We will be using Piazza for class discussions. The system is meant to get you help rapidly and efficiently from classmates, the teaching assistants, and the professors. Documents will also be posted there.
Find our class page at: https://piazza.com/uottawa.ca/winter2021/iti1121/home. Please create an account and enrol there as soon as possible from https://piazza.com/uottawa.ca/winter2021/iti1121.
The first lecture will be held on Monday January 11, 2021 for Sections A, C, and D, and on Wednesday January 13, 2021 for Section B. Laboratories will start that same week with a startup lab to do on your own. Regular, graded labs start on the week of the January 18th. Information about the schedules, tutorials, lecture notes, etc. can be found on the course web site: Section A and B and Section C and D. Lectures are given online, the means of delivery will be specified and updated on your section’s course website.
Object-oriented programming. Abstraction principles: information hiding and encapsulation. Linked lists, stacks, queues, binary search trees. Iterative and recursive processing of data structures. Virtual machines. Prerequisite: ITI1120, 3 hours of lecture per week, 3 hours of laboratory per week, 3 credits.
There will a midterm test, a final examination, as well as four assignments. The midterm test will be held on Saturday March 6th, 2021 from 11 am to 1 pm.
The four assignments will be announced in class, and posted on BrigthSpace. Every assignment counts and constitutes an excellent preparation for the final. The tentative due dates for the assignments are:
Calculation of your final grade,
Given a valid reason (e.g. medical) for missing the midterm test, the mark of the final examination will also be used as the mark of the midterm test.
On the course Web site you will find the suggested readings for each lecture:
Here is a free textbook that covers most of the material presented in class.
The following textbook is a short and useful resource.
Class attendance is mandatory. As per academic regulations:
to be admitted to the final examination in a subject, a student must attend a minimum of 80% of classes and must not have more than five unauthorized or unjustified absences in that subject.
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An individual who commits or attempts to commit academic fraud, or who is an accomplice, will be penalized. Here are some examples of possible sanctions:
All documents prepared by the course instructor, including assignments, course notes, and exams, are protected by copyright. Copying, digitizing, or publishing on a Web site is therefore a violation of copyright and is illegal.
There are many reasons to take advantage of the Counselling Service. They offer:
Further information is available here:
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