Wednesday, October 30

• Please follow this link ASAP to cast your vote for a Final Exam format.

Tuesday, October 29

• Please note that Richard's Office Hours have changed. He will now be avaiable Mondays from 2pm-3pm
• HW4 Submission instructions have been updated for those students who wish to use classes to do the assignment.

Sunday, October 27

• I've also now posted information on the standard Perl Module called Data::Dumper. This is very useful in debugging your code. Check it out.
• The second input script for HW4 is now available. Also, please make sure you check the FAQ frequently.

Friday, October 25

• As announced at the end of class Wednesday, there will be no lecture next week (October 30).
• I have requested CS accounts (and password-resets for those who don't know their passwords) for those students who filled out the sign-up form late. All students should now have a CS account. This is important since our next class will be the first lecture on CGI programming. If you have never logged in to the CS machines, please do so immediately and change your temporary password. If your temporary password has expired, email labstaff ASAP and request a password reset.
• I have posted the first of two or three script files for Homework 4. They can be found on the Homeworks page. Another script will be coming in the next couple days.

Thursday, October 24

• A FAQ for HW4 has been started. Available on the homeworks page.

Wednesday, October 23

• Homework 4 has now been posted. It is due in 2 ½ weeks, on Friday, November 8, at 11:59:59pm EST.

Tuesday, October 22

• I have to cancel my in-person office hours today. My apologies. I will still attempt to be online under PerlRPI at 4:00pm.

Sunday, October 20

• Grading for HW3 has begun. If you have questions or concerns about your grade, email Justin first. If you cannot resolve the issue with him, then contact me.
• I have posted my solution to HW3 on the homeworks page. Let me know if you have any questions or comments about the program.

Tuesday, October 15

• Exams have been graded. If your grade is not online, you didn't take the exam. I'll have more to say about them in tomorrow's class

Sunday, October 13

• Bugs have been found in the using of the function glob() in Homework 3. Please see the email I sent on 10/13/02 at 11am

Thursday, October 10

• I am in the process of correcting the exams. Suffice it to say the grades so far are not encouraging. After correcting the exams, I may or may not decide on a remedy for this situation. Stay tuned.
• The questions and answers for the Midterm have been posted in the syllabus section below.

Monday, October 7

• Dave has finished grading homework 2. If you have concerns about your grade, please contact him first. If you cannot resolve your issue with Dave, then contact me. Also, please check the Check Grades link above to be sure your grades match what you were sent in email.

Thursday, October 3

• I have posted my solution to homework 2. Note that because TMTOWTDI, your solution may look vastly different than mine.

Wednesday, October 2

• Homework 3 is now available. It is due Tuesday, October 15 at 11:59:59pm EDT.

Monday, September 30

• A quick reminder that HW2 is due tomorrow. For those who need assistance, Justin has office hours tomorrow at 12pm-1pm, I have office hours from 4-5pm, and Richard will hold hours from 5-6pm.
• Wednesday's class will be a review session, as mentioned last week. However, we will also have a very short lecture (6 or 7 slides) at the beginning of class. I will also be giving out HW3 at the end of class.

Monday, September 23

• Homework 1 has been graded. If you didn't receive a grade (to your RCS email account), we did not receive a submission. Contact Richard to resolve any grading issues before contacting me.
• Please follow the link for Check Grades above to make sure you have been entered correctly in the grading system, and that your HW1 grade was recorded correctly. From that page, you can also check out the grade distributions for the class.

Friday, September 20

• Please take notice that my office hours, as well as those of Dave, have changed. The new hours are found above.

Thursday, September 19

• My solution to HW1 has been posted on the homework page. I strongly suggest you look at it and understand why my code does what it does. If you have any questions about my solution, please let me know.

Wednesday, September 18

• A FAQ for HW2 is now available
• Homework 2 has been posted. It is due Tuesday, 10/1/2002 at 11:59:59pm.

Monday, September 16

• I had eariler posted an announcement concerning backticks and STDERR. The information I posted there was incorrect. The true relationship between backticks and STDERR is that there is none. Backticks capture only STDOUT. In the sample program I'd written, STDERR was sent to the console as the backticked program was executing. The program then printed the results of the backtick operation, making it look like STDERR was printed before STDOUT. I hope this is clear - if not, we will go over it in class Wednesday.

Wednesday, September 11

• I have just emailed labstaff, asking for new accounts to be created for those students who reported not having an account when filling out the sign-up form. For those students reporting not knowing their password (and those with accounts who reported not knowing if they have one), I have requeted password resets. Labstaff should be contacting you via RPI email within the next week or so regarding your account.
• For those of you having trouble getting emacs to work with Tera Term SSH, I have now posted my configuration file. I'm doing this because I don't remember what was the magic switch I threw years ago to make TeraTerm behave itself. Copy this file into your Tera Term directory (over writing your own TERATERM.INI file). You should edit it and replace "lallip" with your own RCS ID in the DefaultUserName section.

Friday, September 6

• The bookstore has just emailed me saying the texts for this course have finally arrived. I'd suggest everyone go buy at least the Camel asap.
• In Wednesday's class, someone asked me a question to which I did not know the answer. I informed that someone that I'd get the answer to him by next week. Regrettably, I'm absent minded and have managed to forget what the question was. If anyone recalls the question that was asked, please let me know. If you are the student who asked the question, my apologies.

Wednesday, September 4

• A FAQ has now been posted for Homework 1
• All of the handouts for each class will now be online, following the handouts link above.
• Homework 1 has now been posted. It is due on 9/17 at 11:59:59pm EDT. We will discuss the assignment at the end of class today

Tuesday, September 3

• My office hours for Thursday will be moved to 10am-11am in Lally 004. Note that I'm not overly happy with the Thursday hours at all, so they may soon be changing permanently.

Friday, August 30

• Office hours for the three TA's are now posted above. Note that this Monday is an institute holiday, so Richard's office hours will be cancelled this week.

Wednesday, August 28

• Please follow this link to sign up for the class email list and the class grading sheet. This must be done before any grades can be assigned to you.