Archived Announcements
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| DATE | TOPIC | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| Wed 8/27 |
CS Colloquium 8/28 | The CS Dept colloquium speaker on Th 8/28 will be Luc Vincent from Google, who will be speaking on Google Maps. Here is the announcement. Since our project for this semester is on exactly this topic, you might want to check it out. Upson B17, 4:15pm. |
| Wed 8/27 |
Dexter out 9/3-9/7 | Dexter will be out of the country Wed 9/3-Sun 9/7. The first 2111 lecture on Wed 9/3 will be covered by the course TA, Ashwin Badanidiyuru Varadaraja (aka Ashwin BV). |
| Wed 8/27 |
Sections | Sections start Monday 9/1. |
| Wed 8/27 |
A1 | Assignment 1 is up. Materials are available in CMS. |
| Sun 8/31 |
Kelly out 9/1 | Kelly is out Monday 9/1, so if you need to be added to CMS, please ask Dexter or one of the TAs. |
| Tue 9/16 |
RPCC hours | The RPCC administration asked us to move the location of the consulting hours for the times 2:30-4:40 to room 222 because of excessive noise, so we will be doing that. It has wireless and electrical plugs. |
| Mon 9/22 |
Canceled section | Due to lack of attendance, we are converting one of the 2111 sections to 2110 to alleviate some overcrowding in the 2110 sections. The section is on Wednesday evenings, 7:30-8:20pm, HLS 306. If you are registered for that section, please find another one to attend. You do not need to change your registration. |
| Tue 9/23 |
A2 update | We would like to make a minor change to the supplied code for A2. In
the file Viewports.java, please change the declaration of the
boundingBox method from public static Rectangle2D boundingBox(Collection<RoadSegment> db) {
to
public static Rectangle2D boundingBox(Database db) {
The change has been made to the writeup and release version of A2 in CMS as of last night,
so if you haven't downloaded it yet, you can ignore this message.
|
| Tue 9/30 |
Lecture Wed 10/1 |
...is optional. I will be there to answer any questions, but no formal lecture is planned. |
| Wed 10/8 |
A3 | Assignment 3 is up, due 10/29. Materials are available on CMS. Enjoy! |
| Wed 10/8 |
Lecture 10/15 canceled |
Due to a family emergency, there will be no lecture on Wednesday, 10/15. |
| Wed 10/20 |
A3 | Inspired by a comment in class, I made a new version that scrolls a lot more smoothly. It can be downloaded from http://courses.cs.cornell.edu/cs2111/2008fa/Assignments/A3/IthacaQuest.jar. |
| Thu 10/30 |
CS major requirements |
CS 2111 will no longer be required of new students for the CS major or for affiliation. For A&S and Engr students in this category, you may drop 2111 before Nov. 14 without annotation on your transcript (but I hope you don't!). More senior students should not drop; please see Dexter if you have questions. |
| Fri 10/31 |
A4 | Assignment 4 is up, due 12/2. Materials are available on CMS. Get started early! |
| Wed 11/19 |
CS 2110 API | I have released a new version of the CS 2110 API with a new class AdjustablePriorityQueue<T> that allows the in situ adjustment of priorities, as required by Dijkstra's algorithm. |