CS100M: Archived Announcements

CS100M-->Archived Announcements

Date Topic Description

4/28
F Programming Contest The ACSU will host a programming contest on Saturday! Two person teams will pit their coding skills against each other. Bring a friend and join us in the fun. Join the competition, or just stop by to check out the contest question.
   When: Saturday, April 29th, 2006 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
   Where: Upson 330 (Part of the CSUG Lab)
Free Pizza will be served to all participants.

4/27 R P6 Project 6 has been posted. Due 5/4 at 6pm.
- Remember to turn off DrJava's backup feature!
- You must adhere to the Code of Academic Integrity.

4/25
T 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, April 28.

4/24
M canceled office hr Prof. Fan's office hour on 4/25 is canceled.

4/24
M Section Section will be held in the classrooms this week.

4/21 F OOP Review There'll be a review on OOP on Sunday, noon-1:15pm, in UP 207. This review is intended for those who have had significant difficulty with OOP on Prelim 3, e.g., those who scored below 25 points out of 40 on the last OOP question.

4/20 R regrade request Submit any regrade request on Prelim 3 to the CS100 consultants in the Carpenter consulting area by 11pm on Wednesday, 4/26.

4/20
R Prelim handout The prelims that were not picked up in lecture today are now available from the consultants in Carpenter.

4/20
R Prof. Fan's office hours Professor Fan will be extending her office hours today to 3:00-5:00pm

4/19
W Prelim 3 return Prelim 3 will be returned in lecture on Thursday.

4/18
T Tuesday Night Timeout After your prelim, join us for a breather at …Tuesday Night Timeout!!!

When: Tuesday, April 18th from 9 – 10:30 PM
Where: Carol Tatkon Center, Lounge in S. Balch Hall
What: Come spend some time relaxing with us after your prelim.

FREE PIZZA AND SODA will be available for all who are in attendance. Also, challenge your friends in the first ever Tatkon Center TRIVIA CHALLENGE. The top players will receive PRIZES for their efforts.

4/17
M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

4/12
W Review Session There will be a review session on Sunday, April 16 at 1:00-2:30 in in Upson B17

4/12
W Consulting on Wed. and Thur. Consulting on Wednesday from 2:30-11 and Thurs from 2:30-7 will be in the Green Room of the ACCEL lab in the Engr. Library.

4/11
T Clicker registration Open on-line registration has ended. If you need to change to a new clicker, email your new clicker ID to LZ43@cornell.edu. The clicker id is only 6-character long, below a small bar code. (The long number below the big bar code is the library's lending catalog code.)

4/11
T Prelim 3 conflicts Prelim 3 is going to be on 4/18 at 7:30. Please email Kelly ASAP if you have a university-excused conflict.

4/10
M Section You will work on Project 5 in section this week. Please bring a paper copy of your latest code to get help on the project.

4/10
M Section Section will be held in the classroom this week.

4/7
F P5 Project 5 Part B has been posted. Parts A and B will be due on Thursday, 4/13, at 6pm.

4/5
W P5 Project 5 Part A has been posted. Parts A and B will be due on Thursday, 4/13, at 6pm.

4/5
W Quiz 1 We had an in-class quiz on Wednesday (4/4). A quiz counts as an exercise and you can miss “several” without lowering your score. E.g., if there will be 15 exercises in total (section exercises plus quizzes) in the semester, you can miss 3 (about 20%) without hurting your total exercise score.

4/3
M Section Section will be in the lab this week.

3/30
R IS and ISST Open House There will be an open house on Monday, 4/3 from 3-4:15 pm at 301 College Ave. Come and enjoy the food (and dessert!) while you.....
-Learn about the Information Science majors in Arts & Sciences and CALS and the Information Science, Systems, and Technology major in Engineering
-Meet other students, faculty, and staff in Information Science

3/30 R Prelim 2 Solutions Solutions for Prelim 2 are now online. Look on the Exams page or click here.

3/23
T Prelim 2 regrades The deadline for Prelim 2 regrade request is Tuesday, 4/4.

3/28
T Uncollected Prelim 2 The Prelims that were not collected in lecture today have been brought to Carpenter and can be picked up during consulting hours.

3/28
T P4 complex division P4 complex division: the denominator should be u^2+v^2, as shown in the
posted project statement revised on 3/21.

3/27 M Prelim 2 return Prelim 2 will be returned at the end of lecture tomorrow.

3/27
M Section Section will be held in the classrooms this week.

3/17 F P4 Project 4 has been posted. Due 3/30 at 6pm.

3/14 T Clicker registration Open on-line registration has ended. If you need to change to a new clicker, email your new clicker ID to LZ43@cornell.edu. The clicker id is only 6-character long, below a small bar code. (The long number below the big bar code is the library's lending catalog code.)

