CS100M: Archived Announcements

CS100M-->Archived Announcements

Date Topic Description

4/30
M Fan's Thurs office hr moved Dr. Fan's office hr on Thursday, 5/3, will be moved to 5-6pm.

4/30
M Course Eval deadline extended The deadline for course evals has been extended to Friday, 5/4 at midnight. This eval counts as excersise 15. Please visit http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/courseeval by Friday.

4/30
M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

4/27
F 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 Thursday, 5/3.

4/25 W Project 6 Project 6 Part B has been posted and is due May 3 at 6 pm.

4/24
T Project 6 Project 6A has been posted and is due May 3 at 6 pm. 6B will be posted tomorrow.

4/24
T Course Eval The College of Engineering requires that course evaluations be done online. To complete the evaluation, visit the link below between Monday, 4/23-Sunday, 4/29.
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.

4/24
T Section Section will be held n the classroom this week.

4/23 M OOP Review The review session on OOP will take place Monday 9:15-10:30pm at the Carol Tatkon Center large classroom (Balch Hall). This session is for students who need to get caught up with OOP, e.g., those who scored below 20 (out of 40) on the OOP question in Prelim 3.

4/21 Sa OOP Review A review session on OOP will be held on Monday evening. Location/time TBA.

4/19 R Prelim 3 regrade requests If you have a regrade request, submit it to the CS100 consultants at the ACCEL Green Room during consulting hours by Wednesday, 4/25, 11pm.

4/18 W Prelim 3 return We will return Prelim 3 in lecture tomorrow. Any unclaimed papers, as well as those on which students did not indicate their lecture time, will be available for pick up from the CS100 consultants during consulting hour starting at 6pm on Thursday.

4/17 T Solutions to old exams Two typos were corrected (Q3 of SP06 exam and the last part of Q4 in the FA06 exam).

4/15
M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

4/12 R protected We will discuss the keyword protected in a couple weeks. It will not be covered in Prelim 3. We have removed it from Section Exercise 11.

4/10
T lost a flashdrive? One was found in front of the Hotel School Monday night. If you have lost yours, let Dr. Fan know the capacity of the flash drive and what is in it.

4/9
M Section Section will be held in the classrooms this week.

4/3 T P5 Project 5 has been posted. Due 4/12 at 6pm. Start soon--after your section this week. Take some time to read the project carefully--you won't need to write too much code, but you will need to read and understand the OO aspects. Skim the entire write-up first, then read in detail as you work through the project. If you give yourself enough time to do the project, you will learn a lot and have fun doing it! If you wait until a couple days before the the deadline to start, you will have a frustrating time.

4/3 Missing 1/2 your Java book? Bring your half to the Campus store. Show it to the staff there and and they will give you the other half.

4/2
M Section Section will be held in the Lab this week.

3/29 R Prelim 2 regrade requests If you have a regrade request, submit it to the CS100 consultants at the ACCEL Green Room during consulting hours by Wednesday, 4/4, 11pm.

3/27 T P4 Question 1m asks for a random number in the interval [-1,12]; please generate a random integer.

3/26 M Prelim 2 return Prelim 2 will be returned in section this week. All EAS/CIS121 prelims, any unclaimed prelims from section, and prelims on which students did not indicate their section will be available for pick up at the ACCEL Green Rm during consulting hours starting Thursday 2:40pm.

3/26
M Section Section will be held in the classrooms this week.

3/25 Su Consulting Consulting starts again (after spring break) on Sunday, 3/25, at 8pm.

3/24 Sa Java & DrJava An easy way to get Java on your machine is to use the CD from your textbook! Note that you need two things: Java (JDK) from the CD in the book or the Sun website; and the DrJava development environment from the drJava website. See detail on the DrJava link.

3/23
F Final exam time The wrong time was listed on final on the Final Exam page. The time has been corrected.

3/23 F 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."

3/16
F P4 Project 4 has been posted and is due on 3/29 at 6pm. Click on the Projects link on the left.

3/12 M EAS/CIS121 Lectures and sections from this week on will use Java. EAS/CIS121 students can stop going to lecture and section but must continue to monitor course announcements on this website until after Prelim 2.

3/12 M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

3/6 T Prelim 2 review questions and session Prelim 2 review questions and topics have been posted on the prelim 2 page. There will be a review session on Sunday, March 11 at 1:00-2:30pm in Upson B17.

3/5 M P3 File integral.m has been modified: an occurrence of n has been changed to n+1. The file now uses linspace(a,b,n+1) which divides the interval (a,b) into n equal-sized pieces. The file originally used linspace(a,b,n) which divides the interval into just n-1 pieces. Please use the corrected version as the basis for your own code.

