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

Joseph Jess – Computer Systems

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Office hours last updated 23 March, 2018 (cleared fall term data, new data coming soon)

Page last major update: 23 March, 2018 (updated general data for spring 2018)

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.

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/ and you can practice all sorts of stuff here: https://repl.it/

- 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 2018:

Administrative information: administrativeInformation.pdf

Door schedule: Door Schedule (GDoc in Google Drive)

CS162 (Introduction to Computer Science II)(CRN: 41720)

(1000-1120 MW, MKH-101 and 10-1150 F, MKH-105):

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: 41670)

(0800-0950 MW, MKH-101 and 0800-0950 F, MKH-105):

This is a design and implementation course that continues discussing:

- Sorting and searching

- design and implementation of abstract data types and data structures such as linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, graphs, and hases

- complexity analysis of space and time of various abstract data types that we explore and some line by line analysis of the structures that we write ourselves

- recursion and some of the many ways that it can be incorporated into our designs and programs

Class details: Google drive link to course materials

CS275 (Databases)(CRN: 41913)

(0800-0950 TR, MKH-103 NOTE: we do not meet in person on Sundays):

Introduces the design, purpose, and maintenance of a database system. Covers the entity-relationship (ER) model, relational systems, data definition, data manipulation, structured query language (SQL), and we will see about getting a web app running that uses our database!

Class details: Google drive link to course materials

Past pages:

2017-2018: Fall 2017, Winter 2018

2016-2017: Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Spring 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? Probably not, but I am willing to talk to you all about it if you come find me to chat :)!

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