| 11/20/09 | Office hours for the week of November 30 to December 4 are as follows. Monday (11/30) 3-4 pm (DA), Tuesday (12/1) 4-6 pm (FS, Zoo) and 8-11 pm (BG, Zoo), Wednesday (12/2) 3-4 pm (DA), 7-10 pm (RL and JW, Zoo) and 10-11 pm (FS, Zoo). There will also be a review session (time: TBD) on Thursday (12/3) for the exam on Friday (12/4). |
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| 11/18/09 | The second exam will be in class on Friday, December 4. It will cover material since the first exam (that is, starting with the topic of circuits.) There is no final exam in this class. |
| 11/18/09 | Homework #8, due Wednesday December 2 at 11:59 pm, is available from [Assignments]. There is no lateness penalty for this homework, but it will NOT be accepted after 11:59 pm on Wednesday December 9. There are no autograde test cases for this homework. |
| 11/16/09 | No homework is due this week. Office hours for this week: Monday (11/16) 3-4 pm (DA), Wednesday (11/18) 3-4 pm (DA) and 7-10 pm (FS, Zoo), and Thursday (11/19) 4-7 pm (JW, Zoo). Please email us to make an appointment if you cannot make these times. |
| 11/9/09 | Office hours for this week: Monday (11/9) 3-4 pm (DA), Tuesday (11/10) 4-7 pm (BG, Zoo) and 7-10 pm (RL, Zoo), and Wednesday (11/11) 3-4 pm (DA), 7-10 pm (JW, Zoo) and 9-11:59 pm (FS, Zoo). Please email us to make an appointment if you cannot make these times. |
| 11/5/09 | Homework #7, due Wednesday November 11 at 11:59 pm, is available from [Assignments]. The test cases in the homework (the Public tests) can be tested using autograde. |
| 11/2/09 | Office hours for this week: Monday (11/2) 3-4 pm (DA), Tuesday (11/3) 4-7 pm (FS, Zoo) and 7-10 pm (JW, Zoo), and Wednesday (11/4) 3-4 pm (DA), 7-10 pm (RL, Zoo) and 9-11:59 pm (BG, Zoo). Please email us to make an appointment if you cannot make these times. |
| 10/31/09 | John Wood recommends the following site on the Busy Beaver problem The Busy Beaver. The Busy Beaver probem is the attempt to find a Turing machine with 2 symbols and k states that writes as many 1's (or runs for as many steps) as possible on an initially blank tape and halts; k = 5 is open. Additional info may be found on Heiner Marxen's page Busy Beaver. |
| 10/28/09 | For homework #6, problem 2, procedure (extract i j): you may also assume that i is less than or equal to j. |
| 10/27/09 | Homework #6, due Wednesday November 4 at 11:59 pm, is available from [Assignments]. The test cases in the homework (the Public tests) can be tested using autograde. |
| 10/23/09 | No homework will be due the week of October 26-30. However we will still have office hours as follows. Monday (10/26) 3-4 pm (DA), Tuesday (10/27) 7-10 pm (JW, Zoo), Wednesday (10/28) 3-4 pm (DA) and 8-11 pm (FS, Zoo), and Friday (10/30) 2:30-3:30 pm (DA). |
| 10/21/09 | Exam 1 was returned in class and solutions were distributed (on paper.) Please see Prof. Angluin to pick up your exam if you haven't gotten it back yet. No homework will be due next week (Oct. 26-30). |
| 10/18/09 | Former CPSC 201 student Ross Feinstein suggested the following visual treatment of Scheme and Computer Science concepts: Computer Science Illustrated. |
| 10/18/09 | To provide a little more flexibility in your scheduling of work, I've decided on a policy of "forgiving" (restoring) up to 5 days of lateness penalties on homeworks when we calculate your final scores. |
| 10/16/09 | Zoo and office hours for the coming week are: Monday (10/19) 3-4 pm (DA, 414 AKW), Tuesday (10/20) 4-6 pm (FS, Zoo) and 7-10 pm (RL, Zoo), Wednesday (10/21) 3-4 pm (DA, 414 AKW) and 7-11:59 pm (7-10 pm BG, 8-11 pm JW, 11-11:59 pm FS, Zoo). Please email (all of) us if you have questions over the weekend. |
