CS100M: Archived Announcements

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Date Topic Description

5/11
T No more
consulting Consulting ends for the semester today after 5pm. Regrade requests on Project 6 should be submitted on paper to the TAs or to Professor Fan during their office hours this week. Check the special office hour posting for the times and locations.
(To submit a regrade request, fill out the regrade request form, attach a paper copy of the files in question, and give it to a TA or to Professor Fan during office hour this week.)

5/11
T Special Consulting Hrs There will be special consulting hours held in Carpenter Lab on Tues., 5/11 from 2-5. Please check back here for announcements about additional hours this week.

5/10 M Office Hrs Check the new office/appointment hrs in effect this week.

5/10 M review
questions Review questions have been posted. There will be a review session this Sunday, 1:30-3pm, at Hollister B14.

5/4 T E3 Complete the course evaluation and get a point for "Exercise 3"!

5/3
M Consulting Consulting is still being held in Carpenter Lab. Please ignore the sign on the door saying the lab is closed because of a virus. The lab is, in fact, open, but the computers aren't currently usable.

5/3 M Section Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).

4/30 F P6 B Project 6 Part B has been posted. Due 5/6 at 3pm. You will write code in MATLAB.

4/26
M Section Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).

4/25 Su P6 Project 6 Part A has been posted. Due 5/6 at 3pm. Start now! Part B will arrive in a week, after you learn about MATLAB.

4/22
R T3 Unclaimed papers will be available for pick up in Carpenter Lab after 2:30pm on Thursday.

4/21 W T3 We will return Prelim 3 in lecture tomorrow.

4/19 M Solutions Solutions to Project 5 and to the review questions have been posted. You can use them for studying.

4/19 M Section Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).

4/13
T T3 Prelim 3 will take place Tuesday, 4/20, 7:30-9:00pm. Location, topics, review questions, and review session info are posted under the Exams-->Prelim 3 link. By now you should have told us about any conflicts with other scheduled exams. Notify Kelly Patwell now about your conflict if you haven't done so already.

4/12
M Section Section will be held in the regular classrooms this week.

4/8 R typos in book A student found some typos that could cause confusion:

Page 256: The instantiation for array result in the middle of the page should use the length y-x+1 (not x-y+1).
Page 263: The table on the top of the page, in the first row should show the index 2 under the result column.
Page 264: The method header in Figure 8.7 needs two other parameters: int h, int k

4/8 R extra search example (2-d array) In lecture today we wrote code to search through an entire 2-d array for some target value. Some students are interested in seeing the structure/algorithm that one would use to get out of the nested loops as soon as the target is found. It's relatively easy to do if one uses break, so the challenge is to exit the loops without using break! I showed the code to some students after class and now I have posted the code with extra comments for explanation on the Notes page (4/8). Check it out!

4/6 T P5 Project 5 has been posted. Due 4/15 at 3pm. Start working on it now!

4/5 M Section Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).

3/30 T T2 returned Prelim 2 was returned in lecture today. Unclaimed papers will be available for pick up in Carpenter Lab after 4:30pm on Wednesday. Submit regrade requests in Carpenter Lab by Tuesday, 4/6, at 10:50pm. Here're the statistics:
median 83; mean 77.8; standard deviation 15.9

3/30 T P4 extended
deadline The deadline for Project 4 has been extended to Monday, 4/5, at 3pm. Note that P4 is not big--you can finish it by Thursday! In order to encourage you to finish the work by the original deadline of 4/1 R 3pm, we offer two bonus points. Here's how it'll work:
Submit your work under "Project 4" in CMS as usual by 4/1 3pm. You will receive 2 bonus points.
Or submit your work under "Project 4 extension" in CMS by 4/5 3pm.
You can choose only one of the two submission options above.

3/29 M Section Section will be held in the regular classrooms this week.

3/25 R CMS & Course Web Site Due to scheduled maintenance on the CS web server, CMS and the CS100J course web site will be down on Monday, March 29 from 3:30AM-7:30AM.

3/19 F Prelim 2 We'll be returning the prelims in lecture on Tuesday after spring break. The scores will be posted on CMS afterwards.

