COM S 211 / ENGRD 211

Computers and Programming
Fall 2000

Announcements Archive

• [12/11] The Final Exam takes place today (Monday) in Barton East at 12 noon.  Note that we share Barton; Barton Central and Barton West are assigned to Econ 101.  If you have submitted a letter from the Cornell Disabilities Office mandating extra time on the exam then you should report to Upson 111 instead of Barton East.
• [12/9] Revised Project Demo Schedule: Due in part to the deadline on getting grades in to the Registrar, the Demo times have been changed to TUESDAY Dec 12, 6 - 9:30pm. Please resignup for a demo time slot on the schedule which is posted on the consultant's door, Upson 304.
• [12/8] The Consulting Office will be open today (Friday) from 2 until 5pm.  Several students have requested this additional opportunity to pick up exams and/or homework papers.
• [12/7] Project Demo info: Please include the latest UML diagram as well as previous UML diagrams - clean copies of the UML diagrams that you submitted with the Milestones (not the whole Milestone). This will be considered a "Design Record" of the evolution of your project's design, and should be a supplement to the User Manual (not counted as part of the 4-5 pages.).
• [12/6] Review Sessions: Paul Chew will be available to answer questions on both Thursday and Friday in B17 Upson from 10am until 11am.  Be sure to bring questions; we'll quit early if there aren't any questions.
• [12/6] Students who have submitted a letter, from the Cornell Disabilities Services Office, mandating extra time on exams should report to Upson 111 for their Final Exam at noon on Monday, Dec 11.  This will allow us to provide extra time without having to move these students at the end of the regular exam period.
• [12/5] The Solutions to Review Questions for the Final Exam have been posted.
• [12/5] As announced in lecture, the hardcopy for HW6 can be submitted at Paul Chew's office (494 Rhodes) any time before noon on Wednesday, Dec 6.  Slide it under the door if he is not there.
• [12/4] Prelim 2 regrades are done.
• [12/3] All lecture notes are now on line and all readings have been brought up-to-date.  See the Materials Page.
• [12/3] Review Questions for the Final Exam are now on line.
• [11/30] Accel/Project: A few students doing the Project also have to take the Final Exam - Be Sure You Follow Thru if you are in this situation. This mostly affects students who scored 84 or below on the initial Assessment Exam and who did not receive an email from me (M.Morgenstern) approving their substituting the Project for the Final Exam.
• [11/30] A schedule of office/consulting hours during finals is available.
• [11/29] Accel/Project section: re HW6: you should work this thru in your mind, esp. the action & change listeners, and the sliders & button-group widgets; no submission required for Accel/Project section.
• [11/29] HW6 has been updated.
• [11/28] Accelerated Project Demo Dates and User Manual Guidelines are posted here.
• [11/28] Prelim 2 solutions are posted.
• [11/27] Regrade requests for prelim 2 must be received before 11/30 (Thursday).
• [11/20] HW6 (build a GUI) has been posted.  It is due on November 30, the last day of class.
• [11/20] Thanksgiving Recess officially begins Nov. 22 at 1:10pm.  No lectures, sections, office hours, or consulting hours will be held this week after that time.  Enjoy the break! 
• [11/17] Accelerated/Project sections on Nov 22 & 23 will not be held due to Thanksgiving Break. M.Morgenstern will not have office hours that week either.
• [11/17] Prelim 2 is graded and available from the consulting office. Regrade policy is as last time. Statistics. Solutions will be posted in a couple days.
• [11/15] See changes in Project Milestone 4.
• [11/15] We anticipate that Prelim 2 will be graded by Friday morning.
• [11/15] Prelim 1 regrades will be available tomorrow from the consultants -- sorry for the delay.
• [11/13] Project Milestone 4 with info on the Final Submission has been posted.
• [11/13] Several students have requested additional problems to review before the exam. These are problems that have been used in some of the recitation sections.
• [11/13] There is a make-up exam taking place at 2pm Wednesday, Nov 15.  To take this make-up exam you must have a valid excuse (e.g., another exam on Tuesday evening) and you must pre-register via email.
• [11/11] Solutions to the Review Questions for Prelim II are now online.
• [11/8] Review Questions for Prelim II are now online.  Answers will be posted in a few days.
• [11/1] Accelerated Project Milestone 3 (GUI) is due Thursday, Nov 9th, and is posted on the Accelerated Stream Web Page.
• [11/1] A graphical test program has been created for use with your HeapPQ class. Download this file, unzip it, and read the README.TXT on how to use it
• [10/30] HW5 problem set due date is extended to Tuesday, November 7th, for both Regular and Accelerated. Accelerated Milestone II is unchanged, and still is due Thursday November 2.
