Fall 2003/Spring 2004: CS333 - Problem Solving and Object Oriented Programming in C++
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• Class Roster has been update to January 23
• You need to contact me if you are still having trouble with your accounts
• To view the results of a graded quiz - go to "Profiles/Portfolio" from the main "Learning Space" page. The correct answers are also available there.
• Default password for UNIX and Learning Space is the first two letters of your last name following by your student ID.
• Learning space account to take the quizzes are set up for all registered students who have signed up for a UNIX account.
  NOTE: on some computers the following message appears

Just ignore this message by selecting the "No" button - you may have to do this several times but your quiz submission should be OK

• Slides for the orientation meeting are here. Also go through introductory material here
• Class Roster is current as of Thursday January 7
• Orientation meeting for Spring 2004 will be Sunday January 11 at high noon.
  I will be broadcasting from the main ODU campus GORNTO room 201.
  You may attend any convenient TELTECHNET site that is carrying the broadcast (call to confirm).
  Students from the previous semester with incompletes may also attend.

• Assignments 6 and 7 have been posted
• Assignment 5 is now posted
• Your personal progress page now includes percentage completion in the course and current grade.
  NOTE: your current grade is the grade you have earned to date. If you got an "A" on the first quiz and that is all you have done, your current grade for the quizzes would be a D-. That is because you still have 6 other quizzes to take. The same is true with the assignments, Full credit on the first three assignments gives you 33% complete (3 out of 9), which is a F if you don't complete any more assignments. Remember the grade goes up as you complete more work successfully.
• Assignments 3 and 4 have been posted - Also Quizzes on chapters 7 and 5
• At least one student found that a personal firewall was causing problems with learning space and had to be shut down when taking the quizzes - I will try to find out more about other less drastic remedies.
• Sometimes you will get the following error dialog accessing learning space
  
  
  Select the "No" button - You may receive several of these at one time - select "No" for all. It should not affect your ability to take the quizzes.
• Depending on which version of visual c++ you have, some of the features needed later in the course may not work. You can receive a free update from the following site http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q192539 
• You need two accounts to use this course - a UNIX account and a LOTUS account.
  Since new account are created using the same userID and password, many students are unaware that these is a difference.
  However students who have existing UNIX accounts may find that the password for the LOTUS account is different.
  Your userId for the course is the same as your UNIX mail name (see the Class Roster page).
  The default password is the first two letters of your last name followed by your student ID (probably your social security number).
• Assignment 2 has been posted
• Send e-mail to the systems group (root@cs.odu.edu ) if you are having trouble logging into your accounts.  PLEASE TAKE THE WELCOME QUIZ - it will help assess if there are problems with your account.
• Several students discovered and reported broken links which hopefully have been fixed (at least most of them).
  Please report any new failures to cs333@cs.odu.edu. 
• All Prerequisite and first regular assignments are posted
• Slides for Orientation Meeting
• Orientation session Friday Aug 22 6:30-7:15PM - Broadcast from the Penisula Graduate Center
  You may attend at any convenient TELETECHNET site (if it is not the one at which you registered, check with the site to verify reception).

Copyright chris wild 1998-2004.
For problems or questions regarding this web contact [cs333@cs.odu.edu].
Last updated: March 08, 2004.