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INFO-C112: Programming and Databases

3.0 Credits, Fall 2019
Instructor Information
Dr. Hisham Sliman E-mail: [email protected]
(mailto:[email protected])
Email is by far the best way to contact me. Please include the course number (INFO-C112) in the subject of
your email. If you email about a particular homework or quiz problem, it's always a good idea to copy/paste
the particular problem you're asking about since you already have a context for your question by asking
about it but I have none when I first read your email. I generally reply within 24 hours. Although you may be
addressing others by their first name, "Dr. Sliman" is the proper way to address me in correspondence.

Of ce Hours
TTH 11AM-12:15 PM online in my virtual office (https://iu.zoom.us/my/hsliman) (If I don't notice you
showing up in the online office, you may need to send me an email to act as a notification!) Other hours by
appointment.

Textbooks
Both textbooks below are required, but you can read them for free online. Try them both online and decide if
you prefer to read them there or want to buy a hard copy.

Required: Think Java (http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-java/) , Version 6 by Downey and Mayfield.

Available online (http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-java/) or buy a hardcopy if you prefer.

Required: SQL For Microsoft Access, 2nd edition

(https://iu.skillport.com/skillportfe/main.action#summary/BOOKS/RW%243517:_ss_book:28581) , by Cecelia
Allison and Neal Berkowitz. Available online through Skillport from your IU campus library
(http://iu.skillport.com/) or buy a hardcopy

Technology Requirements
The following software will be used in this course:

Microsoft Access running in IU AnyWare (https://uits.iu.edu/iuanyware) . See Microsoft's Privacy Policy

here (https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement) along with its accessibility statement
(https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/office) .
 NetBeans (from the Apache Foundation) + JDK (from Oracle, either Java SE or EE is ok) NetBean's
privacy policy is here (https://netbeans.org/about/legal/privacy.html) . As of June 2019, there is no
accessibility policy available for NetBeans. Oracle's privacy policy is here
(https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/privacy-policy.html) along with their accessibility statement
(http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/accessibility/index.html) .
This course site runs on Canvas. Its privacy policy is here (https://www.canvaslms.com/policies/privacy)
and its accessibility statement is here (https://www.canvaslms.com/accessibility) .
Zoom is used for online office hours. Zoom's privacy policy (https://zoom.us/privacy/) and
accessibility statement (https://zoom.us/accessibility) are available.
A recommended, interactive version of the textbook is available on Trinket (https://trinket.io/) , whose
privacy policy is here (https://trinket.io/privacy) . As of June 2019, there is no accessibility policy
available for Trinket.

Required Computer Skills

To successfully complete this course, a student must be able to:

Use the Canvas learning management system

Download software and install it following instructions provided in this course
Send email with and without attachments
Digitize hand-drawn pictures on paper either using a scanner, smartphone, or digital camera
Attach files or images to Canvas discussion posts
Create ZIP archives (a.k.a zip files) from a folder on your computer containing files

Prerequisites
None

Co-requisites
INFO-C100 Informatics Foundations

Description
This course is an introduction to programming and databases, two basic means of creating, changing, and
storing information on a computer. Computational thinking, basic programming, and basic debugging
methods will be covered in a high-level language. Data modeling, schemas, SQL queries, and data-entry
forms will also be emphasized.

Online Course Delivery

This course is 100% online with no face-to-face meetings. The expectation is that you will spend several (12
or more) hours per week completing the assigned reading, reviewing the notes, participating in discussions,
and completing the assignments. If you do not, your course grade will surely reflect your level of effort.
Course Goals
After taking this course, students will be able to:

1. Write a program using a high level programming language

2. Describe program flow diagrammatically
3. Control program flow with branches and loops
4. Design and implement a relational database
5. Write basic queries in SQL
6. Write parameterized queries in SQL
7. Create forms for data entry
8. Describe the differences between tables and views
9. Create views and temporary tables using SQL in Microsoft Access

Program Goals
INFO-C112 satisfies the following joint online informatics degree program goals. Students will…