3/19 F P4 Project 4 has been posted. Due 4/1 R 3pm. P4 is a bit shorter than previous ones due to spring break. Try to read the project description over the break so that you're ready to start (asking questions) after the break!

3/16 T old prelim
solutions Q1a of the fall03 prelim uses the while loop. We haven't covered the while loop yet this semester so our prelim 2 will not involve the while loop. Similarly, the solutions to Q2 of the fall03 prelim uses a while loop, but you can solve the same problem using the for loop!

3/15 M old prelims The old prelims used a different class, Keyboard, for reading user input. This semester, we will use class JLiveRead. For example, to read an integer entered from the keyboard, we use JLiveRead.readInt(). (The corresponding code in the old prelim would say Keyboard.readInt().)

3/15 M Section Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).

3/12 F Review Review questions have been posted. There will be a review session on Sunday, 1-2:30pm.

3/11 R E2 Exercise 2 has been posted. A paper copy is due at the beginning of your lab section on 3/16, 3/17. Do not submit E2 on CMS.

3/9 T T2 Prelim 2 will be on March 18, Thursday. Location TBA. By now you should have told us about any conflicts with other scheduled exams. Notify Kelly Patwell now about your conflict if you haven't done so already.

3/8
M Tutors
Available
Through LIFE’s Tutors-on-Call program, tutors are available free of charge for first- and second-year core courses for Engineering and BEE students. All tutors will be available on an on-call basis, so it would be wise to plan in advance. Please visit the webpage below for more information: http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/studentServices/irs/Tutoring.htm

3/9 T Section Section will be held in the regular classrooms this week (see Syllabus-->Times and Places).

3/2 T T1 regrade
requests Prelim 1 was returned today, so next Wednesday (3/10) is the last day to submit P1 regrade request at Carpenter Lab. Deadline is 10:50pm (when the CS100 consultant leaves for the day). Submit regrade requests on paper in Carpenter Lab.

3/2 T 3/4 lecture
cancelled The 9:05 and 11:15 lectures on 3/4 are cancelled. Instead of going to lecture, complete several activities in ProgramLive. Visit the Notes link for the activity numbers.

3/2 T
4:10pm P3 update Some corrections have been made to the posted Project 3 write-up. The corrections are listed below:

Methods magnitude and conjugate do not have parameters.
In the table of complex numbers in the complex circles, the complex numbers corresponding to 135 and 225 degrees should be -1+1i and -1-1i, respectively.

3/1 M T1 return Prelim 1 will be returned in lecture tomorrow. If you do not pick up your paper in class tomorrow, pick up the paper in Carpenter Lab during consulting hours on or after Wednesday.

3/1 M Office hours
this week. Prof. Fan will not be holding office hours on 3/3 and 3/4.

3/1 M Section Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).

2/28 Sa P3 Project 3 has been posted. Due Thursday, 3/11, at 3pm.

2/25 W SR5 A new solution for Self-Review Question 5 (p74) has been posted. Check it out! (Look in file Exercise2.java on Exams-->Prelim 1.)

2/23
M Section Section will be held in the regular classrooms this week (see Syllabus-->Times and Places).

2/21 Sa Review
questions Review questions for Prelim 1 have been posted.

2/20
F Review
Session The review session is going to be held Sunday, 2/22 from 1:00-2:30pm in B17 Upson Hall.

TA Evals EVALUATE YOUR TA AND WIN A PRIZE
Random prizes will be awarded for completing the on-line TA Evaluation
survey. Evaluate all of your Engineering TAs and maximize your
chances of winning. The survey will be active from Monday, February
16 through Friday, February 27. Go to:

http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/taeval/survey.cfm

To make the process easier, make sure you have the following
information at hand: TA name, course department, and course name.
Once you have completed the survey, watch to see if you receive a
special code upon submission that identifies you as a prizewinner.
Your anonymous evaluation and feedback goes to your TA and is used by
the Engineering TA Development Program to improve the quality of
teaching in the College. Good luck, and thanks for helping your TAs.

2/19 R E1 Exercise 1 has been posted. Due Monday, 2/23, at 3pm.

