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December 19, 2008 (7pm) The
final grade spreadsheet printout can be found here. I won’t enter them into the system until
Monday or Tuesday, so it won’t show up officially for a bit. But you know what they are. Have a
great break. I hope to see many of you
around the department and in future classes. December 15, 2008 The updated grades, with everything except the final exam, can be found
here This has some missing HW grades that I was able to track down as having fallen through the cracks. It also summarizes the #HW you have not turned in (an average of 0.95 per student!). It then has your ID-4 repeated, then two extra columns that you may well be interested in. The first one (in green) is EXTRAP, which extrapolates your final percentage from your percentage so far (i.e., multiplying it by 1.25 to go from 80% total to 100% total). The next and final column (in RED) is titled MAX, and it is the maximum percentage you can get if you get 100% on the final (i..e, adding 20% to your percentage so far, which the the column in Blue titled “Total %”). See you Friday for the final exam! December 10, 2008 Today
we will continue with perl. We won’t finish it all, what is testable
will be discussed in class. THERE WILL BE PROJECT9 on
Perl out by Friday, it will be due at the final exam. Stay tuned here… Today
we will review for the final exam. It
is Friday December 19, 3:10-5:00pm in our normal classroom. Here
are grades
…. Please check that everything you turned in is recorded correctly. The spreadsheet has a bug in it now so you
don’t have your total, and that should be fixed ASAP, but you should have a
really good idea of how well you are doing from your scored. December 8, 2008 Today
we will continue with perl. The
grading spreadsheet will be out by the end of Tuesday (stay tuned…), and by
Wednesday’s lecture there will be the last homework out, on perl. It will be
due at the final exam. November 19, 2008 Homework #8 on shell programming is now available. It is due the Wednesday after Thanksgiving
Vacation, i.e. December 3. November 17, 2008 This
week we will have cover shell programming. There will be a programming project given
out Wednesday, which will be due the Wednesday after Thanksgiving. Please don’t forget that Homework #7 is due in two
days. November 14, 2008 This
week we covered Python, with Prof. Hauser and
Loren Hoffman lecturing. Homework #7 is now out on
this, it is due next Wednesday, November 19. November 3, 2008 Today
we will cover an awkward subject: awk. (groan….) Homework #6 is out, on awk. It is due next
Monday, November 10, at the start of class (like with all homework
assignments, as we have discussed). October 30, 2008 OK,
here is Homework #5; it is due next
Wednesday, November 5. Monday
of course we finished filters, and Wednesday class
was cancelled due to my illness. October 20, 2008 By now
you have hopefully realized that the midterm last Wednesday (October 15) did
not happen, due to a SNAFU with another professor handing off the exams
(stored in his office) to our fearless TA, Jack. We will have the midterm this Wednesday, October 22. It
will cover material that we reviewed last week. I will be there, so there will be no SNAFU
like that (of course, I might get hit by lightning walking up to Thompson
Hall, so keep sticking those pins into those “large bearded professor” voodoo
dolls if that is the outcome you prefer). Today
we will start on filters. It will NOT be on the midterm Wednesday,
but rather will be on the final exam. October 13, 2008 Today
we will finish debugging macros and then review for the midterm exam,
which is in two days. October 6, 2008 Last
Wednesday there was no lecture, I was sick.
Hopefully you all got the message before schlepping over to Thompson
Hall for the class. Homework #4 is out, using the
shell. It is due at the start of class
next Monday, October 13. THE MIDTERM DATE HAS MOVED!! (Sorry to shout, I want
to ensure everyone sees this.) Instead
of next Monday Oct 13 it will be Wednesday
October 15. That Monday we will have a
midterm review …. Please come prepared with questions on the kinds of things
I will be testing on in the midterm. This
week we will cover debugging: coding for debugability and tools and techniques. Our coverage of debugging will also include
debugging macros, though that may
be in the first part of next Monday, before the midterm exam review. September 29, 2008 Today
we will cover source code management. It is not covered in the text, these notes
are the only reference for it you will need. Homework #3 is out, it is due
in a week, on Monday October 6. September 24, 2008 Last
time we discussed make, and today we will go
through a detailed recursive example of
it. Homework
#3 on make will be out in the next few days… September 17, 2008 Today
we will finish Using The Shell. Homework #2 is out. It is due in a week, September 24. September 8, 2008 Today
we will start on The File System. Please read UPE2. More on
PuTTY (ssh client) can be found here, including a link to the
best site to get it at. September 5, 2008 OK, Homework
#1 is now available. It is
due Monday September 15 at the start of class. Sigh, I
forgot again to show you this week’s key slide: here. Last week’s
was not so prophetic. I will
try to get you info on the best version of putty to use for ssh etc, though
you should be able to easily find that via the Linux User’s Group (or
probably even Wikipedia!). September 4, 2008 Here
are my office hours for this fall: Mondays 10:10-11:00 and Wednesdays
2:10-3:00. August 28, 2008 Here is
the website for the WSU ACM chapter. Also,
in yesterday’s lecture I failed you horribly, I forgot one key slide at the
end. Here it is (lets hope that it is
prophetic). Have a great Labor Day
weekend, see you next Wednesday. (Um, we
don’t have classes on Friday, as one person asked at the end. I even got a form letter from the marching
band director asking to excuse one student Friday, I guess Dr. Hower’s
software does not handle MW classes!) August 27, 2008 Today
in the first part of the lecture we will have a guest, Loren Hoffman, President
of the WSU Linux User’s Group (LUG). He will talk about Linux distributions,
dual booting Linux and Windoze, and upcoming LUG events. He will answer a lot of questions, and let
you know other places you can get help in getting a Linux setup going on your
laptop and/or home desktop. After
this, we will start on the Basic Commands in Unix/Linux. In the first
lecture I mentioned a little bit about my background. What I forgot to mention is that I have a
very active research program in distributed computing,
particularly publish-subscribe middleware for the power grid (GridStat). If you are curious, you can look at the
posters outside my lab, ETRL 309 (which is kind of behind Dana Hall; you get
to the 3rd floor of ETRL by a footbridge from the 1st floor
of EME). Note:
there is NO class next Monday (September 2) due the Labor Day holiday. Um, I hope you already knew that, but just
in case you have to be told here it is… if you do show up, enjoy the company
of the others who will share the sheepish look on your face. August 25, 2008 Welcome to the Fall, 2008 semester. Whenever there is an update to the site, an interesting item to link to, or any sort of news update relating to the class, it will appear on this blog. Today we will go through the course syllabus and Introduction. |
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