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 July, 2020 (updated for summer 2020)

Page last major update: 26 March, 2020 (updated course data for spring 2020)

Note: Contacting me in person is (normally) the most reliable way to communicate with me, seconded by email at jessj@linnbenton.edu. I am also (normally) often in McKenzie Hall 101, 105, or somewhere upstairs for a class. You can also contact me through our unofficial discord server here: https://discord.gg/KKFQsVJ

Office hours can be scheduled by email at jessj@linnbenton.edu or through our unofficial discord server here: https://discord.gg/KKFQsVJ

A picture of me from 2016 (I used to shave regularly...):

Joseph Jess with winter hat and beard

A quick note on computers in a modern education: anyone planning to pursue a degree related to computers, networking, web development, or pretty much anything in this modern day will require ready access to a computer. For our computer systems and computer science classes, we may need something powerful enough to run a program as complicated as Microsoft Visual Studio (link); be sure you go beyond the minimum requirements as that will still be quite slow as compared to even getting close to the recommended requirements.

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 some skills that will help in our courses, check out this document on Resources for success in various skillsets (GDoc)

- 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/

- Do you want to build and test a whole computer?!? Then check this material out (used in my CS271 assembly and architecture class 2017): http://www.nand2tetris.org/

Spring 2020:

Administrative information: Administrative Information (GDoc in Google Drive)

Door schedule: Door schedule (GDoc in Google Drive)

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

(1000-1150 MWF, "MKH-101", zoom link available to registered students):

A programming-heavy course using Python that:

- continues object-oriented programming ideas such as aggregate and nested classes, a bit on the idea of interfaces, errors, 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.

Unofficial Discord server (look for the cs162 channel): https://discord.gg/KKFQsVJ

Class details: Course materials (Google Drive folder)

CS260 (Data Structures)(CRN: 41670)

(0800-0920 MW, 0800-0950 F, "MKH-101", zoom link available to registered students):

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 hashes

- 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

Unofficial Discord server (look for the CS260 channel): https://discord.gg/KKFQsVJ

Class details: Course materials (Google Drive folder)

CS140U (Fundamentals of Unix/Linux)(CRN: 40616)
(1400-1620 TR, "MKH-105", zoom link available to registered students):

This is a lab heavy course that introduces:

- Linux command line interface commands

- Some common filesystem features

- Scripting basics

- An intro to virtual machines, systems administration and configuration management

Unofficial Discord server (look for the cs140u channel): https://discord.gg/KKFQsVJ

Class details: Course materials (Google Drive folder)

Past pages:

2019-2020: Fall 2019, Winter 2020,

2018-2019: Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019

2017-2018: Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 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, etc coming someday? Probably not, but I am willing to talk to you all about it if you come find me to chat or find me online :)!

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