CS 450 / 550 -- Introduction to Computer Graphics

4 credits

Fall Quarter 2023

http://cs.oregonstate.edu/~mjb/cs550

Syllabus and Resources Page

Handouts	Classes	Projects

This page was last updated: December 2, 2023

Welcome to CS 450/550! I am so glad to have you here. I really enjoy getting to work wth this class. This will be an excellent chance for you to exercise your creativity. You will surprised by what you will be able to do!

Oregon State University Covid-19 Information

For the latest on OSU's Covid policies, click here. Masks are welcome, but not required.

Attention Ecampusers!

A special welcome to all you Ecampusers! It is good to have a cohort here that comes from all over the world. That makes you very special!

You will experience the same course that the on-campus students experience. Same material, same notes, same projects, same quizzes, same tests, and same Zoom Office Hours. There are recorded videos that go along with the notes (they are called "LV" for "Lecture Videos" and you will see them in the same table that has links to the notes).

This course is asynchronous and somewhat flexible, but not self-paced. Our schedule for course content and the due dates provide guardrails for how you need to interact with the material.

Like I do whenever I have Ecampus students, I have setup a time every week to do a Live Lecture so that you can hear a discussion of the topics with the chance to ask live questions. On-campus Graphicsers are welcome to come as well. Based on the surveys, the Live Lectures for Fall 2023 will be Wednesdays at 2:00 Pacific Time. They will last until ~3:30. From then until 3:55 will be Office Hours.

The Zoom-room is: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/8340727662?pwd=b01tZ0hJUzdHNUtrdTRqSkdwbG4zdz09

These Live Lectures will be recorded so that if you miss them, you can catch them later.

During the LL, you can also ask questions in the Zoom Chat, and I will answer them during the LL and in a document that I will post in the same place on this Class Resources Page that I post the recorded LL videos.

Thanks, Ecampusers, for being here!

Graphics Thinking Comes First

The goal of this class, at least the first part of it, is to develop your "graphics thinking", that is, how to go from an idea in your head to actually getting the pixels on the screen. To get you to that state as smoothly as possible, we will start by using a part of OpenGL that has been deprecated, but is easier to learn and apply. (In OpenGL, "deprecated" doesn't mean "gone away", it means "not recommended for efficiency reasons".) Later on, you will learn the recommended (i.e., efficient) ways of using OpenGL.

Looking Glass Quilts

To see an academic year calendar, click here.

All students are subject to the registration and refund deadlines as stated in the Academic Calendar.

Stuff You Should Be Interested In:

• In addition to filling out the SLE (Student Learning Experience) survey, I also have a class-specific survey that helps me evolve this particular course. Click here to get into it.

• It's here! The CS 450/550 Keytime Animation Gallery. Click here to see it!

• Alert student Max Cheskin points out that, as long as we are discussing 3D Printing this week, OSU has a student 3D Printing Club. Find out more about it here: https://groups.engr.oregonstate.edu/3dpc/home

• For those of you intending to use OpenGL shadows in your Final Project, here is the complete zipped solution for the sample shadows code. Hit 's' to toggle the shadows on and off.

• A couple of hints on Project #6:
  • The Head Start code on the P6 handout is a complete implementation of the gold-sphere-red-square example from the shader notes. Nothing left out, no question marks. I recommend you start with this. Compile it. It should run. Then make the ellipse changes.
  • You don't need to compile pattern.vert and pattern.frag yourself. Don't try including them in your Makefile or in your Visual Studio solution! The line of sample.cpp code: Pattern.Create( ... ) does the compile for you.
  • In the gold-sphere-red-square example code, there are 3 uniform variables that get passed to your shaders each time Display is called. They are there to tell the fragment shader how and where to draw the square.
  • For the ellipse, you will need 4 uniform variables, a different 4 than any from the sample code. The 3 uniform variables from the sample code won't help you draw an ellipse.

