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CS 1110: Introduction to Computing Using Python

Spring 2017

Announcements

The final exams have been sent to the homework handback room for processing. We expect that they will be available for viewing by Thursday Sept 7th.

You may look at your exam, but you may not take it with you. You will need to show your Cornell ID, and be prepared to give your netID (the exams are currently sorted by netID).

The homework handback room and hours are posted here.

Posted Friday, September 1st

We still have some arrangements regarding making the Spring 2017 final exams available for viewing. The very earliest we expect arrangements to be finalized will be after Labor Day. Stay tuned!

Posted Tuesday, August 29th

As announced via email, course grades have been posted to Student Center, final exam grades have been posted to CMS, and solutions to the final exam have been posted on the course Exams webpage (look in the Exam Archive section). Instructions on viewing graded final exams will be posted here in the fall.

Have a great summer!

Posted Wednesday, May 24th

Review sessions for the final exam will happen *this Sunday* 5/14 starting at noon and ending around 6pm in Kimball B11 (directions below). We are planning on having the sessions recorded and uploaded on Videonote; however, we cannot guarantee this will be an error-free process or videos will be available, so please try to attend in person.

Materials:

• 5/14 12pm: Sequences and Sorting Algorithms, Loop Invariants [Alex]
• 5/14 1:30pm: Objects, Classes, and Inheritance [Yiting]
• 5/14 3pm: Recursion [Julia]
• 5/14 4:30pm: Lists, Dictionaries, and Basics [Ryan]

DIRECTIONS TO KIMBALL B11
Kimball Hall is locked on Sundays and the room is a bit difficult to find. You will need to enter through the main doors of Thurston Hall. There is a card-swipe reader to the right of the doors that should grant you access. Once inside, turn left and go down the stairwell down the hallway on the left. At the bottom of the stairs is a loading dock. There is a small hallway to the left of the loading dock that leads to B11.

Posted Friday, May 12th

Friday May 12, 8:30pm: added alternate solution and identified typo for 2013 Fall

The final-exam announcements and study guide document contains information not just about good questions to study from, but also about how to navigate Barton Hall and where to sit, what to bring to the exam, and so on.

Posted Friday, May 12th

Posted Friday, May 5th

Posted Wednesday, May 3rd

Grades for Prelim 2 have been released on CMS.

Solutions have been posted to the Exams section of the course webpage,

Exams can be picked up from the homework handback room, Gates 216. Its hours of operation while normal classes are in session are:

		M 12:30-4:30
		T 12:30-4:30
		W 12:30-4:30
		R 12:30-4
		F 12:30-4:30
					

The procedure for submitting regrade requests is below. They will collected in lecture on Tuesday, May 9th (not before or after that date).

• The first thing you should do if you believe you require a regrade, is to try coding up your answer in Python and check the results. If it still seems as if there is an error, then submit a request.
• A regrade request consists of a piece of paper stapled to the front of your exam. Do NOT write on the exam itself. You should include the following information on the paper:
  • Your name and NetID
  • The number of the problem(s) you would like regraded
  • For each problem: please write a few, concise sentences about why you would like it regraded. Please cite the posted solutions if possible.

Posted Sunday, April 30th

Posted Thursday, April 27th

Posted Sunday, April 23rd

• Sunday Apr 23 at 12:30pm, Kimball B11. Classes, Subclassing & Inheritance, and While Loops [Alex]
  • Review Session 1 Slides UPDATED 4/25 9:45am
• Sunday Apr 23 at 2pm, Kimball B11. Nested Lists, Dictionaries, and Recursion [Yiting]
  • Review Session Slides w/ Questions, Answers

Posted Friday, April 21st

Posted Friday, April 14th

Posted Friday, April 14th

Posted Tuesday, April 11th

You may now submit requests (see below for details) to take the makeup exam for Prelim 2. Requests can be submitted until 4/20 at 11:59pm. This is a hard deadline. The makeup exam is for those students who have an unavoidable conflict with the main exam time (4/25 at 7:30pm).

To submit a request, you must complete *two* tasks:

1. complete the "Prelim 2 conflicts" schedule in CMS
2. email Jenna Edwards (jls478) with an explanation of why you are unable to attend the main prelim time

If Ms. Edwards does not receive an email explanation of your situation, your makeup request will not be approved. Please note that you are required to attend the original exam time on 4/25 unless you receive confirmation that your request has been approved.

