Sun May 9- Posted grades have become final.
The Spring 1999 version of A202 stops here.
On behalf of all the instructors for this course I would like to
congratulate you for the results of your hard work and wish you the
very best in your future endeavours.
It's been extremely gratifying to work with such a talented group
of students, and I would like to thank you very much for that.
Sincerely,
Adrian German
Sat May 8- (
6:30pm)
Here's the final distribution of grades:
(100, ...) A+ ( 4) ****
[ 94, 100] A (15) ***************
[ 88, 94) A- (12) ************
[ 82, 88) B+ (10) **********
[ 76, 82) B ( 5) *****
[ 70, 76) B- ( 4) ****
[ 64, 70) C+ ( 0)
[ 58, 64) C ( 3) ***
(3:00pm)
There was a small error in the formula for the final grade, which I
think I fixed now. I have reposted the grades. I will turn the grades in
tomorrow so if you have any questions or concerns please let me know. I
will also post the distribution of grades here tonight.
Fri May 7- Final grades
posted
(in section
A202-1244).
Please let me know if you have any questions.
I will turn the grades in to the Registrar's on Sunday, tomorrow I will not
be in Bloomington until in the evening.
In Postem,
section A202-9999 contains your raw
scores for the final, question by question (the total was 100).
Grading is slow but steady. Meanwhile don't forget you
can get one more point by turning in an evaluation. Here they
are: the links for the
lecture,
Kasey's
lab,
Sean's
lab and the
Friday
morning lab evaluation forms.
Evaluations end today at noon so turn them in right away.
Thu May 6- Final exam is today in BH006 at 2:45pm. The exam will be posted
here
around 5:30pm with answers. Final grades will be available Friday
morning. Feel free to come and talk to me about the exam on Friday in
my office in Franklin (before noon or by appointment). I plan to turn
the final grades to the Registrar's on Saturday morning.
Wed May 5- A few grades will be updated today. I won't be able to post
solutions to the sample problems but feel free to call us or make
appointments with us to discuss your solutions.
Tue May 4- New item sets for your practice being
posted.
Mon May 3- Please make sure you check the
grading scheme page.
Sun May 2- Additional item sets for the final are being
posted.
Sat May 1- Final grades for the practical exam
posted.
Fri Apr 30- Ahead of the final 45 short answer items posted for your practice. More to come
soon.
Thu Apr 29- Lecture notes 29 posted,
you can use them as lab notes as well.
Grades posted
for the practical and homework12.
Please note: these grades are
somewhat tentative and may (or may not) change in the next few days. Please
come Tuesday during my office hour if you want to discuss the grades (any of them or
just the practical and hw12 grades).
Wed Apr 28- Grades updated to homework 11.
Practical grades and homework 12 are next.
Tue Apr 27- Please complete the CSCI final evaluation forms for this course for
the lecture and the three lab instructors (Sean, Kasey and Adrian) and the
textbook evaluation (in QuizSite).
Mon Apr 26- Final examination is on
Thu May 6 2:45pm-4:45pm
in class (BH006).
Sat Apr 24- I hope to post grades updates & corrections
by Thursday.
Wed Apr 21- Practical exam is tomorrow and Friday.
Brief hints for assignment 12 have been
posted. Demos
for possible topics during the practical have
been posted. Tomorrow
in lecture we would like to answer any questions
that you may have regarding the assignment and
the practical exam.
Tue Apr 20- I will have extended office hours tonight
(5:30-6:30 and 9:00-10:00 in Lindley Hall L016).
Mon Apr 19- Lecture notes 26 posted.
Sat Apr 17- Solution to assignment 11
posted.
It's an approach different from the one
used in jumpstart.
Thu Apr 15- Lecture Notes 25 posted,
also serving as lab notes 12, aimed at AWT and assignment #12.
Wed Apr 14- I am in Indianapolis all day, returning in the evening. Assignment 11
is now due Friday evening (midnight) and
jumpstart
source code for it (that
has been discussed on Tuesday in class) has been posted, together with some
information on the upcoming practical exam.
Tue Apr 13- Today in class we'll start by reviewing what needs to be done for
assignment 11, and we'll give you some hints and support. I will also
describe assignment 12 briefly. Then we will move slowly slowly into
the AWT.