• For Linux shader users:
  If you are getting undefined reference messages on GLEW:
  
  • Install the 'glew' package using the command "sudo apt-get install libglew-dev"
  • Remove #ifdef WIN32 in InitGraphics()
  • g++ -o sample sample.cpp -g -I. -lGL -lGLU -lglut -lGLEW -lm

• For Apple Mac shader users:
  
  • In all .cpp files, be sure all #include <GL/anything> have been changed to #include <OpenGL/anything>
  • In all .cpp and .h files, be sure all #include "glew.h" lines have been eliminated
  • In the pattern.* shader files, comment out the #version line at the top
  • In the pattern.* shader files, change all out declarations to varying
  • In the pattern.* shader files, change all in declarations to varying

• The new trailer for Pixar's Inside/Out 2 is out. Click here to see it. Two of our speakers, Rob Russ and Vinh Le, have been working on it.

• Check this out! Someone is using 3D graphics to create a 4D golf game. Here and here.

• That Lighting Steps document that, well, sumarizes the steps in lighting, can be found here.

• To help you plan, Test #2 (which is a second test, not a comprehensive final) will be taken on Canvas in a 60-minute interval of your own choosing during December 13-17 (Finals Week). It will open at 12:01 PM on Wednesday December 13 and will close at 11:59 PM on Sunday, December 17. The test will be open notes.

• For some reason, trying to make your Kaltura video Unlisted from within Canvas is a losing game. Try this instead:
  1. Go to http://media.oregonstate.edu
  2. Login
  3. Go to My Media
  4. Click on the video
  5. Using the ACTIONS pull-down menu on the right, select Publish
  6. Select Unlisted
  7. Select Save

• When you start to use OBJ files, go here to find some of my favorites.

• Thanks to the newsletter of Andrew Price, the Blender Guru, here are some interesting uses of computer graphics:
  • Beirut fire and explosion
  • Architectural and Landscape visualization

• From an article in the NY Times on October 13, 2020: Scientists have created a geometric model of Covid-19 and have used CG to animate it in 3D. Click here to see the video. Notice the use of lighting to make the spheres look like spheres and not blobs. If this was done in OpenGL, this would definitely be a great time to be using display lists for the spheres! Also notice how jarring the sudden changes in camera direction are. When we cover KeyTime animation, we will talk about how one could make this smoother.

• Here are some job-seeking resources you might find useful:

  • Mark your calendars for the EECS Networking Day: January 26, 12:00-2:30. The new website isn't ready, but last year's is here: https://bit.ly/Jan26-NetDay

  • And, mark your calendar now! The Winter Quarter 2024 OSU Career Fair is February 21, 11:00-3:00, in the CH2M-Hill Alumni Center.

  • The EECS Career and Networking Events Calendar can be found here.

  • Want your resume proofread and commented on? Email me a PDF and I will do that. Please rename the file to YourOnidID.pdf so I can keep them straight. (I get a lot of resume.pdf files sent to me.)

  • OSU maintains a service called Handshake that is meant to connect you and potential employers. Find it at: https://career.oregonstate.edu/handshake . Then go to Student Login Handshake.

  • Check out the resources at the OSU Career Development Center.

  • There is a great book called: Programming Interviews Exposed: Coding Your Way Through the Interview
    It prepares you for CS interview questions by revealing strategies and giving a nice review of data structures, recursion, and other programming information you might be asked about.
    I have a paper copy of it if you'd like to see it. Also, it's around $25 on Amazon.
    The OSU library has it in electronic form. Click here, scroll down, then click on View and download full book.

• Here is a page of Common OpenGL Mistakes.

• One of our former TAs prepared a document covering common Troubleshooting Problems with Visual Studio. Check it out here.

• You can get some of the Microsoft packages for free. This includes Visual Studio. To do this, go to: https://azureforeducation.microsoft.com/devtools. Click the blue Sign In button. Login using your ONID@oregonstate.edu username and password.
  I recommend that you get Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise.

