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CS 330 Homework 0, Part 3

In part 2, you created your homework repository on Bitbucket, cloned it on your local machine, and pushed local changes back up to Bitbucket. In this installment, you will learn how to pull changes down from Bitbucket to your local mirror. Pulling Suppose your home on for the weekend, and you get the craving to […]

CS 330 Homework 0, Part 2

Follow these steps to create your class homework repository and get homework 0 up and running. 1. Create a Bitbucket account In this class, all your code will be stored with the Bitbucket webservice. Using this third-party service has some nice benefits: they maintain a complete history of your source code using some software called […]

CS 330 Homework 0, Part 1

In this course, you will be completing your homework using the Linux operating system. The Department of Computer Science does provide some Linux servers that you can use, but your instructor asks you to install your own Linux image for a few reasons: You will learn more about a technology whose impact on our field […]

CS 145 Final Exam

See the PDF. At the beginning of every semester of our introductory programming course, I ask my students to tell me about their prior programming experiences, if any. I like to cross-reference their self-reported experience levels with their final grades. The first several years I did this, I found that prior experience wasn’t necessarily a […]

CS 145 Midterm 2

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CS 352 Final

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CS 352 Midterm

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CS 145 Lecture 37 – Binary Search

Dear students, We close our semester today with a reading from Jeremy Kubica’s Computational Fairy Tales. It demonstrates an algorithm that I think is beautiful: the binary search. We will illustrate the algorithm and implement it to help code up a dictionary. I think this algorithm demonstrates a significant point. This ultra-fast algorithm wasn’t the […]

CS 352 Lecture 38 – Superion Technology

Dear students, Today we welcome Eau Claire’s very own Superion Technology to our class. They will be offering us a view of computer architecture in industry and through the lens of FPGAs. Here’s your TODO list to complete before next time: There is no next time. I will hand out final exams. Please complete these […]

CS 145 Lecture 36 – Lights Out

Dear students, Today we apply a little bit of everything we’ve learned in a case study of the game Lights Out. We’ll use primitives and objects, ifs and loops, arrays, files, exceptions, graphical user interfaces—the whole shebang! Here’s your TODO to complete before we meet again: Lab tomorrow will be crazy with review sessions, returned […]

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