Understand basic number systems on a computer (binary, octal, hex) (Program Goal A5, Introduced)
Demonstrate basic problem solving (for example pseudocoding, flow charting) techniques (Program Goal
B1, Developed)
Understand low level representation of data (bit, byte, int, float, char, unicode, string, audio, video,
image) (Program Goal B2, Introduced)
Demonstrate basic programming skills (including: variables, conditionals, loops, sub programs, and
parameter passing) (Program Goal B3, Reinforced)
Demonstrate the ability to design, implement, test, and debug structured and object-oriented programs
(Program Goal B5, Introduced)
Demonstrate the ability to discuss and/or construct memory based structures and algorithms (Arrays
(single, multidimensional), Lists (single, double, circular), stacks, queues, binary trees) (Program Goal
B7, Introduced)
Demonstrate the ability to identify elements of proper interface design, and ability to build user-centered
interfaces. (HCI) (Program Goal C5, Introduced)
Demonstrate proficiency of contemporary technological tools for communication and collaboration
(Program Goal D1, Introduced)
Effectively utilize oral, written, and visual communications of both qualitative and quantitative information
within the context of a team (Program Goal D3, Introduced)

Campus Policies
You’re probably used to seeing many policy statements on a syllabus. Faculty include these statements to
ensure you understand course expectations so that you can succeed in your courses. At IU Southeast, we
have placed all university policies on a single website easily accessed from every Canvas course site.
Simply look at the left navigation bar and click on Succeed at IU Southeast. You can find links to sites with a
great deal of useful information including
 How to avoid plagiarism and cheating
Disability Services
Student Engagement Roster (SER)
Tutoring centers
Canvas Guides
Financial Aid
Sexual Misconduct
Counseling
Writing Center and much more!

My expectation is that you review university policies carefully to ensure you understand the policy and
possible consequences for violating the policy. Please contact me if you have any questions about any
university policy.

Quizzes
There will be quizzes given covering the reading assignments or other course materials in the class. The
quiz questions will mostly be multiple/choice or true/false, but some may require you to write or program
short answers. Multiple choice, true/false, and fill-in-the-blank questions are autograded by Canvas. Short
answer questions are graded by me after the due date. These questions are general 2-3 points rather than
the single point for auto-graded questions. This increased point value reflects the fact that they are generally
more time-consuming and/or challenging while also allowing me to give partial credit when grading. I
generally provide written feedback and/or a solution for these questions. Canvas automatically provides the
solution for the auto-graded ones. Quizzes may be completed after the due date with a 10% per day penalty.
Portions of quizzes are automatically graded by Canvas, so you receive immediate feedback on that part of
your grade. The rest of the quizzes are graded by me usually within 3 business days.

Labs, Group work, and Homework

The course will have weekly programming or database labs. A typical lab assignment will have a set of
detailed directions students may follow in order to get practice with a particular aspect of programming or a
database management system. In addition to your grade, I will provide detailed written feedback on your
work to those of you that complete the assignment on time each week. Lab assignments handed in late will
be subject to a 30% per day penalty until solutions are posted. Late assignments will not be accepted
after solutions are posted. Lab assignments handed in on time are usually graded within 3 business days.
Group assignments are discussion assignments. They need to be completed before the due date. If a
discussion assignment requires you to create multiple posts in order to reply to other students, then you
must complete all of them before the due date. Other students in your group will be waiting on you to
post, too, so they can complete the assignment. Be considerate of their time and complete these
assignments early and conscientiously. Late discussion assignment submissions will receive either a
zero or a 30% per day late penalty at my discretion. The lowest grade in this assignment group will be
automatically dropped by Canvas when calculating your course grade.
Tests
There will be two cumulative assignments in this course serving as a test grade. The programming portion of
the course will conclude with a project (slightly larger/more complicated program than a homework
assignment) completed individually. The database portion will conclude with a cumulative test. The project
will be subject to a 10% per day late penalty. Tests submitted after the deadline for the database test
will receive a zero since the database test marks the end of the course. Tests are usually graded within
1 business day.

Letter Grades 
For each of the three assignment categories described above, a category average will be computed by
weighting each assignment in that category equally using the percentage of points scored on that
assignment as a grade "out of 100 points". Your overall numerical course grade will be computed from those
category averages using the weightings shown by Canvas on this page either to the right or the bottom of
the page depending on your browser and/or device screen size. Letter grades will be assigned using at least
a 10-point scale. That is, if you get 90% of the points in the course, you will receive at worst an A-. Within a
given letter-grade range, there will be pluses and minuses given as per the table below. Your grade will be
determined using the weighting shown by Canvas with this syllabus and in the gradebook. I reserve the
right to increase the grading scale for your benefit.

