CS 200 - Fall 2024. 10/21/2024

My name is Madelyn and I am one of the co-presidents of Yale Women and Gender Minorities in CS (WGiCS) this year. WGiCS has a lot of resources and upcoming events aimed at helping our community navigate CS.

I was wondering if you could send this link to your class: https://linktr.ee/wgicsyale to let your students know to join WGiCS's groupme and explore other potential resources.

Thank you so much,
Madelyn Mao

Administrivia

Mid-semester Feedback

• Lectures, problem sets, readings, practice exams.
• Recordings of lectures, lecture notes, office hours, practice tests!, midterm review slides.

• I think it's just the fact that there's a lot of different things that we need to learn; that's why the practice exams help to consolidate everything.
• Sometimes we move too quickly through new material and Professor Slade doesn't look up for questions before moving on. Also, it would be nice if we spent more time on recursion and how it differs depending on the type of problem.

• Please make the mic louder. It would make it much easier to focus, and in particular hear what you are saying in the recordings.
• if possible, move office hours on Friday a bit later, both Rudy's and Sophia's. maybe 1-2 hours later.
• is there any way for the code transcript to update live as Professor Slade lectures in class? sometimes we move too quickly when he's using the terminal and we can't follow along with references like we can with lecture notes
• spend more time on recursion and how it differs depending on the type of problem.
• tell us which materials are redundant. There is a lot of material given, which is very helpful, but if it's not necessary to review all of it because some give the same information, it would make studying more efficient

• Spend more time coding myself.
• start PSETs earlier

Midterm and Grades

Minimum  34.8
Median   55.15
Maximum  59.4
Mean     52.28
Std Dev  6.94
  

Data Structures

Getting to know UNIX