Posted Tuesday, April 11th

Updated pdf with more detail available on the assignments page, changes documented on page "0" of the pdf and marked in orange. We strongly recommend you do NOT redownload the a3.zip file, to avoid over-writing all your work in a3.py

Posted Sunday, March 26th

Updated pdf available on the assignments page, changes documented on page "0" of the pdf and marked in orange.

Posted Sunday, March 26th

See email sent via CMS to all students (contents excerpted below, for your convenience)

The solutions to Prelim 1 have been posted. To see them, please go to the Exams page of the course website.

The procedure for submitting regrade requests for both the normal and makeup prelim are below. They will collected in lecture on Tuesday, April 11th (not before or after that date).

The first thing you should do if you believe you require a regrade, is to try coding up your answer in Python and check the results. If it still seems as if there is an error, then submit a request.

A regrade request consists of a piece of paper stapled to the front of your exam. Do NOT write on the exam itself. You should include the following information on the paper:

• Your name and NetID
• The number of the problem(s) you would like regraded
• For each problem: please write a few, concise sentences about why you would like it regraded. Please cite the posted solutions if possible.

Posted Sunday, March 26th

Posted Friday, February 17th

The makeup procedure is outlined below; only sign up for a makeup exam if you have an actual, unavoidable conflict with the 3/19 at 2pm time. Submit your makeup requests through the "3/19 Prelim Conflicts" assignment on CMS by 3:59pm on Friday, March 17th. These are requests, it is *not guaranteed* that we can accommodate you. We will *not* accommodate you whatsoever if you do not submit a request.

Posted Thursday, March 16th

The prelim has been rescheduled for 2:00 - 3:30pm on Sunday, March 19th.

We know some of you will have conflicts with this time and we'll create a mechanism for you to notify us. This will be in place today and you will have 24 hours to use that mechanism once it is open. Please do not email at this time. Makeups will be scheduled for later next week, potentially Thursday 3/23 or Friday 3/24.

The exam room assignments remain the same:

• Netids alphabetized between AA1 and JJL99999: Baker Lab 200
• Netids alphabetized between JJM1-SGZ99999: Rockefeller 201
• Netids alphabetized between SHA1-ZZ999999: Rockefeller 203

For people who have extended time and do not have a conflict, it will also start at 2:30pm. We will notify you of the room location.

Posted Thursday, March 16th

Here are the slides and demos from the prelim review sessions today:

Alex's Part 1 Lecture, Amol's Part 2 Lecture, and Amol's Demo

Posted Sunday, March 12th

Bring your Cornell student ID: You will be required to show it to turn in your prelim.

You are not allowed anything but pens, pencils, and erasers while you are taking the exam. In particular, no class notes of any kind, calculators, computers or other electronics are allowed. We expect all phones to be turned off and put away in your bag during the prelim.

Posted Friday, March 10th

There will be two prelim review sessions on Sunday 3/12, one at 1pm and one at 3pm, in Kimball B11.

There will be only be consulting hours from 4:30 to 5:30pm on Tuesday night 3/14 because of the prelim. Consulting hours will also be shortened the Sunday after the prelim, 3/19, and will run from 12:30 - 5:30pm. These changes are now noted on the staff calendar.

Details about Review Session:
Both take place in Kimball B11 on Sunday, 3/12
 
1:00pm session (2nd part of the course)
general overview; emphasis on topics such as objects, memory/call frames, lists, and for-loops; some practice problems and open question time
 
3:00pm session (1st part of the course)
general overview; emphasis on topics such as strings, testing, functions, conditionals, and general algorithm design; some practice problems and open question time
 

Posted Friday, March 10th

Posted Friday, March 10th

And, in case you wanted to see this — but do NOT use this notation on OUR exams or assignments — a version using "one-frame-per-line-of-code" notation (as in some other semesters), due to TA Dana Warmsley, is here.

Posted Thursday, March 9th

Posted Friday, February 17th

Posted Wednesday, February 15th

Posted Tuesday, February 14th

Posted Tuesday, February 14th

A correction to the lab 2 handout was posted around 5pm (too late for the printouts that will be available in the lab sessions, alas). See the labs page here.

Posted Monday, February 6th

If you have been unable to enroll in a lecture with open spots because you can't find a discussion section ("lab") with available seats, please come to the first lecture anyway. We will discuss options then.

However, if you're just looking to learn how to program and what language you program in isn't so important to you, then consider CS1112, which meets at the same time, and has open seats and the "coziness" of a smaller class. If you just want to learn Python, then consider CS1113, which may still have open seats.

Posted Wednesday, January 25th

Posted Monday, January 23rd