• [10/27] Consulting hour W1:25-2:30 is cancelled until further notice.
• [10/26] Accelerated Stream: HW5 should be included with the Project Milestone II to be submitted Thursday, November 2 at lecture. This assignment has nice coverage of Java Collections and basic Priority Queue, with relatively modest coding involved.
• [10/26] HW5 has now been posted.  It is due Thursday, November 2.
• [10/25] Having problems importing HashSet or TreeSet on HW4? See the newsgroup for help.
• [10/22] Two small mistakes in HW4 have been corrected.
• [10/21] Accelerated Project - Second Milestone is available - due Thurs Nov 2nd.
• [10/19] The First Milestone for the Accelerated Stream Term Project is due Thurs Oct 26th.
• [10/19] HW4 has now been posted - for the Regular Stream only.  It is due Thursday, October 26.
• [10/18] Prelim 1 solution has been posted.
• [10/17] Prelims are available for pickup in the consulting office.
• [10/16] Term Project for Accelerated Stream is posted here.
• [10/16] M.Morgenstern's office hours this Tuesday are changed to this Wednesday Oct 18th 2:30pm.
• [10/14] Kanghoe Kim's office hour has been changed to Thursday 3:30-4:30 Upson 4104
• [10/14] HW3 has been graded. You may submit your regrade request through 10/23. First see the updated policy for regrades.
• [10/13] Prelim 1 is graded. You can view your score, and the class mean, via CUCOON.
  • A handful of students were not registered on CUCOON. We registered you. In order to login, you'll need to tell CUCOON you've forgotten your password, and then get a new one.
  • You cannot see your exam until sometime next week, since some students will not be taking it until Monday. Sorry, but we can't make arrangements for you to come in and see it.
• [10/12] Note: At present, the ONLY supported setup for accessing cucoon is IE5/Windows. If you are having problems then you should use a computer lab (such as Upson B7) for submitting homework and for looking at your grades.
• [10/12] Solution to Homework 3 has been posted.
• [10/10] You must be registered with CUCOON (the online grade and submission system) for us to record your grade on Prelim I.  In particular, if you are not registered then you will be unable to see your exam grade until after Friday (the last day to drop).
• [10/10] The make-up exam is scheduled for 2:30 Thursday in Rhodes 310. You must pre-register (via email: chew@cs.cornell.edu) to take the make-up exam.
• [10/10] Primary Topics for Prelim I Exam updated to include Stacks and Queues.  The exam has always included material through the lecture on Oct 5, but Stacks and Queues were inadvertently left off the list.
• [10/9] The Solutions to Review I have been posted.
• [10/7] The Materials and Handouts page has been updated to show the reading in the text that corresponds to each lecture
• [10/6] No office hours will be held on 10/9 or 10/10.  Enjoy your Fall Break!
• [10/5] Review Questions for Prelim I have been posted.  Solutions will appear in a few days.
• [10/5] Consulting hour 1:25-2:30 this Friday will be covered and not cancelled.
• [10/4] Consulting hour 1:25-2:30 this Friday is cancelled.
• [10/3] Primary Topics for Prelim I Exam are posted.
• [9/25] Please submit HW2 (regular & accel) on an IBM-formatted floppy.
• [9/19] HW2 is now posted.
• [9/18] Draft of slides for Tues 9/19 are on Materials page
• [9/18] Tau Beta Pi Tutoring available, see here.
• [9/17] If you're having trouble with the newsgroup, see CIT's news page for help.
• [9/16] HW2-accel is now posted.
• [9/16] HW1 stats are posted. You can retrieve your graded homework from the consultants' office (UP 304) during their office hours. 
• [9/15] Lecture 2 (12:20-1:10) is cancelled due to the fact that the number of people has decreased enough so that the 10:10 lecture will be sufficient to accommodate all students.  This will have no effect upon the Tuesday 12:20 section.
• [9/15] Office hours are now posted under Course Information.
• [9/15] The course website has been reorganized.
• [9/12] Due to the size of the class, we are asking students to send non-personal questions (including Accel/Proj sections) to the course newsgroup at news://newsstand.cit.cornell.edu/cornell.class.cs211. If you'd like your email to not be seen by all, please email to cs211@cs.cornell.edu. Of course, sending email to the TAs and/or the instructors is fine when neither the newsgroup nor the course email address fit your circumstances.
• HW1 is posted. It has been updated with the due date and group restrictions.
  For the Accelerated/Project Stream see Homework #1-Accel.
• Diagnostic exam scores are posted.  If your score was 84 or below, you must check the "Requirements" to see if they apply to you. Additional recommendations also are provided.
• For an even more intensive review of Java - which may be needed by some students in CS211 - you should take CS202 Transition to Java, which is a 1 credit course that is starting now (you may register now) and runs for about 4 weeks only.