Joseph Jess – Computer Systems

Contact Information
jessj@linnbenton.edu
Phone: 541-917-4264
Office: MKH106
Office Hours: Mon. 0900-1000 and by appointment Tue. 1000-1100 and by appointment Wed. 0900-1000 and by appointment Thur. 1000-1100 and by appointment Fri. 0900-1000 and by appointment

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Joseph Jess

Office hours last updated 30 March, 2017 (for winter term)

Page last major update 30 March, 2017 (updated general data for spring 2017)
Page last minor update 02 June, 2017 (added nand2tetris link)

Note: Contacting me in person or by email (jessj@linnbenton.edu) are the most reliable ways to communicate with me. I am also often in McKenzie Hall 101, 103, or 105 (possibly some time now being spent in MKH-203 and T-119 as I support the new innovation classroom :) ).

Office hours can be scheduled by email at jessj@linnbenton.edu.

Useful resources:

- Looking for some free books on various computer science topics? Check out this list! https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md

- Want to get some self study practice in programming, web development, or other related topics? Check out this video series: https://www.thenewboston.com/videos.php

- Interested in practice your programming logic skills in an automated environment? You can practice Java and Python here: http://codingbat.com/

- Interested in learning Python? Check out this "hard way" of learning Python: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/

- Do you want to build and test a whole computer?!? Then check this material out (being used in my CS271 assembly and architecture class this coming fall): http://www.nand2tetris.org/

Spring 2017:

Administrative information: administrativeInformation.pdf

Door schedule: Door schedule (PDF in Google Drive)

CS162 (Introduction to Computer Science II)(CRN: 47658)

(1200-1320 MW and 1200-1350 F, T-119):

A programming-heavy course that:

- continues object-oriented programming ideas such as aggregate and nested classes, interfaces, inheritance, and polymorphism,

- continues implementing graphical user interfaces,

- discusses software engineering principles such as design, testing, documentation,

- continues some basics of computer science theory such as introductory searching and sorting algorithms, introductory data structures.

Class details: Google Drive link to course materials

CS260 (Data Structures)(CRN: 47486)

(1000-1120 MW and 1000-1150 F, T-119):

A programming heavy course introducing common data structures such as array and node-based lists, stacks, queues, dequeues, binary trees, hash tables, and graphs. We also discuss abstract data types, complexity analysis, and continue discussing sorting, searching, design, testing, and documentation.

Class details: Google Drive link to course materials

CS276 (Databases II)(CRN: 47124)

(0800-0950 TR, MKH-103):

Our second databases course (this and CS275 are being redesigned currently), covering stored procedures, optimization, some security topics, connecting to a database with some system of student's choice, and lots of practice working with a database.

Class details: Google drive link to course materials

CS280 (Cooperative Work Experience in Computer Systems)(CRN: 33340)

(no scheduled class meeting times):

Be sure to get in contact with me personally if you are in a computer-related CWE!

Class details: in Moodle course shell

Past pages:

2016-2017: Fall 2016, Winter 2017

2015-2016: Fall 2015, Winter 2016, Spring 2016

2014-2015: Fall 2014, Winter 2015, Spring 2015, (plus summer CWE)

Bio, pic, etc coming someday?

Note to self: fix the website since the terrible editor here has chosen to break things again... so much extra useless formatting :(!

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