Class 49: Records

Held Monday, November 27, 2000

Summary

Today we consider records, generalizations of the structures we created to represent various collections of data.

Notes

• Today's stuff:
  • Reading: Records
  • Lab: Records
• I hope you had a pleasant Thanksgiving.
  • I brought back some anti-stress presents.
• Don't forget that the lab on merge sort is due on Wednesday.
• I'll be gone on Thursday and Friday this week.
• Job search status
• Exam basics:
  • Take-home exam distributed tomorrow (or so I hope)
  • Review on Wednesday
  • In-class exam on Friday
• Details of take-home exam
  • Five questions, some with parts
  • Open book, open notes, closed friends
  • Write working code
  • Due last day of classes
  • I'll take questions this Wednesday and all of next week
  • You can look at the take-home exam before deciding whether or not to take the in-class exam.
• Details of in-class exam
  • Six questions, select five (one is required)
  • Closed book, closed computer, open mind
  • You need not write working code; however, you must write good enough code that I'll have confidence that with some time you could write working code
  • If you elect to receive this exam, you may not do the take-home exam.
  • You may bring a one-sided hand-written 8.5x11 sheet of notes to the exam.

Overview

What? Do you really think that I have my notes on Records prepared this far in advance of the class?