2/18 W Prelim 1
Conflict Kelly Patwell had emailed all the students who have requested and are allowed to write the CS100J prelim at an alternate time.

2/17 T Saving files
in DrJava Some students have had trouble with saving a file in DrJava. (The back-up files, where ~ is appended to the file name, are causing problems?) You can turn off the feature in DrJava that saves a backup file. Go to menu item Edit-->Preferences, choose the last category, "Micellaneous," then uncheck the box for "Keep Emacs-style Backup Files."

2/16 M Section Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7). Bring your ProgramLive CD to the lab.

2/12 R P1 regrade
requests P1 scores were released last Monday so Monday (2/16) is the last day to submit P1 regrade request at Carpenter Lab. Deadline is 10:50pm (when the CS100 consultant leaves for the day).

2/12 R Prelim 1
Conflict There are many students who have a conflict with Prelim 1. If you have a conflict, please email Kelly Patwell with the subject "CS100M Prelim1 conflict" ASAP. There is no need to send another email if you have already sent one.
Kelly will be contacting the students she has heard from early next week.

2/12 R CMS & Course Web Site Due to scheduled maintenance on the CS web server, CMS and the CS100J course web site will be down on Monday, February 16 from 3:30AM-7:30AM.

2/9 M Section Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).

2/6 F P2 Project 2 has been posted. Due Thursday, 2/19, at 3pm.

2/2 M Section Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).

1/29
R P1 Project 1 has been posted. Due Thursday, 2/5, at 3pm.

1/29
R 1/29 handout Read (T) Sec 1.1 & 1.2, not 1.23, 2.0-2.5 as shown on the handout.

1/27
T AEW CS100 AEWs will begin next week in the Green Room in ACCEL. ACCEL is the computer lab in the Engineering Library on the second floor.

1/27
T Section No section this week.

1/23
F Books,
software Do not open any packaging or write on your books until after the first lecture unless you are very sure you will take CS100J (as opposed to CS100M).

