(Watch this space for any schedule changes, clarifications, and other important class-related news)
| (Friday, June 9, 2006) | Due to network problems preventing some folks from submitting their work, the due time on today's assignment has been changed to 4PM. |
| (Monday, June 5, 2006) | Here are some practice questions for the final, and solutions when you're ready to look at them. |
| (Wednesday, May 31, 2006) | There will be no discussion group meetings this week. Xiaofang will be available for extra office hours Thursday morning. |
| (Monday, May 15, 2006) | When you log in to e-turnin, there is now a link to model solutions for the midterm. |
| (Tuesday, May 9, 2006) | A link to solutions for assignment 4 is now on the assignments page. |
| (Wednesday, May 3, 2006) | The midterm is next Wednesday, May 10. The midterm will cover everything up through week 5. Look here for some sample questions. Monday we can do some review for the midterm, but we will also start on Scheme. |
| (Friday, April 28, 2006) | The departmental programming contest is coming up soon (after the midterm). It is a good opportunity to have fun and test your problem solving and programming skills. Look for details on the flyers posted in Deschutes or here. |
| (Tuesday, April 18, 2006) | The Career Mentorship Colloquium on Wednesday, April 19 will have representatives from Symantec to describe job roles and responsibilities and how to prepare for future careers in computer and information technolgy. Note that Symantic's Eugene-Springfield location recently doubled in size and has over 2000 employees. The talks will be at 3:30 PM in Deschutes 220 with refreshments following. |
| (Tuesday, April 18, 2006) | In problem 6 of assignment 2, there may be some misunderstanding about
input. The Lexer class you write should read from standard input. That is,
it should not get its input from a file. The C example in the Louden text uses
getchar(). A comparable effect in Java would be to use System.in.read(), but
you can use any I/O classes and methods that work for you.
Also, if you need to use epsilon in a grammar rule in the problems, in the fixed width font you can write it as "empty". |
| (Monday, April 10, 2006) | On this Wednesday, April 12, at 3:30 in Deschutes 220, there will be a Career Mentorship Colloquium featuring mock interviews followed by individual resume critiques by local and regional industry representatives from companies such as Microsoft, Symantec, Pipeworks, Rosen, and Cisco. Bring your resume for personal feedback from company reps. likely take considerably more effort than the first assignment, so you would be best to get an early start on it. |
| (Wednesday, April 5, 2006) | The second assignment is now available on the assignments page. It will likely take considerably more effort than the first assignment, so you would be best to get an early start on it. |
| (Monday, April 3, 2006) | Welcome to CIS 425, Principles of Programming Languages! |