CSC151.02 2016S, Class 39: Pause for Breath
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_Overview_

* Preliminaries.
    * Admin.
    * Upcoming Work.
    * Extra Credit.
    * Questions.
* Optional detour
* Vectors Lab

Preliminaries
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### Admin

* New partners!
* I will continue to bring you food (or food-like substances) until I am 
  caught up on grading.
    * Dutch Letters from Pella (almond-filled crispy thingys)
    * Cookies from catering

### Reminders

* Office hours next week 
    * See http://rebelsky.youcanbook.me.
    * Ask me about other available times.
* Tutor hours
    * Sunday, 3-5 p.m.
    * Sunday-Thursday, 7-10 p.m.
* Review Sessions
    * Wednesday at 8pm in CS commons with Sarah (?)
    * Thursday at 8pm in CS commons with Kumar.
    * None with Sam this week

### Upcoming Work:

* Quiz Friday
    * Pairs
    * Vectors
    * Named let
* Homework 6 due next Tuesday
    * Problem 1 will change soon.
* Reading for Friday
    * [About the Project](../assignments/project.html)
    * [Elements of 2D Design](../readings/design-elements/reading.html)
* Lab Writeup:
    * Send email titled __CSC 151 Lab Writeup 39 (Your Names)__
    * Do not include the underscores.
    * Send to <CSC151-02-grader@grinnell.edu>
    * Due before class on Tuesday.

### Extra Credit

* Send your reports to <rebelsky@grinnell.edu> with subject 
  "CSC 151 Extra Credit".  (Do not include the quotation marks.)
* Send opportunities to me before class with subject
  "CSC 151 EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY!"

#### Academic / Artistic

* Talk Wednesday, 4pm, ARH 302
* Talk Thursday, 4:15 pm, ARH 102, 
  The Stability of Value-added Measures of Teacher Effectiveness Derived 
  under Different Growth Models
* Student Research Symposium this week
* Symphony Orchestra with Dave Stamey, Herrick. April 16, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
* Any of the fora on the report from the Residential Learning Task Force.
  (Formal announcement forthcoming.)
     * April 15: Open task force meeting, 1:00-2:30pm in JRC 209
     * April 18: Listening session, 8:00-9:00pm TBD
     * April 22: Open task force meeting, 1:00-2:30pm in JRC 209
     * April 26: Listening session, 6:00-7:00pm TBD

#### Peer

* Lords of the Flies, 7:30 pm April 22nd, 2:00 pm April 23rd, 2:00 9pm April 24th.  (Only 50-60 tickets per show)
* ISO, Saturday, April 16, 7-9 p.m.  Various classmates performing in the
  first half.
 Second Annual Contra into Spring Dance, April 22nd, Main Quad, 7:30 p.m.

#### Miscellaneous

* Host a prospective student this coming weekend.

#### Regular Peer 

* Social Dance Workshop Tuesdays 7:00-8:00 in Bucksbaum Dance Studio
* Post-break ExCo on British Politics Wednesdays at 8:00 in JRC 203.  
  Just show up; you don't need to sign up.
* Pun club Saturdays at 4pm in Younker 
* Electronic Potpourri on KDIC Fridays at Five 
* Space Odyssey KDIC Fridays at Six
* Bollywood, Fridays, 7:30-8:30, Younker
* Effective Altruism club, 2:30-3:30 Sundays in JRC 226.

#### Misc

#### Not so Far in the Future

* Adaptation of Rushdie's East West.  Early May.

### Questions

Optional Detour
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* Does the class want to take a detour to talk about campus events?  Yes.
* Is there a record of what was said?  I hope not.

Vectors Lab
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Lab Writeup: Exercise 2 

Note: Exercises 2, 3, and 4 will probably be helpful for Friday's quiz.
We are likely to give you a problem that takes ideas from those.