Date	Topic	Description
5/11 T	No more consulting	Consulting ends for the semester today after 5pm. Regrade requests on Project 6 should be submitted on paper to the TAs or to Professor Fan during their office hours this week. Check the special office hour posting for the times and locations. (To submit a regrade request, fill out the regrade request form, attach a paper copy of the files in question, and give it to a TA or to Professor Fan during office hour this week.)
5/11 T	Special Consulting Hrs	There will be special consulting hours held in Carpenter Lab on Tues., 5/11 from 2-5. Please check back here for announcements about additional hours this week.
5/10 M	Office Hrs	Check the new office/appointment hrs in effect this week.
5/10 M	review questions	Review questions have been posted. There will be a review session this Sunday, 1:30-3pm, at Hollister B14.
5/4 T	E3	Complete the course evaluation and get a point for "Exercise 3"!
5/3 M	Consulting	Consulting is still being held in Carpenter Lab. Please ignore the sign on the door saying the lab is closed because of a virus. The lab is, in fact, open, but the computers aren't currently usable.
5/3 M	Section	Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).
4/30 F	P6 B	Project 6 Part B has been posted. Due 5/6 at 3pm. You will write code in MATLAB.
4/26 M	Section	Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).
4/25 Su	P6	Project 6 Part A has been posted. Due 5/6 at 3pm. Start now! Part B will arrive in a week, after you learn about MATLAB.
4/22 R	T3	Unclaimed papers will be available for pick up in Carpenter Lab after 2:30pm on Thursday.
4/21 W	T3	We will return Prelim 3 in lecture tomorrow.
4/19 M	Solutions	Solutions to Project 5 and to the review questions have been posted. You can use them for studying.
4/19 M	Section	Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).
4/13 T	T3	Prelim 3 will take place Tuesday, 4/20, 7:30-9:00pm. Location, topics, review questions, and review session info are posted under the Exams-->Prelim 3 link. By now you should have told us about any conflicts with other scheduled exams. Notify Kelly Patwell now about your conflict if you haven't done so already.
4/12 M	Section	Section will be held in the regular classrooms this week.
4/8 R	typos in book	A student found some typos that could cause confusion: Page 256: The instantiation for array `result` in the middle of the page should use the length `y-x+1` (not `x-y+1`). Page 263: The table on the top of the page, in the first row should show the index 2 under the result column. Page 264: The method header in Figure 8.7 needs two other parameters: `int h, int k`
4/8 R	extra search example (2-d array)	In lecture today we wrote code to search through an entire 2-d array for some target value. Some students are interested in seeing the structure/algorithm that one would use to get out of the nested loops as soon as the target is found. It's relatively easy to do if one uses `break`, so the challenge is to exit the loops without using `break`! I showed the code to some students after class and now I have posted the code with extra comments for explanation on the Notes page (4/8). Check it out!
4/6 T	P5	Project 5 has been posted. Due 4/15 at 3pm. Start working on it now!
4/5 M	Section	Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).
3/30 T	T2 returned	Prelim 2 was returned in lecture today. Unclaimed papers will be available for pick up in Carpenter Lab after 4:30pm on Wednesday. Submit regrade requests in Carpenter Lab by Tuesday, 4/6, at 10:50pm. Here're the statistics: median 83; mean 77.8; standard deviation 15.9
3/30 T	P4 extended deadline	The deadline for Project 4 has been extended to Monday, 4/5, at 3pm. Note that P4 is not big--you can finish it by Thursday! In order to encourage you to finish the work by the original deadline of 4/1 R 3pm, we offer two bonus points. Here's how it'll work: Submit your work under "Project 4" in CMS as usual by 4/1 3pm. You will receive 2 bonus points. Or submit your work under "Project 4 extension" in CMS by 4/5 3pm. You can choose only one of the two submission options above.
3/29 M	Section	Section will be held in the regular classrooms this week.
3/25 R	CMS & Course Web Site	Due to scheduled maintenance on the CS web server, CMS and the CS100J course web site will be down on Monday, March 29 from 3:30AM-7:30AM.
3/19 F	Prelim 2	We'll be returning the prelims in lecture on Tuesday after spring break. The scores will be posted on CMS afterwards.
3/19 F	P4	Project 4 has been posted. Due 4/1 R 3pm. P4 is a bit shorter than previous ones due to spring break. Try to read the project description over the break so that you're ready to start (asking questions) after the break!
3/16 T	old prelim solutions	Q1a of the fall03 prelim uses the `while` loop. We haven't covered the `while` loop yet this semester so our prelim 2 will not involve the `while` loop. Similarly, the solutions to Q2 of the fall03 prelim uses a `while` loop, but you can solve the same problem using the `for` loop!
3/15 M	old prelims	The old prelims used a different class, `Keyboard`, for reading user input. This semester, we will use class `JLiveRead`. For example, to read an integer entered from the keyboard, we use `JLiveRead.readInt()`. (The corresponding code in the old prelim would say `Keyboard.readInt()`.)
3/15 M	Section	Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).
3/12 F	Review	Review questions have been posted. There will be a review session on Sunday, 1-2:30pm.
