Questionnaire

NOTE: filling out this questionnaire does not constitute signing up for this class. To sign up for this class, you must be officially registered for the class through the university.

NOTE: Fields marked with an asterisk^* are required!

*Your First Name^:**
*Your Last Name^:**
Your Preferred Nickname, if any:
*Your Preferred Email Address^:**

The email address will be used by the instructor, if necessary, to contact you between lectures.

Please read the course policy on Academic Integrity and acknowledge below.

I have read and understand the above policy

We will make use of the course webpage for many aspects of this course. Much of the information on that page will only be available to current students in the class. Furthermore, we will use the web for submitting assignments and for viewing your grades.

For these reasons, we ask that you create an identity and password for use in this course. You may choose whatever username and password you wish. Please note that:

For your username, please use only alphanumeric characters (e.g., letters and numbers)
For your password, you may choose any combination of letters, numbers and symbols, however no spaces should exist.
Please remember both the username and password which you choose. For both username and password, upper and lower case letters are not treated as the same. You must remember any capitalization you use.
The username and password has nothing to do with any of your existing computer accounts. In fact, for security it is wise that you pick a password which is different from any other passwords which you use elsewhere.

*Choose a username^:**
*Choose a password^:**
*Please Retype your password^:**

Note: This password might not be activated until the results of this questionnaire are processed by the instructor. At a later time, if you forget the password or wish to change it, please contact the instructor.

We hope to allow you to complete work for this course on the computer of your choice, and from varying locations. That said, we'd like to have some information on what you'd consider your likely "primary" working environment.

Where is your primary location?
What operating system will you be using?
What browser will you be using?

Do you already have an account on our department server (turing)? Yes No

The prerequisite for this course includes CSCI 150 (Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming) or equivalent.
What is your previous experience in this regard?

What programming language did that course use?

If at SLU, who was your instructor?

The prerequisite for this course also includes some background in discrete mathematics which could have been satisfied either by taking MATH 135 (Discrete Mathematics), or MATH 266 (Principles of Mathematics), or CSCI 140 (Intro to Computer Science), or the equivalent to one of these courses.
What is your previous experience in this regard?

We ask several questions in order to gather information about familiarity with topics for students entering the class. This will help us in providing adequate support during the semester and perhaps in selecting material to be covered in the course.

For each of the following topics, please express your familiarity based on the following scale:

1 = never heard of it
2 = sounds vaguely familiar
3 = definately seen it (although maybe not recently)
4 = quite comfortable
5 = could explain it to others

Some of these topics were likely covered in prerequisite courses, but other we expect to be new material for this course.

	General Programming Topics
Arrays	1	2	3	4	5
Pointers	1	2	3	4	5
Passing Parameter	1	2	3	4	5
The Destinction between Passing Parameters by Value vs. By Reference	1	2	3	4	5
Dynamic Memory Allocation (i.e., "new" operation)	1	2	3	4	5
Inheritance	1	2	3	4	5
Recursion	1	2	3	4	5
Linked lists	1	2	3	4	5
Stacks	1	2	3	4	5
Queues	1	2	3	4	5
Reading/Writing Files	1	2	3	4	5

	Specific to C++
Use of post/pre increment/decrement operators (e.g., `i++`, `++i`, `i--`, `--i`)	1	2	3	4	5
Use of ".h" header files	1	2	3	4	5
Use of makefiles	1	2	3	4	5
Use of the 'const' keyword	1	2	3	4	5
User-defined classes	1	2	3	4	5
Constructors	1	2	3	4	5
Copy Constructors	1	2	3	4	5
Destructors	1	2	3	4	5
Overloading an Operator	1	2	3	4	5
Casting between data types	1	2	3	4	5
Use of 'templates'	1	2	3	4	5
Use of access control specifiers (e.g. `public`, `private`)	1	2	3	4	5
Use of 'exceptions'	1	2	3	4	5

	Use of Unix/Linux Operating System
Experience working with a Unix/Linux operating system	1	2	3	4	5
Experience using SSH to remotely access a computer	1	2	3	4	5
Experience using an editor (e.g. emacs, pico, nano, vi)	1	2	3	4	5

Last modified: Thursday, 11 January 2007