CSE1001

Computer Science is an exciting and wide-ranging discipline, many of whose topics will not be introduced in any technical depth until upper year courses (if at all). This course consists of a set of invited lectures by researchers in the department and industry as well as a set of other organised events that will introduce the students to the breadth of computer science.

The course is organised around a series of invited talks by individual researchers and research groups, as well as a number of other events that will introduce students to specific research directions in computer science, issues related to professionalism and professional societies, as well as opportunities to become engaged in different research and technical groups and events related to computer science.

Computer Science and Computer Security Majors are expected to complete this course in their first year of study.

There are no prerequsites for this course.

• Richard P. Wildes
  • Office: LAS 3016
  • Office hours: Wednesday, 15:00-16:00 on weeks that class meets
  • Email: wildes@cse.yorku.ca

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In order to ensure timely responses to e-mails, please include CSE1001 in the e-mail subject line and include your CSE account number and student number in the body of the e-mail. E-mails lacking such information are unlikely to receive timely or useful response.

There are no textbooks for this course.

Students are expected to attend lectures. A schedule of currently planned lectures is can be accessed via the side bar to this page and will be updated incrementally throughout the year.

Students are expected to complete assignments and quizzes based on material presented in the lectures. Most lectures will be accompanied by an evaulation in terms of a quiz or assignment.

Students will be expected to write and hand in a final essay that integrates and discusses three of the lectures that were presented during the year. The essay will be due on 3 April 2013; hardcopy must be placed in the course drop box in Lassonde no latter than 23:59 on that date. Additional details will be provided in class.

During the course of the year, announcements will be made regarding various extracurricular events that students can (optionally) attend. These events will be noted on the What's new link on the side bar to this page.

The weight distribution of the course components is as follows:

• 10% : eChecks (1% for each of 10 assigned eChecks)
• 20% : Lab test #1
• 20% : Lab test #2
• 20% : Midterm written test
• 30% : Final written exam

Each piece of work will be assigned a numeric grade. A final numeric grade will be acomputed using the weighting given above. The final letter grade will be determined form the numeric score using the standard Computer Science and Engineering mapping.