Comments for Week of Nov 24, 2003


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Comments for Week of Nov 24, 2003

How's HW6?
How was HW5?
What do you think about JavaScript? Should this class be in JavaScript?

Just wondering when and if a review for the final exam will be posted. I am trying to get a head start on studying over Thanksgiving Break.

I'm aiming for Monday of Dead Week. I don't know if I can get it done before then. Mark Guzdial

I have never been so frustrated in my life. I got a "spacing error" message for line 28. For TWENTY-FIVE minutes, I kept reaffirming my belief that there was no spacing error. As it turns out, I left a parentheses out 15 lines above. The error message hindered as opposed to helped me.

I agree completely – this is the weakest part of Python. The reliance on indentation makes the interpreter get confused sometimes. We're still working on some way of fixing it. Mark Guzdial

I had a similar problem - we'd indented a for loop, and didn't realize it for about half an hour, again because the error told us the wrong line.

Homework 6 was so much fun to do, I decided to turn it in a week early. . . Yes, that's right, I did my homework on Sunday night.

Beat you. I turned homework 6 in last Wednesday :)

I HATED homework 6. It was too conusing, but putting JES on expert mode to debug definitely helped.

i turned my hw 6 in last wed too. i thought it was pretty easy =/ mostly because i had already made a ticker tape for hw 5

Hi there... this is Aaron Lanterman writing, the guy who gave out chocolate covered espresso beans in class one day. I usually sit in back and have my laptop up. I in slip rather unobtrusively in an undergrad class since I look about 10 years younger than I actually am - I'm actually a professor from the ECE department who was interested in finding out what CoC was doing in their introductory courses. I teach ECE2025: Introduction to Signal Processing, which has a strong programming component in MATLAB, so I have a strong interest in knowing how CoC was teaching debugging/programming skills. Anyway, I wanted to post a note to officially say that I am blown away by what you folks - by that, I mean the students - are doing in this class. You're tackling and understanding concepts that I would never have thought could be taught to non-engineering types... in looking at your work posted on the web, I'm convinced you understand many of these concepts better than my own engineering students! When I look out on all the Sophomores ECE students I have in my class, I often find myself wishing that they had been exposed to the material you folks have gotten exposed to in CS1315. I've shown the collages of work you've posted on the web to my ECE colleagues, and they're all blown way. They say: "You mean management and architecture and biology students are doing that?!?!?" I say: "YES. And MORE." Be proud. Be very proud.

Another quick note: there's a series of interviews with Guido van Rossum at http://www.artima.com/intv/strongweak.html, where he talks about some of his thinking that went into designing Python. (Python is cool, but if I ever meet van Rossum I will have to resist the urge to smack him and ask why he came up with identation as the way to determine block structure. I've done my share of FORTRAN coding (btw, in case you're wondering, FORTRAN is a programming language that sucks) and that turned me off to whitespace-sensitive languages forever. Oh, and that business of range(1:15) leaving out the last value annoys me too. In MATLAB 1:15 includes the 15, as any self-respecting language should.) - Aaron

Someone locked the Soapbox. Please fix it.

The Soapbox is locked with a pretty horrible message appearing on every page!

I agree - someone locked the soapbox with a message I find extremely offensive. I refuse to look at that everywhere I go on this site. A little history tracking and Bryan Alcorn seems to be the culprit...(IP address = 205.244.109.220)(See: http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs1315/4.diff?id=651 root: http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs1315/4.history) The culprit was also the one that typed "I like little boys" on the soapbox a while back...

Fixed. Mark Guzdial

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