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Final Grades

• Final grades have been submitted. You can pick up your final exam at the CSE main office front desk during regular office hours. Bring your UW ID with you to get your exam. Have a great spring break and best wishes for the future.

2014 March 16

• University-designated time for final exam is Thursday, March 20, 8:30 - 10:20AM in our classroom.
• Finals topic list attached to calendar at March 20

2014 March 13

• As voted on in class yesterday March 12, HW6 Part 3 deadline is extended to Saturday 3/15 at 8PM (not 11PM).
• If one or more of your members is out of late days, then Saturday 3/15 is your deadline.
• The latest files can be accepted (if ALL members have 2 late days left) is Monday 3/17 at 8PM (not 11PM).
• Make sure everyone in your group knows who is supposed to turn in files and when.
• HW7 (C++) is extra credit and not required.
• Correction: Deadline extended to Sunday, March 16, 2014 at 11 PM.
• A maximum of one late day will be accepted for HW7 (Monday 3/17/2014 at 11PM).

2014 March 4

• All teams have been formed for HW6. Inform the instructor immediately if you are not part of a team.
• Two (2) emails were sent to UW.edu addresses. The first, to all members of a team, informed the team of the path to its repository on cubist.cs.washington.edu . The second, to each individual, informed each person of his/her password to access the team's SVN repository.
• Information about how to use SVN has been posted to the discussion board and is attached to the course calendar at Feb. 24.

2014 February 28

• Make sure to send the HW6 team information to campbell where the domain of the email address is cs.washington.edu or campbL4 where the domain of the email address is uw.edu

2014 February 26

• HW6 posted.
• Form a team of 2-3 persons and send the instructor information about who is working together. Follow the instructions in Part 1 of the Turn-In Instructions exactly. Persons who do not have a team by the due date will be randomly assigned in pairs.

2014 February 19

• HW5 due date extended from Saturday February 22 to Saturday March 1.
• Added additional link to T9_tries.pdf to HW5 description (after link to wikipedia article).
• Added links to CS Stanford references for pointers, linked lists, and binary trees (extend the concept of trees to a trie) to HW5 description.
• Added phone keypad image to HW5 description.

2014 February 10

• 7PM Monday Feb. 10, HW5 posted. Check it out and also review information about structs (attached to calendar at Feb. 7)
• Digging around in your memory of abstract data structures, what do you recall about linked lists and trees? How might those concepts be similar to or different from the trie?

2014 February 7

• Reminder, the midterm is Monday February 10, 2014.
• Study Topics attached to calendar (see link attached to Feb. 10).
• Next assignment (HW5) will be posted the afternoon of Monday Feb. 10.

2014 February 5

• Reminder, HW4 due Thursday February 6, 2014. Make sure you upload the correct file(s).
• Reminder, the midterm is Monday February 10, 2014.
• Study Topics attached to calendar (see link attached to Feb. 10).

2014 February 3

• Annotated GDB demos for reverse2.c, reverse3.c, reverse4.c posted.

2014 January 31

• Code original-reverse.c and reverse.c from wi13 refactored into reverse1.c through reverse4.c. Each incremental correction to the code is annotated in the comments.
• Annotated GDB demo for reverse1.cposted.

2014 January 29

• HW4 posted, due THURSDAY February 6, 2014, but start NOW. Check the C References page, and post questions to the discussion board.
• Annotated (commented) versions of hello.c, magic.c, printargs.c added to calendar at Jan. 24th (originals remain for comparison).
• Link to online GNU GDB (debugger) manual added to C Resources page.
• For the interested reader, link to description of buffer overflow vulnerability added to C Resources page.
• Suggested reading: (Kernighan and Ritchie) pp 41-42 discusses precedence of relational and logical operators in C; pp 52-53 discusses precedence and order of evaluation for all operators in C; pp 82-82 discusses header files; Chapter 5 discusses pointers; Appendix A12 starting on p 228 discusses the preprocessor.

2014 January 17

• Reminder, HW2 due 11 PM on Tue 2014 Jan 21 (Mon 2014 Jan 20 is a University holiday, no class)
• Several links to tutorials and tools on regular expressions added to Linux Resources page

2014 January 15

• HW2 posted, due 11 PM on Tue 2014 Jan 21
• Suggested bash coding style hints added to Linux Resources page
• logical.tar example added to course calendar (demonstrate combining commands, 03-scripts1 slide 5)

2014 January 14

• HW0 has been graded. View comments on the Drop Box.
• Reminder, HW1 is due 11 PM tonight (2014 Jan 14).

2014 January 8

• Clarification: You can use your klaatu account for all the assignments, so it is not necessary to download and set up a virtual machine (VM) unless you want to, or you expect to do most of your work offline.
• Add requests have been completed as of noon today. If you were added, you should have received an email from the undergraduate advisor. Watch your UW email for information about how to log into klaatu.

2014 January 6

• Both the Syllabus and Academic Integrity Policy are available on the course web site if you did not pick one up in class.
• We will try to process add requests by Wednesday morning. No guarantees of slots opening as the class is overfull.
• If you have not been added to the class yet, you will be not be able to:
  • use the drop box to turn in hw0.script,
  • access the course Discussion Board, or
  • log into klaatu.
  You can proceed to download and set up a Linux VM if you so choose.
• Please post a followup to the Welcome message to get the discussion board to keep track of new messages for you.