CS1112: Archived Announcements

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Date Topic Description

4/14   T Computer Science Coffeehouse Please attend the Computer Science Coffeehouse, Wednesday April 15th 4:30-5:30 at the Tatkon Center. More information is here. PDF   PPT

4/13 M Section this week Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the computer lab Upson B7. Go to the lab this week, not the classrooms listed on the roster.

4/9   T Change in Office Hours Professor Van Loan will be out of town and has cancelled his office hours for Friday, April 10.

4/7 T Test functions independently In Project 5, test each function independently. For example, after implementing newRunMap you can test it independent of the rest of the program by executing this call in the Command Window:
     newRunMap('IthacaNETrails.jpg')
Similarly, to test newRun independently you would just type newRun() in the Command Window. Execute the whole program via RunLog only after ReadData has been implemented; otherwise you could get an error message about "converting from struct to double" (since the stub in ReadData initializes the Events struct array to be the empty vector).

4/7 T Prelim 3 Review Review questions have been posted. See the Exams link. Solutions will be posted on Sunday evening.

4/6   M P3 Gallery Take a look at our gallery of cool figures produced in Project 3!

4/6 M Prelim 3 Prelim 3 is on April 14 at 7:30pm. If you have a university-allowed conflict email Bill Hogan no later than April 8. Specify the conflicting course and event.

4/16   M Section this week Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the classrooms, as listed on the roster.

4/5 Su P5 deadline extended Project 5 due Friday, April 10th, at 11pm.

4/3 F function image In an array that stores image data, row 1 corresponds to the top of the image, which is opposite to the y-axis in the Cartesian coordinate system. Function image automatically reverses the y-direction for us when displaying array data, so we must write the first call to image before hold on. (Let Matlab flip the y-axis before we "hold" the axes.) This has been done for you already in the skeleton code.

4/1 W P5 Project 5 has been posted. Due Thursday, April 9th.

3/31 T Review Session There will be a "catch-up" review session on Wednesday 5:45-7pm, Upson 315. We will review Prelim 2 and related questions. Consider coming to this session if you scored below 60 on Prelim 2 and haven't gone over it with course staff yet.

3/31 T Section this week Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the computer lab Upson B7. Go to the lab this week, not the classrooms listed on the roster.

3/26   R Office Hours Cancelled Tim Condon has cancelled his office hours for today (4 to 6pm). Anyone needed assistance should go to ACCEL.

3/23 M Prelim 2 return Prelim 2 will be returned in lecture tomorrow. Any unclaimed paper, as well as those on which students did not indicate their lecture time, will be available for pick up after 4pm Tuesday from the CS1112 consultants in the ACCEL Green Room (2nd floor of Engineering Library, Carpenter Hall) during consulting hours (Su-R 4-10pm). Regrade requests must be submitted to the CS1112 consultants at ACCEL Green Rm by 4:30pm on Monday, March 30th.

3/23 M Section this week Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the classrooms, as listed on the roster.

3/12 R P4 Project 4 has been posted, due March 31 (Tues) at 11pm. See Projects link.

3/9 M Section this week Section this week will be held in the computer lab Upson B7. Go to the lab this week, not the classrooms listed on the roster.

3/7 Sa Prelim 2 Review Review questions have been posted. See the Exams link. Solutions will be posted on Tuesday evening.

3/4 W Prelim 1 on CMS Prelim 1 scores are now on CMS and the regraded papers can be picked up from the CS1112 consultants during consulting hours.

3/3 T TA Evaluations Please take the time to fill out the TA evaluation survey no later than March 13. http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/TAEval/survey.cfm.

3/3 T Project 3 update The example summation shown on page 1 of the project description is S₉, not S₈. The project description has been corrected.

3/3 T Prelim 2 Prelim 2 is on March 12 at 7:30pm. If you have a university-allowed conflict email Bill Hogan no later than March 5. Specify the conflicting course and event.

3/2 M Section this week Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the classrooms, as listed on the roster.

2/25 W P3 Project 3 has been posted, due March 5 at 11pm. See Projects link.

2/24 T Tutoring Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society offers free tutoring. For more information check out their website.

