CS100M: Archived Announcements

CS100M-->Archived Announcements

Date Topic Description

11/30
W Course Evals The College of Engineering requires that course evaluations be done online. To complete the evaluation, visit the link below by the end of 12/4.
http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/courseeval
To encourage you to fill out the evaluation, we're going to give you a point for completing it. See "Exercise 15" on the Exercise page.

11/28
M quiz results Four students who used clickers (9:05 lecture) didn't get credit for the quizzes because they hadn't registered their clickers (correctly)! If you are one of them, bring your clicker to see Professor Fan at her office hour as proof. Your clicker id and answers are in the database, but we need a name to go with them...

11/28
M CIT classroom tech. survey
(re-post) The survey is conducted by CIT (Cornell Information Technology) on the use of classroom technologies in CS100M. This survey is not an evaluation on the entire course. Please help us evaluate, and improve, the use of classroom technologies! Thanks in advance!
Link for 9:05 am lecture - http://www.survey.cornell.edu/figsurvey/startfig068_9.htm
Link for 11:15 am lecture - http://www.survey.cornell.edu/figsurvey/startfig068_11.htm

11/28
M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

11/22
T Section Section on Tuesday is optional. Go to get help on Prelim 3 if you didn't do well.Or you can ask questions on P6. There is no section on Wednesday.

11/22
T Prelim 3 Regrades Deadline for Prelim 3 regrade requests will be postponed to Monday, Nov 28, at 10pm due to Thanksgiving break.

11/21
F P6 Project 6 has been posted. Due Thursday, 12/1, at 6pm.

11/17
R Prelim 3 pick up You can pick up Prelim 3 from Carpenter today, starting at 2:30pm.

11/14
M Final Exam Conflicts Please review your final exam schedule and inform Kelly if you have a conflict with the CS100M exam. Please provide your entire exam schedule for the exam period along with the course numbers. We must have this info by 3pm on Friday, Nov 18.

11/15
T CIT classroom tech. survey The survey is conducted by CIT (Cornell Information Technology) on the use of classroom technologies in CS100M. This survey is not an evaluation on the entire course. Please help us evaluate, and improve, the use of classroom technologies! Thanks in advance!
Link for 9:05 am section - http://www.survey.cornell.edu/figsurvey/startfig068_9.htm
Link for 11 am section - http://www.survey.cornell.edu/figsurvey/startfig068_11.htm

11/14
M Final Exam Conflicts Please review your final exam schedule and inform Kelly if you have a conflict with the CS100M exam.

11/14
M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

11/9
W Prelim 3 review and exam conflicts The review questions for Prelim 3 have been posted on Prelim 3 page. Email Kelly ASAP if you have an exam conflict.
In addition, there will be a review session this Sunday from 1:00-2:30 in Upson B17

11/8
T 12:40 P5 update The calculatePremium method's comment contains a typo: the exponentiation term should be e^(-rt). The negative sign was left out by mistake. Updated skeleton files have been posted. The formulae in the project description itself were correct. Also note that you may choose to change the return type of method getShares to be int instead of double. This was also updated in the skeleton, but this change was non-essential.

11/7
M Section Section will be held in the classrooms this week. Bring your P5 so that you can ask questions, if you have any, in section.

11/4
F OOP review Sunday 2pm Professor Fan will give a review session on OOP at the Carol Tatkon Center, Rm 3343, on Sunday 2-3:30pm This review session will focus on the Java OOP material that we have covered in class so far. This review is intended for those who have been having trouble with the exercises in section/lab and with the lecture examples.

11/4
F P5 Project 5 has been posted. Due Thursday, 11/10, at 6pm. Don't be scared by the long write-up--half of the pages are example output. P5 isn't long, but you have to do some careful reading so be sure to start now, not the day before it is due!

11/4
F Saving files
in DrJava Turn off the feature in DrJava that saves a backup file (DrJava has problems dealing with the backup files, where ~ is appended to the filename, in some specific system configuration). Go to menu item Edit-->Preferences, choose the last category, "Miscellaneous," then uncheck the box for "Keep Emacs-style Backup Files."

