Fall 2025
CISC-1600-E01 Computer Science I
CISC-1610-E01 Computer Science I Lab
FCRH (Fordham College at Rose Hill)

https://markmeretzky.com/fordham/1600/
Mark Meretzky
mmeretzky@fordham.edu

CISC-1600-E01 is CRN (course reference number) 27620, 3 credits.
CISC-1610-E01 is CRN 27621, 1 credit.
This is the home page for these two courses.

In-class examples constitute the course.
Homework, updated each week.
Syllabus contains the Fall 2025 calendar, classroom, textbook, grading policy, and course outline. It also contains links to the Fordham policies on lateness, absence, and plagiarism.
Students, with a link to the public_html directory of each student
1. .png image files
2. .wav audio files
Mark Meretzky is the instructor. His Fordham email is address is mmeretzky@fordham.edu
The Tutoring Room (John Mulcahy Hall room 310) is now open. The students are there to help Monday to Friday, 11:30 am–5:15 pm. (On Thursdays, till 6:30 pm). No reservation required. Most of the tutors are experienced in:
1. Discrete I & II (CISC-1400 & CISC-2100)
2. Computer Science I & II (CISC-1600 & CISC-2000)
3. Data Structures
4. Algorithms
5. Theory of Computation
6. Database
7. Data Mining
Account information about your account on our Fedora Linux server storm.cis.fordham.edu. Ignore what it says about email and password. You will have to change your secret password the first time you log in.
Next time: Graph paper homework should come a bit later. English to Pig Latin. Reference in range for loop.
sort doubles into increasing order, decreasing order, increasing distance from 98.6, decreasing distance from 98.6.
sort strings into alphabetical and reverse alphabetical order, increasing and decreasing length.

Examples from other C++ courses