• Here is an Online 3D Model Converter, which you might find handy to convert 3D model files into different formats for your own use.

Class Notes Handouts and Recorded Videos in Place of a Textbook

Course material will consist of my notes and web pages.
All required course materials for this class will cost you $0.00 (i.e., free).

LV = Lecture Video

NOTE: I am still recording new versions of some of the videos. Any topic without an LV is one being recorded still. Stay tuned.

Week #	Noteset
0	Class Resources Page					LV
0	Introduction to CS 450/550	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
0	A Brief History of Computer Graphics	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
0	Project Notes	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
0	The Computer Graphics Process	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
0	The Science of Pixar	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
0	Getting Started with OpenGL Programming	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV-A	LV-B	LV-C
1	Khronos Group's OpenGL 4.6 Reference Card	PDF
1	The C/C++ Sample Program	sample.cpp				LV
1	Display Lists	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
1	GL Utility Toolkit (GLUT)	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
1	Color in Computer Graphics	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV-A	LV-B
1	Sines and Cosines for Animation	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
1	OBJ Files	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
2	Lighting	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV-A	LV-B	LV-C
2	Lighting Steps	PDF
2	Framebuffer	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
3	Keytime Animation	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
3	OpenGL Transparency	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
4	Texture Mapping	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV-A	LV-B
4	Test #1 review.	HTML
5	Geometric Modeling	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
5	Vertex Buffer Objects	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
5	GLM	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
5	A short GLM Primer	HTML
6	Freezing Your Animation	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp
6	Shaders	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV-A	LV-B
6	Casting Shadows with OpenGL	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
6	Forward Kinematics	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
7	Instancing	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
7	Rendering	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV-A	LV-B
8	Stencil Buffer	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
8	Animation	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV-A	LV-B
8	3D Printing	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
9	Setting the Eye Position on an Orbiting Body	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
9	Stereographics	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
9	Looking Glass Stereo Quilts	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
10	Virtual and Augmented Reality	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
10	Vulkan	1pp	2pp	4pp	6pp	LV
10	More Information	PDF
10	Test #2 Review	HTML

Guest Speaker Links

Andrew Glassner, Weta Digital: "Exploring the World with Computer Graphics"
Talk Video
Articles
Andrew's short Chicken Crossing

Rob Russ, Pixar: "Behind the Scenes at Toy Story 4

Natasha Anisimova, Blizzard: "Research and Development for Cinematics at Blizzard"

Vinh Le, Pixar (and formerly ILM): "Intro to Visual FX"
Video

Class Schedule

To see an academic year calendar, click here.

For on-campus students, face-to-face class time is: Monday and Wednesday, 12:00 - 1:40. Unless otherwise specified, all classes will be held in the Learning Innovation Center (LiNC) -- Room 228.

Cancelled dates: Nov 22

Note: this schedule is my best guess on where we'll be -- it is only approximate.

