Spring 2016 UMBC CMSC202 Computer Science II Section 01

News Archive

• [Thu May 12 11:15 2016]
  The final exam will take place Tuesday, May 17, 10:30am - 12:30pm in PHYS 101. (The time & place have been on the syllabus since the first day of classes.)

  Here's the final exam from Fall 2015.

• [Tue Apr 26 09:45 2016]
  Project 5 was released yesterday.

• [Tue Apr 19 17:00 2016]
  Project 4 deadline has been extended by 24 hours. Please read the addendum on dynamic casting.

• [Tue Apr 19 11:55 2016]
  Project 2 grades have been posted on Blackboard. Your gradesheets are in the shared submission directory under 00Gradesheets like before. The main programs used for grading are available on GL in this directory:

  /afs/umbc.edu/users/c/h/chang/pub/cs202stuff/proj2grading/

  You can compile your code with these files to see what happened.

• [Mon Apr 11 21:00 2016]
  Project 4 has been released.

• [Tue Apr 05 20:05 2016]
  Topics and textbook chapters for Exam 2:
  • Objects & classes (Sections 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2)
  • Operator overloading (Sections 8.1, 8.2, 8.3)
  • Dynamic memory allocation (Sections 10.1, 10.2, 10.3)
  • Linked lists (Sections 17.1, 17.2)

• [Tue Apr 05 19:55 2016]
  Midterm Exam 2 from last semester.

• [Tue Mar 29 15:20 2016]
  Prof. Chang will not hold office hours on Wednesday March 30.

• [Tue Mar 22 15:20 2016]
  Project 3 was released last night.

• [Mon Feb 29 09:10 2016]
  Project 2 has been posted. It is due on Thursday March 10 at 9:00pm. We will discuss Project 2 in class tomorrow.

• [Mon Feb 22 13:20 2016]
  For Midterm Exam 1, look over the self-study exercises in these sections of the textbook
  • 2.3 Loops
  • 3.2 Programmer Defined Functions
  • 4.1 Parameters
  • 5.1 Introduction to Arrays
  • 5.2 Arrays in Functions
  • 10.1 Pointers
  • 10.2 Dynamic Arrays

  These section numbers are the same for the 5th and 6th editions of Absolute C++.

  For Section 10.2, don't worry about the dynamic memory allocation parts (new and delete). It is the using-pointers-as-arrays aspect that you should review.

• [Mon Feb 22 09:15 2016]
  An additional test program proj1test.cpp has been posted. Put this file in the same directory as sched.cpp and compile just proj1test.cpp. On GL, just type: g++ proj1test.cpp When you run the program, the output should look like this: proj1test-outupt.txt.

  We are releasing this test program because we have noticed that the you are not testing your code even though we have said that you need to test you code. Here's what it means to test your code:

  • Use new data with different sizes.
  • Check that your sort function actually sorts. You should have printed out the events in end time order after sorting and check it either visually or with a short piece of code, preferrably both.
  • After scheduling, check that the output is correct. In this case, the data was arranged so that "Event A", ..., "Event G" are the scheduled events.

  This is code you should have written yourself to test your program. We expect you to do this for all the projects.

  You should NOT just run this program and say "Great, I'm done!" You should make new data to go into proj1test.cpp to further test your code. If all you do is run proj1test.cpp unmodified, you have once again failed to understand that it is your responsibility to test your own code.

  We will not do this again for future projects in this class.

• [Thu Feb 18 09:05 2016]
  Last semester's Midterm Exam #1.

• [Wed Feb 17 16:15 2016]
  TA Office Hours updated.

• [Sun Feb 14 13:10 2016]
  Prof. Chang's office hours on Monday, February 15 has been moved to 2:30pm - 4:00pm (instead of 1:30pm - 3:00pm). This is a one-time change.

• [Mon Feb 08 18:05 2016]
  Project 1 posted.

• [Sat Feb 06 12:20 2016]
  TA Office Hours posted.

• [Thu Feb 04 15:25 2016]
  The biography of Bill Gates from the Computer History Museum describes how he got started by writing "a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair."

• [Tue Feb 02 15:00 2016]
  Fixed symbolic link for http://umbc.edu/~chang/cs202/. That short cut should take you to the right place now.

• [Tue Feb 02 11:45 2016]
  Here's the class policy form in PDF that you have to sign and turn in, if you did not get a copy in class.

• [Tue Feb 02 09:10 2016]
  Slides and programs are linked off the syllabus (see for example Lecture 2 and Lecture 3).

• [Tue Feb 02 09:10 2016]
  Blackboard for this class is now available. We will use Blackboard for grades only. Announcements will be made on this website.

• [Wed Jan 27 23:30 2016]
  The discussion sections will NOT meet during the first week of the semester (Monday 1/25 - Friday 1/29).

• [Wed Jan 27 23:30 2016]
  Web page up.