This email addresses many issues. Please read it carefuly.
1. Class suspensions in November and December
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I have to participate in an IBM conference in Toronto in November
(http://www.cas.ibm.com/cascon/index2.shtml),
and in the MICRO conference in Austin in December
(http://www.microarch.org/micro34/). As a consequence there will be
no CMPUT329 classes on
November 05, November 07
December 03, December 05
2. Make-up Classes in October
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As we discussed in class today, in order to not jeopardize the
covering of the content planned for CMPUT329, we would like to
have make-up classes in October. This will actually be quite
helpful with the labs that we have to do because will allow us
to advance on the lecture material.
Unfortunately it is very hard to find a time on the schedule of
40 people to have the make-up classes during the week. Thus we
would like to schedule it for two different Saturdays. I propose
the following times:
October 13, from 1:30 to 3:20 PM
October 20, from 1:30 to 3:20 PM
Please let me know if these dates/time do not work for you. Please
only object if it is a serious conflict (I have to play handball/swim
at that time wouldn't be a serious one ;-)). Also be specific if the
conflict is with the day, the time, a religious restriction, etc,
because we will try to find a set of date/time that works for
everyone.
3. Lab3: The Treehouse Encryption
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I have posted lab3 so that you can become familiar with what you need
to do. The C code provided will be updated, so please download it
again on Monday to get the one with the corrections.
I am told that some of you were reading the instruction for the first
time during the lab section for lab2. This strategy will not work for
future labs as you have to do actual designs before you come to the
lab.
You will work on pairs for lab3. Please email the TA
(A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman <ashikur@cs.ualberta.ca>) the
names in your lab team before the next lab section.
4. Lab2 deadline:
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The report is still due on Friday, at the begin of the class. You have
to demo it to the TA in the begin of the lab section next week. Email
me if you find major roadblocks to meet these deadlines. You are
expected to make a good faith effort to meet them.
5. Homework #1 grade distribution:
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Problem 1 (10 points)
Problem 2 (15 points)
Problem 3 (40 points) (a, b, c, and d: 5 each; e, f: 10 each)
Problem 4 (35 points) (5 per item, item h was not graded)
6. Lab handouts
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Please do return printouts with specific comments for improvements
for next year.
Cheers,
Nelson
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\ / / Jose Nelson Amaral - amaral@cs.ualberta.ca
) / ( Associate Professor
/ / \ Dept. of Computing Science - University of Alberta
( / ) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E8
\ O / Phone: (780)492-5411 Fax: (780)492-1071
\ / http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~amaral
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