3/13 M DrJava setting 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."

3/13
M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

3/9 R CIS/EAS 121 Lectures/sections for CIS/EAS 121 have ended, but CIS/EAS121 students may choose to attend next week's lab for extra help on the MATLAB portion of the course. There will be a lab exercise on the Java material that will be introduced on Tuesday, but CIS/EAS121 students may choose to use that time to ask questions about other course material.

3/9 R Review questions Review questions for Prelim 2 have been posted. Please attempt these questions before going to the review session! You need to practise developing a solution on your own--not practise reading (or listening to) the solution! Review the material early, then attempt the questions so that you learn about any difficulties you are having. Then use the review session to learn to overcome those difficulties. Be active (and pro-active) in your learning!

3/8 W Project 3 Answers to some frequently asked Project 3 questions have been added to the Projects page.

3/6 M Prelim 1 regrade request We will accept prelim 1 regrade requests until 4pm on Thursday. Please submit your regrade request to the CS100 consultant in the Engineering Library consulting area, Carpenter Hall.

3/6
M Section Section will be held in the classroom this week.

3/3 F Project 3 Project 3 is now online.

2/28T Clicker setting The clickers are pre-set to the correct channel for the instructor's receiver, so you do not need to change the setting by using the go (or login) key. If you press the go key and then press a number, you will change the clicker's channel and the clicker will not work with the instructor's receiver.
How to fix:
(0) Wait for a clicker question slide in class.
(1) Press the go button--the light flashes.
(2) Enter the number 41 (press 4 and then 1)--the light shines green.
Try again if that doesn't work. If it still doesn't work after a second try, then please return the clicker to the library and sign out another one. Please register your new clicker.

2/28 Prof. Fan's office hr Professor Fan will cancel her office hour on Wednesday, March 1.

2/27
M Prelim return We will return Prelim 1 in lecture tomorrow. The last day to submit regrade request to CS100 consultants in the Engineering Library is Tues, March 7. All scores will be posted on CMS after regrades, if any, are processed.

If you did not circle your lecture number on your exam or did not pick it up in lecture, it will be available for pickup in Carpenter consulting area (Engrg Library) on Wed.

2/27
M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

2/21 T Register your clicker You must register your clicker by Sunday, Feb 26, on-line:     http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu:8000/clickers/cs100m.php
Your clicker must be registered in order for you to receive points on in-class quizzes.

2/20
M Section Section will be held in the classrooms this week.

2/16
R Evaluate your TA & win a prize TA midterm evaluations will be conducted on-line from Monday, February 20 through Monday, March 6. Please visit the web site below to and let the college know how your TA is doing. http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/TAEval/survey.cfm

Random prizes will be awarded for completing the online TA Evaluation survey. Evaluate all of your Engineering TAs and maximize your chances of winning.

2/14
T Prof. Chew's office hours Prof. Chew will be canceling his office hours on 2/16.

2/13
M W 12:20 Blue room section For this week only, the Wed. 12:20 section normally held in the ACCEL Blue room will be in the Orange room.

2/13
M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

2/9
F Prelim 1 Conflicts The CS100 exam is conflicting with several exams this semester, the largest being BIOG110. We want to clarify that you need to contact Kelly if you need ANY exception (if you are taking another makeup exam or the CS100 makeup). If you are taking the BIOG110 makeup that ends at 7:30 you will be assigned to a different exam room to minimize disruptions.

2/9
R Prelim 1 Prelim 1 on 9/23 at 7:30pm: contact Kelly Patwell if you have an unresolved university-scheduled conflict

2/9
R Clickers Sign out a clicker from the Engineering Library and register it on-line:     http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu:8000/clickers/cs100m.php
You will use your clicker to answer some in-class questions and to take in-class quizzes.

2/6
M P1 solutions posted Please read the grading guide (and solutions) to Project 1 even if you received a perfect score (10/10).

2/6
M Section Section will be held in the classrooms this week.

2/3
F P2 Posted Project 2 has been posted on the Projects page and is due on 2/16 at 6pm.

1/31 T P1 rectangle On some browsers the file becomes "double spaced." The extra blank lines are fine in all cases EXCEPT for the 4th-last statement: there CANNOT be a blank line between the ellipsis ( ... ) and the rest of the statement (px,py,qx,qy). The ellipsis is the line-continuation symbol in MATLAB--use it when you need to continue a statement on the next line. So remove the extra blank line from your downloaded file or download the new one, posted at 4:40pm.

1/30
M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

1/26
R P1 Posted Project 1 has been posted on the Projects page and is due on 2/2 at 6pm.

1/23
M Section We will be holding section this week in the computer lab. Please see the syllabus for the location, not the roster.

