Assignment 7

Assignment 7, which will take you past the Spring break
with Quizzes 7, 8 and 9 has been posted.  The focus of
this assignment is doing your project.  See

http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC2281S12/CSC2281_Assignments.html

for details.  Be sure to refresh your browser.

Assignments 5 and 6

Assignment 5 was posted on 24 February and Assignment 6 was posted on 9 March.  The midterm was given in between.  Students who had difficulty with the midterm should contact the instructor promptly.  It is important to get the tools involved under control to move forward with projects.  See the course assignment page at:

http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC2281S12/CSC2281_Assignments.html

CSC2281 Midterm

There will be an online midterm from 8 pm to 10 pm on Monday, 5 March 2012.  To take this midterm you must be online with Skype at 8 pm, have a webcam and have your student ID.  You will be given the URL for the midterm via Skype IM.

Assignment 4

It is time to work on assignment 4, even if you are not done with the first 3 assignments and their quizzes. Your objective for this week is to become proficient in working with the Ford-Fulkerson Max Flow Min Cut algorithm. You will find links on the assignments page for java software that implements the algorithm. Don't just run it -- understand it. Do Quiz 4 and then go back and redo the other quizzes. Help one another. Read the notes again. When you are done, you should have a gut understanding of Dijkstra's algorithm and Ford-Fulkerson. We are coming up on the midterm soon, and you will need to be able to do this to get through it.

Contact me if you get stuck, but one way or another this is the time to get this right.

Please note that starting immediately, Monday office hours in B205 are being replaced by Friday office hours for the rest of the semester. Please also note that I have Skype office hours at 8 pm on Tuesdays.

Correction to Quiz 2

There were some numbering errors in problems that referred to other problems in Quiz 2. The Quiz has been corrected and reposted. You all have until Friday, 17 February to redo Quiz 2 in parallel with Quiz 3, which is due at the same time. My apologies for the error. My thanks to Mr. Malejana for spotting the problem. -- HJB

Changes in the second Assignment

The second assignment has been posted, but it has changed.

Most people had serious difficulty with the first quiz. One person did not submit it at all. Everybody must understand that doing all the quiz questions is an essential part of completing the course, and the first few quizzes in particular relate to material you need to be able to do anything at all in this course. Therefore, I have added a great deal of additional instructional material to the second assignment. Be sure to refresh your browser when looking at the assignments page.

After you complete the readings and videos, you all must retake Quiz 1 and also take Quiz 2 by Friday 10 February.

You should look at your quiz results and the second assignment promptly and then contact me via Skype IM or email if anything is not clear.

I will be available for office hours this week in B205 from 12:30 to 4. You can find me their either via Skype or in person. I will be out of town Tuesday through Thursday, so it would not be a god idea to delay working on this.

The third assignment has also been posted, but it may change depending on results from the quizzes.

Updated PDF of Network Design lecture notes PDF

Some students have reported garbled characters in the current version of the Network Design lecture notes PDF.  I have posted a slightly updated draft at:

http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC2281S12/Network_Design_and_Implementation_Spring_1984_Jan12.pdf

Comments, corrections and suggestions greatly appreciated.  I will not take down the original notes yet so they are still on the links for the notes from all the web pages.