Mon Apr 12- Assignment 12 posted.
Sun Apr 11- Supporting code for Lecture 24 posted.
Sat Apr 10- Grades updated to assignment 10. Let us know you have
any questions or concerns.
Thu Apr 8- Solution to assignment 10 posted.
Tue Apr 6- Lecture notes 22 and 23 posted,
also help for assignment 10.
Mon Apr 5- Posted assignment 11 (due
April 14) and plan for the week.
Fri Apr 2- Solution to homework 9 posted.
Thu Apr 1- Homework 10 has been posted.
Lecture Notes 21 also posted.
Wed Mar 31- Lab 10,
solution to homework 8 posted.
Tue Mar 30- Code for the "serializable worm" program discussed
in class posted.
Mon Mar 29- I'm in Chicago all day, unable to
reply to e-mail until the 30th.
Sun Mar 28- Lecture Notes 20 posted.
Sat Mar 27- Lecture Notes 19 posted.
Wed Mar 24- Lab 9 notes posted.
Tue Mar 23- Assignment 9 posted.
Sat Mar 20- Lecture notes,
plan for next week
posted.
Thu Mar 11-
In labs today make sure you finish homework 8 due tomorrow night. If you have
done this you can implement and test a few sorting methods as described in the
text (case study 11.1) by using
java.util's Date
objects. Lecture today is on sorting methods.
Tue Mar 9- Lecture notes updated
to reflect what we did in class today and what
we moved to Thursday class. Exams have been returned to you check your
scores for each problem in Postem (section 1245) and your answers against
the answers posted here.
Mon Mar 8- Grades for each one of the items on the midterm exam
posted.
Your regular grades are in section 1244, go into section 1245 to see the
scores for the items on the exam, item by item. You will receive the exams
back in class or in lab.
Sun Mar 7- Grades for the midterm exam
posted.
(They include QuizSite credit for midterm prep activity). Approximate midterm
letter grades coming soon. Plan for the week
posted.
Sat Mar 6- Updated
assignment 8 notes with some help.
Thu Mar 4- Homework 8 posted.
Lab notes 8 posted. Solutions
to the midterm exam
posted.
Wed Mar 3- My office hour of Friday will be moved tonight this week.
The midterm is tomorrow. Solutions to the
open-ended prep questions for the exam have
been posted
Tue Mar 2- Updated list of solutions to assignments to include
solutions for assignment 5.
Grades updated with the grades for assignment 5.
Mon Mar 1- Assignment 7 deadline
extended. Additional
help posted for problem 7.1.
Sun Feb 28- Open-ended problems posted for
your practice ahead of midterm. Typos fixed in list of multiple
choice items - thanks to Stela Adam for catching most of them.
Here's help in getting
started with
Vectors.
Sat Feb 27- Midterm practice exercises and information
posted.
Fri Feb 26- Thanks to Teddy Hermanto for pointing out an ambiguous
formulation in the second recurrence of problem 3 in assignment 7.
The problem has been fixed and the correct statement appears in
blue. Check it out.
Thu Feb 25- Lab Notes 7 posted. Feedback
question posted.
Wed Feb 24- Lecture Notes 14 sketched.
Assignment 7 posted.
Tue Feb 23- Lecture Notes 13 posted.
Mon Feb 22- Reading assignment for tomorrow posted.
Sun Feb 21- Solutions to homework 5 posted.
Plan for the week sketched.
Fri Feb 19- Grades have been updated (including
homework 4).
Thu Feb 18- Lab notes for Lab 6 posted.
Wed Feb 17- Lecture Notes 12 posted.
Tue Feb 16- Assignment 6 posted.
Mon Feb 15- Lecture notes 11 posted and proofread.
Sun Feb 14- Updated the syllabus page with the
plan for next week and with a quick look ahead.
Fri Feb 12- Use
Project -> Settings: Main Class to specify which
class's main method should be run, in Cafe, when you want
to test the chain of mains example of Thursday's lecture
with all classes in one file. (Original question by Matt Martin). See
lecture notes for more details.