11/1
T IIST info Session There will be an info session for Engineering students interested in the Information Science, Systems, and Technology major on Wednesday, November 2nd between 4:30 and 5:30 pmin 258 Rhodes Hall. Pizza and refreshments will be served.

10/31
M Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2006 This a fun collaborative contest for the undergraduates, which allows them to explore the connections between math, CS, ORIE, natural sciences, and the real world problems. Much more information and many relevant links can be found here: http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mcm/

10/31
M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

10/25
T Clickers 9:05 lecture: Last call to register your clicker. You will not earn credits for the quizzes unless we can correlate the clicker that you use to you, so register your clicker now if you haven't done so already. In today's test run there were 6 students using clickers that were not registered.

10/24
M P4 update There was one typo in the posted code. In the main method, the name testgcd was incorrectly typed as gestgcd. Please search for gestgcd in your file and replace it with testgcd. There was only one occurence of this typo. A correct file was re-posted at 10:50pm.

10/24
M Project 4 Project 4 has been posted, due Thurs, 10/27, at 6pm.

Section Section will be held in the classrooms this week.

10/20
R Prelim 2 pick up Unclaimed Prelim 2 papers are available for pick-up from CS100M consultants at Carpenter. Deadline for regrade
requests is Oct 27.

10/19 W Prelim 2 return Prelim 2 will be returned in lecture tomorrow.

10/17
M CIS/INFO open house for freshman There will be an Information Science and Information Science, Systems, and Technology open house/information session at 301 College Ave. on Wednesday, October 19th between 3 and 4:30 pm.

Students and faculty are welcome to stop by to hear about the majors at
any time during the 3- 4:30 period.

10/17 M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

10/16
Su Solutions Solutions to Project 3 and the review questions have been posted. Be sure to go over the P3 solutions and grading guide.

10/12
W Prelim 2 Review questions for prelim can be found one the Prelim 2 page. Please let Kelly know immediately if you have a conflict.

10/12
W Section Section will be held in the classrooms this week. Section is optional and will be open to all students, not just those who normally have section on Wed. TAs will be helping with homework.

10/12
W TA Evals TA midterm evaluations will be conducted on-line from Monday, October 10 through Friday, October 28.. Please visit the web site below to and let the college know how your TA is doing. www.engineering.cornell.edu/TAEval/survey.cfm

10/7
F Consulting Consulting will be held on Friday.

10/5
W P3 update You can use the built-in functions floor and ceil.
New skeleton files for freq.m and readfile.m were posted at 5:25pm. If you download the files after this time you can stop reading this announcement. The old freq.m file had some extra lines of text (lines 9-11) that needed to be removed. You can just remove those lines or download the new zip which contain the corrected skeleton of freq.m.
The old readfile.m file returns the array of characters as ASCII code. The new file has one extra statement added near the end to convert the values into actual characters: x= char(x). This is a minor change to strictly match the specifications.

10/5
W Programming contest Whether you're ready for a programming contest or not, you may want to check out the 2005 ACSU Ultimate Coding Challenge that will take place Saturday, October 15th, 2005 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm at the CSUG Lab in Upson Hall (specifically, Upson 319). Free food and t-shirt for the contestants and there will be cool prizes. Prizes will be awarded at three skill levels. The contest is sponsored by the Cornell chapter of the ACSU (Association of Computer Science Undergraduates) and Microsoft.

10/4
T Prelim 1 pick-up Copies of prelim 1 not picked up in lecture will be available for pickup in Carpenter consulting area (Engrg Library) after 2:30 today. Regrade requests due at Carpenter consulting area by next Thurs 10pm.

10/3
M P3 Project 3 has been posted. Due 10/13, Thurs, at 6pm. Start now, not during or after fall break! This last project in MATLAB is a challenging one. Start now so that you can get help from the course staff this week.

10/3
M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

9/26
M Section Section will be held in the classrooms this week.

