McMaster University
Mathematical Foundations for Computer Science

COMP SCI 1FC3, Term II 2005/06

Lectures and Tutorials

Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 14:30-15:20 in HH/305
Tutorials/Labs:

• L01: Friday 15:30-17:20 in JHE/233A
• L02: Tuesday 08:30-10:20 in BSB/245

Instructor

Dr. J. Carette, ITB-168 , ext 26869

Office hours: by appointment (or catch me after class).

For all course related questions, a class forum has been set up on WebCT so that questions and their answers can be posted centrally. The instructor will generally not answer emails sent to him directly, but will answer questions posted on the discussion forum(s) very frequently. [Questions of a personal nature can still be emailed to the instructor]

Teaching Assistants

TBA.

Textbook

Course Objectives

Course Information on Web, and Slides

Mid-terms, Exams, and Grading

• There will be one midterm. It is scheduled for March 2nd, during the regular class hour, and will be held in the refectory.
• The final examination will be scheduled by the Registrars office in the usual way. It will be three hours in duration and cover the material of the course, handouts and assignments.
• It is essential that you fulfill the deadlines for the assigments, there is no credit for documents handed in after the deadline. This is manly due to the fact that solutions will be available after the due date.
• You must pass the final examination to pass the course. Assuming you pass it, the final grade will be computed according to:
  

  Final Examination	50%
  Mid-Term	30%
  Assignments	20%

  
  Additionally, exercises will be posted. Some of these exercises will be worth bonus points, to be added to the final mark of those who have passed the final.
• The instructor does not accept late doctor's notices, if you write a mid-term then the mark is yours. If you do not write an exam or an assignment and do not provide an acceptable doctors notice then it is marked with 0. The instructor reserves the right to conduct any deferred exams orally.

Notes:

Discrimination

Academic Dishonesty

• Academic dishonesty consists of misrepresentation by deception or by other fraudulent means and can result in serious consequences, e.g. the grade of zero on an assignment, loss of credit with a notation on the transcript (notation reads: "Grade of F assigned for academic dishonesty"), and/or suspension or expulsion from the university.

  It is your responsibility to understand what constitutes academic dishonesty. For information on the various kinds of academic dishonesty please refer to the Academic Integrity Policy, specifically Appendix 3.

  The following illustrates only three forms of academic dishonesty:

  1. Plagiarism, e.g. the submission of work that is not one's own or for which other credit has been obtained.
  2. Improper collaboration in group work. (Note that all assignments in CS 1MD3 are to be done individually unless explicitly mentionned otherwise).
  3. Copying or using unauthorized aids in tests and examinations.

• There is zero tolerance for academic dishonesty . All assignments have to be solved by one person only, any outside source, this includes asking other people, or using any books or information found on the web has to be documented. In complience with the senate regulations on academic integrity I remind you that: People who let other people copy are as guilty as the ones who copy. You are allowed to consult outside sources, meaning textbooks or the web, but any use of an outside source must be documented.
• In the case the instructor or a TA has the impression that an assignment is copied, the instructor can ask the corresponding students to explain exactly how the assignment was prepared and take appropriate actions.