Class news
This information is copied from the daily outlines.
Class 6 (Thursday, 2 March 2017)
News / Etc.
- No class next week. Use the time to work on the upcoming homework.
Upcoming work
- Build an arbitrary-precision-integer library and associated files. (Details in today’s class)
Good things to do
- CS extras
- CS table
- Rosenfield symposium on techology and stuff
Class 5 (Thursday, 23 February 2017)
News / Etc.
- Sorry for getting homework out late this week. Life continues to be
more chaotic than I thought it would be. - We should be doing Make next week.
Upcoming Work
Forthcoming
Good things to do
- Today’s CS Extra on Linux
- Friday Jazz band
- Friday-Saturday diving - Cheer on future-president White
- Saturday morning film
- Sunday swimming
- All things in moderation
Class 4 (Thursday, 16 February 2017)
News / Etc.
- Sorry for not getting homework out last week. It was more chaotic than I thought it would be. (It also sounded like some of you needed a break.)
Upcoming Work
Forthcoming
Good things to do
- Today’s CS Extra on the 4-1 program
- Swim meet, all weekend
- Final home basketball games of the year
- Art house event Saturday at 1pm
- Concert Saturday at 2pm with “Sound painting”
- Slavic Coffee House Saturday at 5:30 pm
- Tuesday’s CS Table on Net Neutrality
Class 3 (Thursday, 9 February 2017)
News / Etc.
- I’m using a new (well, new to me) site development system. If you notice things not working on the site (e.g., when the “Current Reading” link leads to nothing), please let me know. I’ll fix them as soon as I can.
- Homework tends to depend on what gets accomplished in class. I’ll email you the homework and reading before the weekend.
Upcoming Work
Forthcoming
Good things to do
- 11:00 a.m. Scholars Convocation! JRC 101. Go and learn.
- 4:15 p.m. Cool talk on computer graphics. Science 3821. Go and learn.
- Saturday, 6:30 p.m. High school large group speech recap. High school auditorium.
Class 1 (Thursday, 26 January 2017)
News / Etc.
- Welcome to “Thinking in C and *nix”.
- The course has had a variety of titles.
- I’ll use at least one more, but I’ll explain more later.
- I’m Sam (or SamR)
- I’ll take attendance, mostly to make sure that I know everyone’s name.
- Please sign up for a Github account and send me your username.
- As seems to be the norm in this department, I’m putting together a series of readings for this course. They are definitely “a work in progress”. Nonetheless, I’d like you to read the drafts.
Upcoming Work
- Read: the introductory material
- Read: Raymond, chapter 1
- Do: Simple tasks
- Do: *nix tools
Good things to do
- Lots of fun dance things this weekend.
- Go to Macalester and watch the swimmers swim and the divers dive.