CS 396: Meeting 5 – Graduate School
Dear students, Today, Hannah Miller of the University of Minnesota will share with us about a different sort of future: graduate school, which may lead to academia, a research scientist position, or who knows what. Hannah and I collaborated on a research project several years ago. Our mission was to build a social network for […]
CS 1: Midterm 1
See the PDF.
CS 1: Homework 3 – Trutilities – due before October 20
See the PDF. You’ll need to Team / Pull… from the template repository to get the SpecChecker.
CS 1: Lecture 14 – Logical Operators
Dear students, Our computer can now ponder our data. It can examine order and equality, two operations at the root of all decision making. Before we sign up for something, we ask ourselves if the benefit exceeds the cost. We compare two brands of pasta on price and weight. We scan the details of our […]
CS 148: Lab 5 – More Methods
Welcome to lab 5! If you have checkpoints from the last lab to show your instructor or TA, do so immediately. No credit will be given if you have not already completed the work, nor will credit be given after the first 10 minutes of this lab. Checkpoint 1 Person A types. You’ve seen Practice-It!, […]
CS 1: Lecture 13 – Casting and Relational Operators
Dear students, Today we close out our focused discussion on methods. They will never go away; we will continue to write them all throughout the semester. But I want to tie up a few loose ends having to do with types. We will begin with a little science experiment to illustrate the need (or lack […]
CS 396: Meeting 4 – Interviewing
Dear students, With the Career Breakfast and Fair behind us, we enter this nebulous period of waiting for a callback. If we get one, we’ll be in the position of talking at length about ourselves and the company we are courting. This kind of conversation is unfamiliar and universally awkward. We call it the interview. […]
CS 1: Lecture 12 – Testing and Graphics
Dear students, Is there anything like charAt for integers? For instance, given a number and an “index” representing the place, can we get back the digit at that place? Not exactly, but there’s nothing stopping us from writing our own method to accomplish this task! But before we do that, let me share with you […]
CS 145: Lab 4 – More Methods
Welcome to lab 4! If you have checkpoints from the last lab to show your instructor or TA, do so immediately. No credit will be given if you have not already completed the work, nor will credit be given after the first 10 minutes of this lab. Checkpoint 1 Person A types. You’ve seen Practice-It!, […]
CS 1: Lecture 11 – Method Mechanics
Dear students, Sometimes Java is criticized for being verbose. But one of the great advantages of verbosity in a language is that a text reinforces itself. We may read a passage and not know every word, but there are often many clues lying in the context to help us determine their meaning. Java has these […]