3/11 R	E2	Exercise 2 has been posted. A paper copy is due at the beginning of your lab section on 3/16, 3/17. Do not submit E2 on CMS.
3/9 T	T2	Prelim 2 will be on March 18, Thursday. Location TBA. By now you should have told us about any conflicts with other scheduled exams. Notify Kelly Patwell now about your conflict if you haven't done so already.
3/8 M	Tutors Available	Through LIFE’s Tutors-on-Call program, tutors are available free of charge for first- and second-year core courses for Engineering and BEE students. All tutors will be available on an on-call basis, so it would be wise to plan in advance. Please visit the webpage below for more information: http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/studentServices/irs/Tutoring.htm
3/9 T	Section	Section will be held in the regular classrooms this week (see Syllabus-->Times and Places).
3/2 T	T1 regrade requests	Prelim 1 was returned today, so next Wednesday (3/10) is the last day to submit P1 regrade request at Carpenter Lab. Deadline is 10:50pm (when the CS100 consultant leaves for the day). Submit regrade requests on paper in Carpenter Lab.
3/2 T	3/4 lecture cancelled	The 9:05 and 11:15 lectures on 3/4 are cancelled. Instead of going to lecture, complete several activities in ProgramLive. Visit the Notes link for the activity numbers.
3/2 T 4:10pm	P3 update	Some corrections have been made to the posted Project 3 write-up. The corrections are listed below: Methods `magnitude` and `conjugate` do not have parameters. In the table of complex numbers in the complex circles, the complex numbers corresponding to 135 and 225 degrees should be -1+1i and -1-1i, respectively.
3/1 M	T1 return	Prelim 1 will be returned in lecture tomorrow. If you do not pick up your paper in class tomorrow, pick up the paper in Carpenter Lab during consulting hours on or after Wednesday.
3/1 M	Office hours this week.	Prof. Fan will not be holding office hours on 3/3 and 3/4.
3/1 M	Section	Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).
2/28 Sa	P3	Project 3 has been posted. Due Thursday, 3/11, at 3pm.
2/25 W	SR5	A new solution for Self-Review Question 5 (p74) has been posted. Check it out! (Look in file `Exercise2.java` on Exams-->Prelim 1.)
2/23 M	Section	Section will be held in the regular classrooms this week (see Syllabus-->Times and Places).
2/21 Sa	Review questions	Review questions for Prelim 1 have been posted.
2/20 F	Review Session	The review session is going to be held Sunday, 2/22 from 1:00-2:30pm in B17 Upson Hall.
	TA Evals	EVALUATE YOUR TA AND WIN A PRIZE Random prizes will be awarded for completing the on-line TA Evaluation survey. Evaluate all of your Engineering TAs and maximize your chances of winning. The survey will be active from Monday, February 16 through Friday, February 27. Go to: http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/taeval/survey.cfm To make the process easier, make sure you have the following information at hand: TA name, course department, and course name. Once you have completed the survey, watch to see if you receive a special code upon submission that identifies you as a prizewinner. Your anonymous evaluation and feedback goes to your TA and is used by the Engineering TA Development Program to improve the quality of teaching in the College. Good luck, and thanks for helping your TAs.
2/19 R	E1	Exercise 1 has been posted. Due Monday, 2/23, at 3pm.
2/18 W	Prelim 1 Conflict	Kelly Patwell had emailed all the students who have requested and are allowed to write the CS100J prelim at an alternate time.
2/17 T	Saving files in DrJava	Some students have had trouble with saving a file in DrJava. (The back-up files, where ~ is appended to the file name, are causing problems?) You can turn off the feature in DrJava that saves a backup file. Go to menu item Edit-->Preferences, choose the last category, "Micellaneous," then uncheck the box for "Keep Emacs-style Backup Files."
2/16 M	Section	Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7). Bring your ProgramLive CD to the lab.
2/12 R	P1 regrade requests	P1 scores were released last Monday so Monday (2/16) is the last day to submit P1 regrade request at Carpenter Lab. Deadline is 10:50pm (when the CS100 consultant leaves for the day).
2/12 R	Prelim 1 Conflict	There are many students who have a conflict with Prelim 1. If you have a conflict, please email Kelly Patwell with the subject "CS100M Prelim1 conflict" ASAP. There is no need to send another email if you have already sent one. Kelly will be contacting the students she has heard from early next week.
2/12 R	CMS & Course Web Site	Due to scheduled maintenance on the CS web server, CMS and the CS100J course web site will be down on Monday, February 16 from 3:30AM-7:30AM.
2/9 M	Section	Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).
2/6 F	P2	Project 2 has been posted. Due Thursday, 2/19, at 3pm.
2/2 M	Section	Section will be held in the computer lab this week (Upson B7).
1/29 R	P1	Project 1 has been posted. Due Thursday, 2/5, at 3pm.
1/29 R	1/29 handout	Read (T) Sec 1.1 & 1.2, not 1.23, 2.0-2.5 as shown on the handout.
1/27 T	AEW	CS100 AEWs will begin next week in the Green Room in ACCEL. ACCEL is the computer lab in the Engineering Library on the second floor.
1/27 T	Section	No section this week.
1/23 F	Books, software	Do not open any packaging or write on your books until after the first lecture unless you are very sure you will take CS100J (as opposed to CS100M).