teaching machines

CS 491 Lecture 18 – Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech

Agenda what ?s an app for counting things Exercise Bird watchers sit for hours in the woods and count how many times they see each species of bird. Children on long car trips count how many blue cars they see, and how many red, and how many black. Masters of verbal communication count how many […]

CS 245 Lecture 18 – Dummy Nodes and Iterators

Agenda what ?s the importance of linked list the tradeoff: simplicity vs. performance switching linked list to use dummy nodes program this: prepend supporting fast iteration exams back Program This Code LinkedList.java Main.java JavaLinkedListFun.java Haiku

CS 245 Lecture 17 – LinkedList and Iterator

Agenda what ?s how’s it going? classify this genericizing linked list faster iteration TODO Read section 2.5 of Data Structures. 1/4 sheet. Code … Haiku

Secure Grading

Few of my students are nefarious. But sometimes they do evil by accident. For this reason, I never run their code using my regular account. You know, the one that has access to my gradebooks, coding projects, email, network shares, and personal music collection. However, testing under a separate grader account is annoying: I have […]

CS 491 Lecture 15 – Working with the Camera

Agenda what ?s TODO Read Android’s Taking Photos Simply. Skim Apple’s camera programming documentation. 1/4 sheet. Exercise Two things are true: Some of the best stories are told as a three-panel comic strip. We need to learn how to use the camera on a mobile device. Let’s exploit this plurality of truth by writing an app […]

CS 245 Lecture 15 – Linked String

Agenda what ?s define this the need for a node class pitting linked structures against arrays Define This Code LinkedString.java Haiku

Closure Self-Reference in Madeup

Madeup is a language for expressing the construction of 3-D objects. It borrows heavily from Logo, with extra instructions for generating triangular meshes fitted around the stops the turtle makes. I’m very interested in making a RERL (the unpronounceable read-eval-render-loop) for Madeup that runs on mobile devices. Typing on mobile devices is not fun, so […]

CS 245 Lecture 14 – Linked Snake

Agenda what ?s exam on 10/24 no lab on 10/30 array debate snake TODO Read section 2.5 of Data Structures. 1/4 sheet. Array Debate What is good about arrays? vs. What is bad about arrays? Code SnakePanel.java Snake.java Haiku

CS 245 Preassignment 2 – due before October 31

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CS 245 Lab 7 – Exam Preemption

First, if you have checkpoints left over from last lab, get them inspected during the first 15 minutes of this lab. Don’t forget to work in pairs! Where possible, please work with someone that you did not work with last week. The exchange of new ideas and perspectives is not an opportunity you want to […]

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