CS312 Fall 2002 Announcement Archive

• Past experience has shown that it is often very difficult for students who enroll simultaneously in CS312 and CS314 to cope with the workload. Please ponder your decision carefully if you want to take both these courses.
• We'll be having four emacs/sml-nj demo sessions Monday and Tuesday nights (September 2nd and 3rd) at 7:00 and 8:00 in Upson B7 (the CIT computer lab). Each session should last approximately half an hour.
• PS1 is now up. Go here.
• Small clarification to PS1 has been made on the PS1 assignment page.
• Office hours for Hubert have changed. Please check web page for latest details.
• Another clarification to PS1 has been made on the PS1 assignment page.
• [9/10/02] PS1 is due today by 4 pm. Deadline is firm.
• [9/10/02] PS2 is available here. It is due on September 19.
• [9/10/02] PS2 has changed slightly, you can get the newest version here. It is still due on September 19. Further clarifications might be posted from time to time, so make sure to check the text of all assignments repeatedly.
• [9/16/02] Clarifications have been posted to PS2. Check them out here.
• [9/19/02] PS3 is out! Go here.
• [9/20/02] PS2 solutions are out. They are linked off the assignments page, or alternatively click here.
• [9/20/02] Added handout on debugging.
• [9/21/02] Initial PS3 distribution was missing a few files. It has now been updated. You can download from the PS3 page or you can get it from here.
• [9/22/02] Another tiny modification to the ps3.zip file. You can download from the PS3 page or you can get it from here(apologies for the mishap).
• [9/26/02] Due to sickness, office hours for Hubert will be cancelled this week.
• [9/29/02] On Monday, September 30, Tibor will have office hours one hour later than usual (from 4:30 to 5:30, instead of 3:30 to 4:30).
• [9/29/02] A handout illustrating the use of the substitution model is available here. Note that this example is very long and detailed. You will not be required to work out examples of this level of detail in the exam.
• [10/3/02] Another substitution model example is now available. It shows the implementation of the identity function using the S and K combinators.
• [10/6/02] Small clarification to PS3 made here.
• [10/7/02] Another small clarification to PS3 made here.
• [10/10/02] Tibor will hold open office hours on Wednesday, October 16, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm, in Upson B17. The meeting is primarily intended to answer your questions (rather than presenting new topics), and it will only go on as long as such questions are posed.
• [10/15/2002] Sample prelims are now available here
• [10/17/2002] Prelim 1 will take place today, October 17, in Upson B17, from 7:30 to 9:30.
• [10/17/2002] A detailed discussion of problem PS3/9 is now available.
• [10/18/2002] Problem Set 4 is now available with code.
• [10/18/2002] In case you haven't checked, prelim grades are up. They will be handed back in section on Monday.
• [10/23/2002] Tibor will have office hours half an hour later than usual, i.e. from 4:00 to 5:00, today, Wednesday, October 23.
• [10/23/2002] Histograms for the exam and the problem set are now available below.
• [10/28/2002] Tibor's office hours this week will be on Tuesday and Thursday, from 11:15 to 12:15, in 5154 Upson Hall.
• [10/27/2002] The evaluator is now available. Updated versions will be posted later, so make sure you check it out every now and then.
• [10/30/2002] I forgot to post the exam solutions; interestingly enough no one complained. Posted here.
• [11/07/2002] There was a small mistake in the exam solutions; now corrected. Posted here.
• [11/07/2002] PS5 is up! Go here and don't forget to sign up for partners!
• [11/13/2002] Practice prelims for prelim 2 are up here
• [11/15/2002] Prelim 2 will take place on Tuesday, November 19, in the Bache Auditorium of Malott Hall. The exam will start at 7:30 pm. The building will be closed on the South end entrance. Use main entrance across the parking lot from Bailey Hall.
• [11/18/2002] Tibor will move his Wednesday office hours forward, and hold extended office hours today from 3:30 to 5:30 (thus he will not have office hours on Wednesday). You are encouraged to come and clarify any issues you might have with the exam material. Keep in mind that the top two levels of Upson Hall close at 5:00 - if you want to come in after that, call Tibor in his office. If you want to make sure your questions get answered, come early.
• [11/19/2002] The exam is later today. Make sure that you take a look at the latest version of the evaluator, and that you read newsgroup postings and announcements that are posted on this page.
• [11/19/2002] A version of the evaluator with side effects has been posted here.
• [11/20/2002] Prelim solutions are posted here. Prelim histogram is posted here. And grades for the prelim are available in the usual place about halfway down the page.
• [11/20/2002] Since we're running a little behind and won't really cover a lot of the Garbage Collection material until Monday, we will be holding extra consulting and office hours this week in case people want to start the GC stuff early (which we recommend). Hours will be as follows:
  • Thursday: 7-9PM, Upson 304A (This week only)
  • Friday: 1-3PM, Upson 331 (Hubert's office hours)
  • Saturday: 1-2PM, Upson 331 (This week only)
• [11/25/2002] Exams that have not been picked up are available from Cindy Robinson in 4146 Upson Hall.
• [11/25/2002] To provide better support with issues related to PS5, Tibor moved his office hour from today (Monday, November 25) to Monday, December 4. He will be available from 3.30 to 5.30, or as long as necessary.
• [11/26/2002] Due to a glitch in the web update process the two announcements above have been posted for a couple of hours yesterday, then overwritten with older announcements. Make sure you read them.
• [11/25/2002] The handout version of the Evaluator used in prelim 2 in Postscript and PDF format.
• [11/26/2002] Tibor will hold open office hours in B17 Upson Hall, from 6 to 8 pm on December 10. You are encouraged to attend and to ask questions. The meeting will only go on as long as questions will be posed.
• [12/01/2002] A clarification to the GC part of the problem set has been made here.
• [12/09/2002] Notes on the CS312 Final Exam
  • The final exam will be Friday December 13, 9:00AM - 11:30AM in 101 Phillips.
  • The final will be graded immediately. Grades should be up sometime over the weekend. Both your exam grade and your course grade will be available from the web site.
  • You will be able to look at your final, but not to take it away. You can get access to it from Cindy Robinson, in 4146 Upson, between 1:00PM and 3:00PM.
  • The content of the final will be similar in style to the prelims, though it will be slightly longer, since it covers the content of the entire course. It will be closed book and closed notes.
  • There will be a handout covering excerpts of the evaluator, just as there was for prelim #2. The handout will be quite similar, but simplified slightly in that it will be restricted to a version of mini-ML that is applicative order (eager) and statically scoped, just like SML is. As a result, you will not need to deal with thunks or forcing values. This handout will be available on the web shortly.
  • The following questions will appear on the exam(Note: this is not an exhaustive list; other questions will appear on the exam):
    • An induction proof, as in prelim #1
    • Add a special form to the evaluator, as in prelim #2
    • Describe the effect of certain changes to the evaluator, as in prelim #2
    • One or more questions involving material covered since prelim #2
• [12/09/2002] Hubert will be holding extra office hours by appointment this week from Tuesday to Thursday anytime after 1PM. Please e-mail in advance and please come with specific questions.
• [12/09/2002] Sample finals have been posted here.
• [12/12/2002] The handout that you will use during the final is now available. It contains a simplified version of the functional MiniML evaluator that has been 'hardwired' to used static scoping and eager evaluation. You will not be able to use your own copy of the handout during the exam - we will provide you with one. Updated at 4:00 pm: added a couple of lines to better show the top-level environment.