Archive of Old Announcements
Important announcements related to the course will be posted in the class CMSC 132 home page. Old announcements will be moved here.
Thu Aug 9, 11:36 am: Project #7 and Project #8 scores are now available. If you have any concerns about the grading e-mail Nick immediately.
Thu Aug 9, 11:02am: Typo in the time for the final exam. The exam is in the morning from 9am-11am and not in the evening.
Wed Aug 8, 9:13 am: Sun Campus Ambassador is now open.
The position as Sun Campus Ambassador is now open. It is for the
entire academic year (07-08). Responsibilities include leading the
Java Users Group and Open Solaris Users Group on campus, attend
training and give 6 demos on various Sun Microsystems's technologies.
It is a well paid position. If you are interested, pl apply at
http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/zone/search.cgi?req=554544
Wed Aug 8, 8:39 am: Quiz #5 scores are now available. See Nick today regarding any grading concerns.
Tue Aug 7, 5:01 pm: Make sure your scores in grades.cs.umd.edu are correct. If something is not correct see Nick tomorrow Wednesday (please no e-mails about this). We are still working on P7 and Q5 (no scores for them yet).
Tue Aug 7, 4:58 pm: Homework #3 scores are now available. If you have any questions see Nick tomorrow Wednesday. Please, no e-mails about this; any concerns regarding the grading should be discussed with Nick during his office hours.
Fri Aug 3, 11:41 am: Composition over Inheritance - http://www.feed-squirrel.com/index.cfm?evt=viewItem&ID=53216
Thu Aug 2, 2:03 pm: Study Day: Thursday Aug 9 will be a study day. Nick will be in the TA room holding office hours during the class period (9:30am-10:50 am) in case you have any questions. There will be no lecture or lab that day.
Thu Aug 2, 2:03 pm: Tomorrow Friday we will be returning the graded HW#2 and Quiz #4. Make sure you collect this graded material tomorrow. Also, make sure all your scores in grades.cs.umd.edu are correct. If you see any errors see Nick immediately. Do not wait until next week to double-check your scores.
Thu Aug 2, 2:02 pm: Information about the final exam is now available on the class web page.
Wed Aug 1, 12:20 am: Regarding Project #6 scores: The problem with the scores has been fixed.
Wed Aug 1, 11:39 am: Problems with CVS. If you are experiencing problems checking out projects, it may have to do with the linuxlab account password (you never changed it from the original password provided in grades.cs.umd.edu). If this is your case, change the password by using an ssh client. The F-secure ssh client seems to have a problem so if that is the client you are using first log in to wam.umd.edu using F-Secure, open a window, and then execute the ssh command (ssh -l YOUR_LINUXLAB_ACCOUNT linuxlab.csic.umd.edu) to log in and change the password.
Wed Aug 1, 9:05 am: Project #8 posted.
Wed Aug 1, 8:44 am: Project #5 and Project #6 scores are now available through grades.cs.umd.edu. If you have any concerns about the grading, see Nick by Friday (Aug 3).
Tue July 31, 1:35 pm: Worksheet for Quiz #5 has been posted.
Tue July 31, 1:10 pm: Regarding the TA room: The room is being cleaned and will be closed tomorrow Wed. Nick will be holding office hours in the WAM lab next to the TA room.
Tue July 31, 12:28 pm: Schedule has been updated. Quiz #5 will take place next Monday (Aug 6).
Tue July 24, 5:54 am: Nelson's ffice hours for Monday July 30 will be covered by Nick (TA).
Tue July 24, 11:24 am: Project #7 has been posted. Notice that there are two deadlines associated with the project.
Tue July 24, 8:57 am: Project #4 scores are now available through grades.cs.umd.edu.
Tue July 24, 8:57 am: Quiz #4 worksheet has been posted.
Mon July 23, 9:26 am: Homework #3 posted.
Thu July 19, 9:18 am: Nelson's office hours for Thursday July 26 and Friday July 27 are canceled.
Wed July 18, 11:34 am: Project #6 posted.
Thu July 19, 10:49 am: We want to stress that in 132 we introduce BFS, DFS, Dijkstra's Alg., Kruskal Alg., Heaps, Binary-Search Trees and Sorting, but there is a lot more to learn about these topics (proofs involving run-time analyses, correctness, etc.) when you take 351/451.
