CSC1140 Introduction to COBOL (Call No. 90530)
Winter 1998 Wayne State University
This course is required for B.A. in Information Systems
and also fulfills the University's general education
requirement for computer literacy.
Prerequisite: CSC101 Fundamentals of Computer Science or CSC100
Introduction to Computer Science
Class: Room 626, Oakland Center, F 4:30PM - 6:20
Lab. : Room 208, Oakland Center, F 6:30PM - 8:20
Instructor: ChanJin Chung, Ph.D.
- Main Campus Phone: 313-577-2831, Fax: 313-577-6868
- Web: http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~jcc (announcements, etc.)
- Oakland Center Admin. Office - Phone: 248-553-3545, Fax: 248-553-7733
- Oakland Center Mail Box: Room 102
- Main Campus Office: 448 State Hall
Office and Office Hours
- 171 Oakland Center, F 3:30PM-4:30 and by appointment
- Main Campus: 448 State Hall, W 4:20-5:20 p.m.
Texts :
- Structured COBOL Programming, 8th Edition, by Stern and Stern.
- Getting Started with RM/COBOL-85, Second Edition,
by Stern, Stern, and Janossy
Required Materials : Several 3.5" diskettes; Large manila
envelopes (or WSU mailer)
Course Objectives
- The student will have a working knowledge of the most commonly used features of COBOL.
- The student will be able to design COBOL programs to solve problems by using top-down design and step-wise refinement.
- The student will be able to write programs using the structured programming features of COBOL.
- The student will have programming experience with some of the common applications found in business information systems.
- The student will be able to solve "The Year 2000 Computing Crisis".
Grading Policy:
- 5 lab. assignments: 10%
- Midterm: 20%
- 4 homework assignments: 45% (10+10+10+15)
- Final: 25%
This score will be translated into a letter grade as shown below.
(A course curve may be implemented at the instructor's discretion.)
|
A |
90-100% |
|
A- |
88-89% |
|
B+ |
85-87% |
|
B |
80-84% |
|
B- |
78-79% |
|
C+ |
75-77% |
|
C |
70-74% |
|
C- |
68-69% |
|
D+ |
65-67% |
|
D |
60-64% |
|
D- |
58-59% |
|
E |
0-57% |
Class Policies
Please attend classes and labs. Attendance per se is not required.
However, each student is responsible for knowing everything
covered in every class meeting, including announcements, corrections,
assignments, changes in the schedule, and rules of
procedure. If you are unable to attend a meeting, it is your
responsibility to obtain the material from other students or instructor.
I would be happy to discuss special circumstances with you during
office hours, and I welcome the opportunity to go over
material that you do not understand; however, I am not willing to
reteach material that you missed because of absence.
No grades of incomplete will be given without an excuse from a physician
stating why the student was incapacitated on a given
date or range of dates. No other excuse for requesting an incomplete
will be accepted.
Exam. Policies
A midterm will be given during lecture hours on a day as shown in the
tentative schedule attached.
A final exam will be given on lecture hours during the final exam
period. No make-up exam is permitted. In the case of
emergency, such as sickness, the student must present a formal documents
from a doctor. Then you must make other
arrangements with the lecture instructor prior to the exam. Missing the
exam results in an automatic zero for the test grade. Poor
weather conditions are no excuse for missing an exam.
Homework Policy
- Students may use the Computer Labs or may develop programs on their own
computer using the RM/COBOL compiler provided with the texts.
Please check the posted schedules at the lab.
- Programs will be graded on correctness and clarity.
Late homework penalty is 30%. No homework will be accepted beyond a week after the due date; start
your assignments early.
- Homework must be submitted in class or leave it in the instructor's
mailbox in 102 Oakland Center before the class.
Programming assignment submission should include: a commented program
listing, a sample run results, a diskette with source codes
so that I can compile & run it.
- Plagiarism is a very serious academic offense.
Please feel free to discuss assignments with your
classmates and to help one another,
however, be sure to use footnotes or comment lines in order to credit
those who assist you. DO NOT COPY THE WORK OF OTHERS.
Failure to observe this will result in expulsion from class.
Lab. Assignment Polices
There will be 5 lab. assignment tests as shown on dates in the
schedule attacted. You are supposed to develop a simple
program during the lab. class.
- You should submit both a diskette with the source program and
printout of the program in an large manila envelope or
WSU mailer, before the end of the lab. class.
- It may be possible to submit the test before the next lab. class
begins. The penalty of the late submission is 50%. No lab.
test submission will be accepted beyond a week.
- If for some very good reason with formal documents you are unable
to take the lab. test, you must contact the lab.
instructor prior to the test. Also poor weather conditions are no
excuse for missing the test.
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