News for UCLA Computer Science 111, Winter 2012

2012-03-17

• The syllabus now has pointers to all scribe notes submitted.

2012-03-01

• Here are some topics for your two- to three-page report. Each topic is illustrated by a single article or web page, but please don't limit your reading to just this web page: you should be coming up with a summary of the topic, not the article. For example, some of these articles refer to recently published scholarly papers, and you should read the original papers, not just the article. Some of the topics are fairly large; the intent is that you focus on the operating system aspects of each topic, and not other technical components, management, economics, or politics. Please submit a two- to three-page report in PDF form for the topic you chose.
  • Scaling up
  • A world of PaaS-ibilities
  • Microsoft's Azure service toppled by garden-variety leap-year bug
  • MIT takes aim at secure, self-healing cloud
  • Mozilla to go after Android, Apple with cheap phone OS
  • Apple loophole gives developers access to photos
  • Report: Open source tops proprietary code in quality
  • Standards leader blasts HTML5 video copy protection
  • Small coding mistake led to big Internet voting system failure
  • Software helps improve software
• Deadlines for design problems have been clarified in the syllabus.

2012-02-16

• The due date for the 2- to 3-page report has been corrected, from December 3 (!) to March 16.

2012-02-12

• The instructions for scribe notes have been changed to require UTF-8 encoding. If you submitted scribe notes before today at 20:00, don't worry; they've been converted for you. For an example of a web page specifying UTF-8 encoding, see the source code to the web page that you're looking at right now, and how it encodes the strings "±" (encoded in ASCII as an HTML character entity reference) and "±" (encoded in UTF-8).
• Scribe notes submitted through today at 20:00 have been posted.

2012-02-10

• Scribe notes submitted through today at 22:30 have been posted.

2012-01-18

• PTEs have been given to all graduate students who attended all three of the first three lectures. This exhausts our currently available enrollment slots, unfortunately. More PTEs will be available if and when students drop the course.
• The syllabus has scribe notes for the first lecture. One of the sets of scribe notes has HTML validation errors; please try to avoid this when you submit scribe notes.

2012-01-12

• If you are not enrolled in the class or on the waiting list, and are in the School of Engineering or are a UCLA student who is required to take this course for your major or minor, please fill out the Winter 2012 Enrollment Survey of the Office of Academic and Student Affairs (OASA), 6426 Boelter.
• Damian's office hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30–12:30.
• David's office hours are Tuesdays and Wednesdays 15:30–16:30.
• Hojat's office hours are Tuesdays 13:00–15:00.
• The location of the T.A. office hours has been corrected, to Boelter 2432.
• To change your shell to Bash (recommended), log in to ugrad.seas.ucla.edu and run the command "passwd -s".

2012-01-09

• A piazza has been created for the course. To join it, visit Piazza, click on "Find your existing classes on Piazza", search schools and type "UCLA", search classes and type "CS 111", and join as a student.

2012-01-06

• Check that your SEASnet account works right away, as there are occasionally delays before your account is activated.