3/5
M Section Section will be held in the classroom this week.

3/1 Prelim 1 regrade requests If you have a regrade request, submit it to the CS100 consultants at the ACCEL Green Rm during consulting hours by Wednesday, 3/7, 11pm.

2/26 P3 A minor typo was fixed in program integral.m. If you downloaded this file before today then you might want to download the newer version.

2/26 TA Evals TA midterm evaluations will be conducted on-line from Monday, February 26, though Friday, March 9. Please visit the web site below and let the college know how your TA is doing. http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/TAEval/survey.cfm

2/26
M Come to BOOM BOOM is an annual research conference that showcases student efforts and creativity in digital technology and applications. It will be on Wed., 2/28, from 4:00-6:00p in the Duffield Atrium.

2/26
M Prelim 1 return Prelim 1 will be returned in section (in the lab) this week. Any unclaimed prelims and prelims on which students did not indicate their section will be available for pick up at the ACCEL Green Rm during consulting hours starting Thursday.

2/26
M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

2/24 P3 Project 3 has been posted and is due Thursday, March 8, at 6pm. Click the Projects link on the left.

2/22 R consulting There'll be no consulting at ACCEL tonight 7-11pm due to the prelim.

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

2/16 F Clicker registration Remember to register your clicker. CIT has notified us that there is a small batch of clickers with the same device ID code. If you have such a clicker, when you try to register it the system will give a message saying that the clicker has been registered to another student already. In that case, simply bring the clicker back to the Campus Store to exchange for another clicker and register the new clicker.

2/15 R Prelim 1 review Topics and review questions have been posted. See the Exams-->Prelim 1 link. There will be a review session on Sunday, 1-2:30pm, at Upson B17. Try to go over the review questions on your own before attending the review session.

2/15 R P2 deadline The deadline for Project 2 has been changed to 2pm on Friday, 2/16, due to the University closing.

2/15 R lecture canceled The 9:05 lecture is canceled due to the University closing. The 11:15 lecture is canceled to keep the two lecture sections synchronized.

2/13
T i-clickers If there are no clickers left on the 100 course shelf, please ask a Cornell Store employee for help. There are still hundreds in stock.

2/12
M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

2/8 R clicker registration Register your clicker on the CIT website. Your must use a clicker from the i-Clicker system in CS100. You only need to register your i-Clicker clicker with CIT once (if you use your i-Clicker clicker for multiple courses). To register, go to the CIT polling service page. On the left of that page, select "Clicker Registration" under "For Students" and then fill out the necessary information, including your clicker's device ID.

2/5
M Section Section will be held in the classrooms this week.

2/2 F P2 Project 2 has been posted and is due Thursday, Feb 15, at 6pm. Click the Projects link on the left.

1/29
M New Sections We have added two new sections: SEC 20, CID 616764 and SEC 21, CID 616799. Right now they show up only in JTF and can be added. They will be in the roster when it is updated on Friday.

1/29
M Section Section will be held in the lab this week.

1/26 F new sections We will add two sections next week: W12:20-1:10 and W1:25-2:15. We expect these new sections to be available for enrollment in Just The Facts by Tuesday (determined by the Registrar). You must attend the section in which you are enrolled.

1/25
R Lec. 2 location Lec. 2 held at 11:15, will be held in OH 155 starting 1/30.

1/25 R clicker CIT will open clicker registration on its website in a week or two. We'll announce the registration site when it comes on line.

1/25 R AEW The two workshops offered are full but we'll open another one if there is more interest! Please put your name on the waiting list for a Monday afternoon AEW. Send an e-mail to eng-learning@cornell.edu and ask to add your name to the CS100M AEW waiting list.

1/24 W P1 Project 1 has been posted and is due Feb 1 at 6pm. Click the Projects link on the left. You will submit your project using the on-line Course Management System (CMS), which will open for submission next week.

1/23
T ACSU Bowling Interested in Computer Science? Like to play bowling? The ACSU is hosting a bowling night at Helen Newman lanes this Thursday, January 25th from 5-7 pm. Free pizza will be served. If you are interested in joining, finding out what the organization is about or just want to play bowling, come and join us.

