Announcements for CIS 211

• Anwar's hours have changed. His new hours are W 4-6, F 3-5 in B15.

• If we have taken too many points off your homework 5 for style, please come see one of us (Yolanda, Tobias, or Amr) to get back some of these points.

• Quiz 2 will be on Monday May 17 during class. The quiz will cover the following topics:
  • Polymorphism: Read and understand pp.315-325 of the book very carefully.
  • Visitors and the visitor pattern. Read and understand the following examples; make your own examples.
  • Assembly language of the duckMachine and its execution. Make sure you are comfortable with the recent homeworks on defining instructions, executing instructions, and writing and executing programs.

• I just finished grading the midterm. The grades should be online by tomorrow morning (May 5). Here is the distribution:

  Range        Number of students
  100-109      10
  90-99        12
  80-89        14
  70-79        10
  60-69        5
  50-59        4
  40-49        1
  
  Total        56
  

  Students with a grade less than 59 should talk to me or to their GTF about their status in the CIS major.

• Anwar (see previous announcement) will be a little late this Wednesday. He should be in the lab at 3:30 PM.

• We have arranged for additional help about Java. Anwar Adi, a CIS student with experience in Java, C, and C++, will be available in the lab in front of B26 (B15) on Wednesday and Friday from 3:00 to 5:00 PM. Anwar is there to help you with Java specific questions, not with your homework. Feel free to ask him for help or set up appointments by sending email to anwar@cs or finding him in the lab at the posted times. Please let me know (sabry@cs) how this is working, whether you need more hours, different hours, etc.

• Amr won't be available for office hours this Wednesday April 21, 1999.

• I found this interesting article about the design of Java and some discussion about future plans in growing Java. The article was written by Guy Steele, a name you should know if you are serious about computer science.

• Don't forget to put your name, social-security number, and the lab (day and time) that you're attending at the top of each lab assignment.