Service courses

• CS 110, Computer Literacy
• CS 153/453, Python Programming I (from Spring 2017)
• CS 154/454, Python Programming II
• CS 158/458, R Programming I (from Spring 2017)
• CS 159/459, R Programming II
• CS 157/457, Introduction to Data Science (before Spring 2017)
• CS 150/450, C programming
• CS 171G, Introduction to Computer Science
• CS 151/451, C++ programming
• CS 152/452, Java programming

Instructions to service course instructors

• Information about textbook
• Instructions on preparing your syllabus
• Instructions for course material organization
• Instructions to acces arvhived course materials
• Reporting grades

1. Textbook (Information about textbook)
   

   The department needs to input the textbook information for each course to the bookstore before every semester. We need to use the textbook that we input to the bookstore system every semester. Before you work on your syllabus for the course, you need to (MUST) check the bookstore website to make sure that the textbook that you listed in your syllabus is the same ((book title, edition, authors, publisher, ISBN) to the ones that we put on our bookstore.

   If you will use zyBook materials, you will not be able to find the textbook information ont he bookstore website. You need to state the information in your course syllabus clearly.

2. Syllabus (Instructions on preparing your syllabus)
   

   The syllabus must include the following information.

   • Instructor and teaching assitant (if applicable) information such as office room no, office hours, and emails.
   • Textbook information (book title, edition, authors, publisher, ISBN).
     If there is no textbook required, you still need to put "no required textbook".
   • Course descriptions.
   • Course objectives.
   • Topics that will be covered in the course.
   • Evaluation (e.g., homework, quizzes, exams, etc.) and grading criteria.
   • Policies on plagiarism, late submissions of homework, labs, projects, missing quizzes and exams, etc.
   • Resource to students with disabilities.
   A template syllabus is here.
   Note: you may copy the policies sections to your syllabus. You do NOT need to use the same policy for grading, late submissions, and missing exams/quizzes.

3. Instructions for course material organization
   

   We need to properly organize, collect, and archive our teaching materials for our service courses. Starting from Spring 2013, we are collecting and archiving the service course materials. This way, the instructors who will teach a course later can reuse these materials.
   Every instructor needs to organize your materials PROPERLY according to the following instructions.

   Please organize your folder for the semester (e.g., 14FA) that you are teaching with the following information.
      a) "syllabus" files (source file and PDF file)
      b) "note" folder (with all the source files and PDF files for your notes)
      c) "homework" folder (with all the source files for lab homework, written homework, etc.)
         please name it as lab_question., lab_solution.
      d) "project" folder (if there is any project, with source files and PDF files)
      e) "exam" folder (with all the source files and PDF files (for both questions and answers))
         please name the files as exam_question., exam_solution.
      f) "quiz" folder
         If you export/import from/to Canvas, please use XML file format. 
      g) "readme.txt" to explain the purpose of each homework, project, and exam
         each line can be organized as follows: 
         lab1\t introduction to array
         ...
         lab10\t game
   
         quiz1\t quiz1's topic
         ...
         quiz10\t quiz1's topic
   
         exam1\t xyz
         ...
         exam4\t abc
       h) update_issues.txt 
          This file should record (i) the issues that you encounter in this semester and (ii) the modifications to the old content. 
          Such information is used to notify the next instructor. 
   
   

   NOTE:
   • Please pack everything to a zip file and name the zip file in the format of

     cs(courseid)_yyyy(2-letter-semester)_(instructor_name).zip

     For example:

     cs171_2017FA_Huiping_Cao.zip, cs158_2017SP_John_Smith.zip, cs110_2017SU1_Mary_Smith.zip, cs110_2017SU2_Alice_smith.zip

   • Source file format can be .doc(x), .ppt(x), .tex, .html.
   • Do NOT archive any materials that the students submitted (e.g., students' homework submission).

4. Access archived materials
   
   • Access the materials that are used in the previous teaching. (e.g., the previous semester, or one semester ago)
     I will share a google drive folder with you. This folder should contain all the materials that are used in the previous teaching.

5. Grades
   

   Besides reporting the midterm and final grades as requested by the university, please send all your grades (midterm, final) in PDF formats to me at the end of the semster. I will use such informtion to track the enrollment for service courses.