Princeton University
Computer Science Department

Computer Science 217
Intro to Programming Systems

Mona Singh

Spring 2001


Schedule and Readings | Assignments


Course Summary

The purpose of this course is to provide the fundamental background necessary to understand, design and implement the components of programming systems. Examples of such components include text editors, assemblers, compilers, loaders, interpreters, and portions of operating systems. The course is divided into three major parts, machine organization and assembly language programming, program design and development, and software tools. Prerequisite: 126.


Administrative Information

Lectures: TTh 8:30-9:50, Room: 105

Professor: Mona Singh, msingh@cs.princeton.edu. Office Hours by appointment.

Undergraduate Coordinator: Tina McCoy - 410 CS Building - 258-1746 tmmccoy@cs.princeton.edu

Mailing Lists and News Groups:

Send email to the Professor and TAs at cs217@cs.
Read the pu.cs.217 newsgroup for general information and questions about assignments.

Teaching Assistants:

Name Wagner Correa Wen Xu
Email wtcorrea@cs wxu@cs
Office CS bldg 414 CS bldg 315
Phone 258- 5388 258- 1795
Precept Thursday 10-11 Friday 11-noon
Location CS 302 CS 302
Office Hours Monday 9:00 - 11:00 AM Thursday 4:30 - 6:30 PM

Additional TA support for CS217 is available in CS101.


Policies

Lecture:
You will be responsible for the material presented in every lecture. Some of this material will not be in the textbooks.
Precepts:
You should attend one precept each week. You can choose any one among those listed above. You should try to keep going to the same precept as far as possible since that's how you will be judged for participation (of course if you miss one you are allowed to go to another). If you can not attend any of these precepts, let us know as soon as possible.
Quizzes:
We will administer make-up quizes only in the case of documented illnesses. If you know you will be out of town on the day of the quizzes, you must take the quiz before the day of the quiz.
Assignments:
See assignments page.
Newsgroup:
Please monitor the newsgroup regularly, because we will use it to make announcements. Note that there are old articles from last semester; we left them because we thought they might be useful to folks this semester.
Grading:
The grade weighting for the semester will be:
Midterm:  20%
Quizes: 15%
Programs:  60%
Precepts and Class:  5%

Textbooks

Required Texts:

Recommended Texts:

Note: You may use different editions of the books, but if so then you are responsible for figuring out any changes in section numbers for the readings.