CS 1621 Announcements

Check this page frequently, as it will be updated often.


December 7, 2005

Due to a meeting I must attend, I will not be at  my office hours from 1-2PM today.  I apologize for the late notice.  I should be back by 2PM (or possibly before) and will be available until about 2:45PM.


December 5, 2005

I have (finally) set up the submission site for your projects.  I apologize for the lateness of this.  I hope you all have plenty of time to submit by midnight tonight (on-time).  Let me know if there is any problem.  The submission information is available at:

http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~ramirez/cs1621/assigs/submit.html


October 10, 2005

If you want to run some of the handouts and don't know how, see running.html – it shows the technique for compiling / running for a few of the languages we have been discussing.

For timing your execution (Programming Exercise 6) you must somehow calculate the elapsed time within your program.  One way is by using the clock() function.  For details see http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/ctime/clock.html


September 30, 2005

Reminder:  The first midterm exam is next Monday, October 3.  A review sheet and some practice questions have been posted!


September 28, 2005

If you want some more information on Perl local variables, see the articles below!

http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html
http://perl.plover.com/local.html

Both are interesting and I recommend reading them if you are familiar with Perl (if you are not familiar with Perl, give them a try, although some of the more syntactic sections will be tough to understand). 


September 6, 2005

REMINDER: CS WELCOME PARTY!  See details in the August 30 announcement below!


September 2, 2005

A couple of students inquired about the Prolog program I used in class today.  Here is the link:

http://www.swi-prolog.org/

There are other versions as well – feel free to Google if you want to find them.

Even though the complete installation had a few bugs, I am also including the link to the LISP program that I used.  It will probably work better if you use it with Linux or other Unix systems than if you use it on MS Windows systems:

http://clisp.cons.org/


August 30, 2005

As I mentioned at the end of Monday's lecture (some of you may have missed it), the CS Department is having its annual Welcome Party for students next Wednesday, September 7 from 11:45 – 2:00 in 5319 Sennott Square.  Food will be provided and door prizes will be given, but the most important reason to attend is to find out what is going on with the department in the coming year.  For more information see this flyer.  I hope to see you all there!


August 29, 2005

Welcome to CS1621 for Fall Term (206-1).  This page will be updated throughout the term with timely information and announcements.

As I mentioned in lecture today, the "midterm exam" section of the printed course information sheet has been changed.  Please note the update in the online course information.  Note that there are two midterm exams, each worth 15% of the overall grade.

Start reading Chapters 1 and 2 in the Sebesta text.