You can see your 211 final exam

...in my assistant, Cleah Schlueter, 's office, 4113 GHC, for the next year. Our policy is not to return them.

Final Exam Grades Released

You can find your grades for the final exam on front desk. The min,max,mean,median scores (out of 139 points) were, 59, 124, 96, and 98 points, respectively. Your final grades for the course will be uploaded on Thursday, and released shortly thereafter. Have a nice break!

Last Minute Office Hours

I'll be holding office hours in the usual location from 11:00AM-1:00PM tomorrow (Tuesday) for any last minute questions before the exam. Good luck on the final!

Chess tournament and grades

The extra credit scores for Chess have been updated on frontdesk. These scores will be released shortly later today.

Also, chess grades for the non-extra credit part should have been also updated along with all the rest of your scores for the course. Because some people did not follow the exact protocol (making groups or submitted from their partner's account) it is possible that the TAs may have misallocated points between members. If this is the case or the case of any other misgrade please let your respective TA know right away. Additionally, now would be a good time to check with your TAs if you might have missing grades for the recent assignments.

Good luck in preparing for the finals!

My Office Hours for the Final

Since I wasn't able to hold office hours Tuesday due to a final of my own, I will be holding extra office hours on Sunday 12/18 at 2:00-4:00PM and Monday 12/19 at 6:00-8:00PM in preparation for the final on Tuesday. Those of you in my section can get your graded Chess Theory assignments, as well as any other graded items then.

TA Evaluation Surveys

Hi guys, Its been an amazing semester and us TA's have had a great time working with you all. We would really appreciate if you fill out surveys for your respective TA's and give us feedback on how we can improve. Please fill out the surveys only for the recitations that you have been going to. The links are: Taylor Nebel : http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/STVNJVJ Jack Phelan : http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ST93RLS Nikhil Khadke : http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ST26ZNC Shashank Singh : http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/STWYPWM Anish Phophaliya: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/STT2HB8 Dong Bae Jun : http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/STMW7JB Thanks in advance, Have a great final!

Chess tournament

The Chess Tournament pool has begun, and we suggest that you try to place your bot into the extra-credit tournament pool today. The extra-credit tournament is opt-in only and it is not compulsory that your team plays in it, but we strongly suggest your team does. Good luck!

Office moved

I moved my office hours of next week to Wednesday, 1-2pm.

sample exam

We've placed a sample final exam and solution set on the lectures page. Good luck!

Change to Chess Tournament Setup

Sorry there was some miscommunication among the course staff; the chess tournament will actually begin at midnight between Saturday and Sunday, rather than tonight, as stated in the post below. This is so that everyone who is using two late days can use both late days to prepare their bots for the tournament.

Extra Office Hours

I plan to have office hours from 10:00 to 12:00 on 12/12-16 and 12/19-20. However, if no one emails me to say they're coming, I might not be there--GHC 4117.

[IMPORTANT] SocialNet Extended with Private Test Release

It has turned out that the FrontDesk functionality of releasing hidden staff tests based on the quality of student tests was revived in the SocialNet assignment but not informed to all the students properly. I apologize for a late notice. Because of this confusion, we are extending the due date for the SocialNet assignment by 3 days. The new due date will be Nov. 20th 11:59PM. (A gentle reminder that I have office hours on Nov. 20th from 3:00PM-5:00PM, so please come by for a last minute help or debugging.)

Note that there are only 4 really basic public tests, and more complicated tests are hidden. If you wrote good JUnit tests and submitted them to FrontDesk, you would be able to release some private test results based on the quality of the tests you wrote. The button for this functionality can be found at the bottom of the submission result page as "Release Private Tests". Basically, it shows if there's any hidden test that your program fails. You can repeat fixing the problem and submitting the program again to see the result, but please be warned there is a limit in the number of tests that can be released in a day, and you can be banned for a while if you try to submit too many times within a short period of time.

As always, you must write your own robust test cases to make sure your program work correctly, and it is a part of the assignment. One general tip for writing good test cases is to try to come up with all the possible usage cases for the classes and the methods including edge cases like illegal arguments. If you are uncertain about how your program should behave for a certain situation, for example, write a JUnit test and submit it to see what happens against the staff code.

Dong Bae's Office Hours Changed This Week Only

I will be out of town this Friday, so my office hours will be held on Sunday Nov. 20th 3:00PM - 4:00PM at Gates 4122. The change is for this week only. From next week, it will go back to Friday 1:30PM-2:30PM as usual.

Midterm grades released

The grades for the 2nd midterm have been released. The min, max, mean, and median (out of 69 possible points) were 22, 63, 49, and 48 points, respectively. You will get the exams back next Wednesday in recitation.

Sample Midterm and Extra Office Hours

Sample Midterm 2 is uploaded on the Lectures page. The partial solution will be provided during the weekend for your study purpose. We are not having a separate review session this time. Instead, extra office hours will be held on Sunday 3:00PM - 5:00PM at Gates 4122 so that you can have available office hours everyday until the second midterm. Please work on the practice problems by yourselves, and drop by an office hour whichever day fits best for you. Good luck on your exam!

DP Extension

Due to FrontDesk being down for much of yesterday and this morning, we've extended the due date for Seamcarving by 24 hours. HW5 SocialNet will still be released tomorrow night, and its theory and programming will still be due Nov. 9th in recitation and Nov. 17th at 11:59PM, respectively.

midsemester grades

We made a mistake when computing midsemester grades. Specifically, we used the wrong values for the programming portion of snakes. If you did substantially better (resp. worse) on the programming portion of snakes than on expression trees, then your midsemester grade will be higher (resp. lower) than the one on the HUB. If you did about the same on both assignments, your grade probably won't change. Sorry for the mistake. You can come to my office hours on Thurs if you want to see if your grade changed.

Office Hours Shortened

I have to give a presentation tomorrow at 7:00 pm. Due to this, my office hours will be shortened to ending slightly before 7, rather than 8.

Due to the fire alarm...

The second half of today's lecture will be covered next week. Please bring the printed slides from today's lecture to class next tuesday, so that I don't have to print them twice. Thanks! -c

Missed office hours

I apologize for missing office hours today, I will be holding additional office hours tomorrow (Tuesday) from 2pm to 3pm . Sorry for the inconvenience caused.