Old News For Kurt's CS3 Section, Fall 2001

• I will be having Midterm Review Office Hours on Wednesday (10/31) from 5:30 to 8:00 in the International House Cafe. It is Halloween, so I might end up leaving a bit early.
• The Wednesday and Thursday sections will be an informal review session / office hours -- I plan to go over some of the practice problems handed out last week.
• The review sheet I handed out in section is available below.

• I will be having Midterm Review Office Hours on Monday (10/8) from 6:30 to 9:00 in the International House Cafe
• The Wednesday section (right before the exam) will be an informal review session / office hours -- I plan to go over some of the practice problems handed out last week.
• The Thursday section (after the mditerm) is cancelled. However, people in my Thursday section are invited to come to the Wednesday section (4-5 3105 Etch). It's about a3 minute walk to Pimentel.
• The review sheet I handed out in section is available below. I've made several changes to it (since I made several mistakes in the first version) which I have highlighted in bold.

• I will be have Midterm Review Office Hours on Monday (9/17) from 6:30 to 9:00 in the International House Cafe

• At the behest of students, both my Wednesday and Thursday sections are effectively cancelled this week. I will be there in both rooms, but I won't cover any new material. If anybody shows up, we'll use the hour to go over the answers to the midterm. Attendance is strictly optional, and you won't miss anything by not coming.

Over the last three days, I've received about 30 emails from people with questions about homework, labs, Dr. Scheme, etc., and I haven't yet had a chance to respond to any of them -- I'm only one person, and, right now, administrative issues are my priority. The newsgroup, however, consists of 300 other students (some of whom will have the same questions as you do, and some of whom will have the answers) and an experienced TA who is devoted to answering these questions as quickly as they come up. Obviously, if you want a timely answer to your question, the newsgroup is a much better bet than your already-overworked TA.

I think that there are three rules for newsgroup posting:

1. Your question is a good candidate for posting if you think that it may of general interest to the class. (E.g. a question about a bug in Dr. Scheme or a question about a homework problem is prime for posting.) However, you should think twice about posting personal information or things that are of no general interest (E.g. Bragging about your score on the midterm.) -- this tends to just irritate people.
2. Before you post a new question, read over the newsgorup to see if your question has already been asked (and answered) -- you may save yourself (and others) some time.
3. Most importantly, don't forget that the newsgroup is a community. If you think that you know the answer to someone's question, then do not hesitate to post it -- you'll help that person out, and, when it comes your turn to ask the question, other people will be much more likely to post their answers.