| Date Posted |
Announcement |
| May 20, 2009 |
Term paper 3 scores have been posted to GRIT. Your grades have
been submitted to the registrar, and will be available within
24 hours. Have a great summer.
|
| May 18, 2009 |
Iteration 3 scores have also been posted to GRIT. Please check
your ProjectMayhem/tags/Iteration3/Grading.txt file for the
points breakdown.
|
| May 18, 2009 |
Final exam scores have been posted to GRIT.
|
| May 16, 2009 |
Iteration 1 and 2 regrade and remediation scores have been posted to GRIT,
and a revised Grading.txt file should have been checked into your
ProjectMayhem/tags/IterationX directory.
|
| May 7, 2009 |
Here
is some more information about the medical records being held hostage
that I mentioned in lecture today.
|
| May 5, 2009 |
Due to scheduling conflicts, August's office hour on Friday is rescheduled to
the same time on Thursday.
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| May 4, 2009 |
See the Iteration 3 entry in the project page
to find out about Iteration 3 grading and remediation absolute
deadlines.
|
| May 4, 2009 |
See the Iteration 2 entry in the project page
to find out about handling Iteration 2 grading issues.
|
| May 3, 2009 |
Comments for Iteration 2 have just been checked into each group
as ProjectMayhem/tags/Iteration2/Grading.txt. Check out this file
to see the breakdown of your points for Iteration 2.
If possible, the output and results files we used were uploaded
to your Iteration2 and Iteration2/src directories, respectively.
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| May 3, 2009 |
The term paper feedback sheet is available in the writing section.
|
| May 3, 2009 |
James will have additional office hours this week to help you with your
final drafts.
Monday, May 4th 12.30-1.30pm
Tuesday, May 5th 10.00-11.00am
Wednesday, May 6th 3.00-4.00pm
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| May 2, 2009 |
The final exam is 1:30pm - 3:30pm on Tuesday, May 12 in our regular
class room - Fraser 102.
|
| Apr. 30, 2009 |
The final version of the term paper is due by 2pm on Thursday, May
14. Papers turned after that time will not be accepted.
A small amount of extra credit will be awarded to those who turn in
the final version of the term paper before the final exam on May 12.
|
| Apr. 30, 2009 |
Lab tomorrow will be dedicated to the final term paper and to
answering any lingering questions about Project Mayhem iterations.
James will be there to lead a discussion on the papers and how they
were graded and how to read his comments.
Bryan will also be there answer any questions about C++ or the
project. He will not lead a discussion but will be available to
discuss questions that you may have.
|
| Apr. 29, 2009 |
Comments for Iteration 1 have just been checked into each group
as ProjectMayhem/tags/Iteration1/COMMENT. Check out this file
to see the breakdown of your points for Iteration 1.
See the bottom of the project page to obtain
the code we used to test your project with.
|
| Apr. 23, 2009 |
James, will be out of town on Monday, April 27th. His office hours for
that day are cancelled. Please email him if you would like to schedule
an appointment with him later that week.
|
| Apr. 21, 2009 |
The code from quiz 3 is available here and on the code
examples web page. The type-incorrect statements are commented out
and you can uncomment to see why the have problems.
|
| Apr. 21, 2009 |
I've added office hours on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
My office hours are now 11:15am to 12:15pm on Tuesday and
Thursday, 9:00am to 10:00am on Wednesday, and 10:00am to 11:00am on
Monday and Friday. -- Eric
|
| Apr. 21, 2009 |
To give you more time on iteration 3 and the paper, quiz 4 is
cancelled. The first 3 quizzes will now be worth an addition 1% and
the final will be worth an additional 2%.
|
| Apr. 21, 2009 |
Iteration 3 is now available on the project
web pabe.
|
| Apr. 16, 2009 |
Lab of Friday will focus on challenges with Makefiles and XML that
people have faced. If you have no problems with your Makefiles or XML
processing code, then you do not need to attend lab of Friday. If,
however, you still have problems then attending lab will help you to
sort these out so that you are prepared to move forward with iteration 3.
|
| Apr. 15, 2009 |
Based on the discussion in lecture on Tuesday, the late penalty for
Iteration 2 will be set at 3% per day, instead of 10% per day. You
should make an effort to get the main components of Iteration 2
working and not be too concerned with it being late. Do email Bryan
and Eric to tell us how many days your project is late so that we know
when to check it out of Subversion.
|
| Apr. 7, 2009 |
The due date for Iteration 2 has been pushed back a few days. The project page has the date and some other
updates to the specifications.
|
| Apr. 5, 2009 |
Some sample tests and other files to support your development of
Iteration 2 have been posted in the project page.
|
| Apr. 1, 2009 |
Scores for Lab 2, Lab 3, Lab 5, and the first round of Short Writing
Assignment 1 are on GRIT. Please direct any questions about the Lab
scores to August, and the Short Writing Assignment to James. Note:
There has been a slight mix-up about the maximum possible scores on the three
labs. The correct maximum scores are, respectively, 60, 102 and 100.
