CSC 104: The Why and How of Computing

University of Toronto, Winter 2012

Lecturer:

My regular office hours are now over (as classes are over).

The best way to contact me is by e-mail. I usually read my e-mail quite frequently.

Announcements:

• All course grades (some unofficial)

• Final exam paper as given

• Final exam information

Most-frequently-accessed items:

• All course grades (some unofficial)
• Test and exam coverage
• Lectures (planned schedule, programs written in class, some notes on readings, etc)
• Tutorial signup
• There are ongoing TA lab consultation hours in a CDF lab room. (during the term)
• Bulletin board (you have to log in to post)
• Accessibility services

Administrative handouts and information so far

• Course info sheet in HTML or PDF
• Instructor e-mail policy

• Find your CDF account name
• "A student's guide to CDF"
• Using CDF computers from home
• Installing Wing-101 on your own computer (not necessary for this course, but some students probably want to do it)

• Lab signup
• Lab 1 handout in PDF
  • What to do for various problems with lab one, e.g. if you joined the course too late to have a CDF account in time.
• Lab 2 handout in PDF
  • A solution for the "add shell script" problem can be found in /u/ajr/104/lab2/add on CDF. E.g. you can type "sh /u/ajr/104/lab2/add 18 19".
  • diagram for January 27 tutorial
  • What to do if the other CSC 104 student who agrees to receive your e-mail for part C has already done part C with someone else (please ignore this unless this exact situation arises -- it wouldn't have been a problem in the original lab time)
• Lab 3 handout in PDF
• Lab 4 handout in PDF
  • Sample solutions in the directory /u/ajr/104/lab4/soln on CDF
• Lab 5 handout in PDF
  • Bresenham line algorithm lecture on March 27, and implementation notes for your lab 5
  • Sample solution in /u/ajr/104/lab5/bres.py on CDF

• Assignment one
  • handout in PDF
  • cover sheet for question 6 (PDF)
• Assignment two
  • handout in PDF
  • Sample solutions can be found in /u/ajr/104/a2/soln on CDF.
• Assignment three
  • handout in PDF
  • questions and answers, and other hints
  • changing the permissions on your files to do part 4
  • that page listing some HTML tags from the course topics web page
  • Sample solutions are in the directory /u/ajr/104/a3/soln on CDF; and you can see my surfing.html and browser.html here too if you like.

• Seating assignments (mandatory)

• Test and exam coverage

• Two previous CSC 104 final exams of mine, with solutions

• Test #1 paper, solutions, grades

• Test #2 paper, solutions

• [Several lab5-related announcements moved to lab5/announcements.html]

• Assignment one grades and test grades are available in the usual place. The test #1 papers are available for pick-up from my office in my regular Wednesday office hours or by appointment.

• I can't do my regular office hour on Wednesday March 14; sorry. Please contact me to make an appointment for some other day if needed. Also, there are TA lab consultation hours that day from 2:30-4:30.

• Lab 2 is due at the end of Friday (January 27). It seems to have been too long for the one-hour lab time; sorry about that. Please finish it any time today (Friday January 27), and send e-mail to me if you have questions.

• I'll talk more about the terms "server" and "client" on Tuesday January 31; I'm just starting this particular subtopic.

• A student with a disability requires a volunteer notetaker in CSC 104. Please sign up at http://www.studentlife.utoronto.ca/accessibility/pcourselist.aspx if you are able to perform this service. This basically just involves sharing the notes you are already taking in class. Or, if you are already sharing notes in some other way which this student could participate in, please let me know.