Informatics 45 Spring 2008
Course News


Check back here every day or so. I will generally post important coursewide announcements here. They will be listed in reverse-chronological order (i.e., newest items first).

Date Added News Item
W 6/18 The final course grades are now available.
Tu 5/27 Project #4 is now available. Also, the Othello code example is now available.
W 5/14 Yesterday's code example is now available.
M 5/12 Last week's code examples, detailing how to use the Twitter API, are now available. Additionally, I've updated the Schedule and tweaked the Course Reference to accurately reflect the change from five projects to four.
Su 5/11 Project #3 is now available.
M 5/5 I've updated the listed due dates for Project #2 to reflect what was discussed in class.
Th 5/1 Today's code example, along with an additional one showing how to read and write bytes using sockets, is now available.
Tu 4/29 Today's code example is now available.
F 4/25 Yesterday's word-printing threads example is now available in the Code Examples section. More to come.
W 4/23 Yesterday's code example is now available.
Th 4/17 Today's code example is now available.
W 4/16

Two updates tonight:

  • The Schedule has been updated with an estimate of the next week of lectures.
  • Project #2 is now available.
F 4/11 Yesterday's code example is now available.
Th 4/10 The Schedule has been updated. A larger-scale update will follow after today's lecture.
Tu 4/8 Today's code example is now available.
F 4/4 Yesterday's code example is now available.
Th 4/3 As we talked about in lecture on Tuesday, the due date for the project plan for Project #1 has been postponed to Monday, April 7, to give you a little more time to experiment with some code as you work through your plan.
M 3/31

Welcome! A few things:

  • The first lecture will meet on Tuesday, April 1 and lab sections will begin meeting on Wednesday, April 2. For more information about meeting times of labs, see the Course Reference. For information about lecture material and readings, see the Schedule.
  • I encourage you to spend some time reading through the material on this course web site. Notice the set of links at the top of this (and every) page, leading you to the Course Reference, the Schedule, and the Lab Manual, as well as a set of commented Code Examples that will be posted during the course of the quarter.


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