teaching machines

CS 396: Meeting 9 – Cray

Dear students, Today we welcome Dan Ernst from Cray to our class. He’s going to lead us in a discussion about where our industry is headed in terms of hardware. You probably think Dan is a complete stranger, a separate human being whose life has run completely independently of yours. Like two processes on two […]

CS 1: Lecture 25 – Arrays as Bundles

Dear students, Last time we used arrays as a means to map integers to values. We associated our data with 0, 1, 2, 3, and so on. When we got a new piece of data in, we use its index to reach inside our array directly. Today we shine the spotlight on arrays as a […]

CS 1: Lecture 24 – Data in Series

Dear students, We officially close out our discussion of the Computer as a Pilot, during which we made the computer navigate this way and that way and back again through our code using conditional statements and loops. But, like always, these ideas of branching and repetition will never leave us. Computers make a lot of […]

CS 148: Lab 9 – Spinner

Welcome to lab 9! 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. Your task is […]

CS 145: Lab 8 – Spinner

Welcome to lab 8! 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. Your task is […]

CS 148: Lab 8 – Loops

Welcome to lab 8! 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. In this lab, we’ll explore loops, which let […]

CS 1: Lecture 23 – Loops, Part 5

Dear students, Write a program to produce an animated GIF of a bouncing ball. Write a program to automatically intersect two words. Like this: a u t pumpkin m n Write a program to play Linesweeper, which is like Minesweeper, but in one dimension. Write a program to find all alliterative sequences in a text […]

CS 396: Meeting 8 – General Mills

Dear students, Today we welcome Ashley Nelson from General Mills. She’s going to share with us about her task of keeping up a large-scale infrastructure. I had the honor of having her as a student in ComS 227. The class met in Carver Hall, and the room had tables—tall ones. She set in the middle […]

CS 1: Lecture 22 – Loops, Part 4

Dear students, This weekend six computer science majors from the department competed at the 2017 ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest. We competed at Macalester College in St. Paul. One of our teams solved four problems, which was good enough to place 20th in the entire North Central region, which includes Wisconsin, Minnesota, parts of Canada, the […]

CS 145: Lab 7 – Loops

Welcome to lab 7! 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. In this lab, we’ll explore loops, which let […]

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