9/22
R Prelim 1 location Prelim 1 will be held in two rooms:
-Last names starting with A-L: Plant Science 233 (AG Quad)
-Last names starting with M-Z: Warren Hall B45 (AG Quad)

9/21
W Prelim 1 location There has been a scheduling conflict with our assigned room for prelim 1. Prof. Fan will announce the location in lecture on Thursday, and it will be posted on the web page.

9/20
T Prelim 1 If you have an official exam conflict for Prelim 1, contact Kelly Patwell to give her your exam schedule and the name of the instructor of the course with the conflicting exam. See the Exams page for detail.

9/19 M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

9/12
M P1 graded Project 1 has been graded and the solutions and the grading guide/comments are posted on the Projects page. Be sure to read the Grading guide/comments even if you got a perfect score. Also read through the solutions. We used extra comments in the solutions to explain specific ideas. In some cases we posted multiple solutions to the same problem. It is very important for you to look at the alternatives and learn from them.

9/12
M Section Sections this week will be held in the classrooms--not the lab. See the Syllabus link for the room numbers.

9/12 M P2 Posted Project 2 has been posted on the Projects page and is due on 9/22 at 6pm.

9/8 R 9:05 lecture uses clickers For students in the 9:05 lecture only: Please go to the Engineering Library to sign out a "clicker," a response device. You also need to register your clicker on line. Please bring your clicker to lecture and read this. If you're in ECON 101, you can use your clicker from that class, but you must still register it for CS100M.

9/5 M Section Section this week will be held in the computer lab, UP B7.

9/1 P1 Posted Project 1 has been posted on the Projects page and is due on 9/8 at 6pm.

8/26
F CS 100 H If you're interested in the "honors" section of CS100J, check it out here.

8/22
M Section Sections will be held during the first week of classes in the labs, not the classrooms listed on the CU rosters. Please refer to Times and Places section of the Syllabus to find out which lab your section will be using.

8/22
M 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 CS100M (as opposed to CS100J).