| 10/14/09 | Homework #5, due Wednesday October 21 at 11:59 pm, is available from [Assignments]. The test cases in the homework (the Public tests) can be tested using autograde. |
| 10/12/09 | Here are the sample exam solutions. |
| 10/11/09 | The midterm (Exam 1) will be held during class on Friday, October 16. Here is the sample exam. |
| 10/11/09 | In preparation for the midterm on Friday (10/16) we'll have office hours and a review session this week. Office hours: Monday (10/12) 3-4 pm (DA, 414 AKW), Tuesday (10/13) 4-6 pm (FS, Zoo), Wednesday (10/14) 3-4 pm (DA, 414 AKW) and 7-9 pm (JW, Zoo), and Thursday (10/15) 3-4 pm (DA, 414 AKW). Review session: Thursday (10/15) 8-10 pm (BG+RS, 200 AKW). |
| 10/7/09 | Correction: tonight's 7-10 pm Zoo hours will be covered by Reynard Le, not Brad Galiette. Sorry for any confusion. |
| 10/5/09 | The midterm (Exam 1) will be held during class on Friday, October 16. A sample exam will be available to help you study. |
| 10/3/09 | Starting with homework #4, you can use the "autograde" utility to test your procedures against the test cases given in the assignment (the Public test cases.) For instructions on how to use it, please see using-autograde. |
| 10/3/09 | Zoo and office hours for the coming week are: Monday (10/5) 3-5 pm (DA, 414 AKW), Tuesday (10/6) 4-6 pm (JW, Zoo) and 7-10 pm (BG, Zoo), Wednesday (10/7) 3-4 pm (DA, 414 AKW), 7-11:59 pm (7-10 BG, 7:30-8:30 JW, 9-11:59 pm FS, Zoo). Please email (all of) us if you have questions over the weekend. |
| 10/1/09 | Homework #4, due Wednesday October 7 at 11:59 pm, is available from [Assignments]. |
| 9/30/09 | Steven sent a pointer to: The Lego Turing Machine. |
| 9/28/09 | Please note a change in Francesca's Wednesday (9/30) office hours in the Zoo to 8:30-9:30 pm. Overall, the Wednesday Zoo coverage is still 7-11:59 pm. |
| 9/27/09 | Zoo and office hours for the coming week are: Monday (9/28) 3-5 pm (DA, 414 AKW), Tuesday (9/29) 4-6 pm (FS, Zoo) and 7-10 pm (RL, Zoo), Wednesday (9/30) 3-5 pm (DA, 414 AKW), 7-11:59 pm (7-10 JW, 8-9 FS, 9-11:59 pm BG, Zoo). |
| 9/24/09 | Homework #3, due Wednesday September 30 at 11:59 pm, is available from [Assignments]. |
| 9/20/09 | Homework #2 must be submitted electronically using the submit command on the Zoo. Instructions for how to do this: submit-instructions.txt. Note: to run the submit command, your file hw2.scm must be on the Zoo machines; you'll have to upload it if you wrote it elsewhere. |
| 9/18/09 | Office and Zoo hours this coming week: Monday (9/21) 3-5 pm (DA, 414 AKW), Tuesday (9/22) 4-6 pm (Francesca or Brad, Zoo), Tuesday 7-10 pm (Brad, Zoo), Wednesday (9/23) 7-10 pm (John and Reynard, Zoo). If none of these times works and you'd like to make an appointment, please email DA. |
| 9/16/09 | Homework #2, due Wednesday September 23 at 11:59 pm, is available from [Assignments]. |
| 9/13/09 | Zoo hours this week: Monday (9/14) 7-10 pm: Brad, and Tuesday (9/15) 7-10 pm: Reynard and John. In addition, Prof. Angluin will have office hours in her office, 414 AKW, on Monday (9/14) 4-5 pm and Tuesday 1:30-2:30 pm. |
| 9/7/09 | Homework #1, due Wednesday September 16, is available from [Assignments]. |
| 9/7/09 | There will be help sessions on learning to use the Zoo systems on Tuesday 9/8 7-9 pm (Reynard and Francesca) and Wednesday 8-10 pm (Brad and John), in the Zoo. Please make sure you sign up for a CPSC 201 course account at least one hour beforehand (eg, now!) |
| 9/6/09 | We welcome undergrad peer tutors Francesca Slade and John Wood. |
| 8/24/09 | Welcome to Computer Science 201a! |