Thu July 19, 9:18 am: Nelson's office hours for Friday July 20 are canceled.
Thu July 19, 9:18 am: Homework #2 posted.
Wed July 18, 11:34 am: Quiz #3 scores are now available online. You have until Friday July 20 to see the TA regarding any grading concerns. The quiz will be returned today, in lecture.
Wed July 18, 11:34 am: Project #6 posted.
Wed July 11, 11:34 am: Project #5 posted.
Tue July 10, 5:58 pm: Schedule has been updated (deadlines for hw#2 and hw#3 have been added).
Tue July 10, 5:30 pm: Information regarding the second midterm is now available through the exams link of the class web page.
Fri July 6, 6:13 pm: Quiz #3 worksheet has been posted.
Tue July 3, 8:13 am: Project #4 posted.
Wed June 27, 2:58 pm: Nick will hold a lab (9:30-10:50am) on Monday (July 2). If you have questions about the project, make sure you see him during the lab time as he will not have office hours from 11-12 (his usual office hours).
Wed June 27, 2:58 pm: Nelson will not hold office hours on Friday June 29 and on Monday July 2.
Mon June 25, 8:05 am: Project #3 posted.
Fri June 22, 8:39 am: Nick will not have office hours on Monday 25.
Thu June 21, 9:41 pm: Project #1 scores and Quiz #2 scores are now visible. You have until Tuesday June 26 to contact the TA regarding any grading concerns.
Wed June 20, 7:30 pm: Nick (TA) will hold office hours on Thursday May 21 from 11-12 in the TA room. Nelson will not have office hours on Thursday May 21.
Tue June 19, 3:11 pm: Nick (TA) will not have office hours tomorrow Wed. There will be a lab tomorrow and he will be available during the regular lecture time (9:30-10:50) in our usual classroom. You can address any questions you may have about the project then.
Mon June 19, 8:30 am: Midterm #1 information is now available through the Exams link of the class web page.
June 13, 8:30 am: Quiz #2 worksheet has been posted.
June 13, 8:30 am: Project #2 has been posted.
June 12, 12:14 pm: The file LinearStructuresCode.zip (in the Schedule section) has been updated.
June 12, 11:08 am: Movie Recommendations: Great movie to watch: "Wedding Crashers"; movie to avoid "Fifth Element" :)
June 12, 8:58 am: Homework #1 grades are now available through grades.cs.umd.edu. You have until Thursday May 14 to see the TA regarding any grading concerns.
June 07, 4:46 pm: The following link provides information regarding the Eclipse debugger.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/eclipse/EclipseTutorial/debugging.html
June 06, 11:40 am: Drop deadlines for the course:
10 week classes (CMSC131 and CMSC132)
Schedule Adjustment: June 4th until June 14th
Last day to drop with a 70% refund: June 14th
Last day to drop with a 50% refund: June 27th
Last day to drop with a 20% refund: July 10th
Last day to drop with a W: July 17th.
Last day to drop with a WW: August 10th
June 06, 11:40 am: When you check out Project #1 you should see no errors. If you see any errors then there is a problem in the Eclipse configuration. Make sure you are using java 1.5 (5.0). In addition, try to create a project and in the dialog box where you provide the project name verify whether you see a warning that says something along the lines "... with compiler compliance level 1.4 is not recommended. Configure compliance". If you see the warning, select Configure compliance and select 1.5. This should fix the problem for all your projects.
June 06, 7:46 am: Project #1 posted and available through the Projects link of the class web page.
June 05, 8:56 am: Quiz #1 worksheet has been posted and is available through the Quizzes link of the class web page.
June 05, 8:21 am: Nelson's office hours have been posted.
June 04, 5:09 pm: The following link provides information on how to create JUnit tests.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/eclipse/EclipseTutorial/JUnitTesting.pdf
June 04, 12:25 pm: A video on how to import the lecture code examples can be found in the Resources section of the class web page. Look under "Importing Lecture Examples".
June 04, 11:02 am: Homework #1 posted. The homework can be found through the Homeworks link of the class web page.
June 04, 11:01 am: The CVS information for the summer can be found at:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/summer2007/cmsc132/Resources/cvsRepositoryAccount.shtml
June 04, 8:30 am: Welcome to cmsc132, Summer 2007.