Date	Topic	Description
11/30 W	Course Evals	The College of Engineering requires that course evaluations be done online. To complete the evaluation, visit the link below by the end of 12/4. http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/courseeval To encourage you to fill out the evaluation, we're going to give you a point for completing it. See "Exercise 15" on the Exercise page.
11/28 M	quiz results	Four students who used clickers (9:05 lecture) didn't get credit for the quizzes because they hadn't registered their clickers (correctly)! If you are one of them, bring your clicker to see Professor Fan at her office hour as proof. Your clicker id and answers are in the database, but we need a name to go with them...
11/28 M	CIT classroom tech. survey (re-post)	The survey is conducted by CIT (Cornell Information Technology) on the use of classroom technologies in CS100M. This survey is not an evaluation on the entire course. Please help us evaluate, and improve, the use of classroom technologies! Thanks in advance! Link for 9:05 am lecture - http://www.survey.cornell.edu/figsurvey/startfig068_9.htm Link for 11:15 am lecture - http://www.survey.cornell.edu/figsurvey/startfig068_11.htm
11/28 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
11/22 T	Section	Section on Tuesday is optional. Go to get help on Prelim 3 if you didn't do well.Or you can ask questions on P6. There is no section on Wednesday.
11/22 T	Prelim 3 Regrades	Deadline for Prelim 3 regrade requests will be postponed to Monday, Nov 28, at 10pm due to Thanksgiving break.
11/21 F	P6	Project 6 has been posted. Due Thursday, 12/1, at 6pm.
11/17 R	Prelim 3 pick up	You can pick up Prelim 3 from Carpenter today, starting at 2:30pm.
11/14 M	Final Exam Conflicts	Please review your final exam schedule and inform Kelly if you have a conflict with the CS100M exam. Please provide your entire exam schedule for the exam period along with the course numbers. We must have this info by 3pm on Friday, Nov 18.
11/15 T	CIT classroom tech. survey	The survey is conducted by CIT (Cornell Information Technology) on the use of classroom technologies in CS100M. This survey is not an evaluation on the entire course. Please help us evaluate, and improve, the use of classroom technologies! Thanks in advance! Link for 9:05 am section - http://www.survey.cornell.edu/figsurvey/startfig068_9.htm Link for 11 am section - http://www.survey.cornell.edu/figsurvey/startfig068_11.htm
11/14 M	Final Exam Conflicts	Please review your final exam schedule and inform Kelly if you have a conflict with the CS100M exam.
11/14 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
11/9 W	Prelim 3 review and exam conflicts	The review questions for Prelim 3 have been posted on Prelim 3 page. Email Kelly ASAP if you have an exam conflict. In addition, there will be a review session this Sunday from 1:00-2:30 in Upson B17
11/8 T 12:40	P5 update	The `calculatePremium` method's comment contains a typo: the exponentiation term should be `e^(-rt)`. The negative sign was left out by mistake. Updated skeleton files have been posted. The formulae in the project description itself were correct. Also note that you may choose to change the return type of method `getShares` to be `int` instead of `double`. This was also updated in the skeleton, but this change was non-essential.
11/7 M	Section	Section will be held in the classrooms this week. Bring your P5 so that you can ask questions, if you have any, in section.
11/4 F	OOP review Sunday 2pm	Professor Fan will give a review session on OOP at the Carol Tatkon Center, Rm 3343, on Sunday 2-3:30pm This review session will focus on the Java OOP material that we have covered in class so far. This review is intended for those who have been having trouble with the exercises in section/lab and with the lecture examples.
11/4 F	P5	Project 5 has been posted. Due Thursday, 11/10, at 6pm. Don't be scared by the long write-up--half of the pages are example output. P5 isn't long, but you have to do some careful reading so be sure to start now, not the day before it is due!
11/4 F	Saving files in DrJava	Turn off the feature in DrJava that saves a backup file (DrJava has problems dealing with the backup files, where ~ is appended to the filename, in some specific system configuration). Go to menu item Edit-->Preferences, choose the last category, "Miscellaneous," then uncheck the box for "Keep Emacs-style Backup Files."
11/1 T	IIST info Session	There will be an info session for Engineering students interested in the Information Science, Systems, and Technology major on Wednesday, November 2nd between 4:30 and 5:30 pmin 258 Rhodes Hall. Pizza and refreshments will be served.
10/31 M	Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2006	This a fun collaborative contest for the undergraduates, which allows them to explore the connections between math, CS, ORIE, natural sciences, and the real world problems. Much more information and many relevant links can be found here: http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mcm/
10/31 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
10/25 T	Clickers	9:05 lecture: Last call to register your clicker. You will not earn credits for the quizzes unless we can correlate the clicker that you use to you, so register your clicker now if you haven't done so already. In today's test run there were 6 students using clickers that were not registered.
10/24 M	P4 update	There was one typo in the posted code. In the main method, the name t`estgcd` was incorrectly typed as g`estgcd`. Please search for `gestgcd` in your file and replace it with `testgcd`. There was only one occurence of this typo. A correct file was re-posted at 10:50pm.
