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• 8/13 Final Grades have been submitted to the registrar. They should appear in bearfacts soon (if they're not already there).
• 8/13 Final Exam Statistics are posted in Exams. You can view your final exams starting Monday in 385 Soda. Enjoy what's left of your summer and hope to see some of you in the Fall!
• 8/12 All lab grades are entered into glookup.
• 8/10 The Final Exam: Revenge Of The Final is this Thursday from 9:10AM to 12:30PM in 2050 VLSB. Please bring a photo ID to the exam. The exam is open book and open notes. You are responsible for all the lectures (including the lecture on August 11), homeworks, labs, projects, and readings.
• 8/10 There are new examples of threaded code posted in the Exams directory.
• 8/10 Tomorrow (Wednesday) David and Steven will hold office hours in 275 Soda from 1-3PM. Sarah will hold office hours in the CSUA Lounge from 3-5PM. Some solutions to the final exam review questions will be posted tomorrow (so you can think about the problems now).
• 8/10 If you'd like to participate in the contest, use submit contest until Wednesday after lecture to enter. Whether your submission is exactly like your proj3 or something else, you must resubmit for this contest "assignment" to enter.
• 8/9 More final exam review questions posted under Exams. Also some solutions to midterm 2 can be found in the solutions directory. More solutions to be posted soon.
• 8/9 Final Exam Review questions posted under Exams
• 8/6 Both David's and Steven's regular office hours as well as their discussion sections are cancelled next week. They will instead hold office hours on Monday and Tuesday from 1pm to 2pm in the second floor lab. Additional office hours may be held Wednesday if demand is sufficient. You can also email David for any extra office hours if necessary.
• 8/5 You can sign up for face to face grading for project 3/hw7 now in the back of 275 Soda. Please sign up by Sunday night.
• 8/4 There will be a final exam review session next Monday and Tuesday (August 9 and 10) in 306 Soda from 2-3:30PM.
• 8/3 hw7 (the last one!) is now up
• 8/3 The FINAL EXAM: Revenge of the Final will take place on August 12 from 9:10AM to 12:30 PM in 2050 VLSB.
• 8/3 We will review solutions to the midterm today at 6PM in 306 Soda.
• 8/3 Steven won't be attending his lab section tomorrow, so David will be there instead.
• 8/2 Midterm 2 statistics have been posted.
• 8/1 Those of you confused about redirection and the UNIX shell, may find this article helpful.
• 7/31 A small bug has been corrected on the topological sort algorithm. Please read the newsgroup for more details.
• 7/31 More extra credit for project 3 is available. Please read the newsgroup for more details.
• 7/28 HW6 is up
• 7/28 David won't be holding his 3-5PM office hours today. Please email him if you have any questions.
• 7/24 proj3 is out
• 7/22 Midterm 2: Revenge of the Midterm is July 27, from 6:15-8:15PM in 306 Soda (NOT 2050 VLSB). Please arrive on time. It is open book and open notes. Be sure to bring your IDs again to the exam.
• 7/22 Midterm 2 review questions can be found in Exams.
• 7/22 Midterm 1 solutions can now be found in the solutions directory
• 7/20 You must change the return type of ZivLempel.decode from void to boolean. The method should return true iff the method was able to successfully decode the InputStream.
• 7/20 Midterm 2 is July 27 from 6-8PM in 2050 VLSB .
• 7/20 The midterm 2 review session is this Thursday, from 4-6PM in 306 Soda
• 7/19 There's a small change to how the dictionary works in proj2. See the assignment page fore details.
• 7/15 Sarah will be out of town all next week. Steven will cover Sarah's lab on Monday and David will cover the lab on Wednesday. Students normally going to Sarah's discussion section should attend either David's or Steven's section.
• 7/15 There will be a midterm 2 review session next week. Location and time TBA.
• 7/12 Project 2 is up. Have fun!
• 7/9 To mitigate the effects of many students being relatively far from fully working solutions to proj1, I am increasing the number of slip hours for the entire semester from 48 to 72. Please see the newsgroup posting "More Slip Hours" for further details.
• 7/9 To speed up the test-and-debug cycle I've set things up so that you can test your own proj1 code against the autograder preview tests on demand. Go to the directory where your proj1 files are at and type: test-subm proj1
  You can also specify a log file for the second argument if you don't want the results just printed to the screen. I'll leave this up until the project deadline of 9pm tonight.
• 7/7 To reward those who have started early on proj1, some preliminary autograder tests will be run on any submissions made up until Thursday at 11:59pm. I'll run the tests a couple times per day starting tonight. The results will automatically be mailed to your class account.
• 7/3 As stated on the first day course overview, please bring your Cal Student ID or some kind of photo identification to the exam.
• 7/3 Please do not change the method signatures for the homework. It will cause problems with the autograder. Please read the newsgroup for more information.
• 7/2 DList.java for hw 2 has been updated. See the assignments page for more details.
• 7/2 A typo has been fixed on the lecture 4 notes about method overloading. Please see Sarah's section notes for more details about method overloading
• 7/1 Midterm 1 is next Tuesday, July 6, from 6:15-8:15PM in 2050 VLSB. The exam will be open book and open notes. Please arrive on time.
• 7/1 Steven cannot make it to lab #3, so David will be the TA for Steven's lab section that day.
• 7/1 The exam used in the review session from today can be found at Exams
• 6/30 A file ROADMAP has been added to the proj1 directory. It gives some tips and a plan of attack for the project.
• 6/29 A number of revisions and corrections have been added to hw2. See the assignments page for more details.
• 6/29 Midterm 1 is next Tuesday, July 6, from 6:15-8:15PM in 2050 VLSB.
• 6/29 There will be a midterm 1 review session this Thursday from 6-8PM in 306 Soda
• 6/29 solutions and testing cases for hw1 can be found in ~cs61b/solutions/hw1
• 6/28 submit was broken between about 7:15pm (I think) and 8:10pm. It should be working now.
• 6/27 There were some subtle mistakes in question 5 on hw1. See the assignment page for what's been fixed.
• 6/25 proj1 is now up
• 6/24 Because of key card problems, HW1 will be due instead on Mon 6/28 at 9pm.
• 6/23 In the trueArray method on hw1, your solution can be 3 lines, not 2. The skeleton has been updated.
• 6/23 It seems that the registration script for your accounts hasn't updated your finger information, which is used to put your name on email and newsgroup postings. To change it, login into the machine po (type ssh po) and run the command chfn. It'll then prompt you for your name and some stuff you can leave blank (phone number, office number, etc.).
• 6/23 The CSUA is offering a UNIX help session Thursday 6/24 (tomorrow) at 6pm and an emacs help session Wed 6/30 at 7pm, both in 306 Soda. If you are still uncomfortable with UNIX or emacs, you might want to check one or both of these out.
• 6/22 In lab1, a new method has been added to (and an old one removed from) lists.java. You can demonstrate either method for full credit on the lab, but the new one fits better with the pace of the lecture material.
• 6/21 The location of the files for lab1 should be ~cs61b/assign/lab1. It's now also been fixed on the lab1 description.
• 6/21 HW1 (due Sunday the 27th) is up as is the first lab. The first project will be up in a few days.