EECS/CS 284

General Information

Course web pages

Information about this course, including the syllabus and assignments, will be posted on the web at
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/courses/eecs284/
Students are required to check the course web page and the pages it links to for information about the course.

Required reading

Textbook: From Bits and Gates to C and Beyond. Yale Patt and Sanjay Patel.  McGraw-Hill 1999.
Coursepack: LC-2 Manual.  A user's guide for the computer simulation software you will use in this course.  Available at Dollar Bill Copying, 611 Church Street, Ann Arbor.
Additional required reading may be provided via web, e-mail, or handouts.
Membership in the course e-mail group is required, as is reading the e-mail sent to this group.  You must sign up to receive email the first time you attend a lecture.  If you do not receive e-mail messages from the instructor by the next lecture, send e-mail to jimeng@umich.edu asking to be added to the e-mail group.

Grades and grading policies

Overall grades will be based on total points earned on four written homework assignments, two programming projects, and one exam.  Points will be tentatively assigned as follows (circumstances may require a change in this distribution; this is at discretion of instructor):

Program and Homework deadlines

Each assignment will specify a due date and time.  Late assignments will automatically lose 20 percent of the possible points. Written homework assignments will be due at the beginning of lecture on the due date (6:30 p.m. sharp).  Assignments handed in after that time will be considered late as long as they are handed in before the beginning of the next lecture. Deadlines and late policies for programming assignments will be explained later.

revised: January 6, 2000