COMS 4995 Advanced Systems Programming

Spring 2026

• COMS 4995-004: Mon & Wed 2:40-3:55pm, 633 Seeley W. Mudd Building

• Two synchronous and in-person exams:

  • Exam 1: Wednesday March 25, 2:40-3:55pm
  • Exam 2: Monday, May 4, 2:40-3:55pm
  • No final exam

  There are no make-up or alternate exams. If you cannot make any of those exams, please take the course next semester.

• Instructor: Jae Woo Lee

• Office hours:
  • Jae’s office hours
  • TA office hours
• REQUIRED READING: ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICIES

• 4157 Dev Guides

HW Due Dates

Date	Assignment
F 1/23	HW0 due

Course Schedule

Lecture 1: W 1/21

Course overview and logistics

• Lecture:
  • L00-overview

• Assignments:

  1. Subscribe to cs4157@lists.cs.columbia.edu – see L00 above

  2. Read the following two documents:
     • http://www.cs.columbia.edu/education/honesty
     • http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~jae/honesty.html

  3. HW0 (50 points, individual assignment) – due Fri 1/23, 11:59pm

     Send an email to Jae containing:

     • To: jae@cs.columbia.edu
     • Subject: “[4157] hw0-UNI” – without quotes, sole space before hw0, UNI replaced with your actual UNI in lowercase
     • Your name, major & school program, year – ex) Jae Woo Lee, Physics, Columbia College, class of 1994
     • Your pledge – see http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~jae/honesty.html
     • CS classes taken and/or other programming background
     • Optionally anything else you want to let us know
     • Optionally attach a picture of you, but please reduce image file size to about 100KB
  4. Start forming your group of up to three people

Git Overview and Internals

• Reading (optional)
  • Pro Git, entirely free online
    • Ch. 2: Git Basics
    • Ch. 3: Git Branching
    • Ch. 10: Git Internals
• Lecture:
  • L01-git-version-control

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Last updated: 2026-01-19