1. 0.0 Problem solving in IT (COMP1001)
Rocky K. C. Chang
September 3, 2018

2. The teaching team
Lecturer: Dr. Rocky K. C. Chang (PQ829,
Office hour: By appointment
TAs: WU Hanqing and YANG Yan ni
Classes:
Group 2: Mondays 16: :20 (N102) and Wednesdays 08: :20 (N103)
Group 1: Tuesdays 16:30-18:20 (N103) and Fridays 09:30-11:20 (N103)
Couse website: and Blackboard
Slides
Assignments
Latest timetable
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3. Pre-requisite and teaching approach
Assumed no computing background
Teaching approach: practice, practice, and practice
Understand the problem.
Design computer solutions.
Implement the solutions as computer programs.
Make sure they are correct and efficient.
Teaching approach: lecture-lab integration

4. No textbook required
John Zelle Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science 2nd Edition. Franklin, Beedle & Associates Inc., Wilsonville, OR, USA.
Allen B. Downey Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist. Green Tea Press.
Charles Dierbach Introduction to Computer Science Using Python. Wiley.

5. What after COMP1001?
COMP1011: Programming fundamentals (C programming)
COMP2011: Data structures (and algorithms)
COMP2021: Object-oriented programming
COMP2421: Computer organization
COMP2423: Operating Systems
COMP2322: Computer Networking
COMP3438: System Programming
COMP4433: Embedded System

6. How will you be assessed?
Assignments: 15%
Two/three tests and quizzes: 20%
Project: 20%
Exam: 45%

7. Question 1
Which of the following is NOT the name of a programming language? B
Prolog
XLS
Modula-3
Smalltalk

8. Question 2 Google has two datacenters in Asia. Where are they?
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Changhua County, Taiwan
Singapore
Seoul, Korea
Tokyo, Japan
Guam

9. Question 3
Out of the ten richest men in the world, according to the recent Forbes’ report, how many of them work in the IT and software field?
1 or 2
3 or 4
More than 4 but less than 9
9 or 10

10. Question 4
Who owns Whatsapp?
IBM HP
Microsoft
Amazon
Facebook

11. Question 5
Who owns Instagram?
IBM HP
Microsoft
Amazon
Facebook

12. Question 6
According to the most recent survey, what is the average salary for a graduate to be an application developer in the US?
US$35,000 per year
US$45,000 per year
US$55,000 per year
US$65,000 per year
US$75,000 per year
US$85,000 per year

13. Question 7 Which country has the fastest supercomputer as of today?
China
USA
Japan
France UK

14. Question 8
Given
What will be printed out for the program fragment below?

15. Question 9
What will be printed out for the program fragment below?

16. Question 10
Given
What will be printed after executing the code below?

17. Question 11
What will be printed after executing the code below?

18. Question 12
What will be printed after executing the code below?

19. Question 13
What will be printed after executing the code below?

20. Question 14
Given
What will be printed after executing the code below?

21. Question 15
What will be printed after executing the code below?

22. Question 16
What will be printed after executing the code below?

23. My expectations and policies
Attend all lectures on time.
Read the covered materials on your own.
Complete your assignments and project yourself and on time.
Policy regarding late submission of works
10% off for every hour late
Policy regarding plagiarism
You will betray your own integrity, whether it will be found out or not!
Both giver and receiver subject to the same penalty below
All the students involved not only will receive 0 marks for this assessment, they will also lose additional, same number of marks from their total assessment marks.
Moreover, we may report the serious cases to the Departmental Learning and Teaching Committee for further disciplinary actions.

24. That’s about it for the introduction.

25. What you need to do this week is
Bring your notebook to the class in the third week.

26. End
"All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty." (Proverbs 14:23)
“一切勞苦都有益處，嘴上空談引致貧窮。” (箴言 14:23)