About the CMS (Course management system). We use a CS-designed "course management system" to manage assignments, tests, etc. DON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT UNTIL WE ASK YOU TO! Thanks. The CMS for this course is at this URL: http://cms3.csuglab.cornell.edu/.

Fix your PCs so that extensions (like .java and .doc) ALWAYS appear. To do this, do the following: Open an explorer window. Use menu item Tools / Click on Folder Options. Click the view tab. Uncheck the box "Hide extensions for known file types".

Summaries of lectures
Please look at handout 0, which summarizes what we did in lecture each time!

Seeing consultants, TAs, and Gries

Please feel free to see Gries during his office hours --or any time that he is there. If he is not working frantically on something that has a deadline, he will be happy to chat with you. He also looks at email and answers it often.

The TAs have office hours. If you need some conceptual help of any kind, go the the TAs during their office hours. Choose any TA whose office hours are convenient for you, you don't have to limit yourself to your Section TA.
 
TAs have a closed office hour and an open office hour. If you want time alone with a TA because you just don't understand or are falling behind, then arrange a closed session by calling 255-0982 or going to the undergrad office (Upson 303). If you just have a question, go see a TA; there may be other people there at the same time, and you can all hear each others questions/answers. The closed hours will act like open hours if no one has made an appointment.

Check here for office hours of TAs and the instructor. You can make an appointment for a one-on-one session with any TA at the undergrad office (Upson 303) between 9:30 and 4:30 M-F, or by emailing: ugrad@cs.cornell.edu--24 HOURS IN ADVANCE.

Consultants for CS100 live in green room of the ACCEL Lab, which you get to through the Engineering Library in Carpenter Hall. You may spend a good deal of time programming there. The consultants are there to answer your questions. If you need help downloading and setting up DrJava, if you have a misunderstanding on an assignment, if you are having trouble debugging a program —in all such matters, ask the consultants for a quick answer. However, they will not write your program for you.