CGS 2531 - Fall 2009

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• 12/20: 11:30 p.m.: One last detail: Initially, we simply averaged 15 homework scores (14 homeworks, but homework 12 had two parts). This is what appears on Myitlab. The other way of doing it is to average the two scores for Homework 12, and average the result with the other 13 scores. It makes a difference in the final grade for about 50 of you (some for, some against). We did it both ways and used whichever Homework score was higher. This is not reflected on Myitlab, but *is* reflected on the final grades we've reported to the Registrar. In Spanglish: Meri Crismas !
  
  
• 12/18: 1:30 a.m.: Final course point totals have been posted on Myitlab. A 1.9% bonus was added to everyone's score. This consists of 0.4% (2 extra points on Exam 3), plus 1.5% overall. Myitlab reports this figure rounded to 1 decimal place, but we used the actual exact figure. No additional bumps beyond this bonus, regardless of how close the result is to the next letter grade threshold. Sorry, gotta cut somewhere. The letter grade thresholds appear on the Syllabus. The average point total is 83.63 on our Excel spreadsheet, a B course average. Not bad at all. Distribution of grades:
  
  A:    19.3%
  A-:   10.6%
  B+:   19.5%
  B:    20.3%
  B-:   9.9%
  C+:   6.0%
  C:    3.9%
  C-:   1.8%
  D+:   2.1%
  D:    1.4%
  D-:   0.5%
  E:    4.6%
  
  That adds up to 99.9, but that's Excel for ya, go figure.
  
  Happy Holidays, everyone.
  
  
• 12/17: 2:00 a.m.: IMPORTANT ! Due to a couple of glitches (what else ?), some Exam 3 grades were calculated incorrectly. Thanks to the students who reported the errors. We've removed the grades from Myitlab, and we'll post the corrected exam grades by noon Thursday. We'll have final grades up by Friday, three days before Registar's deadline. See why we must all start these things EARLY ?? :-)
  
  
• 12/16: 6:30 p.m.: IMPORTANT ! The access problem to Myitlab has been resolved.
  
• 12/16: 4:30 p.m.: IMPORTANT ! Unbeknowst to us, an expiration date of Dec. 15 for some of your MYitlab sections has gone into effect. We're working on restoring them, and they should be back online soon.
  
  
• 12/14: In spite of our best efforts to correct typos during Exam 3 in Carlton Auditorium (a typo on the corrections didn't help, either), news of the corrections did not reach the groups in CSE A101 in time: a good number of students had already left. Instead of dropping the four exam questions from the exam (leaving 46 questions), we'll mark as correct all four questions for everyone, and count all 50 questions. That should boost the exam average somewhat. Those questions are listed HERE.
  
  A single session for answering questions about Exam 3 will be held on Thursday, December 17, 2:00-5:00 p.m. in Room E309 CSE. (Almost) all TAs have committed to being there.
  
  Here is the key to Exam 3.
  
  
• 12/10: Contrary to rumors that appear to be circulating, there are NO PLANS for dropping students' lowest homework score in this course. All justified excuses for missed homeworks have been processed. Many other requests for makeup homeworks have been denied, all of them in accordance with published course policies. A small statistical adjustment (e.g. rounding up) might (emphasis, *might*) be made on the final point tally for each student, but that won't happen until after we have ALL the numbers in, i.e. after Exam 3.
  
  
• 12/07: IMPORTANT REMINDER! Exam 3 will be held on Monday, December 14, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. The exam will last 90 minutes. Here are the locations:
  
  -- Sections 1057, 5116 (instructor Yeralan): CSE A101 (# of students~207)
  -- ALL OTHER SECTIONS (1055, 1056, 1059, 1060, 6277) (instructors Chen, Accisano, Sivakumar, Robb, and Rivera): CAR 100 (Carlton Auditorium). (# of students~534)
  
  
• 12/06: Dr. Bermudez's office hours are cancelled for Monday, December 7.
• 12/02: Sample exam 3 are available at HERE and HERE (spreadsheet).
• 11/29: Click HERE for the solution to the exercises of Excel chapter 5 and 6.
• 11/16: Dr. Bermudez's office hours are cancelled for Wednesday and Friday, November 18 and 20.
• 11/16: Pearson Education would like to hear your feedback about MyITLab! Just click this link , and answer the questions. Also, Pearson Education is looking for candidates to speak about their experience with MyITLab. If interested, please include your email address in the survey.
• 11/13: Dr. Bermudez's office hours are cancelled for today.
• 11/09: Please take note that there are TWO homework assignments on Myitlab for this week: Powerpoint chapters 2 and 3.
• 11/05: Exam 2 grades are up. Please login to your myitlab account to check your grade. Your grade is located at the "Grades-->HOMEWORK" folder.
• 11/04: Answer key to exam 2 is available at HERE
• 10/31: Dr. Bermudez will be out of town the week of Nov. 2-6, so his office hours are cancelled. He will be answering email.
  