2/23 M Prelim 1 return Prelim 1 will be returned in lecture tomorrow. Any unclaimed paper, as well as those on which students did not indicate their lecture time, will be available for pick up after 4pm Tuesday from the CS1112 consultants in the ACCEL Green Room (2nd floor of Engineering Library, Carpenter Hall) during consulting hours (Su-R 4-10pm). Regrade requests must be submitted to the CS1112 consultants at ACCEL Green Rm by 4:30pm on Monday, March 2nd.

2/23 M Section this week Section this week will be held in the computer lab Upson B7. Go to the lab this week, not the classrooms listed on the roster.

2/17 W Consulting There'll be no consulting (in ACCEL) after the prelim on Thursday night.

2/17 T Clicker & Quiz 1 scores If you answered any question at all for Quiz 1 with your registered clicker, you received one point. Clicker usage is recorded according to each clicker's unique ID, so we can still manually link your NetID with your point for Quiz 1 (if you had used your clicker for Quiz 1). Send Professor Fan your NetID and clicker ID before Thursday, Feb 19, if your clicker is still not registered. This is the last chance to register your clicker this semester. You must email your clicker ID--online registration no longer applies after the coursenroll add period.

2/16 M Section this week Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the classrooms, as listed on the roster.

2/13 F Prelim 1 Review Review questions have been posted. See the Exams link. Solutions will be posted on Tuesday evening.

2/11 W Google Tech Talk The Information Science Student Association will be hosting a talk by Moll Stevens from Google's Ad Division on Monday 2/16, 4:30pm, in Philips 203. More information here.

2/10 T Clicker & Quiz 1 We had Quiz 1 in lecture today. Results will be posted to CMS later this week. Refer to the lecutre notes to see how quizzes count towards your grade.
Clicker registration data have been downloaded from the registration website. If you took the quiz but haven't registered yet, register in lecture on Thursday to get credit for Quiz 1 retroactively.

2/9 M Reading from Insight Keep up with the reading! In particular you need to read Section 3.2 for this week's section exercise.

2/9 M P1 graded Please read the Grading Guide and solutions posted on the Projects page even if you got 10 out of 10. When grading projects, we point out both errors and weaknesses so that you can improve. However, we do not take a point off for every error/weakness. On the grading guide you see that we give "freebies" in both the correctness and style categories. Therefore only if you have multiple errors/weaknesses would you lose points.

2/9 M Section this week Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the computer lab Upson B7. Go to the lab this week, not the classrooms listed on the roster.

2/6 F SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! On Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 there will be a building wide steam shut down from 6am until 6pm. During this time period there will be no heat in the building. The forecast is a high temperature of 37 degrees. The interior building temperatures will drop throughout the day. Please encourage students to dress warmly for class.

2/4 W Prelim 1 Prelim 1 will be on Feb 19 at 7:30pm. If you have a university-allowed conflict email Bill Hogan no later than Feb 12. Specify the conflicting course and event.

2/3 T P2 Project 2 has been posted, due Thursday, 2/12. See the Projects link. You can do question 1 already and you'll be able to do the rest after Thursday's lecture.

2/2 M Section this week Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the classrooms, as listed on the roster.

1/26 M Section this week Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the computer lab Upson B7. Go to the lab this week, not the classrooms listed on the roster.

1/22 R P1 Project 1 has been posted, due Thursday, 1/29. See the Projects link.

1/21 W Clicker registration Remember to register your clicker with Cornell CIT, not the I-Clicker company. If you are buying a used clicker, make sure that the unique ID (alpha-numeric) on the back hasn't been rubbed off. You need that ID in order to register your clicker.

1/19 M Section this week Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the computer lab Upson B7. Go to the lab this week, not the classrooms listed on the roster.

1/18 Su Inauguration If you need to stay glued to the TV/computer on Tuesday because of the Presidential Inauguration, you can come to the 9:05 lecture (Phillips 101) instead of the 11:15 lecture.

1/18 Su Course Pack The required textbook is the course packet "Insight Through Computing: A Matlab Introduction to Computational Science and Engineering," available at the campus store. The packet is produced in black-and-white in order to keep the cost down for you ($30 instead of $90!). Essential color pages will be posted online for reference as the course proceeds.

