The last problem set has been graded and returned in the usual box.
Stop by and pick up this and any other earlier problem sets, because--who
knows?--they may be useful to you in preparing for the final exam.
To see the various recursive graphics efforts from the last lab,
visit
this page. If you interrupt an applet while it's drawing,
you may need to restart Netscape to see another one. Best is to
let the applets finish (some take a long time).
4/16/97
Check out the COS 126
Prefix Codes assignment, which is a lot like what we did
in class today.
4/9/97
There are a lot of Web pages out there that implement
Conway's Game of Life (see Turing Omnibus, chapter 44).
This one has a simple interface that will let you easily
set up initial states and watch the development of
future generations. Take a look at its
Java source and compare it with what we did in class;
you'll see the two loops near the end of the file.
This implementation is fancier and has more interface options.
Finally, you can explore a large catalog of starting
patterns by going
here; be sure to check out the
8 colliding gliders that make a glider gun,
and also a
space-filling pattern.
4/1/97
Good news: the final exam will be given
on Friday, May 16, at 1:30 PM in C.S. room 104.
3/24/97
Want to explore the Mandelbrot set? Just click
here for a slow but accurate explorer.
This one is faster but it cheats. (Can you figure out how?)
3/9/97
Here's a practice midterm exam.
The open-book, non-practice midterm will be given in class on Wednesday.
Also, Problem Set 4 has been graded and returned
in the usual way.
3/3/97
The compression ideas we developed in class for the fax application
are examples of
run-length encoding.
World's first computer programmer? Check out
this page.
2/14/97
Grading is done for problem set 1. Graded papers, with solutions
attached, are in a bin next to the hand-in bin. Here's how to interpret
the grading: 10 points means perfect in every way; 9 means one small
flaw; 8 means a couple of problems, etc. Extra credit points will
be used to raise the final course grade, but their absence won't
be used to lower it.
2/10/97
Collaboration on problem sets is OK--the General Information page
has been updated to reflect this policy.
2/6/97
During the lab sections next week (Feb. 11, 12, 13) we will be taking
digital photographs of students for use on their hompages.
