Evan Golub (egolub@umd.edu)
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My office hours in IRB 1210, announced weekly here:
Mon 12/09: 12:30pm-2:30pm
Reminder: Final Exam is Thursday, December 12th at 4pm in CHM 1407
Please bring your University ID card to swipe in.
The
www.CourseEvalUM.umd.edu
site is open until December 10th.
12/10:
Added a few more questions and links to recursion practice on the study questions page.
12/09: Exam #3 points: P1(13), P2(11), P3(5+10), P4(3+9), P5(9).
12/08:
In case the shuffle description seems ambiguous, here's
the text of an
additional JUnit test
you can run at home.
11/07:
Project 7 is posted.
11/13:
For P6, the release test named "testFiveOfAKindMore" also tests
whether you correctly deal with certain four-of-a-kind scenarios.
The test was meant to be named "testFourAndFiveOfAKindMore" but
I forgot to rename the test as I was developing the tests. The
test case does test what I wanted, but I wanted to note the naming
here for proper feedback if you don't pass that test.
11/07:
Project 6 is posted.
11/06: The Pitch Proposal
assignment has been posted.
11/03: Exam #2 points: P1(10+4), P2(6+7), P3(10), P4(15), P5(15).
10/28: In the CubicPoly, note that the description says to make the instance
fields:
private DoubleWithAppx a;
private DoubleWithAppx b;
private DoubleWithAppx c;
private DoubleWithAppx d;
You can do this simply by removing the final keywords in
the starter file. Consider why they can't be final.
10/24:
Project 5 is posted.
10/18:
As I was making changes to the P4 description I had an nconsistency for
grayscale. The formula I gave is the one to use. If you used one based
on the written description for your ELMS upload, that's fine but for the
submit server testing it must be the formula that was provided.
10/16:
As I mentioned in class, I was trying something a little different
with the lab and lecture approach for the datatype topic. Just to
avoid rushing, I'm making the lab open longer for submitting for
points so that if you have questions, you have a little more time
to get them answered on this lab. Then on Friday we can look through
some datatype class design issues in the context of the Student class
with, hopefully, everyone confident with the Rational and Point3D classes.
10/16:
If you checked P4 out if CVS before 11:30am today, please replace
PhotoSystem.java
with this version of
PhotoSystem.java.
10/15:
Project 4
is posted.
10/10:
The Tangled hair simulation trials.
10/07:
Exam #1 points: P1(5+9+4+7), P2(9), P3(10), P4(11), P5(10).
Adjusted scores that are "out of 100%" are posted on the
grades.cs.umd.edu
server. The TAs will return the papers towards the end of today's
coding lab.
10/05:
Project 3
is posted.
Monday's coding lab will refresh your memories on nested loops and
provide you practice with a grid smilar to the one in the project.
09/25: A reminder that our Friday 9/27 class can't be done in-person
but can't be cancelled. As a result, I have posted two readings; one
with
more on expressions
and one continuing the topic of
nested loops
that began in lab,
and
posted a quiz on ELMS to meet the obligation.
The quiz is due before 11:59pm on Sunday, September 29th.
Once you submit, you will not be allowed to take it again.
This is an individual assignment, so no working with others or telling
others what the questions or answers are.
09/21:
Project 2
is posted. There is some sample code provided that you should read
through and be comfortable with before working on implementing the project.
The Monday labs will introduc some related ideas before giving the quiz.
09/20:
I've posted a short set of slides for you to read on
expressions in Java.
Posting this is part of how I will allow us to "not meet in person"
on Friday the 27th. There will be another slide set posted later in
the week, and then a short ELMS quiz covering some topics from these
two slide sets posted on Friday the 27th and due by that Sunday night.
09/16:
If you would be interested in being a note-taker for ADS
students in this course, please view
this document.
09/13:
I've posted two short at-home readings to wrap up some things from this week
and to set the stage for next week.
One on
naming conventions
and one presenting an
overview of the concept of iteration
09/12:
I've activated the link to the department
grades.cs.umd.edu
server. This is where lab, projects, and exam grades will appeari
once graded.
ELMS is just where clicker scores appear.
09/09:
Project 1
has been posted.
09/03:
TA office hours
start tomorrow (Wed) on the First Floor or the Iribe Center.
09/01:
The Iribe Initiative for Inclusion and Diversity in Computing
invites all Computer Science students to join the Peer Mentoring Program.
info flyer and
sign-up link.
08/29:
This week's Wednesday lab session was a hands-on
activity setting up Eclipse and your CVS repository
connectios and trying the submit server.
Links to these, and instructions on how to
set everything up in case you missed lab
can be found
on this page.
and the TAs will recap this in the upcoming lab day.
08/29
Here'a a
direct link to the first (ungraded) exercise on ELMS.
It can also be found if you go to the class space on ELMS and look under
assignments.
Announcements will appear here during the semester. While we will use ELMS
for certain graded assignments, all announcements, projects, etc. will be
found via
this
website. Links in the menu on the left
will become active as needed/available.
You might find the following an interesting read before the start of the
semester - reflect on computers and their use in today's society after
reading this:
Computers Don't Argue by Gordon Dickson.
In-class Technology
Expect that you will be required to have a Turning Technologies
"Response Card RF" clicker unit (available at the bookstores)
and activate your campus-provided TurningPoint Cloud account.
I will discuss the details of this on the first day.
We will start doing some practice polls from the second lecture day
(polls won't count for points until the end of the drop/add period).
Note that you do not purchase a Turning Cloud account with the clicker.
As a UMD student you have access to a Turning Cloud account already.
You'll need to activate your campus-provided Turning Cloud account and
pair it with your physical clicker device.
Campus has posted instructions for
students who have not had a Turning Cloud account before,
for students who already had one that is still active,
as well as
students who had one that has expired.
First Discussion Session
The first discussion sections will be meeting on
Monday, August 26th, before the first lecture.
I'd like to encourage you to read
a PDF that I've posted
to provide some "big picture" context for the course
as well as some brief computational thinking exercises
using something called Scratch.
We will discuss these ideas and exercises in the first lab, so if you
encounter challenges with any of them, don't worry, that just means
you'll be coming to the first day ready with questions to
discuss, which is great.
If there's time in that first lab, you will also be asked the following
question and are encouraged to think about it before discussion time and
come to that first discussion section on Monday ready to tell a random
fellow student in the class about it.
What is something that you know how to do that you had to
learn in stages and it took a while before (or even still
hasn't happened yet) you could do it well enough to either
(a) accomplish something practical
or
(b) show others you could do something that they'd be
interested in seeing you could do?
CMSC 131
Object Oriented Programming I
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