Date	Topic	Description
4/14 T	Computer Science Coffeehouse	Please attend the Computer Science Coffeehouse, Wednesday April 15th 4:30-5:30 at the Tatkon Center. More information is here. PDF PPT
4/13 M	Section this week	Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the computer lab Upson B7. Go to the lab this week, not the classrooms listed on the roster.
4/9 T	Change in Office Hours	Professor Van Loan will be out of town and has cancelled his office hours for Friday, April 10.
4/7 T	Test functions independently	In Project 5, test each function independently. For example, after implementing `newRunMap` you can test it independent of the rest of the program by executing this call in the Command Window: `newRunMap('IthacaNETrails.jpg')` Similarly, to test `newRun` independently you would just type `newRun()` in the Command Window. Execute the whole program via `RunLog` only after `ReadData` has been implemented; otherwise you could get an error message about "converting from struct to double" (since the stub in `ReadData` initializes the `Events` struct array to be the empty vector).
4/7 T	Prelim 3 Review	Review questions have been posted. See the Exams link. Solutions will be posted on Sunday evening.
4/6 M	P3 Gallery	Take a look at our gallery of cool figures produced in Project 3!
4/6 M	Prelim 3	Prelim 3 is on April 14 at 7:30pm. If you have a university-allowed conflict email Bill Hogan no later than April 8. Specify the conflicting course and event.
4/16 M	Section this week	Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the classrooms, as listed on the roster.
4/5 Su	P5 deadline extended	Project 5 due Friday, April 10th, at 11pm.
4/3 F	function `image`	In an array that stores image data, row 1 corresponds to the top of the image, which is opposite to the y-axis in the Cartesian coordinate system. Function `image` automatically reverses the y-direction for us when displaying array data, so we must write the first call to `image` before `hold on`. (Let Matlab flip the y-axis before we "hold" the axes.) This has been done for you already in the skeleton code.
4/1 W	P5	Project 5 has been posted. Due Thursday, April 9th.
3/31 T	Review Session	There will be a "catch-up" review session on Wednesday 5:45-7pm, Upson 315. We will review Prelim 2 and related questions. Consider coming to this session if you scored below 60 on Prelim 2 and haven't gone over it with course staff yet.
3/31 T	Section this week	Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the computer lab Upson B7. Go to the lab this week, not the classrooms listed on the roster.
3/26 R	Office Hours Cancelled	Tim Condon has cancelled his office hours for today (4 to 6pm). Anyone needed assistance should go to ACCEL.
3/23 M	Prelim 2 return	Prelim 2 will be returned in lecture tomorrow. Any unclaimed paper, as well as those on which students did not indicate their lecture time, will be available for pick up after 4pm Tuesday from the CS1112 consultants in the ACCEL Green Room (2nd floor of Engineering Library, Carpenter Hall) during consulting hours (Su-R 4-10pm). Regrade requests must be submitted to the CS1112 consultants at ACCEL Green Rm by 4:30pm on Monday, March 30th.
3/23 M	Section this week	Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the classrooms, as listed on the roster.
3/12 R	P4	Project 4 has been posted, due March 31 (Tues) at 11pm. See Projects link.
3/9 M	Section this week	Section this week will be held in the computer lab Upson B7. Go to the lab this week, not the classrooms listed on the roster.
3/7 Sa	Prelim 2 Review	Review questions have been posted. See the Exams link. Solutions will be posted on Tuesday evening.
3/4 W	Prelim 1 on CMS	Prelim 1 scores are now on CMS and the regraded papers can be picked up from the CS1112 consultants during consulting hours.
3/3 T	TA Evaluations	Please take the time to fill out the TA evaluation survey no later than March 13. http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/TAEval/survey.cfm.
3/3 T	Project 3 update	The example summation shown on page 1 of the project description is S₉, not S₈. The project description has been corrected.
3/3 T	Prelim 2	Prelim 2 is on March 12 at 7:30pm. If you have a university-allowed conflict email Bill Hogan no later than March 5. Specify the conflicting course and event.
3/2 M	Section this week	Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the classrooms, as listed on the roster.
2/25 W	P3	Project 3 has been posted, due March 5 at 11pm. See Projects link.
2/24 T	Tutoring	Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society offers free tutoring. For more information check out their website.
