CS 161 Announcements and clarifications

This page supplements class lectures, announcements, and handouts. Always press reload to make sure you are getting all the most recent news.

Announcements:

4/3/01: Dr. Burnett's office hours during spring term will be 4:00-5:00 on Tuesdays and 3:00-4:00 on Thursdays.
3/31/01: If you sent me email Thursday or Friday, I have been experiencing problems with a few emails. If I have not already answered your e-mail, then please send your question again.
Final Grades are up
3/22/01: The final grades (including the exam and grades for the course) will be up on this web page sometime Monday.
3/22/01: Regarding seeing your final exams: they will not be available this term, but you can come see me during my office hours next term (to be announced), and see your final and compare it to the correct answers.
3/22/01: Regarding the final exam scoring: there were a couple of typographical errors on the exam. This affected 4 questions. Some of you have been worrying about this, but you do not need to worry. For these questions, two different choices were accepted as being correct -- the one correct for the code as it was typed, and the one correct for the code if the typographical errors had not been present.
3/21/01: Grades are updated. Any problems please e-mail Laura as soon as possible!
3/20/01: The location of the final exam is our regular classroom.
3/19/01: Laura's Wednesday office hours will be held in Hovland 1C from 2:30 - 5:00 pm (following the exam).
3/19/01: Grades are updated again.
3/17/01: Laura will hold office hour on Monday morning 9am-noon. These will be in her office, Hovland 1c (the basement of Hovland). She will also hold office hours on Wednesday sometime after the exam. Those hours will be announced shortly.
3/17/01: Grades have been updated, if there are still problems with grades please e-mail or see Laura during her office hours.
3/15/01: Dr. Burnett's office hours will change during finals week. They will be extra long, and stacked up at the beginning of the week before the final: Monday 1:30-3:30, Tuesday 10:00-12:00 and 2:00-3:30, Wednesday 9:00-10:30, 11:00-11:30, and thereafter by appointment only.

3/14/01: Grades have been update... all of program 3 is up!
3/14/01: Grades have been updated again... about 1/2 of program 3 has been graded, the rest should be done soon!
3/14/01: A slide has been added to the description for program 5.
3/14/01: As stated in class today: The project description has led to several valid interpretations of the specifications. We have heard of 3 interpretations, and these are all acceptable. Here they are:

3/14/01: Grades have been updated, your overall grades is also on the spreadsheet as well
3/12/01: A student solution for Program 4 is up.
3/12/01: Grades have been updated again.
3/10/01: If you are attempting to use the html files we have online for program 4 in code warrior, remember to add the "code base" back into the file. To see what it should look like, go back to your other html files created in code warrior.
3/10/01: Program 5 has a few clairifications added to it just before the Syle section.
3/9/01: A new version of program 4 is up, this one seems to working much better with browsers of all kinds!
3/7/01: Homework # 6 is up.
3/7/01: Program 5 is up.
3/7/01: An AWT-only version of the program 4 solution has been added.
3/6/01: A solution to program 4 has been posted.
3/6/01: An updated solution to program 3 is now up.
3/5/01: In order to use swing components, etc. in the Hovland labs here are the steps that you need to take:

                    1)Open your project window
                    2)Go to edit and select Java Applet viewer
                    3)Under the Target section, goto Java Target
                    4)In the Applet Viewer Section select Sun Appletviewer 1.3.0
                    5)Click Save
                    6)Close the window, using the X in the upper right corner