  
• 10/27: Sample exam 2 can be downloaded HERE . You also need this Excel file to finish the 2nd part of the sample exam.
• 10/27: IMPORTANT ! Exam 2 will be held on Tuesday, November 3, evening periods E2-E3 (beginning at 8:20 p.m.). The exam will last 90 minutes. Here are the locations:
  
  Sections 1055, 1056 (instructors Sivakumar, Robb): CSE A101 (CSE Auditorium). (# of students~240)
  Sections 1057, 5116 (instructor Yeralan): PUGH (Pugh Hall) 170. (# of students~210)
  Sections 1059, 1060 (instructors Chen, Accisano): FLI (Keene-Flint Hall) 150. (# of students~180)
  Section 6277 (instructor Rivera): BRY (Bryan Hall) 130. (# of students~150)
  
  
• 10/26, 8:45 p.m. : IMPORTANT ! Myitlab is misbehaving tonight, with very high response times, timing us out when we attempt to change tonight's due date. We will accept without penalty Homework 9 until tomorrow, Tuesday, October 27, at 11:59 p.m. Hopefully Myitlab will feel better in the morning.
  
  
• 10/16 : IMPORTANT ! More than 80 (EIGHTY !) students filled out the scantron incorrectly in Exam 1. All of these had to be graded and entered by hand, causing confusion and delays. Therefore, we're changing some of the procedures for Exam 2.
  
  1. We will no longer check student IDs during the exam. It will be done as you hand it in. At that time, proctors will do their best to check that your information on the scantron is correct, BUT ...
  
  2. There WILL be a 20% penalty on the exam, for any student who fails to enter ALL of the following items correctly on the scantron:
  
  a. Signature,
  b. UF ID number,
  c. Exam form code,
  d. Section number.
  e. Your name.
  
• 10/16 : IMPORTANT ! Registar has been unable to find enough large rooms for us for Exam 2 on the originally scheduled date. Therefore, The date for Exam 2 has been changed to Tuesday, November 3, at 8:20 p.m. The room asignments will be announced later. Please let us know, by October 23 at the latest, whether you have a conflict with another exam. Keep in mind that in case of a conflict, assembly exams (like ours) take precedence over all non-assembly exams, and in case of a conflict between two assembly exams, the higher numbered course has priority, so the lower numbered course must arrange a makeup.
  
  
• 10/08: Dr. Bermudez's office hours are cancelled for the week of Oct. 18-23, as he'll be out of town.
  
• 10/08: Dr. Bermudez's office hours for Monday, October 12, are cancelled.
  
• 10/08: If you have questions about your grade on Exam 1, please see your own instructor during office hours. Please notify your instructor that you're coming, so he can access your exam and scantron. All issues regarding Exam 1 MUST be resolved by Friday, October 16.
  
• 10/08: EXAM 1 grades are up. Please login to your myitlab account to check your grade. Your grade is located at the folder "Grades->HOMEWORK".
• 09/29 : IMPORTANT ! Beginning Monday, October 12, ALL TA office hours will be held in Room E309 CSE, not in Room E214.
  
• 10/06: Answer key to exam 1 is HERE.
• 10/02: Option (A) of question 10 of sample exam 1 is changed to "Print Layout".
• 09/29 : IMPORTANT ! Exam 1 is on Monday, October 5, at 8:20 p.m. as announced earlier. Please make sure you go to the correct room, as indicated in the earlier announcement. You must bring the following items to the exam:
  --- Pen
  --- #2 pencil
  --- Photo ID.
  --- PHIT Tips Word 2007 (optional).
  You will be required to sign your exam in INK. All exam papers MUST be returned at the end of the exam. Removing an exam from the room will be considered an act of academic dishonesty.
  
  
• 09/15 : Andrew Robb has changed his office hour Monday 8th to Wednesday 5th.
  
  
• 09/28 : IMPORTANT ! Chapter 5 of Exploring Office 2007 (Word) is not included in your textbook. Pearson has provided us with a PDF file containing the text of that chapter, HERE
  
  
• 09/22 : IMPORTANT ! New ammendments to the Syllabus (items 7 through 11) have been posted on the Syllabus page. Students are responsible for knowing them.
  
  
• 09/21 : Here is the SAMPLE EXAM 1 and its SOLUTION
  
  
• 09/17 : IMPORTANT ! Pearson has changed the their scheduled maintenance of the Myitlab site: it will now take place from Saturday, October 3, 11:45 PM EDT to Sunday, October 4, 11:59 AM EDT.
  