2/23 M	Prelim 1 return	Prelim 1 will be returned in lecture tomorrow. Any unclaimed paper, as well as those on which students did not indicate their lecture time, will be available for pick up after 4pm Tuesday from the CS1112 consultants in the ACCEL Green Room (2nd floor of Engineering Library, Carpenter Hall) during consulting hours (Su-R 4-10pm). Regrade requests must be submitted to the CS1112 consultants at ACCEL Green Rm by 4:30pm on Monday, March 2nd.
2/23 M	Section this week	Section this week will be held in the computer lab Upson B7. Go to the lab this week, not the classrooms listed on the roster.
2/17 W	Consulting	There'll be no consulting (in ACCEL) after the prelim on Thursday night.
2/17 T	Clicker & Quiz 1 scores	If you answered any question at all for Quiz 1 with your registered clicker, you received one point. Clicker usage is recorded according to each clicker's unique ID, so we can still manually link your NetID with your point for Quiz 1 (if you had used your clicker for Quiz 1). Send Professor Fan your NetID and clicker ID before Thursday, Feb 19, if your clicker is still not registered. This is the last chance to register your clicker this semester. You must email your clicker ID--online registration no longer applies after the coursenroll add period.
2/16 M	Section this week	Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the classrooms, as listed on the roster.
2/13 F	Prelim 1 Review	Review questions have been posted. See the Exams link. Solutions will be posted on Tuesday evening.
2/11 W	Google Tech Talk	The Information Science Student Association will be hosting a talk by Moll Stevens from Google's Ad Division on Monday 2/16, 4:30pm, in Philips 203. More information here.
2/10 T	Clicker & Quiz 1	We had Quiz 1 in lecture today. Results will be posted to CMS later this week. Refer to the lecutre notes to see how quizzes count towards your grade. Clicker registration data have been downloaded from the registration website. If you took the quiz but haven't registered yet, register in lecture on Thursday to get credit for Quiz 1 retroactively.
2/9 M	Reading from Insight	Keep up with the reading! In particular you need to read Section 3.2 for this week's section exercise.
2/9 M	P1 graded	Please read the Grading Guide and solutions posted on the Projects page even if you got 10 out of 10. When grading projects, we point out both errors and weaknesses so that you can improve. However, we do not take a point off for every error/weakness. On the grading guide you see that we give "freebies" in both the correctness and style categories. Therefore only if you have multiple errors/weaknesses would you lose points.
2/9 M	Section this week	Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the computer lab Upson B7. Go to the lab this week, not the classrooms listed on the roster.
2/6 F	SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!	On Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 there will be a building wide steam shut down from 6am until 6pm. During this time period there will be no heat in the building. The forecast is a high temperature of 37 degrees. The interior building temperatures will drop throughout the day. Please encourage students to dress warmly for class.
2/4 W	Prelim 1	Prelim 1 will be on Feb 19 at 7:30pm. If you have a university-allowed conflict email Bill Hogan no later than Feb 12. Specify the conflicting course and event.
2/3 T	P2	Project 2 has been posted, due Thursday, 2/12. See the Projects link. You can do question 1 already and you'll be able to do the rest after Thursday's lecture.
2/2 M	Section this week	Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the classrooms, as listed on the roster.
1/26 M	Section this week	Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the computer lab Upson B7. Go to the lab this week, not the classrooms listed on the roster.
1/22 R	P1	Project 1 has been posted, due Thursday, 1/29. See the Projects link.
1/21 W	Clicker registration	Remember to register your clicker with Cornell CIT, not the I-Clicker company. If you are buying a used clicker, make sure that the unique ID (alpha-numeric) on the back hasn't been rubbed off. You need that ID in order to register your clicker.
1/19 M	Section this week	Section (discussion section) this week will be held in the computer lab Upson B7. Go to the lab this week, not the classrooms listed on the roster.
1/18 Su	Inauguration	If you need to stay glued to the TV/computer on Tuesday because of the Presidential Inauguration, you can come to the 9:05 lecture (Phillips 101) instead of the 11:15 lecture.
1/18 Su	Course Pack	The required textbook is the course packet "Insight Through Computing: A Matlab Introduction to Computational Science and Engineering," available at the campus store. The packet is produced in black-and-white in order to keep the cost down for you ($30 instead of $90!). Essential color pages will be posted online for reference as the course proceeds.