Week #	Start Date	Topics
0	Sept 27	Introductions Discussion of class objectives and how we will go about it A brief history of computer graphics Project Notes The Computer Graphics Process The Computer Graphics Vertex-to-Pixel Pipeline Getting started with OpenGL
1	Oct 2	Getting started with OpenGL Project #1 Sample program Color in CG GL Utility Toolkit Display Lists OBJ files
2	Oct 9	Project #2 Lighting: Ambient, Diffuse, Specular, per-vertex versus per-fragment Framebuffers: the rasterizer, Double-buffering, Z-buffer, Z-fighting
3	Oct 16	Project #3 Keytime Animation Transparency (blending)
4	Oct 23	Project #4 Test #1 review. Texture mapping Natasha Anisimova, Blizzard Games, speaking on "Research and Development for Cinematics at Blizzard", on Wednesday October 25, 12:00 noon. This will be shown on Zoom and in LiNC 228 for on-campusers. Here is the Zoom-room. Confirmed.
5	Oct 30	Geometric modeling: meshes, curves, surfaces, constructive solid geometry (CSG), L-systems Vertex Buffer Objects (VBOs): their role in non-deprecated OpenGL, how to create them, VBO efficiency versus glBegin-glEnd Test #1 will be taken on Canvas in a 60-minute interval of your own choosing during November 1-5. It will open at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, November 1 and will close at 23:59 on Sunday, November 5. The test will be unproctored and open notes. Andrew Glassner, Weta Digital, who spoke (via video) on: "Exploring the World with Computer Graphics" will appear November 1, 12:00 noon, for a live Q&A session. Here is the Zoom-room. Confirmed.
6	Nov 6	Shaders: the GLSL shader programming language, vertex shaders, fragment shaders, uniform variables, out/in variables, the role of the rasterizer Casting shadows: rendering the depth into a texture, two-pass algorithms GLM: its role in non-deprecated OpenGL, its role in vertex shaders
7	Nov 13	Rob Russ, Pixar, speaking on: "Behind the Scenes with the Making of Toy Story 4". This will be a live presentation. Monday, November 13, starting at 12:00 noon. Here is the Zoom-room. Confirmed. Project #6 Forward kinematics: general hierarchical transformations Rendering: rasterization, ray-tracing, path-tracing, radiosity
8	Nov 20	Animation: keyframe, forward kinematics (FK), inverse kinematics (IK), physics, chains, cloth, functional animation, motion capture (mocap) 3D printing No class on Wednesday, November 22! Enjoy an extra day of Thanksgiving.
9	Nov 27	Vinh Le, Pixar (and formerly ILM), who spoke (via video) on: "Intro to Visual FX" will appear Nov 29, 12:00 noon, for a live Q&A session. Here is the Zoom-room. Confirmed. Stereographics: non-symmetric viewing volume Producing "quilts"
10	Dec 4	Virtual and augmented reality: viewing headsets, distortion shaders, foveated rendering, spherical stereo rendering OpenXR Vulkan: differences from OpenGL More Information document
T2	Dec 13-17	Test #2 will be taken on Canvas in a 60-minute interval of your own choosing during December 13-17. It will open at 12:01 PM on Wednesday, December 13 and will close at 11:59 PM on Sunday, December 17. The test will be unproctored and open notes.

Live Lectures

I will do a Zoom-based Live Lecture every week on Wednesdays starting at 2:00 Pacific Time. We will go over some current materials, some upcoming materials, and maybe some extra materials (such as CG videos). It will be a time for you to also ask live questions or chat questions. Attendance at the live session is optional. These sessions will be recorded in case you missed them. Here is my Zoom-room.

Week #	Chat	Video
0	PDF	Video
1	PDF	Video
2	PDF	Video
3	PDF	Video
4	PDF	Video
Natasha	PDF	No recording was allowed.
Blender, I	PDF	Video
5	PDF	Video
6	PDF	Video
7	PDF	Video
Blender, II	PDF	Video
8	PDF	Video
9	PDF	Video

Professor

Office:	Kelley 2117 (2nd floor, south side, overlooking the Milam dumpsters)
E-mail:	mjb@cs.oregonstate.edu
Phone:	541-737-2542 (probably will need to leave a message)
Zoom-room:	Zoom

Above all, know that I am here to help you.

Prof. Bailey's Help Hours

All Office Hours

Unless otherwise indicated, all OHs are on Zoom. All times are Pacific time. LL signifies "Live Lecture".