Thu Feb 11- Updated
lecture notes 10 with the code for
Fraction and the chain
of mains (which has been simplified using the clever
observation made in the lecture today by Peter Morris).
Wed Feb 10- Plan for lecture 10
and plan for lab 5 posted.
Tue Feb 09- Assignment 5 posted.
Mon Feb 08- Lecture notes for Tuesday have
been posted. They're long and verbose and chances are we'll use some of this
material on Thursday as well.
Sat Feb 06- A202 ac.csci.a202 newsgroup created. We
will use this to post informal FAQs about assignments and anything related to
the course. We'll keep the distribution list only for urgent messages.
Thu Feb 04- The API User Guide link on the packages
index page
now points to the 1.1 docs on Sun's website
as originally intended.
Wed Feb 03- Feedback question for the week posted.
Lecture notes for tomorrow have
been posted. You can print them and bring them with you to class. (You should
find them quite useful for your labs too). Also, the most important part of
the code that was discussed yesterday
has been posted too.
Tue Feb 02- It's official (
public and final):
BH006 will be our room for the rest of the semester. The Registrar's
Office cannot offer anything better during the time slot. For this reason I'll
try to have lecture notes prepared and posted here a day in advance, so that
you can print them and bring them with you to class.
Sun Jan 31- Notes for Lab 4 posted.
Assignment 4 sketched.
Fri Jan 29- Quote of the week belongs to Shawn Travers
Thu Jan 28-
Plan for lab 3 posted. Exams graded, will be
returned to you in the lab, grades posted
Wed Jan 27- There were a few viewing problems
reported the two prototypes (first,
second)that have
been posted for the new assignment. We know it works on the PCs in Lindley,
which have recent versions of Netscape on them, but Mac users and users of
somewhat dated versions of Netscape have reported that the applet doesn't
load and that security violations are reported. Let us know how it works
for you because that's the way I'd like to post homework demos and/or
prototypes from now.
Tue Jan 26- Assignment 3 posted. Solutions to today's review exam. Template for homework 3.
Updated lecture notes.
Mon Jan 25- Thanks to Tom Hunt for pointing out that there was a bogus line in the
solution to the dot
product in the sample review exam (removed now.)
Sun Jan 24- Solutions for lab 2 and the
sample review exam have
been posted. Lecture quizzes have been graded and grades have been
posted.
New message to the distribution list has been
posted
regarding next week's plan.
Thu Jan 21- Quick update sent to
the distribution list. Submitting
homework will be done electronically from now on. We are now collecting
weekly feedback from you. Here's a sample
review exam very much like the
one that is coming up on Tuesday.
Wed Jan 20-
Style Guide notes,
solution to assignment
1 and lab notes 2 posted, lecture
notes 4 and review exam
notes in progress.
Tue Jan 19- Correction message
sent to distribution list.
Mon Jan 18- Source code for the Objects,
Classes, Instance and Class Variables
Tutorial has been posted.
We will go over, it in great detail, tomorrow in class.
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Sun Jan 17
- Plan for the coming week
posted. If
you're enrolled and not on the list please let us know!!
Assignment 2 posted.
-
Sat Jan 16
- Lecture notes 1
updated. More
to come soon.
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Thu Jan 14
- Distribution list created and the first
message posted. The messages to the
list will be archived for your convenience. If you are not on the list and
would like to be added please let us know.
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Wed Jan 13
- Assignment 1,
lab 1 notes and office
hours' schedule have
been posted. Space for lecture notes 1 has been
allocated.
Lecture notes 2 were started.
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Tue Jan 12
- I have received a few questions after the
lecture, I will try to summarize the answers to them by tomorrow. By
tomorrow I will also make available the text for this week's lab notes
and perhaps lecture notes from today (brief notes). As soon as I find
out if we can move in a more appropriate room I will let you know.
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Mon Jan 11
- A202 starts tomorrow. The lecture has been
moved from BH146 (that has a capacity of 34-48) to BH006 (who should
be large enough to accommodate the 59 students currently enrolled). We have
been told that there are 12 more students on the waiting list. If you are
enrolled (not just on the waiting list) you should have received a mail
message regarding the lectures being moved to BH006 (Ballantine).