The standard for papers in the graduate program is the APA style. All participants in this course and all graduate INSS, MGMT, PUAD, and ECON courses should have a copy of the style guide:

American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Edition. Washington DC: Author.

Publications of the various professional societies (such as ACM -- the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE Computing Society, and the various management professional societies) are strongly recommended.  In addition, there are many trade journals (such as eWEEK) that MIS professionals should become familiar with, many of these being published both weekly and on-line.

Please note that Bowie State University does not use "D" for graduate students. The grade F is used to designate academic failure. F(n) is used to designate failure for non-completion.  Grades of Incomplete or Withdrawal are governed by UMUC-Europe policies. For further details, please refer to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog, available in your local Education Center or online at http://www.ed.umuc.edu/general_info/publications/catalogs/.

Graduate school at the masters level focuses on helping students obtain the education needed for success as professionals in their chosen fields. Thus, UMUC-Europe Graduate Programs and Bowie State University share the common goals of promoting excellence in academic scholarship through thoughtful inquiry and the skillful application of knowledge and theory for the betterment of society.

Participate in classroom discussions: You are expected to come to class prepared to engage in all discussions in a professional and informed manner. Usually this requires two to three hours for every hour of a face-to-face class and approximately ten hours of preparation per week for a DE class.

Complete graduate level programming assignments:  You are to submit three programming assignments, one of which will be assigned on each of the first three weekend meetings and due on the following weekend meeting. You are expected to complete the programming assigmnents on your own. No group programs will be accepted. The instructor will be available by Email for help on the programming assignments.

Complete three written examinations: The examination process in this class will assist you in developing the writing and critical thinking skills necessary for successfully passing the comprehensive exam required of all graduate students. The examination questions used for this course will either be taken directly from past comprehensive exams or written as though to be included on a comprehensive exam.

• Introductions
  
• Review of Syllabus
  
• Clarification of goals, objectives and requirements
  
• Orientation to the subject
  
• Language Evaluation Criteria
  
• Language Categories
  
• Implementation methods
  
• A brief history of the Major Programming Languages
  
• Formal methods for describing syntax
  
• Backus-Naur Form, parse trees

Sebesta Chapters 1, 2 and 3

• Lexical analysis


• Parsing
  
• Variables
  
• The concept of binding
  
• Strong typing
  
• Scope and lifetime

Sebesta Chapters 4 and 5

• Exam 1
  
• Primitive data types
  
• Strings
  
• Array types
  
• Records and Unions
  
• Pointers and Reference types

Sebesta Chapter 6

• Arithmetic Expressions
  
• Type conversions
  
• Relational and Boolean expressions
  
• Assignment statements
  
• Selection statements
  
• Iterative statements
  
• Unconditional branching

Sebesta Chapters 7 and 8

• Exam 2
  
• Fundamentals of subprograms
  
• Parameter Passing methods
  
• Functions

Sebesta Chapter 9

• The implementation of subprograms
  
• Calls and returns
  
• Nested subprograms
  
• Data Abstraction
  
• Language examples
  
• Encapsulation constructs

Sebesta Chapters 10 and 11

• Design issues for Object-Oriented Languages
  
• Support for OOP in Smalltalk, C++, Java, C# and other languages
  
• Introduction to subprogram-level concurrency
  
• Monitors
  
• Message Passing
  
• Threads in Java and C#

Sebesta Chapters 12 and 13

• What is exception handling
  
• Exception handling in Ada
  
• Exception handling in C++ and Java
  
• What is event handling
  
• Event handling in Java
  
• Exam 3
  

Sebesta Chapter 14

The University has a license agreement with Turnitin.com, a service that helps prevent plagiarism from internet resources. I may be using this service in this class by either requiring students to submit their papers electronically to Turnitin.com or by submitting questionable text on behalf of a student. If you or I submit part or all of your paper, it will be stored by Turnitin.com in their database throughout the term of the University's contract with Turnitin.com. If you object to this temporary storage of your paper, you must let me know no later than two weeks after the start of this class. Please Note: If you object to the storage of your paper on Turnitin.com, I may utilize other services to check your work for plagiarism

The official university policy on Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty can be found at http://www.umuc.edu/policy/aa15025.shtml. Section I.C. states: "Faculty may determine if the resubmission of course work from previous classes (whether or not taken at UMUC), partially or in its entirety, is acceptable when assigning a grade on that piece of course work. Faculty must provide this information in their written syllabi. If the resubmission of course work is deemed to be unacceptable, a charge may not be brought under this Policy and will be handled as indicated in the written syllabi."

Please refer to Description of Course Requirements for specific information on how resubmissions will be treated in this course.

Students with disabilities should contact the appropriate support office at UMUC-Europe. 

Jan Keller, Director of Student Services

UMUC-Europe, Heidelberg

Phone:  +49-6221-378299

Email:  edstudent_svc@ed.umuc.edu

Mailing Address:  Unit 29216, APO AE 09102 OR Im Bosseldorn 30, D-69126 Heidelberg, Germany

Please refer to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog for information on the following:

Academic Integrity
Course Load
Exception to Policy
Grade Appeal Process
Make-up Examinations
Nondiscrimination
Code of Civility

Hard copies of the catalog are available at your local Education Center.