Uris Library).

Ed

We will be using Ed as an online discussion forum. You are encouraged to post any questions you might have about the course material. The course staff monitor the forum fairly closely and you will usually get a quick response. If you know the answer to a question, you are encouraged to post it, but please avoid giving away any hints on the homework or posting any part of a solution—this is considered a violation of academic integrity.

By default, your posts are visible to the course staff and other students, and you should prefer this mode so that others can benefit from your question and the answer. However, you can post privately so that only the course staff can see your question, and you should do so if your post might reveal information about a solution to a homework problem. If you post privately, we reserve the right to make your post public if we think the class will benefit. You can also post anonymously if you wish not to reveal your identity.

The discussion forum is the most effective way to communicate with the staff and is the preferred mode of interaction. Please reserve email for urgent or confidential matters. Free-ranging technical discussions are especially encouraged. Broadcast messages from the course staff to students will be sent using Ed and all course announcements will be posted there, so check in often.

See our office hours and consulting section below for additional notes regarding Ed Discussion.

CMSX

We will be using the course management system CMSX for managing assignments, exams, and grades. Everyone who preregistered for the course should be entered, but if you did not preregister, you are probably missing. Please login here and check whether you exist. There will be a list of courses you are registered for, and CS 2110 should be one of them. If not, please send your full name and Cornell netId to the Administrative Assistant so that you can be registered.

You can check your grades, submit homework, and request regrades in CMSX. Please check your grades regularly to make sure we are recording things properly. The system also provides some grading statistics. There is a help page with instructions.

Do not repost course materials released on CMSX publicly. These materials are intellectual property of Cornell and are meant for participants in the course. They are not free to the public.

Announcements and Handouts

Announcements will be posted to Ed. Homework and exam solutions will be available in CMSX. Check frequently for new postings.

Assignments & Exams

Unless otherwise specified, assignments may be turned in late with a penalty of 10% per day, up to 4 days late. Extensions may be granted in case of illness or other acceptable excuse; please contact the course instructor. Extension requests that arrive just before the deadline are less likely to be granted than extension requests that are made in advance. Start early on assignment so you have time to complete it despite the inevitable conflict with coursework from other classes. In addition, students have 4 slip days that they can use during the semester across all assignments. Unless otherwise specified, each assignment may use up to 3 slip days. Using a slip day removes the late penalty. Slip days will be used up automatically.

There will be one 1½-hour evening prelim and a 2½-hour final exam. Please check the schedule page for times and locations.

Your final grade will be based on your assignment and exam scores according to the following weights:

Perfect attendance is not required to receive full participation credit. Responding to at least 3/4 of lecture questions and submiting at least 3/4 of discussion activities is sufficient. This provides flexibility to miss an occasional class for illness or a conflicting obligation without worrying about the impact on your grade. There are no make-up opportunities for participation credit; if you think you need to miss more than 25% of class meetings for legitimate reasons, discuss your situation with an instructor or advisor.

You will have two attempts to respond to each weekly quiz (note that the questions may be slightly different), and we will take your highest score. The quizzes are open-note, but they are timed and must be completed individually. Late submissions are not accepted, as questions will be discussed in discussion sections the following day. We will drop your lowest quiz score automatically to accommodate unexpected circumstances.

Regrades

Graded homework will be available on CMSX, and graded exams will be available on Gradescope. If you identify an error in how the rubric was applied to your assignment, you may submit a regrade request during the allowed window (typically within 1 week of an assignment being returned and within 2 days of an exam being returned). Errors not identified during the request window will not be corrected.

Regrade requests are submitted electronically in both CMSX and Gradescope. When submitting a request, explain precisely why the deduction does not apply to your solution. When evaluating a request, staff will review the entire question for grading accuracy and consistency, so it is possible for your score to decrease if errors in your favor are identified.

Academic Integrity

Each student in this course is expected to abide by the Cornell University Code of Academic Integrity. Any work submitted by a student in this course for academic credit must be the student’s own work.

The utmost level of academic integrity is expected of all students. Under no circumstances may you submit work done with or by someone else under your own name or share detailed proofs or code with anyone else except your partner. However, discussions about general techniques or the requirements of the assignment are permissible.

You must cite all sources, including Internet sources. You must acknowledge by name anyone whom you consulted (excluding course staff). You may not give nor receive assistance from anyone else during an exam. You may not give any hints or post any material that might be part of a solution publicly on Ed. If your question necessarily includes such material, post privately.

If you are unsure about what is permissible and what is not, please ask on Ed.

Academic Integrity Resources:

• • Cornell University Code of Academic Integrity
• • Computer Science Department Code of Academic Integrity
• • Explanation of AI Proceedings

Special Needs

We will provide appropriate accommodation for students with special needs or disabilities. Requests for accommodation are to be made during the first three weeks of the semester and must be accompanied by official documentation. Please register with Student Disability Services in 110 Ho Plaza (Cornell Health Building), Level 5 to document your eligibility.

Course Schedule

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Resources

• Course notes
• Java
• Interactive development environments (IDEs)
• Programming advice and resources
• Computer labs
• Support services

$ java -version
java version "11.0.4" 2019-07-16 LTS
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.9 (build 11.0.4+10-LTS)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 18.9 (build 11.0.4+10-LTS, mixed mode)

$ javac -version
javac 11.0.4

Assignments

All source code will be available on CMSX.