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Matt Bishop Department of Computer Science University of California at Davis Davis, CA 95616-8562 USA |
Winter Quarter 2018
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My office is on the central campus in Davis. If coming to my office is not convenient, feel free to call me or use Skype.
MW 3:10pm–4:00pm, in Room 3205, Education Building, UC Davis School of Medicine, 4610 X St., Sacramento
Basics of computer programming essential to the study of informatics. Impacts on systems within healthcare, public health, nursing, research, and others. The class will teach students to write programs in the Python programming language.
The overall goal is to learn how to use the Python programming language to solve problems. More specifically, we hope you will:
Charles Severace, Python for Informatics: Exploring Information in Python 2, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Seattle, WA, USA. ISBN: 978-1-4923-3924-3.
It is on-line at http://www.pythonlearn.com/book.php and is free.
The class web site is on Canvas. To access it, go to http://canvas.ucdavis.edu and log in using your campus login and password. Then go to MHI 289I in your schedule. Announcements, assignments, handouts, and grades will be posted there, and you must submit any assignments there. The alternate web site, http://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/classes/mhi289i-2018-01 has everything except grades, and you cannot submit work there.
Extra credit is tallied separately from regular scores. If you end up on a borderline between two grades at the end of the course, extra credit will count in your favor. But failure to do extra credit will never be counted against you, because grades are assigned on the basis of regular scores. You should do extra credit if you find it interesting and think that it might teach you something. Remember, though, it is not wise to skimp on the regular assignment in order to do extra credit!
We expect the weighting to be as follows (but reserve the right to change it, with notice):
| Homework assignments | 60% |
| Final project | 40% |
When we grade an assignment, we will look not simply at your answers but also the program(s) you used to obtain the answers. We grade on style, documentation, and a number of factors as well as correctness. See the handout All About Homework for more details.
The UC Davis Code of Academic Conduct, available at http://sja.ucdavis.edu/cac.html, applies to this class. In particular, for this course, all work submitted for credit must be your own. You may discuss your assignments with classmates, with the instructor, or with a teaching assistant to get ideas or a critique of your ideas, but the ideas and words you submit must be your own. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, collaboration is considered cheating and will be dealt with accordingly.
The single exception to this rule is debugging. Once you have written your program, if you need help debugging it, you are free to ask a classmate for help providing that classmate has also written the program. Sometimes having someone else look over a program that is not quite working right will lead you to the best way to fix it, and you both will gain valuable experience in looking at programs and figuring out what is going on. But you must not collaborate on writing the program.
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Last modified: January 12, 2018 Winter Quarter 2018 You can get a PDF version of this |