The final has been graded and course grades
changed accordingly. Look on http://www.csuglab.cornell.edu/Courses/cs211.
Here's the grade distribution on the final --remember
that no student with an A in the course took the final:
90-99: (A) 1
80-89: (A-) 1
70-79 (B- to B+) 7
60-69 (C- to C+) 10
52-59 (D- to D+) 8
<= 50 (F) 3
You may look at your final after the break. Go to Upson 4115 and ask
Kathy C. to show you your final.
Have a good break!
David Gries
If you take the final, it may lower as well as
raise your grade. If you come into the room where the final is being given,
you will have to take the final. We will not let you decide during the
final that you do not want to take it (well, you may decide that, but
you will still have to take it).
In the past, about 15-20 percent of the students
have taken the final. Typically, it lowered roughly the same number of
grades as it raised.
If you don't show up at the final, your grade will
be as displayed on website http://www.csuglab.cornell.edu/Courses/cs211.
You do not have to tell
us whether or not you want to take the final.
Review sessions for the final.
For rooms and schedule, LOOK
HERE!
Below is the proposed schedul of review sessions.
Room numbers will be posted as soon as they become available. Look at
the site from time to time for changes:
- Thursday, Dec. 13. 1:00-2:30PM. Binary trees, binary search trees,
graphs
- Friday, Dec. 14. 1:00-2:30PM. Induction, algorithmic analysis
- Monday, Dec. 17. 1:00-2:30PM. Linked lists and hash tables
- Monday, Dec. 17. 2:30-4:00. Searching and sorting
- Tuesday, Dec. 18. 1:00-2:30. Correctness of programs
- Wednesday, Dec 19. 1:00-2:30. Classes, subclasses, nested classes,
inner classes, abstract classes
- Wednesday, Dec 19. 2:30-4:00.Exception handling, interfaces, interfaces
Enumeration and Comparable.
Consulting hours in Upson 304: none on 11-14
December. 17-19 December: 1-5PM
Go there for help,as well as to your TAs and Gries
Look here
for information on what the final will cover.
Assignment 8. Method removeleadzeros
in the assignment handout is wrong. Click on "News" to the left
to find out about it.
Recitation 10, for week of 26 November.
The recitation in the week of 26 November will cover mathematical induction.
We suggest that you don't miss it.
About prelim II. You
can look at your graded prelim in Upson 304 during consulting hours. Once
the prelim has been taken out of that room, no regrading will be allowed
(because we cannot control your writing on it). The best thing to do is
study it in the consulting room, along with the answer sheet. If you feel
you deserve more points, fill out a regrade form and give it to the consultant.
Please do not ask for a regrade until you have studied our answers and
understood them. Statistics on the exam are available on the the site
http://www.csuglab.cornell.edu/Courses/cs211/.
Trees. We have
studied binary trees. Look here for Joyce Kilmer's
poem, Trees, and Gries's version.
Assignment 7.
Several people used the conventional that an empty list is represented
by a one-node list whose element field is null. This is absolutely incorrect.
The specification of method isEmpty tells you the representation of an
empty list: null. That is the convention we have been using all
along for empty lists, when implemented a list as a singly linked list
(without a head or tail).
Assignment 6 typos. Click on the
News link to the left.
About prelim I. The prelim was graded
and grades entered by midnight. It was easier than we were trying for,
and we will attempt to make the next prelim just a bit harder. Below is
a histogram. (This is as of Friday at 9AM. The electronic submission page
statistics will be more up to date). The letter grade is an estimate.
Range |
Number |
letter grade |
90-100 |
103 |
A |
80-89 |
74 |
B |
70-79 |
40
|
C |
60-69 |
17 |
D+ to C- |
50-59 |
11 |
D |
40-49 |
8 |
F |
30-39 |
5 |
F |
About regrades of prelim I.
You can look at your graded prelim in Upson 304 during consulting hours.
Once the prelim has been taken out of that room, no regrading will be
allowed (because we cannot control your writing on it). The best thing
to do is study it in the consulting room, along with the answer sheet.
If you feel you deserve more points, fill out a regrade form and give
it to the consultant. Please do not ask for a regrade until you have studied
our answers and understood them.
Viewing Grades. The electronic submission
site http://www.csuglab.cornell.edu/Courses/cs211/.
now has a new feature.On that page, view your profile. On the profile
page, the "details" column contains a link; click it and you
get a page that contains statistics for the assignment, quiz, or prelim:
min, max, mean, and a histogram that shows where you stand.
About the prelim. The prelim is Thursday
night, 18 October, 7:30 to 9. It is in the following rooms in Olin: 155,
165, 245, 255. You ma sit in any room. However, you MUST sit at least
one seat apart; there must be an empty seat between students. See you
then!
We hope to have the exam graded Thursday night so that you will be able
to see the results some time Friday morning (by noon, but maybe much earlier)
on the electronic submission website.
About assignments 4 and 5:
Go to this page
to find the program (and files) that we used to test your assignment 4.
Before asking for a regrade, look at this program; then use it to test
your own TagEnumeration and LinkEnumeration.
Because of the problem with the CS server last week, we allowed people
to submit assignment 4 all this week, up through Wednesday, 10 October..
