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General Lab
Standards
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This
class requires approximately 2 1/2 hours per week of laboratory time.
There are a total of 8 lab exercises that are intended to help reinforce
the text material. I will try
to make the assignments "within reason" such that they can be
completed within the allotted lab period but this may vary depending on the
material and your prior experience. Due dates for each
lab are posted in the Course Outline and in Blackboard with the lab assignment. Please check the
due date carefully and recheck periodically as I may adjust due dates depending on
the needs of the class.
If you do not have reliable access to a computer, Cuyamaca
College
offers certain "open lab" periods during the week.
To use the open lab periods, you must enroll in the CIS-198 Open Lab
class. This is a no cost, no grade
class that provides you with computer lab time if you should need it.
Even if you think you probably don't need it, you are still strongly encouraged
to sign up for it anyway just so you do have it available if the need should
arise. If you use the campus lab computers as part of CIS-198 Open
Lab, please make sure you login before starting and logout when
you're finished on the Red Canyon PC in the back of the lab.
A
handout for downloading & installing a free Java editor/compiler is
available on Blackboard. If you plan to work on lab exercises at
home, you are encouraged to download and install this.
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Plagiarism Policy
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Plagiarism
hurts your personal/professional reputation, the professional reputation
of others, and the reputation of the college. Assignments
in this class are to be completed and turned in on an individual basis
unless specified otherwise. Even in the
software industry, where most projects are done in a team environment, team
members are expected to contribute substantial original effort to their assigned
portion(s) of the project.
The bottom line: you will not gain any benefit from this course if
someone else is doing all the work and thinking for you.
You
are encouraged to share ideas and help each other but copying another's work
(source code, documentation, etc.) will result in a zero score for all parties
involved. Repeated offenses may
result in removal from the class and/or referral for disciplinary action
pursuant to the College guidelines for discipline in plagiarism matters.
If you use the campus lab computers, please don't leave hard copy source code/documentation lying around the
lab or store your files in publicly accessible network file folders.
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| Acceptable |
Not Acceptable |
| Assisting a classmate with a problem.
That is, helping them find and correct an error in their
lab or project code. |
Allowing another student
to outright copy your lab or project code. |
| Allowing another person in the class to "sanity check" your application
design and/or review lab/project documentation for typos, missing
details, etc. |
Allowing others to
outright copy your design work and documentation. |
| Quizzing each other prior
to an exam. |
Copying another student's
answers or providing other students assistance during an exam. |
| Using a block of code from
a textbook, magazine or web site and adding comments to cite where
you found it. |
Copying and pasting blocks
of code from a web site or CD without citing the source. |
| If you use the campus lab
computers, before leaving the lab,
check the printer for any print jobs that are yours. Check
your workstation to make sure files are saved to your H: drive
account or removable media (I.e., USB
storage device). Your removable media is removed/disconnected
from the computer
and is in your possession. You are logged out and your
workstation is shut down. |
Leaving printouts, files
and/or storage media out in the open where somebody can plagiarize your work. |
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Labs
All
labs must be uploaded/submitted to the Digital Drop Box page on Blackboard. Make sure all files required are placed in a zip file along
with any required documentation files called for in the lab exercise. The
zip file should be named in the format FirstName_LastName_LabXX.zip (where XX =
the lab number such as 01, 02, etc.).
Deliverables:
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All source files,
graphic files, data files, etc. required to make your lab/project run. Your
lab/project must be able to compile and run from the files and folder
structure submitted.
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Answers to questions
or any other documentation called for in the exercise in either a MS Word
compatible document file or a text file. Note: This may vary from one lab to
the next so check the lab assignment handout carefully and pay close attention to
the specific deliverables for each lab.
Frequently Save & Backup Your Work!
When
working on lab assignments, make it a point to stop periodically and save
your work. It's also a very good idea to
periodically backup your lab exercise files to CD, USB storage or some
other form of secondary storage media.
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