10/24 M	Project 4	Project 4 has been posted, due Thurs, 10/27, at 6pm.
	Section	Section will be held in the classrooms this week.
10/20 R	Prelim 2 pick up	Unclaimed Prelim 2 papers are available for pick-up from CS100M consultants at Carpenter. Deadline for regrade requests is Oct 27.
10/19 W	Prelim 2 return	Prelim 2 will be returned in lecture tomorrow.
10/17 M	CIS/INFO open house for freshman	There will be an Information Science and Information Science, Systems, and Technology open house/information session at 301 College Ave. on Wednesday, October 19th between 3 and 4:30 pm. Students and faculty are welcome to stop by to hear about the majors at any time during the 3- 4:30 period.
10/17 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
10/16 Su	Solutions	Solutions to Project 3 and the review questions have been posted. Be sure to go over the P3 solutions and grading guide.
10/12 W	Prelim 2	Review questions for prelim can be found one the Prelim 2 page. Please let Kelly know immediately if you have a conflict.
10/12 W	Section	Section will be held in the classrooms this week. Section is optional and will be open to all students, not just those who normally have section on Wed. TAs will be helping with homework.
10/12 W	TA Evals	TA midterm evaluations will be conducted on-line from Monday, October 10 through Friday, October 28.. Please visit the web site below to and let the college know how your TA is doing. www.engineering.cornell.edu/TAEval/survey.cfm
10/7 F	Consulting	Consulting will be held on Friday.
10/5 W	P3 update	You can use the built-in functions `floor` and `ceil`. New skeleton files for `freq.m` and `readfile.m` were posted at 5:25pm. If you download the files after this time you can stop reading this announcement. The old `freq.m` file had some extra lines of text (lines 9-11) that needed to be removed. You can just remove those lines or download the new zip which contain the corrected skeleton of `freq.m`. The old `readfile.m` file returns the array of characters as ASCII code. The new file has one extra statement added near the end to convert the values into actual characters: `x= char(x)`. This is a minor change to strictly match the specifications.
10/5 W	Programming contest	Whether you're ready for a programming contest or not, you may want to check out the 2005 ACSU Ultimate Coding Challenge that will take place Saturday, October 15th, 2005 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm at the CSUG Lab in Upson Hall (specifically, Upson 319). Free food and t-shirt for the contestants and there will be cool prizes. Prizes will be awarded at three skill levels. The contest is sponsored by the Cornell chapter of the ACSU (Association of Computer Science Undergraduates) and Microsoft.
10/4 T	Prelim 1 pick-up	Copies of prelim 1 not picked up in lecture will be available for pickup in Carpenter consulting area (Engrg Library) after 2:30 today. Regrade requests due at Carpenter consulting area by next Thurs 10pm.
10/3 M	P3	Project 3 has been posted. Due 10/13, Thurs, at 6pm. Start now, not during or after fall break! This last project in MATLAB is a challenging one. Start now so that you can get help from the course staff this week.
10/3 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
9/26 M	Section	Section will be held in the classrooms this week.
9/22 R	Prelim 1 location	Prelim 1 will be held in two rooms: -Last names starting with A-L: Plant Science 233 (AG Quad) -Last names starting with M-Z: Warren Hall B45 (AG Quad)
9/21 W	Prelim 1 location	There has been a scheduling conflict with our assigned room for prelim 1. Prof. Fan will announce the location in lecture on Thursday, and it will be posted on the web page.
9/20 T	Prelim 1	If you have an official exam conflict for Prelim 1, contact Kelly Patwell to give her your exam schedule and the name of the instructor of the course with the conflicting exam. See the Exams page for detail.
9/19 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
9/12 M	P1 graded	Project 1 has been graded and the solutions and the grading guide/comments are posted on the Projects page. Be sure to read the Grading guide/comments even if you got a perfect score. Also read through the solutions. We used extra comments in the solutions to explain specific ideas. In some cases we posted multiple solutions to the same problem. It is very important for you to look at the alternatives and learn from them.
9/12 M	Section	Sections this week will be held in the classrooms--not the lab. See the Syllabus link for the room numbers.
9/12 M	P2 Posted	Project 2 has been posted on the Projects page and is due on 9/22 at 6pm.
9/8 R	9:05 lecture uses clickers	For students in the 9:05 lecture only: Please go to the Engineering Library to sign out a "clicker," a response device. You also need to register your clicker on line. Please bring your clicker to lecture and read this. If you're in ECON 101, you can use your clicker from that class, but you must still register it for CS100M.
9/5 M	Section	Section this week will be held in the computer lab, UP B7.
9/1	P1 Posted	Project 1 has been posted on the Projects page and is due on 9/8 at 6pm.
8/26 F	CS 100 H	If you're interested in the "honors" section of CS100J, check it out here.
8/22 M	Section	Sections will be held during the first week of classes in the labs, not the classrooms listed on the CU rosters. Please refer to Times and Places section of the Syllabus to find out which lab your section will be using.
8/22 M	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 CS100M (as opposed to CS100J).