This means that we did not put our sample solution to TagEnumeration
and LinkEnumeration
on the website early, as planned. They are there since Thursday morning,
11 October.
Therefore, the assignment 5 due date is postposed, to midnight, Monday,
15 October. Submit it electronically, at http://www.csuglab.cornell.edu/Courses/cs211/.
Submit a zipped file that contains just the two files that you had to
work on (we will use our LinkEnumeration and TagEnumeration) and a README.TXT
file that contains (1) your name, (2) your netid, and (3), a list of the
files that you zipped.
Welcome
to the CS 211 (Fall 2001) web site
Course description,
from the Cornell Catalogue
COM S 211 Computers and Programming (also Engrd 211)
Fall, spring, summer. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: COM S 100 or an equivalent course in Java or C++.
Intermediate programming in a high-level language and introduction to
computer science. Topics include program structure and organization,
modules (classes), program development, proofs of program correctness,
recursion, data structures and types (lists, stacks, queues, trees),
object-oriented and functional programming, analysis of algorithms,
and an introduction to elementary graph theory and graph algorithms.
Java is the principal programming language. Knowledge of classes and
objects is assumed.
Required and optional texts
The required text is by Weiss: "Data Structures & Problem
Solving in Java, Addison-Wesley, second edition (2002), ISBN 0-201-74835-5.
An optional text is by Gries
and Gries, "ProgramLive", Wiley & Sons, 2001. This
semester, it is used in CS202, a 1-credit course on Java for those who
know another language (usually C++). It contains over 250 recorded lectures
with synched animation for a first programming course, with the addition
of some other material, like recursion. The lectures makes it easier
to learn some material than with a mere book.
Other texts, on Java, UML, and other topics, appear on the useful
links page.
Instructor
David Gries, Upson 4108, gries@cs.cornell.edu. 255-8892. Office hours
will appear on the web site soon.
TAs
Their particulars will appear on the website.
Consultants
Undergrad consultants will staff a consulting room. It will be open
many hours during the day. Visit it when you need help. You will also
pick up graded assignment there. Information about consulting will appear
on the web site soon.
Java Bootcamp
A prerequisite for this course is knowledge of programming in some language,
at the high school level. Preferably, you received the equivalent of
a B+ or A in the course that you took. Most people who don't know Java
will know C or C++. We will hold a "Java Bootcamp": three
hours of training in Java, at following times:
Olin 255, 7PM (in the evening): Tuesday, 4 September, Thursday, 6
September, and Tuesday 11 September.
The bootcamp will introduce you to the basics of object-oriented programming
in Java, and CS211 will have one or two review lectures as well. If
you got less than B+ in a previous programming course, you may want
to take the 1-credit course CS202 instead of CS211. If you are not sure
of what to do, sit in on both CS202 and CS211 and make your decision
in a week or two. But don't fall behind! Also, talk to Gries.
Programming environment
Metrowerks CodeWarrior is the preferred environment for developing and
testing programs, although you can use whatever you want. Our assignments
will have been tested in CodeWarrior. CodeWarrios is in all the CIT
labs. You can by the learning edition version at the bookstore. This
version has a Tutorial that will help you learn how to use CodeWarrior,
consisting of animated lectures that are taken from ProgramLive by Gries
& Gries.
CS211 versus CS212
CS211 is a 3-credit course. Every attempt will be made to make the workload
that of a 3-credit course. There will be programming assignments, but
we will try to give reasonable ones that help you learn and exercise
the programmng concepts with a minimum amount of your time.
CS212 is a 1-credit project course. It meets the whole semester. Those
enrolled will work on a single project, given in four segments, in temas
of two. The project is extremely interesting this semester. You will
write a program that has some of the functionality of mapblast or mapquest.
Type in two addresses, and the shortest path between them is drawn on
the screen. The project involves looking at real data and working with
the format in which it is stored, implementing GUIs, drawing a map on
the screen (really, a graph), finding shortest paths in a graph, and
more.
Tests
There are two evening prelims: 7:30PM, on Thursday, 18 October, and
Tuesday, 20 November.
The final is period 16, 9:30AM, 20 December. Generally, Gries makes
the final optional; he will give you a grade at the end of the semester.
You can accept it or take the final to try to improve it. Taking the
final may lower as well as raise your grade, and it lowering your grade
by taking the final has been known to happen in the past.
Recitations
Recitations will meet beginning next Tuesday. Go to the one for which
you are registered.
Number |
Section |
Day |
Time |
Instructor |
632-503 |
01 |
T |
1220-0110P |
|
632-567 |
02 |
T |
0125-0215P |
|
632-572 |
03 |
T |
0230-0320P |
|
633-009 |
04 |
T |
0335-0425P |
|
633-040 |
05 |
W |
1220-0110P |
|
633-280 |
06 |
W |
0125-0215P |
|
633-530 |
07 |
W |
0230-0320P |
|
633-558 |
08 |
W |
0335-0425P |
|
633-617 |
09 |
R |
0230-0320P |
|
633-753 |
10 |
W |
1220-0110P |
|
633-829 |
11 |
R |
0230-0320P |
|
|