CMSC 341 Data Structures — All Sections — Fall 2017

News Archive

• [Sat Dec 09 17:45 2017]
  Preliminary scores for Project 4 from scripted grading is available in your 00Gradesheets directory.

• [Wed Dec 06 16:30 2017]
  Homework 4 grades posted.

• [Sat Nov 18 18:45 2017]
  Project 5 posted.

• [Thu Nov 16 09:30 2017]
  Homework 3 grades posted.

• [Thu Nov 16 08:30 2017]
  Homework 6 posted.

• [Thu Nov 02 08:10 2017]
  Complete write up of Project 4 posted. The draft version has been removed.

• [Wed Nov 01 14:15 2017]
  Updated Project 4 Draft. Still need test programs and submission instructions, but the requirements are in place.

• [Wed Nov 01 11:20 2017]
  Project 4 Draft is available, if you want to see the main idea. Details soon.

• [Wed Nov 01 11:15 2017]
  Homework 5 posted.

• [Mon Oct 30 09:05 2017]
  

  The due date for Project 3 has been pushed back by a week. The new due date for Project 3 is 8:59:59pm Nov 7. With Nov 8, 9 and 10 being 1, 2 and 3 days late respectively.

  Project 4 will be pushed back to be due after Thanksgiving. Project 5 will be due Dec 12, which is the last day of classes. The due date of Project 5 is not ideal since the late days now overlap the final exams, but you can always submit early.

  As a reward for those students who have been working diligently, if you submit Project 3 by the original due date (Tuesday 10/31, 8:59:59pm), you will receive a 10% bonus on Project 3. This bonus can push your grade over 100% and make up for deductions in other projects.

  If you are done with Project 3 and have it fully tested, then go ahead and submit tomorrow as usual. Your files will be moved over to a new "proj3-bonus" directory. (If you change your mind and submit again, we will as usual pick up the later submission for grading.) If you have not fully tested your code, then I suggest that you take the extra time to make sure that your code is fully debugged, does not seg fault and has no memory leaks.

  Finally, there are no more "extra weeks" in the semester, so there cannot be any extensions for Projects 4 and 5.

• [Thu Oct 19 22:30 2017]
  Fixed some typos in Homework 4.

• [Wed Oct 18 20:45 2017]
  Homework 4 posted.

• [Wed Oct 18 11:35 2017]
  Posted Project 3 test programs and submission instructions. Added recommended incremental development schedule to Implementation Notes.

• [Mon Oct 16 16:55 2017]
  Project 3 posted. The write up needs some spiffying up, but this gives you an idea.

• [Sun Oct 08 12:45 2017]
  Updated Project 2 g++ command.

• [Wed Oct 04 11:45 2017]
  For Project 2, changed instructions for compiling and running the project to include logging into the "fedora" machines.

• [Fri Sep 29 10:25 2017]
  Gradesheets for Project 0 are in your 00Gradesheets directory and your grade report on Google Sheets have been updated.

• [Thu Sep 28 10:25 2017]
  Preliminary gradesheets for Homework 2 are in your 00Gradesheets directory.

• [Thu Sep 28 08:40 2017]
  The answers to Homework 1 are: a, d, d, a, d, d, c, c, b, b, b, d, c, b, d. You can go to Homework 1, click on "View your score" to see your responses and see which ones you got right.

• [Thu Sep 28 08:30 2017]
  Project 2 updated with new version of p2comptest.cpp.

• [Thu Sep 28 08:30 2017]
  Homework 3 instructions updated to say that you should find good upper and lower bounds.

• [Wed Sep 27 08:30 2017]
  Homework 3 posted.

• [Tue Sep 26 15:15 2017]
  Added link to Google sign-in form for TA office hours to Staff page.

• [Tue Sep 26 10:05 2017]
  Project 2 completed with sections on "Testing", "How to Submit" and "A Note on Timing".

• [Mon Sep 25 13:05 2017]
  Project 2 posted. The test program and submission instructions will be posted soon.

• [Wed Sep 13 23:03 2017]
  Project 1 assignment operators clarified.

• [Wed Sep 13 23:03 2017]
  In Project 1 there is a change in the specification of CBofCB::isFull(), because the oldest InnerCB does not have to be full when you can't add another item to the data structure.

• [Wed Sep 13 23:03 2017]
  Question #3 of Homework 2 was re-written for clarification.

• [Wed Sep 13 09:00 2017]
  Homework 2 posted.

• [Mon Sep 11 15:00 2017]
  Test program p1test11.cpp of Project 1 revised to include calls to CBofCB::isFull() and CBofCB::isEmpty().

• [Mon Sep 11 06:30 2017]
  Project 1 posted.

• [Thu Sep 07 15:22 2017]
  Updated link for a C++ Tutorial on the FAQ page.

• [Thu Sep 07 15:22 2017]
  TA office hours start next week. Please check the Staff page for hours. The hours may change from week to week. So do check the calendar beforehand.

• [Wed Sep 06 12:12 2017]
  Homework 1 is posted. This is a Google form restricted to UMBC accounts. You must be logged into your UMBC Google account to have access to the homework.

  You may edit your responses up until the due time of the homework, but answers will not be revealed until after the due time.

• [Tue Sep 05 07:30 2017]
  A Piazza site has been created for this course:

  https://piazza.com/class/j77how4ra446ww

  If you do not have an account on Piazza yet, you should create one. (It's free.) This where students can post questions about the programming projects.

  Two rules about Piazza:

  1. Do not post your code, not even snippets.
  2. No debugging by Piazza. Go to office hours if you need help debugging your code.
  Piazza is good for questions about the project (but read the project description thoroughly first). Since students tend to have the same questions, this saves us all the trouble of writing email if the same question has been posted and/or answered already.

• [Wed Aug 30 08:00 2017]
  Project 0 has been posted.

• [Mon Aug 28 14:00 2017]
  Please check the Projects page for due dates for all of the projects this semester and plan your calendar accordingly!

• [Mon Aug 28 14:00 2017]
  Web page is up.