3/5/01: A solution to program 3 has been posted.
3/5/01: A counter has been added to the syllabus page portion on academic honesty to reflect the number of people being reported to the Department Chair for academic honesty matters.
3/2/01: Robin and Laura will hold additional office hours on Sunday, March 4, from 3-6 pm in Hovland 108.
2/28/01: Homework # 5 is up.
2/28/01: Program # 4 has an extra-credit opportunity and a new due date.
2/27/01: Solutions for Program 2 are up.
2/26/01: The examples page has been updated with a couple new examples.
2/23/01: Program 4 has been updated.
2/23/01: No Homework assignment this week!! Homework 5 will be posted on 2/28/01.
2/22/01: Clarification regarding homework # 4 posted - 'Element' means ' variable' in 1(e) and 1(f).
2/21/01: About the midterm answer key: I mentioned that the mark sense answers would be posted, but of course this isn't necessary after all because each of your printouts already shows the answer key. However, I also mentioned that I would post the example code regarding private variables (question # 12/4/6/1/6/10), and here it is. Also, here is a correct answer to the multiplication tables problem (question # 5/5/5/2/5/4).
2/21/01: There are special extra office hours for Dr. Burnett this week: Thursday 2/22 11:00-1:00, Friday 2/23 3:00-5:00.
2/20/01: Grades have been updated, exams will be handed back in class on Wed. 2/21.
2/19/01: Homework/workshop #4 deadline extended until Friday 2/23.
2/7/01: Homework solutions are now available.
2/6/01: Programming assignment #3 is now available.
2/6/01: Grades have been updated. Response files with more specifics will be sent out soon.
2/5/01: Special office hours (in honor of the midterm exam): Dr. Burnett will be out of town on the day of the exam (2/12), so her normal office hours will not occur on that day. However, Laura will move her Tuesday 2/13 office hours to Monday 2/12 from 11:30-12:30 (Hovland), so that is a time you can get some last-minute questions cleared up. In addition, Dr. Burnett will expand her office hours on the Friday before (2/9) from the normal 1 hour to 2.5 hours. On that day, her office hours will be 8:00-9:00 and 4:00-5:30.
2/2/01: Getting null pointer exceptions when you try and run your program? Try commenting out all of the code in the init method (or some other method), and adding back in it one line at a time to determine what might be causing the problem. Often it is a missing " from the html file.
2/2/01: Laura's Thursday office hours have changed again. Thursday 2:30-3:30 and 8:00 - 9:00pm are the new hours.
2/1/01: Grades for quiz 1, quiz 2, and Program 1 are up.
1/30/01: Laura has had to stay at the doctor's office longer than expected, so her office hours may start late today. She will be back as soon as possible!
1/29/01 & 1/30/01: The getParameter() method (used for getting values from the html page into an applet) is available in the Applet class itself, not the String class as given in class. Check the online documentation for the class java.applet.Applet for details on this and other methods available to you from the Applet class.
1/28/01: We have decided to make it possible for you to use 1 of your "droppable" quiz scores to instead drop a programming score. This is optional; if you do not choose to use this option, the scores that will be dropped from your final average will be your worst 2 quiz scores, just as originally announced. The syllabus has been updated to reflect the new option.
1/28/01: Clarifications have been added to the Program 2 specification to make clear that 1 or more Java AWT classes, including one that supports keyboard editing, are required. If you printed the description before 11 am Sunday morning, take another look.
1/27/01: Program 2 is up!
1/27/01 (updated 1/28/01): Volunteer sought: Dr. Burnett is working on a department committee that aims to encourage CS students to develop to their full potential. Example ideas we are working on include a wide range of ideas, from contests to more scholarship opportunities, etc. We really need a freshman on this committee, preferably male (we already have some female students on it), who views himself as an "A" or a "B" CS student. The next meeting is Monday Jan 29, 3:30. If you would like to volunteer and could attend a meeting at that time, please email me (burnett@cs.orst.edu) as soon as possible with a sentence or two describing yourself.

Update:

1/26/01: Clarification added to the syllabus page, just making clearer through better wording that the grade average required of the programs is the average over all of them.
1/26/01: Week #5's assignments have been changed on the schedule page.
1/25/01: HWW#3 is up. It is due Wed., Jan 31.
1/25/01: Some people needed information about the second book for program 1 (the Core Java book) Here it is:

1/24/01: Due to problems on the engineering web server, the HWW #2 deadline will be extended 1 day (to Jan. 25 2:00 pm).
1/23/01: You do not have to resubmit if you already submitted your homework (HWW#2). This is only for people who have not previously submitted their homework. (See Announcements from 1/22/01).
1/22/01: Please refer back to HWW#2 it has been updated!!! We have specific method names for you to use!
1/18/01: We are compiling a list of links that might be of use to you. Check under "Useful links" on main page.
1/18/01: If you left your text in the 9:30 recitation please come by office hours today to claim it, or see Laura or Robin in class tomorrow.
1/18/01: HWW#2 is now up. It is due Wed., Jan 24.
1/17/01: The Examples page now contains the RectangleUserApplet from today's lecture.
1/17/01: The TA's office hours have been changed for Thursdays. Starting 1/18 Laura will hold office hours 3-5pm and Robin will hold office hours 6-8pm. Their Tuesday office hours have not changed.
1/12/01: The Program #1 assignment has been moved back one week on the schedule so that it can be made just a little more challenging.
1/11/01: How to Submit an Assignment can be found here.
1/11/01: We have added recitations to the main menu... this will hold information from the recitations (this week the power point presentation is on the web).
1/11/01: We have updated the HWW#1 page with file names. Please take a look at the page on the web again before submitting your assignment. Also, remember that your class names and file names must be the same when you submit them!
12/19/00: If you are having trouble getting into the particular recitation section you want, your only option is to just keep trying, using the standard course registration web system. Unfortunately, resources do not permit us to issue special permissions to let you into the sections that are already filled up. Dr. B.