CSC1023 Midterm Preparations

The midterm is approaching. We will have a Skype group video session on Tuesday, 28 February 2012 at 8 pm to ensure that everybody is ready to take the midterm. Please participate.

Please also catch up on the quizzes and the assignments. By now we should have set up a blog and 2 webpages (one on sites.google.com, one on arcib.dowling.edu). If you are having trouble with this, the Skype group video session is a good time to get back on track.

Please go to the assignments page:

http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1023S12/CSC1023_Assignments.html

and look at the details on the past assignments and on the new assignment 5.

I look forward to seeing you all on Skype Tuesday night at 8 pm.

Assignment 3 is posted

The third assignment has been posted along with Quiz 3.  See

http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1023S12/CSC1023_Assignments.html

Be careful to refresh your brower so you get the latest version.  A preliminary version of assignment 4 will be posted later during the week.

Correction to Assignment 2

There was a typo in Assignment 2, which allowed until 15 February for you to email me the URL of your Music Ethics essay. Therefore the emailing of the URL of the Music Ethics essay will be accepted up until 15 February 2012, and credit will be given at that time for the one question of Quiz 2 that depends on that URL. Nothing else in Assignment 2 is postponed. In particular, all the other questions on Quiz 2 are due today, 10 February, as announced, and all of Assignment 3 is due, as announced, on 17 February 2012.

Using Putty to Reach arcib.dowling.edu

You may find the following link helpful in using Putty to reach arcib.dowling.edu from a MS Windows computer

http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1023S12/Getting_Putty.html

If you are working from a Mac, you just need to run the Terminal application and type

ssh arcib.dowling.edu -l username

where "username" is your arcib username.

Change in the second Assignment

The second assignment has been reposted on 5 February 2012 and is due on 10 February 2012.  The details of this assignment are available at http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1023S12/CSC1023_Assignments.html.  The changes are a correction to the link to the RIT lectures as well as having to submit http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/.dowling/CSC1023S12/CSC1023_Quiz_2.html by Friday 10 February.

CSC1023 Quiz 1

I have only received and graded 4 Quiz 1's from this class. Quiz 2 is due next Friday. Those of you who did not do Quiz 1 on time will not receive credit for it, but if you fail to do it at all, you will be incomplete for the course. It is easier to do it now than it will be to do it at the end of the semester. Please be sure to have done Quiz 1 and Quiz 2 by this coming Friday.

Those of you who did Quiz 1, but skipped some questions or got a question wrong -- same requirement -- even though you will not get more points for filling in or correcting your answers to those questions, you still have to send me the correct answers to complete the course.

You can reach me to discuss how to make progress in this course by email (yaya@dowling.edu), Skype IM (yayahjb) or by coming to talk to me via Skype or face-to-face during office hours.

I will be available for either a Skype session or for in person office hours this Monday in B205 from 12:30 to 4. I will be out of town Tuesday through Thursday, so to get on track for the work for this course, it could be a good idea to contact me no later than this Monday afternoon.