1/4
T 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
4/28 F	Programming Contest	The ACSU will host a programming contest on Saturday! Two person teams will pit their coding skills against each other. Bring a friend and join us in the fun. Join the competition, or just stop by to check out the contest question. When: Saturday, April 29th, 2006 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Where: Upson 330 (Part of the CSUG Lab) Free Pizza will be served to all participants.
4/27 R	P6	Project 6 has been posted. Due 5/4 at 6pm. - Remember to turn off DrJava's backup feature! - You must adhere to the Code of Academic Integrity.
4/25 T	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, April 28.
4/24 M	canceled office hr	Prof. Fan's office hour on 4/25 is canceled.
4/24 M	Section	Section will be held in the classrooms this week.
4/21 F	OOP Review	There'll be a review on OOP on Sunday, noon-1:15pm, in UP 207. This review is intended for those who have had significant difficulty with OOP on Prelim 3, e.g., those who scored below 25 points out of 40 on the last OOP question.
4/20 R	regrade request	Submit any regrade request on Prelim 3 to the CS100 consultants in the Carpenter consulting area by 11pm on Wednesday, 4/26.
4/20 R	Prelim handout	The prelims that were not picked up in lecture today are now available from the consultants in Carpenter.
4/20 R	Prof. Fan's office hours	Professor Fan will be extending her office hours today to 3:00-5:00pm
4/19 W	Prelim 3 return	Prelim 3 will be returned in lecture on Thursday.
4/18 T	Tuesday Night Timeout	After your prelim, join us for a breather at …Tuesday Night Timeout!!! When: Tuesday, April 18th from 9 – 10:30 PM Where: Carol Tatkon Center, Lounge in S. Balch Hall What: Come spend some time relaxing with us after your prelim. FREE PIZZA AND SODA will be available for all who are in attendance. Also, challenge your friends in the first ever Tatkon Center TRIVIA CHALLENGE. The top players will receive PRIZES for their efforts.
4/17 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
4/12 W	Review Session	There will be a review session on Sunday, April 16 at 1:00-2:30 in in Upson B17
4/12 W	Consulting on Wed. and Thur.	Consulting on Wednesday from 2:30-11 and Thurs from 2:30-7 will be in the Green Room of the ACCEL lab in the Engr. Library.
4/11 T	Clicker registration	Open on-line registration has ended. If you need to change to a new clicker, email your new clicker ID to LZ43@cornell.edu. The clicker id is only 6-character long, below a small bar code. (The long number below the big bar code is the library's lending catalog code.)
4/11 T	Prelim 3 conflicts	Prelim 3 is going to be on 4/18 at 7:30. Please email Kelly ASAP if you have a university-excused conflict.
4/10 M	Section	You will work on Project 5 in section this week. Please bring a paper copy of your latest code to get help on the project.
4/10 M	Section	Section will be held in the classroom this week.
4/7 F	P5	Project 5 Part B has been posted. Parts A and B will be due on Thursday, 4/13, at 6pm.
4/5 W	P5	Project 5 Part A has been posted. Parts A and B will be due on Thursday, 4/13, at 6pm.
4/5 W	Quiz 1	We had an in-class quiz on Wednesday (4/4). A quiz counts as an exercise and you can miss “several” without lowering your score. E.g., if there will be 15 exercises in total (section exercises plus quizzes) in the semester, you can miss 3 (about 20%) without hurting your total exercise score.
4/3 M	Section	Section will be in the lab this week.
3/30 R	IS and ISST Open House	There will be an open house on Monday, 4/3 from 3-4:15 pm at 301 College Ave. Come and enjoy the food (and dessert!) while you..... -Learn about the Information Science majors in Arts & Sciences and CALS and the Information Science, Systems, and Technology major in Engineering -Meet other students, faculty, and staff in Information Science
3/30 R	Prelim 2 Solutions	Solutions for Prelim 2 are now online. Look on the Exams page or click here.
3/23 T	Prelim 2 regrades	The deadline for Prelim 2 regrade request is Tuesday, 4/4.
3/28 T	Uncollected Prelim 2	The Prelims that were not collected in lecture today have been brought to Carpenter and can be picked up during consulting hours.
3/28 T	P4 complex division	P4 complex division: the denominator should be u^2+v^2, as shown in the posted project statement revised on 3/21.
3/27 M	Prelim 2 return	Prelim 2 will be returned at the end of lecture tomorrow.
3/27 M	Section	Section will be held in the classrooms this week.
3/17 F	P4	Project 4 has been posted. Due 3/30 at 6pm.
3/14 T	Clicker registration	Open on-line registration has ended. If you need to change to a new clicker, email your new clicker ID to LZ43@cornell.edu. The clicker id is only 6-character long, below a small bar code. (The long number below the big bar code is the library's lending catalog code.)
3/13 M	DrJava setting	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."
3/13 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
3/9 R	CIS/EAS 121	Lectures/sections for CIS/EAS 121 have ended, but CIS/EAS121 students may choose to attend next week's lab for extra help on the MATLAB portion of the course. There will be a lab exercise on the Java material that will be introduced on Tuesday, but CIS/EAS121 students may choose to use that time to ask questions about other course material.
