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Where can you find help?
Refer to the staff listing for the following sources:

  • Instructor office hours
  • TA office hours
  • TA tutoring by appointment
  • Consultants
  • Occasional review sessions
    • Remember to frequently check announcements!

    CS100 on the Internet
    Please follow CS100 guidelines (shown below) when using the following sources:

  • The CS100 newsgroup
  • The CS100 FTP site
  • Advice on this website
  • Recent CS100 website
  • Archived CS100 websites
  • Email to the staff
    • Bear in mind that too much email can easily swamp us, so please use it as a last resort!

    Guidelines For Email/Newsgroups
    Please follow the following guidelines when using email and news for CS100:

  • Be polite! Give unclear writing the benefit of the doubt.
  • No MIME-encoding
  • No HTML
  • No unsolicited attachments
  • No autowrap - break lines by hand: Formatting is important in programs, and autowrap tends to screw up formatting.
  • Don't enter lines more than about 70 characters in width, especially in text - wider lines are a little more tolerable in programs
  • Use a fixed-width (aka monospaced, aka non-proportional) font such as Courier or Monaco. This way, everyone sees things formatted the same way.
  • Quote relevant text from the original message to establish context, but delete unneeded quoted text, to make reading easier/faster.
  • Add new text after the corresponding quoted text, NOT at the very top.
    • Following these guidelines makes your messages friendlier and more accessible, thus making your questions more likely to be answered. CIT maintains a list, as well. Other netiquette conventions are possible and reasonable, but CS100 has its own guidelines. Mixing conventions tends to lead to confusion. Therefore, please follow the CS100 conventions.

    Additional Help
    Cornell has a number of additional programs and groups that offer tutoring, advice, counseling, and other helpful things:
     
    Program Location Description
    Student Web Services refer to website This website collects a wealth of information you need for Cornell.
    Learning Skills Center 420 CCC "CLT provides academic support to students in all seven colleges at Cornell. We encourage Cornell students to take advantage of our services. Please visit CLT at 420 CCC (Computing and Communication Center) or call 255-6310. The center is open Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m."

    The CLT provides help with study skills, time management, and test taking; some tutoring available.
    Tau Beta Pi refer to website "Tutoring is offered free of charge to all students by Tau Beta Pi. Tutors are available for all classes listed to the right, as well as many other classes."
    Engineering Advising 167 Olin Hall Academic advising for engineering students.
    Academic Support Services For Engineering Students refer to website "Whether you are falling behind in course material and need to catch up, or you are keeping up but want a better understanding of the material, use of academic support services can be important to your success at Cornell. This guide was developed to help you learn about and locate the variety of support services available across the university."
    Support Services listing by College of Arts & Sciences refer to website This website is a listing of general support services for a variety of concerns students may have. See also Arts College Student Services.
    Minority Programs 170 Olin Hall "Cornellís students have only one common denominator: intellectual curiosity. Beyond that, we celebrate differences and remain committed to the egalitarian vision of our founder, Ezra Cornell, who established "an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." 
    Women's Programs 167 Olin Hall "The Office of Women's Programs in Engineering was established to promote an environment that encourages success among Cornell's female student engineers."
    Dear Uncle Ezra refer to website When all else fails, ask Uncle Ezra!

    Physical and Mental Health
    If you have physical illness or emotional distress, we strongly urge you to contact Gannett, the Cornell University Health Service Center.


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