1/22 M Section Section this week will take place in the computer lab, not the classrooms listed in Just The Facts. SEC 1-11: go to UP B7. CIS/EAS121 SEC12: go to ACCEL Blue Rm (Engineering Library, Carpenter Hall)

1/4
W 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
4/30 M	Fan's Thurs office hr moved	Dr. Fan's office hr on Thursday, 5/3, will be moved to 5-6pm.
4/30 M	Course Eval deadline extended	The deadline for course evals has been extended to Friday, 5/4 at midnight. This eval counts as excersise 15. Please visit http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/courseeval by Friday.
4/30 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
4/27 F	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 Thursday, 5/3.
4/25 W	Project 6	Project 6 Part B has been posted and is due May 3 at 6 pm.
4/24 T	Project 6	Project 6A has been posted and is due May 3 at 6 pm. 6B will be posted tomorrow.
4/24 T	Course Eval	The College of Engineering requires that course evaluations be done online. To complete the evaluation, visit the link below between Monday, 4/23-Sunday, 4/29. 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.
4/24 T	Section	Section will be held n the classroom this week.
4/23 M	OOP Review	The review session on OOP will take place Monday 9:15-10:30pm at the Carol Tatkon Center large classroom (Balch Hall). This session is for students who need to get caught up with OOP, e.g., those who scored below 20 (out of 40) on the OOP question in Prelim 3.
4/21 Sa	OOP Review	A review session on OOP will be held on Monday evening. Location/time TBA.
4/19 R	Prelim 3 regrade requests	If you have a regrade request, submit it to the CS100 consultants at the ACCEL Green Room during consulting hours by Wednesday, 4/25, 11pm.
4/18 W	Prelim 3 return	We will return Prelim 3 in lecture tomorrow. Any unclaimed papers, as well as those on which students did not indicate their lecture time, will be available for pick up from the CS100 consultants during consulting hour starting at 6pm on Thursday.
4/17 T	Solutions to old exams	Two typos were corrected (Q3 of SP06 exam and the last part of Q4 in the FA06 exam).
4/15 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
4/12 R	`protected`	We will discuss the keyword `protected` in a couple weeks. It will not be covered in Prelim 3. We have removed it from Section Exercise 11.
4/10 T	lost a flashdrive?	One was found in front of the Hotel School Monday night. If you have lost yours, let Dr. Fan know the capacity of the flash drive and what is in it.
4/9 M	Section	Section will be held in the classrooms this week.
4/3 T	P5	Project 5 has been posted. Due 4/12 at 6pm. Start soon--after your section this week. Take some time to read the project carefully--you won't need to write too much code, but you will need to read and understand the OO aspects. Skim the entire write-up first, then read in detail as you work through the project. If you give yourself enough time to do the project, you will learn a lot and have fun doing it! If you wait until a couple days before the the deadline to start, you will have a frustrating time.
4/3	Missing 1/2 your Java book?	Bring your half to the Campus store. Show it to the staff there and and they will give you the other half.
4/2 M	Section	Section will be held in the Lab this week.
3/29 R	Prelim 2 regrade requests	If you have a regrade request, submit it to the CS100 consultants at the ACCEL Green Room during consulting hours by Wednesday, 4/4, 11pm.
3/27 T	P4	Question 1m asks for a random number in the interval [-1,12]; please generate a random integer.
3/26 M	Prelim 2 return	Prelim 2 will be returned in section this week. All EAS/CIS121 prelims, any unclaimed prelims from section, and prelims on which students did not indicate their section will be available for pick up at the ACCEL Green Rm during consulting hours starting Thursday 2:40pm.
3/26 M	Section	Section will be held in the classrooms this week.
3/25 Su	Consulting	Consulting starts again (after spring break) on Sunday, 3/25, at 8pm.
3/24 Sa	Java & DrJava	An easy way to get Java on your machine is to use the CD from your textbook! Note that you need two things: Java (JDK) from the CD in the book or the Sun website; and the DrJava development environment from the drJava website. See detail on the DrJava link.
3/23 F	Final exam time	The wrong time was listed on final on the Final Exam page. The time has been corrected.
3/23 F	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."
3/16 F	P4	Project 4 has been posted and is due on 3/29 at 6pm. Click on the Projects link on the left.
3/12 M	EAS/CIS121	Lectures and sections from this week on will use Java. EAS/CIS121 students can stop going to lecture and section but must continue to monitor course announcements on this website until after Prelim 2.
3/12 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
3/6 T	Prelim 2 review questions and session	Prelim 2 review questions and topics have been posted on the prelim 2 page. There will be a review session on Sunday, March 11 at 1:00-2:30pm in Upson B17.
3/5 M	P3	File integral.m has been modified: an occurrence of n has been changed to n+1. The file now uses linspace(a,b,n+1) which divides the interval (a,b) into n equal-sized pieces. The file originally used linspace(a,b,n) which divides the interval into just n-1 pieces. Please use the corrected version as the basis for your own code.
