CS 381

Announcements:
    - An additional review session has been scheduled for Tuesday, 12/12, 6-8 pm, in Upson 205.

    - Prof. Hopcroft's office hours on Friday, 12/8, have been cancelled.

    - TA Pushyamitra Akhawat has cancelled today's office hours, T 12/5.

    - Final review sessions have been scheduled. Please see "Review Sessions" below for the schedule. We need a rough outline of what you want covered in the review sessions. Please send an email to [yogi at cs dot cornell dot edu] telling your preferred list of topics you would like covered in the sessions. This will help the TAs to better prepare for them.

    - Shashank Senapaty's office hours on W 11/22 have been cancelled.

An important announcement about Prelim 2 regrades (and regrades in general):

The prelims have been graded. We have tried to be as consistent and reasonable as possible with the grades. That being said, if you happen to think that your prelim has received more/less (partial) credit than you deserve, please understand that some (little) mistakes are inevitable (to err is human). Here is what we would like you to do if you have any regrade requests:

If you think that you did not receive enough partial credit for some problem, do the following. Since you did the problem partially, you must have had some (complete) solution in mind, which you either could not write or it did not work out perfectly. You need to write clearly
- what your approach was
- what were the steps involved in the complete solution (which you could not write) and
- which steps you could accomplish
Then you can submit the regrade request for a reevaluation of your solution.
This seemingly overly complicated strategy is necessary since sometimes the solution is so cryptic and not-so-well written that we cannot figure out what you were trying to do. We need to know what you were trying to do, so that we can judge how far you got and how much credit you deserve.
If you submit for a regrade, we will reevaluate your solution from scratch, forgetting about your previous score. This is good, since you get a thorough review of your solution from the grader again. This unfortunately has a caveat though, a thorough and complete reevaluation might result in a lower grade than you already had. So, your new grade could be lower or higher than the original grade. So please be careful and only submit genuine regrade requests. It might result in your grade being changed in either direction (lowered or highered).

But let us say one very important thing. Please do not let these guidelines discourage you from submitting a regrade request if you genuinely think that your solution has not been understood well. We always accept the fact that our grading is not perfect and we will be happy to look into any mistakes we might have made in our grading.

    - Prof. Hopcroft's office hours are cancelled on M 11/13 and T 11/14.

    - There will be a review session for Prelim 2 on Thursday, Nov. 9 in Upson 215, 7-9 pm.

    - There will be a review session for Prelim 1 on Wednesday, Oct. 25 in Upson B17, 7-9 pm.

    - An updated version of HW6 has been posted (10/2/06, 9:30 am).

    - TA Dan FitzGerald's office hours have moved to Thursdays, 4-5 pm. See updated list of hours below ("Office Hours").

    - Prof. Hopcroft's office hours have been cancelled for the week of Sept. 4-8. They will resume on Sept. 11. Please use the TA office hours for this week.

    - Please write your name and net id on all homework pages turned in. We need net id to record your grade. If you turn in each problem on a separate sheet we will grade your problems in parallel and get your assignment back to you by the following Wednesday. If you turn in homework not on separate sheets we will circulate your homework and grade the problems in serial and thus it will likely be delayed somewhat in getting back to you.