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CIS313, Winter 2007

We will see the movie Sorting Out Sorting on Wednesday, March 7. [03/02]
~~Thinking of Mar 7 or 9 for movie day.~~ [02/21]
Due to possible construction noise, the midterm on Monday, Feb. 19, will be held in room 123 McKenzie. The class lectures will contnue to be held in room 301 Condon. [02/14]
We aim to have the midterm review session on Thursday, February 15, 10:00-11:30 in room 260 Deschutes. (What is in doubt is the location.) [02/14]
Please consider participation in the annual CIS programming contest. [02/12]
The extra credit page is now up. It will be updated throughout the term. [02/07]
Although there is no coverage of AVL trees in the text, take a look at the class links page for AVL help. Also, the NIST dictionary of data structures can be fun. [02/05]
Watch out for the Harmonic series! [01/22]

Starting this Saturday (the 13th of January), Silas Snider will be holding workshops on a variety of programming languages. The first one will be on Python at 1:00 p.m. in Deschutes Room 100. The only knowledge required is a familiarity with a programming language (i.e. at the CIS 210 level). [01/12]

Next week on Wednesday (January 17) the ACM will host a Potluck at 6:00pm in the Deschutes Colloquium Room (Room 220). Bring a dish to share with others and socialize with other members of the department! This is an excellent opportunity to get to know some of your peers. [01/12]

Generic comments:

Make sure you fill out the access code form ( .doc or .pdf) and get it to the instructor. (These will also be passed out in class.) This is a code we will use when posting grades for the class.
Check out our pseudocode document. It's a short primer, written by a GTF, on how GTFs and graders are apt to interpret the pseudocode that you write. Obviously, as a student in this class, you want to keep the graders happy and, even more, unconfused.
Here is C code for slowsort.
Hit videos from last year:
- An AVL Tree movie.
- A Quicksort movie.