3/5 M	Section	Section will be held in the classroom this week.
3/1	Prelim 1 regrade requests	If you have a regrade request, submit it to the CS100 consultants at the ACCEL Green Rm during consulting hours by Wednesday, 3/7, 11pm.
2/26	P3	A minor typo was fixed in program integral.m. If you downloaded this file before today then you might want to download the newer version.
2/26	TA Evals	TA midterm evaluations will be conducted on-line from Monday, February 26, though Friday, March 9. Please visit the web site below and let the college know how your TA is doing. http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/TAEval/survey.cfm
2/26 M	Come to BOOM	BOOM is an annual research conference that showcases student efforts and creativity in digital technology and applications. It will be on Wed., 2/28, from 4:00-6:00p in the Duffield Atrium.
2/26 M	Prelim 1 return	Prelim 1 will be returned in section (in the lab) this week. Any unclaimed prelims and prelims on which students did not indicate their section will be available for pick up at the ACCEL Green Rm during consulting hours starting Thursday.
2/26 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
2/24	P3	Project 3 has been posted and is due Thursday, March 8, at 6pm. Click the Projects link on the left.
2/22 R	consulting	There'll be no consulting at ACCEL tonight 7-11pm due to the prelim.
2/20 T	Section	Section will be held in the classrooms this week.
2/16 F	Clicker registration	Remember to register your clicker. CIT has notified us that there is a small batch of clickers with the same device ID code. If you have such a clicker, when you try to register it the system will give a message saying that the clicker has been registered to another student already. In that case, simply bring the clicker back to the Campus Store to exchange for another clicker and register the new clicker.
2/15 R	Prelim 1 review	Topics and review questions have been posted. See the Exams-->Prelim 1 link. There will be a review session on Sunday, 1-2:30pm, at Upson B17. Try to go over the review questions on your own before attending the review session.
2/15 R	P2 deadline	The deadline for Project 2 has been changed to 2pm on Friday, 2/16, due to the University closing.
2/15 R	lecture canceled	The 9:05 lecture is canceled due to the University closing. The 11:15 lecture is canceled to keep the two lecture sections synchronized.
2/13 T	i-clickers	If there are no clickers left on the 100 course shelf, please ask a Cornell Store employee for help. There are still hundreds in stock.
2/12 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
2/8 R	clicker registration	Register your clicker on the CIT website. Your must use a clicker from the i-Clicker system in CS100. You only need to register your i-Clicker clicker with CIT once (if you use your i-Clicker clicker for multiple courses). To register, go to the CIT polling service page. On the left of that page, select "Clicker Registration" under "For Students" and then fill out the necessary information, including your clicker's device ID.
2/5 M	Section	Section will be held in the classrooms this week.
2/2 F	P2	Project 2 has been posted and is due Thursday, Feb 15, at 6pm. Click the Projects link on the left.
1/29 M	New Sections	We have added two new sections: SEC 20, CID 616764 and SEC 21, CID 616799. Right now they show up only in JTF and can be added. They will be in the roster when it is updated on Friday.
1/29 M	Section	Section will be held in the lab this week.
1/26 F	new sections	We will add two sections next week: W12:20-1:10 and W1:25-2:15. We expect these new sections to be available for enrollment in Just The Facts by Tuesday (determined by the Registrar). You must attend the section in which you are enrolled.
1/25 R	Lec. 2 location	Lec. 2 held at 11:15, will be held in OH 155 starting 1/30.
1/25 R	clicker	CIT will open clicker registration on its website in a week or two. We'll announce the registration site when it comes on line.
1/25 R	AEW	The two workshops offered are full but we'll open another one if there is more interest! Please put your name on the waiting list for a Monday afternoon AEW. Send an e-mail to eng-learning@cornell.edu and ask to add your name to the CS100M AEW waiting list.
1/24 W	P1	Project 1 has been posted and is due Feb 1 at 6pm. Click the Projects link on the left. You will submit your project using the on-line Course Management System (CMS), which will open for submission next week.
1/23 T	ACSU Bowling	Interested in Computer Science? Like to play bowling? The ACSU is hosting a bowling night at Helen Newman lanes this Thursday, January 25th from 5-7 pm. Free pizza will be served. If you are interested in joining, finding out what the organization is about or just want to play bowling, come and join us.
1/22 M	Section	Section this week will take place in the computer lab, not the classrooms listed in Just The Facts. SEC 1-11: go to UP B7. CIS/EAS121 SEC12: go to ACCEL Blue Rm (Engineering Library, Carpenter Hall)
1/4 W	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).