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Comments for Week of Jan. 12, 2004

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Does anyone else feel like they're in COA 1060 again?????
Don't know – was never in COA 1060. What is it?
the most unorganized and rambling lectures ever, except this might be even worse because we have no clue what he's talking about!
Was in 1060...this will be much better.
Yeah, but they take attendance - signing in & leaving was the best part of COA 1060

Is the syllabus online somewhere?
Yeah, and it also shows when you delete people's posts. Tracks those too.

What? WHAT? Make sure you name it like this, but do it like this and the program won't run. But also if you assign that name to this and someone’s brain explodes trying to figure this stuff out. It seems simple enough, but there is not enough emphasis as to why certain things are significant. Lecturers, you’re not explaining thoroughly enough for a lot of us to understand!
Yes, the Syllabus is labelled such on the Home page – click "Home" above. Folks, have patience with yourselves and with us. This stuff will make sense. We'll keep lecturing on the same topics for the next couple weeks, and if you keep trying it out, too, it'll make sense before the first midterm. Seriously. Mark Guzdial
Greetings new CS1315ers. This is Aaron Lanterman, a professor in the ECE department writing. I sat in on almost all Mark's 1315 lectures last semester, since I was interested in what CoC was doing in their undergraduate classes. (I was really skeptical about CoC after hearing about some rather frightening observations a few years back about CS1321 and an apparently dreadful course called CS2130 which our CompE students need to take and I wanted to find out what was going on - fortunately CoC has seemed to resolve a lot of the issues that had worried me). Mark has gone through a massive amount of effort making some rather difficult material understandable - please give him and the other lecturers a chance. I've been examining different ways of teaching introductory computer science since around 1990, and can tell you Mark has come up with something unique and brilliant and amazing. Last semester I showed some of my ECE colleagues what the students in CS1315 were doing - the various media projects - and they were all blown away by the idea that non-engineering majors were doing such incredible things. You will not find a better intro class at any university anywhere. If you don't at least try to take advantage of the opportunity afforded by this class (and I don't know about the other CS lecturers, but I can tell you Mark is one of the best you will find), you will have really missed out.
QUESTION: (I didn't register for the class until later in the week, so sorry if this was mentioned) Where are our grades posted for labs, homework, etc.? Also, how do I know who my TA is? Thanks! Andrea Dunlop
Grades will be posted in WebWork, and TA's were just decided last night. You'll learn who your TA is on TA-Student Pairings page, probably today. We'll demonstrate WebWork this week in the Breakout session. Mark Guzdial

Could you potentially enlarge the font used to code in JES in the Lectures. From the back of the cavern, it is impossible to see.
Highest we can get is 18 point. We'll work on it. (Alternative suggestion: Move up? There are usually lots of seats down front.) Mark Guzdial
I'm still having problems downloading JES onto my computer... I tried opening JES.exe, and it replied w/ an error messages: "The system cannot find the file specified. Error accessing file/directory: classes/" I also tried opening Jes-console.exe, but the black box just flashed onto the screen and disappeared. What am I doing wrong?
These errors usually mean (a) you moved the Snake (JES.exe) out of the JES folder or (b) you're double click from the Zip window. Leave JES.exe in the JES folder, and unzip/extract before trying to run the programs. Mark Guzdial
When will we be able to check our individual grades for Lab 1? I saw that the grade distribution was up for the entire class, but my individual grade has yet to be posted.
Check with your TA. Mark Guzdial



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