My office hours are Wed 2.30-3.30 and Fri 1-2 in room 7210, AP&M building.
How to contact me. Please check this webpage (math.ucsd.edu/~justin/10CS08.html) before asking me questions, as I will try to keep it up-to-date with general course info. My email is justin@math.ucsd.edu and my phone is 534-2649. Questions about grading should go to the TAs, who maintain the spreadsheet.
Discussion sections are on Tuesdays, in Centre Hall 207. TAs and office hours TBA.
Calculus Lab This is in the basement of the AP&M building, room B402A. The TAs hold some of their office hours there, as described above, but you can get help at other times too.
Oasis You can get more help from Oasis, who run extra workshops on the course. These are going to be Monday and Wednesday, 2-4pm. See their webpage.
The book is Hughes-Hallett "Calculus: Single and Multi-variable", the 4th edition. If you have an earlier edition, it probably doesn't matter too much, though you'll have to photocopy the homework assignments from a friend.
Calculators You can use any kind of calculator when doing homework, but calculators will not be allowed on exams. (The questions will be set so that the arithmetic is easy.)
Midterms and final There will be two in-class midterms, on Wednesday April 23rd and Wednesday May 21st. The final is on Friday June 13th from 11.30-2.30 in a room TBA. The rules are the same for all exams: you must bring your ID, but you do not need blue books. Calculators are not allowed. You may also bring notes on one 8.5 x 11 piece of paper (front and back).
Make-ups There will be no make-up exams of any kind.
Students who think they might miss a midterm because of a
sporting event are responsible for informing me in good time and
bringing an official form signed by their coach. In such circumstances
you may be able to take the quiz or midterm under the supervision of
the coach. In the case of illness there is little that can be
done. But don't panic: you can drop a bad midterm, as described
below.
The "curve". The final grade scale from a recent calculus
course I taught turned out to be:
0-48 F; 49-56 D; 57-73 C; 74-86 B; 87-100 A.
This scale can only be taken as a rough guide to how you're
doing, because the actual scale used for this course will be
determined at the end of term. (I need to correct for how easy or hard
the exams have turned out to be, which isn't always easy to judge in
advance!).
Cheating is now taken extremely seriously, and the penalties can be harsh - they can include automatically failing the course, things going down on your permanent record (as the Violent Femmes used to say) and expulsion from the University. So don't!