CMPT 120 - D300 - Introduction to Computing Science and Programming 1 - Spring 2024

If you have any questions ...

If you have any questions about the material of this course, assignments or midterm:

1. Bring your questions to our office hours.
2. Post your questions on our Discussion Forum on CourSys.

Instructor and TAs - Contact Information

TA's

This semester, our TA's are:

Christian Hallgrimson	Arsh (Mohammadarsh) Khokhar	Rohan Mathur	Sitong Zhai

Office Hours

If you cannot come to any of the above office hours, please, feel free to make an appointment with the instructor (alavergn@sfu.ca) or a TA via Discussion Forum on CourSys.

Posting our questions on Discussion Forum on CourSys

This semester, we shall use the Discussion Forum on CourSys to post our questions (as opposed to emailing our questions to the TAs and to the instructor).

This way, everyone (in the same course section) gets to know the answer to all questions asked.

Discussion Forum is also where we can discuss with our classmates any CMPT 120 questions we have. However, before posting a question on Discussion Forum, check to see whether there are office hours currently happening. If so, it may be more efficient to bring our questions to these office hours as we may get answers faster.

Here are a few notes about Discussion Forum:

• Everyone in CMPT 120 can post questions.
• Make sure the question we are about to post relates to the material of CMPT 120. If so, make sure the question we are about to post has not already been asked and answered. So, before posting a question, see if this question has already been posted and answered by perusing Discussion Forum.
• Everyone in CMPT 120 is encouraged to answer posted questions. TAs will be moderating Discussion Forum and answer the questions that have not been answered during their office hours.
• Try to avoid questions like:

  Here is my code, it doesn't work. Help!"

  A better question would be:

  Hey, I'm trying to do ________, but I get this error ________.  
  I tried doing ________, but this is what happened ________.  
  I also tried doing ________, but this is what happened ________.  
  Any ideas?

Bottom line: The purpose of Discussion Forum on CourSys is not to share code/solutions to exercises, but knowledge!

Emails

• cmpt-120@sfu.ca
  • Used by the instructor and the TAs to broadcast messages to all students registered to CMPT 120.
  • Emails are sent to your @sfu.ca email address, for example, myUsername@sfu.ca, so, check your sfu email account regularly.

  These broadcasts are archived. You can find the link to this Archive in the menu on the left of our course web site (the option is called "Email Archive").

• alavergn@sfu.ca
  • Send questions related to administrative issues to this email address.
  • I answer students email during my office hours, if time permits.
  • Note that emails sent to this address will not be answered on week-ends.

Email Instructions

When sending emails...

• In the subject line, please, include:
  • Course # + the topic of the message, for example: "Cmpt 120 - missed midterm due to illness - attached is my Official Medical Certificate"
• In the body of your message, please, include:
  • Your name
  • Your student number
  • Your student username (What is my student username? Here is the answer!)

This information is needed to help the receiver quickly respond to students emails.