3/9 R	Review questions	Review questions for Prelim 2 have been posted. Please attempt these questions before going to the review session! You need to practise developing a solution on your own--not practise reading (or listening to) the solution! Review the material early, then attempt the questions so that you learn about any difficulties you are having. Then use the review session to learn to overcome those difficulties. Be active (and pro-active) in your learning!
3/8 W	Project 3	Answers to some frequently asked Project 3 questions have been added to the Projects page.
3/6 M	Prelim 1 regrade request	We will accept prelim 1 regrade requests until 4pm on Thursday. Please submit your regrade request to the CS100 consultant in the Engineering Library consulting area, Carpenter Hall.
3/6 M	Section	Section will be held in the classroom this week.
3/3 F	Project 3	Project 3 is now online.
2/28T	Clicker setting	The clickers are pre-set to the correct channel for the instructor's receiver, so you do not need to change the setting by using the go (or login) key. If you press the go key and then press a number, you will change the clicker's channel and the clicker will not work with the instructor's receiver. How to fix: (0) Wait for a clicker question slide in class. (1) Press the go button--the light flashes. (2) Enter the number 41 (press 4 and then 1)--the light shines green. Try again if that doesn't work. If it still doesn't work after a second try, then please return the clicker to the library and sign out another one. Please register your new clicker.
2/28	Prof. Fan's office hr	Professor Fan will cancel her office hour on Wednesday, March 1.
2/27 M	Prelim return	We will return Prelim 1 in lecture tomorrow. The last day to submit regrade request to CS100 consultants in the Engineering Library is Tues, March 7. All scores will be posted on CMS after regrades, if any, are processed. If you did not circle your lecture number on your exam or did not pick it up in lecture, it will be available for pickup in Carpenter consulting area (Engrg Library) on Wed.
2/27 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
2/21 T	Register your clicker	You must register your clicker by Sunday, Feb 26, on-line: http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu:8000/clickers/cs100m.php Your clicker must be registered in order for you to receive points on in-class quizzes.
2/20 M	Section	Section will be held in the classrooms this week.
2/16 R	Evaluate your TA & win a prize	TA midterm evaluations will be conducted on-line from Monday, February 20 through Monday, March 6. Please visit the web site below to and let the college know how your TA is doing. http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/TAEval/survey.cfm Random prizes will be awarded for completing the online TA Evaluation survey. Evaluate all of your Engineering TAs and maximize your chances of winning.
2/14 T	Prof. Chew's office hours	Prof. Chew will be canceling his office hours on 2/16.
2/13 M	W 12:20 Blue room section	For this week only, the Wed. 12:20 section normally held in the ACCEL Blue room will be in the Orange room.
2/13 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
2/9 F	Prelim 1 Conflicts	The CS100 exam is conflicting with several exams this semester, the largest being BIOG110. We want to clarify that you need to contact Kelly if you need ANY exception (if you are taking another makeup exam or the CS100 makeup). If you are taking the BIOG110 makeup that ends at 7:30 you will be assigned to a different exam room to minimize disruptions.
2/9 R	Prelim 1	Prelim 1 on 9/23 at 7:30pm: contact Kelly Patwell if you have an unresolved university-scheduled conflict
2/9 R	Clickers	Sign out a clicker from the Engineering Library and register it on-line: http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu:8000/clickers/cs100m.php You will use your clicker to answer some in-class questions and to take in-class quizzes.
2/6 M	P1 solutions posted	Please read the grading guide (and solutions) to Project 1 even if you received a perfect score (10/10).
2/6 M	Section	Section will be held in the classrooms this week.
2/3 F	P2 Posted	Project 2 has been posted on the Projects page and is due on 2/16 at 6pm.
1/31 T	P1 rectangle	On some browsers the file becomes "double spaced." The extra blank lines are fine in all cases EXCEPT for the 4th-last statement: there CANNOT be a blank line between the ellipsis ( ... ) and the rest of the statement (px,py,qx,qy). The ellipsis is the line-continuation symbol in MATLAB--use it when you need to continue a statement on the next line. So remove the extra blank line from your downloaded file or download the new one, posted at 4:40pm.
1/30 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
1/26 R	P1 Posted	Project 1 has been posted on the Projects page and is due on 2/2 at 6pm.
1/23 M	Section	We will be holding section this week in the computer lab. Please see the syllabus for the location, not the roster.
1/4 T	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).