	Su Jung Hwang (SJH)	Naren Digambar Khake (NDK)	Nirmit Patel (NP)	Hojun Shin (HS)	Uddyan Sinha (US)	Jian Tang (JT)	Grace Todd (GT)	Prof. Bailey (PB)
Email	hwangsuj	khaken	patenirm	shinhoj	sinhau	tangjian	toddgr	mjb
Zoom-room	Zoom	Zoom	Zoom	Zoom	Zoom	Zoom	Zoom	Zoom
Mondays	8:00-9:00	9:30-11:30	2:00-6:00			8:30-9:30 , 4:00-5:00		10:00-11:00
Tuesdays	8:00-11:00 , 1:00-2:00	9:30-11:30	2:00-4:00		5:00-6:00	8:30-9:30 , 4:00-5:00	12:00-4:00	11:00-1:00
Wednesdays		9:30-11:30	2:00-6:00		10:00-2:00 , 5:00-6:00	8:30-9:30 , 4:00-5:00		LL: 2:00-4:00
Thursdays	8:00-12:00	9:30-11:30		1:00-6:00	11:30-12:30 , 5:00-6:00	8:30-9:30 , 4:00-5:00	12:00-4:00
Fridays	8:00-9:00	9:30-11:30		9:00-2:00	5:00-6:00	8:00-9:00 , 4:00-5:00	12:00-1:00 , 3:00-4:00	4:00-6:00

Day	7:00	8:00	9:00	10:00	11:00	12:00	1:00	2:00	3:00	4:00	5:00
Monday		SJH		NDK , PB				NP	NP	NP , JT	NP
Tuesday		SJH	SJH	SJH , NDK	PB	GT , PB	SJH , GT	NP , GT	NP , GT	JT	US
Wednesday				NDK , US	US	US	US	LL , NP	LL , NP	NP , JT	NP , US
Thursday		SJH	SJH	SJH , NDK	SJH	GT	HS , GT	HS , GT	HS , GT	HS , JT	HS , US
Friday		SJH , JT	HS	NDK , HS	HS	HS , GT	HS		GT	JT , PB	US , PB

The links point to the Zoom-Rooms
"LL" = Prof. Bailey's Live Lecture

Demonstration Videos

• Here is a video showing Z-buffering and Z-fighting:
  • Z-buffering and Z-fighting

• Here is a video about Lighting:
  • Lighting

• Here are videos from the Geometric Modeling notes:
  • Bézier curve sculpting
  • Lattices for modeling

• Here are videos from the Animation notes:
  • Two-body keyframe animation
  • Chain Animation
  • Cloth Animation
  • Rigid Body Animation -- Dominos
  • Fluid Animation
  • Particle Animation
  • Functional Animation -- Collision Avoidance

Projects

Project Turn-In Procedures

Your electronic turnin will be done at http://teach.engr.oregonstate.edu and will consist of:

1. Your source files (.cpp, .vert, .frag)
2. Your PDF report.

Do not zip, tar, rar, etc. any of the files. Just upload them all to teach.

Electronic submissions are due at 23:59:59 on the listed due date.

You can create the videos any way you want. Kaltura is quick, easy, and OSU has a site license for it. Here is how to use Kaltura. Zoom recording also works well.

Files You Already Have

Other Downloadable Files

// a global variable:
int DL;

. . .

// do this in InitLists( ):
DL = glGenLists( 1 );
glNewList( DL, GL_COMPILE );
	LoadObjFile( (char *)"spaceship.obj" );
glEndList( );

. . .

// do this in Display( ):
glCallList( DL );

Grading

All turnins will be done on Teach. Teach has been told about each project's due date.

Each of you has been granted 5 Bonus Days, which are no-questions-asked one-day project due date extensions, subject to the following rules:

1. Up to 2 Bonus Days may be applied to any one project
2. Some projects have been labeled No Bonus Days. Bonus Days cannot be used on these projects.
3. Bonus Days cannot be applied to tests or quizzes

To use one or more Bonus Days on a given project:

• You don't need to let me know ahead of time.
• Turn-in promptness is measured by date, not by time. Don't worry if Teach tells you it's late because it is between 23:30:01 and 23:59:59. But, after 23:59:59 on the posted due date, it's late!
• Teach has been instructed to accept your turn-in, no matter when you do it.
• I will run a script to identify the projects that will have Bonus Days deducted
• I keep my own spreadsheet of who has used how many Bonus Days. If you are not sure how many you have left, send me an email.