|
| Mar. 31, 2009 |
If you would like to improve your score on the first writing assignment,
you have the option to re-write it using the feedback you received on your
submission. You have until Tuesday, April 7th to submit the re-write, in
hardcopy, to Prof. Van Wyk. Re-writing your assignments is encouraged,
but strictly optional. Your final grade for any assignment will be the
maximum of your initial submission and the re-write.
|
| Mar. 23, 2009 |
The third quiz is rescheduled for April 2.
|
| Mar. 20, 2009 |
If you are interested in some free-lance web development work contact
Eric. A local business-person is looking for a web developer.
|
| Mar. 13, 2009 |
The third quiz is scheduled for March 26.
|
| Feb. 25, 2009 |
The C++ program that was used on Quiz 1 can be found in the
Quiz1Code directory in the
code examples online directory.
|
| Feb. 24, 2009 |
Please read the
forum to find
out how to save your SVN username and password for access to your
repository.
|
| Feb. 24, 2009 |
The first writing assignment has been posted on the writing assignments page.
|
| Feb. 23, 2009 |
For this week only, the writing TA's office hour will be on Thursday
(Feb. 26th) from 2.15pm-3.15pm in EE/CSci 2-209, instead of Tuesday.
|
| Feb. 21, 2009 |
The writing TA office hours are on Tuesday from 2.15pm-3.15pm, or by
appointment. The location is EE/CSci 2-209.
|
| Feb. 20, 2009 |
If you have not received the slip of paper with your SVN username and
password that was distributed during Lab, please pick it up from Bryan
during office hours. You will need this information in order to do Lab 5,
and submit Iteration 1 of the course project.
|
| Feb. 19, 2009 |
We will vote on Tuesday, February 24 for the name of the course
project. Email your entries before lecture. --Eric
|
| Feb. 19, 2009 |
The second quiz is scheduled for March 3.
|
| Feb. 16, 2009 |
Some test cases have been posted to clarify the expected behavior of
the Amount class, and fix an incorrect test in the Date class. You can
find a link to these tests from the project page
|
| Feb. 12, 2009 |
I announced on the forums that the due date for lab 2 and lab 3 has
been pushed back until Sunday, 5pm. I'm reposting it here since some
missed that post. - EVW
|
| Feb. 10, 2009 |
The first quiz is scheduled for Thursday, February 12. We will
discuss this in lecture on Tuesday.
|
| Feb. 6, 2009 |
Bryan's office hours on Monday, February 9th will be from 4pm to 5pm.
|
| Feb. 4, 2009 |
Lab 2 is now available on the labs page. Please make an effort to begin this before
lab on Friday. Lab 2 and lab 3 will both be due on Friday, Feb 13.
|
| Feb. 3, 2009 |
The CS side of EE/CS building is now open. See
the main CS web page for details.
|
| Jan. 30, 2009 |
Due to the building closure, August's office hour today is cancelled. |
| Jan. 30, 2009 |
EE/CS building is closed.No lab sessions today.
Apparently a cooling pipe on the 7th floor bust and there is
significant water damage on the lower floors. The building may be
open by Monday - but that has not been determined yet (@ 8:50am).
|
| Jan. 21, 2009 |
In lab 1 you will need to use your itlabs account, login to make
sure that it works. If it does not,
this link
should help you get it working.
|
| Jan. 21, 2009 |
The discussion forums are now set up and available using the
Forums
in the left margin. |
| Jan. 20, 2009 |
We assume that you are proficient in Unix and comfortable using
the command line in a terminal.
If not, the student ACM chapter is offering short courses on Unix
and it is your responsibility to sign up for one of them.
The course is offered in EE/CSci 2-170, times are listed on their website:
http://acm.cs.umn.edu/drupal/event.
|
| Jan. 12, 2009 |
Update: The class has been moved and will now be meeting
in Fraser
Hall, room 102. The time (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:45pm -
2:00pm) has not changed. |
| Jan. 9, 2009 |
The course is currently full, but if you want to get in you need
to get on a waiting list and then attend the first day of class.
There are typically a few students that will not show up or will drop
early on and thus there will be room for some more people. The
limitation we have is on the size of the room in which labs are held. |
| Jan. 1, 2009 |
The class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:45pm - 2:00pm in
the EE/CSci building, room 3-230. Update: - the class has
been moved to Fraser Hall - see note above. |
| Jan. 1, 2009 |
Discussion/lab sessions meet in EE/CSci 1-260 on Fridays at
either 12:20pm-1:10pm or 1:25pm-2:15pm. |
| Jan. 1, 2009 |
The final exam is 1:30pm - 3:30pm on Tuesday, May 12. |
