Notices
- Lectures for Semester Two are held on Tuesday and Thursday at 4pm in Archway 4.
Lectures start on Tuesday July 11th. - Labs are held in the Owheo building, in lab C on the ground floor. You will have two labs per week. Each lab is 1 hour and 50 minutes long.
The labs start on the afternoon of Wednesday July 12th. - Please take responsibility for regularly reading the information provided to your university email address and Blackboard throughout the semester.
- COMP160 course outline (pdf)
Working from home
Lab files are available by logging in to Blackboard and following the Course Documents link.
Your Computer Science Department Home Directory is not directly accessible from off campus. However there are ways to share files between home and the lab.
- You can email code to yourself.
- You can bring it in on a pen drive / memory stick / CD-ROM.
- You can store files for access off and on-campus using the your OneDrive. Instructions from ITS available at https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/studentit/student-desktop/saving/ .
But lecture and lab attendance is expected, and students must take personal responsibility for receiving information provided in them. Here is an exerpt from the Provision of Information policy.
2. Responsibilities of Students
(a) Students are responsible for making themselves aware of all University rules and regulations pertaining to their rights and responsibilities as students and to the degree in which they are enrolled.
(b) Students shall be deemed to have received any information:
provided in scheduled classes, regardless of attendance;
sent to their student email address;
made available via Blackboard or other University-approved learning management systems.
(c) Students are expected to be aware of all information related to a paper that is made available to them, and, in a timely manner, to raise with staff any questions or concerns relating to this information.
(d) Students are expected to be aware of, and to act in accordance with, the University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
Otago University Links
- BlackBoard.
- Computer Science Home Page.
- Information Science Home Page.
- Student Learning Centre.
- Academic Integrity Policy
- Provision of Course and Study Information to Enrolled Students Policy
Resources on the Web
- DrJava home page
- Java (version 8) Libraries / API
- Overview of Java from Wikipedia
- the Java tutorial from Sun
- the Sun Java New to Java page
- Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years article by Peter Norvig
- LearnJavaOnline.org Interactive Java Tutorial.
- Javaworld, for Java news and discussion
There are many free online resources for learning programming and computer science. Here are a few:
- Khan Academy (tutorials)
- MIT
- Stanford
- Harvard
- Carnegie Mellon
- A list of courses
- Another list
- EDX.com has various relevant courses (hard work but good reputation)