Background Resources

Over the last couple of years, various faculty have been putting together mini-tutorials on topics that we (apparently) expect you to magically know, without us ever actually showing you. Here they are. We hope they help.

• Using Kaltura to record turn-in videos for class assignments.
• Video on C/C++ Debugging
• Video on C/C++ pointers
• Video on C/C++ pointers as applied to strings
• Notes on Solving Problems and Debugging
• Notes on Learning vim

Good References

• A free OpenGL textbook: rscfullbook.pdf

• Edward Angel and Dave Shreiner, Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-down Approach with OpenGL, 6th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2011.

• Dave Shreiner, Graham Sellers, and John Kessenich, OpenGL Programming Guide, 9th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2016.

Other Useful Online Graphics Information

• OpenGL:
  • Industry-wide OpenGL Information: http://www.opengl.org
  • Web pages for the full OpenGL "Red Book" http://www.glprogramming.com/red/
  • Free OpenGL textbook rscfullbook.pdf
  • OpenGL 4.6 Reference Card opengl46-quick-reference-card.pdf
  • All the OpenGL API calls: http://docs.gl/
  • OpenGL Man Pages: https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL-Refpages/gl2.1/

• The GLUT Library:
  • HTML GLUT Documentation: https://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/spec3/spec3.html
  • PDF GLUT Documentation: https://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/glut-3.spec.pdf

• GLM:
  • GLM web site: http://glm.g-truc.net/0.9.9/
  • GLM Manual https://github.com/g-truc/glm/blob/master/manual.md
  • Full GLM folder zip file: glm.zip

• WebGL:
  • Khronos Group's WebGL Page: http://khronos.org/webgl
  • Khronos Group's WebGL Quick Reference Card: https://www.khronos.org/files/webgl/webgl-reference-card-1_0.pdf
  • OSU WebGL site: http://cs.oregonstate.edu/~mjb/webgl
  • Three JS: http://www.aerotwist.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-three-js/
  • JQuery user interface: http://api.jqueryui.com/
  • Ed Angel's WebGL site for his book examples: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel/BOOK/INTERACTIVE_COMPUTER_GRAPHICS/SIXTH_EDITION/CODE/WebGL/

• SIGGRAPH (The Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics): http://www.siggraph.org

• Vulkan:
  • OSU Vulkan Materials http://cs.oregonstate.edu/~mjb/vulkan
  • Vulkan: https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/
  • Vulkan 1.1 Quick Reference Card: https://www.khronos.org/files/vulkan11-reference-guide.pdf

• NASA's 3D Resources: https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/

• A fascinating and extremely detailed dissection of a game's graphics: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492876)

  It references a lot of the concepts covered in the class.

  • http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphics-study/
  • http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphics-study-part-2/
  • http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphics-study-part-3/
  • http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/03/10/deus-ex-human-revolution-graphics-study/
  • http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/06/23/supreme-commander-graphics-study/

• 3D OBJ Models you can download:
  • TurboSquid: http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/3D-Models/free/obj
  • More free models: https://free3d.com/3d-models/
  • SketchFab: https://sketchfab.com/features/free-3d-models
  • Free 3D Models: http://thefree3dmodels.com
  • Level of Detail book support (free): http://lodbook.com/models
  • Florida State (free): http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/data.html
  • Digimation (costs money): http://www.digimation.com

Other Notes You Might Find Useful!

Software
ParaView
WebGL

Grades K-12 Outreach
TinkerCad
Blender
Scratch
Processing
SketchUp

Student Resources:

Academic Calendar

All students are subject to the registration and refund deadlines as stated in the Academic Calendar: https://registrar.oregonstate.edu/osu-academic-calendar

Counseling and Psychological Services

Oregon State University's Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) provides OSU students with individual, relationship, and group counseling. I have met some of these people, and they are really good. If you are in any type of emotional difficulty, don't hesitate to contact them. If it makes it easier for you, I will walk over with you.