  
• 09/15 : IMPORTANT ! Pearson has announced that the Myitlab website will be undergoing maintenance, and will NOT BE AVAILABLE, from Saturday, September 19, 11:45 PM EDT to Sunday, September 20, 11:59 AM EDT. Students, please plan accordingly.
  
  
• 09/15 : Please see the list of ammendments/errata to the Syllabus, on the syllabus page.
  
  
• 09/15 : IMPORTANT ! Exam 3 is listed in the Syllabus as taking place on December 8. However, not enough rooms could be allocated for that date. The date for EXAM 3 has been changed to December 14, at 12:30 p.m. (exam period 14C). Most students will take this exam in their regularly scheduled classroom, as originally scheduled by the Registrar. Exceptions will be announced later. The exam will cover the material since Exam 2.
  
  
• 09/14 : Dr. Bermudez's office hours today are cancelled.
• 09/14 : IMPORTANT ! If the date and time of Exam 1 conflicts with an exam in another course you are taking, you MUST advise us no later than Monday, September 21, unless the course is listed below. Known conflicts include:
  
  ACG-2021 Intro to Financial Accounting: Students taking this course must contact their instructor in ACG-2021 to arrrange a makeup.
  
  
• 09/14 : IMPORTANT ! Exam 1 will be held on Monday, October 5, evening periods E2-E3 (beginning at 8:20 p.m.). The exam will last 90 minutes. Here are the locations:
  
  Sections 1057, 1059, 5116 (instructors Yeralan, Chen): WEIM (Weimer Hall) 1064.
  Sections 1060, 6277 (instructors Accisano, Rivera): NRN (Norman Hall) 137.
  Sections 1055, 1056 (instructors Robb, Sivakumar): MCCC (McCarty Hall C) 100.
  
  These locations can be found online on UF's campus map. Enter the building code (e.g. WEIM) in the search bar to locate the building on the map.
  
  It is CRUCIAL that you attend the exam at the correct location. If you do not, your answers will NOT match the scantron, and your exam grade will be a zero. You MUST know your section number, as you will fill it out on the scantron. If you enter the wrong section number, your answers will not match the scantron, and your exam grade will be a zero.
  
  
• 09/12 : If your Myitlab course suddenly "disappears" (or says "access denied"), it's because we have deleted it due to you're being enrolled in the wrong section in Myitlab. You will be unable to submit homeworks (and you will lose the credit for them) until you fix this. All students in this category have been emailed several times, but some have not yet replied. If you are in this category, you need to contact the head TA Jason at ychi@cise.ufl.edu as soon as possible.
• 09/09 : The myitlab section you enroll must be the same as the section you enrolled in registrar. If not, please contact the head TA Jason at ychi@cise.ufl.edu as soon as possible.
• 09/07 : IMPORTANT ! When doing your homework, Please DO NOT click on the "SAVE FOR LATER" button once you have answered all questions. The Myitlab system has a bug, and it will prevent you from returning to your assignment later. If you finish answering the questions, SUBMIT your homework (you can always submit it again, before the deadline). If you have not answered all questions, it's OK to Save for Later.
• 08/31 : Nuri Yeralan's office have changed. His new office hours are T 7, R 6-8th Periods.
• 08/30, 11:40 p.m.: Due to the limited availability of the textbook bundles at the UF Bookstore, we have postponed the deadline for HW1 until Wednesday, Sept 2, at 11:59 p.m.
• 08/27, 3:30 p.m.: The textbook bundles have arrived at the the UF Bookstore ! They should be on the shelves in the next hour. If you pre-ordered the bundle from the Bookstore, and already acquired the access code separately, the Bookstore will issue you a refund with a receipt.
• 08/27: The second edition of the textbook is perfectly acceptable. New and used copies are available on amazon.com for as little as $8.
• 08/26: If you find the textbook bundle sold in the UF bookstore too expensive, you can purchase 2nd edition used textbooks online for as low as $8. All you need before this weekend is the myitlab access code.
• 08/26: Errata for the Syllabus have been posted on this site, under SYLLABUS.
• 08/26: According to the Pearson representative, the UF Bookstore will have the course package (book, Myitlab access code, PHIT Tips) available tomorrow, Thursday.
• 08/26: Dr. Bermudez will not be able to hold his office hour today 9th period. He'll be there 10th period.
• 08/24: Dr. Bermudez will not be able to hold his office hours today 9th-10th periods.
• 08/24: Please visit this page at least once per day for time sensitive announcements.
• 08/24: http://www.registrar.ufl.edu/pdf/calendar0910.pdf