Grade Statistics File Updated

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~211/webiso/grades/stats.txt has been updated to include all graded items in the course.

Additional Code Analysis Practice

I posted the problems I came up with in the review session but didn't have time to present. They can be found on the DBoard.

Vote for review topics

There will be a review session on Sunday, 14 Dec, in Wean 7500 from 3:00-4:30. You can vote for the topics you would most like to see covered by going to this link: http://www.pollcat.com/render.asp?S$=L5FA2AA9B6A73651C6C0&D$=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pollcat.com%2FLite%2Fdefault.asp See the current poll status here: http://www.pollcat.com/Render.asp?O$=any&S$=L5FA2AA9B6A73651C6C0&D$=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pollcat.com%2FLite%2Fdefault.asp

Final Review Session

There will be a review session for the final Sunday, 14 Dec, in Wean 7500 from 3:00-4:30. TAs will be available to answer individual questions from 4:30-5:00. More details soon.

Practice Final

Last year's final is available for practice: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~211/webiso/exampleExams/

Videos available for exam prep/review

Videos are available, at last. Here is how to watch: Click on the "videos" link on the left. (This used to direct you to last fall's lectures.) Click student. You'll be asked to authenticate. The user name to use is "[yourandrewID]@andrew.ad.cmu.edu" along with your usual andrew password. Note the "ad" in the domain. Note also that if your authentication fails, go to myandrew and reset your password to itself. (Why this works I cannot explain.) Use the slide tray on the bottom to navigate. Videos that show powerpoint directly have a search function that you can use to find specific material -- the index is built from text on the slides. Try also the note-taking tab. Apologies for not getting these out sooner, but the video folks have had technical problems supporting us. let me know if any problems. --Bill

Chess Competition Scores on Frontdesk

You should check that your score was correctly entered; the script that processes the scores is known to get a few wrong each semester. Direct general questions to the discussion board. If you think an error was made in calculating your score, please contact your TA.

Grade Stats Updated

The grade statistics file has been updated to include midterm2, quiz4, compression, and socialnet grades.

Chess Split Submission

Since many students have been having trouble getting their competitive code to compile on Frontdesk along with the unit-tested classes, we are going to split the handin. The chess assignment that is on Frontdesk now needs to compile, pass the unit tests, and have the theory questions completed. On Wednesday, I will create an assignment on Frontdesk called chess_competition, where each pair will need to submit the final version of the code you used on the server (it does not need to compile). You will not recieve points for BachChoy/JackBach/211 pool without submitting the final version of your code to the chess_competition assignment. Direct questions to the discussion board.

Change of Office Hours

I have a meeting today that I fear will run late so I am moving my 5-6pm office hours to 6-7pm for tonight only. (still 8th floor wean) Leigh Ann

Redownload Chess Stubs

There was a bug in the starter code for the chess assignment. You should redownload the stubs from FrontDesk and resubmit your code again (with the changed stubs). Thanks to the students who gave failure cases, and I apologize for the error. See the discussion board for more details.

Chess Server Login and Results

The chess assignment will be released at midnight tonight. To play on the server you will need to create a handle: http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/211/sign-up.html. Passwords are stored in PLAIN TEXT on the chess server, so use a junk password. Once you start playing the bots, the games that count towards your score on the assignment will be displayed on on the results page: http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/211/chess-results.html.

Midterm 2 regrade

The answer to the Always Never Sometimes question that asked about the depth of complete binary trees should be "Never". If you answered "Never" but had points taken off, please bring your exam to any TA.

Midterm 2 grades

The grades have now been released. The mean and median were 97.6 and 98, respectively. The min and max scores were 56 and 130 (out of 140 possible points), respectively. You can pick up your exam outside Dr. Scherlis' office daily before 3:30 pm.

Second Exam

The second 211 exam will be given in lecture Thursday, Nov 6. All material from the semester is fair game, but expect more material from content since the first exam. This includes basic material from Tuesday's lecture on sorting (sorry to the one person I told otherwise in recitation today). Remember, you are allowed 1 piece (front and back) of 8.5in x 11in paper with whatever you want on it.

Practice Exam 2

We have put up the second exam from last fall as a practice exam. It is called midterm2.pdf. Answers and the practice test for the first exam are in the same directory.

Grade Stats

I have posted a file that contains the grade statistics for all quizzes, tests, and assignments that have been graded so far. It can be found here.

Graphs Due Date Confusion

There was some conflicting information about the due date of the Graphs assignment. It will be due (without the use of late days) on Thursday, Nov 13. Frontdesk and the portal should be fixed with the correct due date.

Schedule Error

On the schedule, Quiz 4 was listed for this Wednesday (that's an error). It will occur at some point after the midterm. The course staff is deciding whether to give out 4 or 5 quizzes total (you will be able to drop the lowest either way).

Tony's office hours

For the next two weeks, I will hold my office hours Monday at noon instead of Thursday at 1:30. Specifically, I will have office hours Oct 27 and Nov 3 instead of Oct 30 and Nov 6.