Letter Grades
Points Grade
>= 98 A+
94 <= grade < 98 A
90 <= grade < 94 A-
88 <= grade < 90 B+
84 <= grade < 88 B
80 <= grade < 84 B-
78 <= grade < 80 C+
74 <= grade < 78 C
70 <= grade < 74 C-
60 <= grade < 70 D
grade < 60 F

Communication Policy and Netiquette

The main way you will interact with other students and with me during this course is through your writing in
discussion forums, messages, or email. In this online course, writing is the same as speaking to others in
the classroom, so do not write anything you would not be comfortable saying to another student or to me. In
every communication in this course, be sure to respect the individual(s) you are communicating with. In
small group work in particular, you will share your work for that assignment with other students. As you
respond to each others work, please be polite, do not insult or belittle others, and provide constructive
criticism rather than harsh words. Please avoid offensive language or ideas and concentrate on the course
material and goals of the assignment.

Additional Accommodations
If you have specific physical, psychological or learning disabilities and require accommodations, please let
me at the start of the semester so that your learning needs may be appropriately met. You will need to
provide documentation of your disability to the Coordinator of Disability Services on your campus. Additional
information about the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities may be obtained at
http://www.ius.edu/disability-services (http://www.ius.edu/disability-services)

Course Summary:

Date Details

Introduce Yourself to the Class

 due by 12pm
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471405)
Tue Aug 27, 2019
Course Orientation Quiz
 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471389)
due by 5pm

Java Hello World Lab (Chapter 1)

 due by 5pm
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471457)
Fri Aug 30, 2019
Think Java Chap. 1
 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471398)
due by 5pm

Java Types and Operators Lab (Chapter 2)

 due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471500)
Mon Sep 2, 2019
Think Java Chap. 2
 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471391)
due by 10am

Chap. 3 Group work: Formatted I/O

Fri Sep 6, 2019  due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471403)

Java IO Lab (Chapter 3)

 due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471468)
Mon Sep 9, 2019
Think Java Chap. 3
 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471397)
due by 10am
Date Details

Group Discussion Assignment: Draw the Call Stack

 due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471406)

Java Method Lab (Chapter 4)

Mon Sep 16, 2019  (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471489)
due by 10am

Think Java Chap. 4

 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471390)
due by 10am

Java Branching Lab (Chapter 5)

 due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471436)
Mon Sep 23, 2019
Think Java Chap. 5
 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471396)
due by 10am

Java Function Lab (Chapter 6)

 due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471455)
Mon Sep 30, 2019
Think Java Chapter 6
 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471388)
due by 10am

Discussion: Pseudocode and Flowcharting

Thu Oct 3, 2019  due by 5pm
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471404)

Think Java Chapter 7

Mon Oct 7, 2019  due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471399)

Java Iteration Lab (Chapter 7)

 due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471474)
Tue Oct 8, 2019
Java Iteration Programming Assignment (Chapter 7)
 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471479)
due by 10am

Java Array Lab (Chapter 8)

Mon Oct 14, 2019  due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471426)

Java String Lab (Chapter 9)

 due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471495)
Mon Oct 21, 2019
Think Java Chapter 9
 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471402)
due by 10am

Java Class Lab (Chapters 10-11)

 due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471442)
Mon Oct 28, 2019
Think Java Chapters 10 & 11
 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471401)
due by 10am
Date Details

Flowchart for Programming Project

Mon Nov 4, 2019  due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471425)

ERD Lab (SQL Chapter 1)

 due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471415)

Microsoft Access Hello World

Mon Nov 11, 2019  (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471505)
due by 10am

SQL Chapter 1
 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471387)
due by 10am

Access Query By Example Lab - (SQL Chap. 2)

 due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471407)

Programming Project
 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471513)
due by 10am
Mon Nov 18, 2019
SQL Chapters 2 & 3
 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471386)
due by 10am

SQL DDL & Access Database Creation

 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471529)
due by 10am

SELECT FROM WHERE queries - SQL Chaps 4 & 5

 due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471519)
Mon Nov 25, 2019
SQL Chapters 4 and 5
 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471394)
due by 10am

Aggregation and INNER JOIN queries - SQL Chapters 6 & 8

 due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471408)
Mon Dec 2, 2019
SQL Chapters 6 & 8
 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471395)
due by 10am

Parameter Queries Lab (SQL Chapter 13)

 due by 10am
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471512)

SQL Chaps 10 & 12 - Views and temporary tables

 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471525)
due by 10am
Wed Dec 11, 2019
SQL Chapter 13
 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471392)
due by 10am

SQL Chapters 10 & 12

 (https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471400)
due by 10am

Database Test
Mon Dec 16, 2019  due by 5pm
(https://iu.instructure.com/courses/1850175/assignments/9471393)