TELUS: Mental Health Support for Students

TELUS Health Student Support @ OSU is an app that gives all OSU students, including Ecampus students, 24/7 access by text or phone with a licensed mental health counselor. The app makes it easy to schedule short-term counseling appointments with the same ongoing counselor and provides educational materials covering mental health topics. Students can communicate with a counselor in five different languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, French, Spanish or English); additional language options are available upon request. Download this app by looking up "TELUS Health Student Support" on the Google Play Store (Android) or the Apple App Stoe (iPhone).

Establishing a Positive Community

It is important you feel safe and welcome in this course. If somebody is making discriminatory comments against you, sexually harassing you, or excluding you in other ways, contact the professor, your academic advisor, and/or report what happened at https://studentlife.oregonstate.edu/studentconduct/ reporting so we can connect you with resources.

Academic Dishonesty

You are expected to do your own work. Helping each other, with explanations or clarifications, is OK. Sharing code with each other or copying code from someone else's archive site (e.g., github), however, is considered cheating. Anyone caught cheating will fail this class, and the matter will be turned over to the Dean's Office.

You are expected to read and understand Oregon State University's Statement of Expectations for Student Conduct, found here: https://beav.es/codeofconduct . If there is any parts of this document that you don't understand, ask me!

Students With Disabilities

Accommodations for students with disabilities are determined and approved by Disability Access Services (DAS), https://ds.oregonstate.edu/. If you, as a student, believe you are eligible for accommodations but have not obtained approval please contact DAS immediately at 541-737-4098 or at disability.services@oregonstate.edu . DAS notifies students and faculty members of approved academic accommodations and coordinates implementation of those accommodations. While not required, students and faculty members are encouraged to discuss details of the implementation of individual accommodations.

All materials used in this course are designed to be accessible. If you require accomodations, please contact DAS immediately.

Student Bill of Rights

OSU has twelve established student rights. They include due process in all university disciplinary processes, an equal opportunity to learn, and grading in accordance with the course syllabus. See: https://asosu.oregonstate.edu/advocacy/rights

Religious Holidays

Oregon State University strives to respect all religious practices. If you have religious holidays that are in conflict with any of the requirements of this class, please see me immediately so that we can make alternative arrangements.

Life Events

As {John Lennon? Allen Saunders?} has said: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans". I care about you as a person. When life happens to you, send me an email and come see me. I might be able to help. But I surely can listen. You are not alone.

Reach Out for Success

University students encounter setbacks from time to time. If you encounter difficulties and need assistance, it's important to reach out. Consider discussing the situation with me or an academic advisor. Learn about resources that assist with wellness and academic success at http://oregonstate.edu/ReachOut. Students are always encouraged to discuss issues that impact your academic success. If you feel comfortable sharing how a hardship might impact your performance in this course, please reach out to me. If you are in immediate crisis, please contact the Crisis Text Line by texting OREGON to 741-741 or call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

Basic Needs

Success at OSU means knowing and using your resources. One helpful resource is the community of staff available at the Basic Needs Center (BNC) for support (bnc@oregonstate.edu, 541-737-3747, https://studentlife.oregonstate.edu/bnc). Students can drop in during open hours and talk with a BNC student leader for resources, ideas and strategies connected to basic needs challenges. The BNC is often known for its food pantry, but there are other resources connected to groceries and affording food and staff who can help you work through housing stressors. Undergraduate students, living in Oregon, are especially encouraged to explore SNAP as a resource. Domestic undergraduate students living in Oregon are more likely than not to be eligible for SNAP. BNC staff are skilled with helping students navigate this process.

Additionally, the BNC Textbook Lending Program offers students the opportunity to check out required textbooks for the academic term.

If you are comfortable doing so, please talk with me. I will do everything I can to help you.

Comments? Suggestions? Questions? Contact:
Prof. Mike Bailey
Oregon State University Computer Science
2117 Kelley Engineering Center
Corvallis, OR 97331-5501
541-737-2542
mjb@cs.oregonstate.edu

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