News for UCLA Computer Science 35L, Spring 2015

Here are news items that affect the core assignments and class material.

2015-05-25

2015-05-18

2015-05-11

Assignment 7 is available; it is similar to (but not the same as) the draft Assignment 8.

2015-04-15

Assignment 3 has been fixed as follows. First, you are allowed to use the locale module as well as the string module. Second, an additional constraint has been added: lines that appear only in the second input file should be output after all other output lines. Because of these last-minute additions we will award a 10% bonus for solving the complete new problem. If you correctly solve the original problem in the C locale (native byte comparison), without putting the only-second-input-file lines at the end, you will be limited to 100% credit without the bonus.

2015-04-14

A typo in Assignment 3 has been fixed: the submission instructions make it clear that one should check comm.py, not randline.py.

2015-04-13

2015-03-25

We'll be using the current Ubuntu desktop release. It'll be helpful (though not essential) to bring a USB drive to the first lab. Experts are welcome to use another recent Linux distribution.
Assignment 1 and Assignment 10 are available. Please see Assignments for other assignments. These other assignments are tentative and may change before the week they are due.
Check that your SEASnet account works right away, as there are occasionally delays before your account is activated.
Here are suggestions if you're interested in the course but are neither enrolled nor on the waiting list.
- Read Enrollment in Undergraduate Computer Science Classes and follow its advice.
- Any PTEs are not typically given out until the end of the second week, to make sure that enough resources are available. You can try coming to classes before then. Sign up on any attendance sheet that is being passed around.