I will be holding office hours tomorrow (Friday) morning from 9am until noon: they will be my last office hours of 2010. If you have any questions or concerns about your grade, the course, &c.—or simply want to chat—please stop by.
I can only hope that this course has left you well prepared for your future endeavors. I wish you the best of luck and a happy holiday season. Take care! — Dave
Have your project installed and ready to run on your laptop (or a classmate's). The connection to the projector is a standard VGA connector (DB15). I will bring a (fullsize) DVI-to-VGA and a Mini DisplayPort-to-VGA adapter. If your laptop doesn't support any of those connectors, you'll need to bring your own adapter.
Due Mon 12/6: mandatory Postmortem and final deliverables.
For what it's worth, I loathe double-spaced papers—quad-spaced is the only way to do it. But seriously: I like single-spaced, 12pt. font.
Due next class after presenting presentation postmortem.
From your team project's member's page, link to a site (also in the CISE project space) that will contain an overview, schedule (updated as tasks are completed), and frequently updated source code snap shots for your project.
HW 10 [Conway's Game of Life] due next class (Friday).
HW 08 [Mandelbrot & Julia Sets] due next class (Monday).
Microsoft's annual College Puzzle Challenge will be held on Saturday, November 6th. Team registration is open. It's a fun event, hosted by Gator grads!
HW 07 [MRCM/IFS] due next class (Wednesday).
The project space is not an account—you can't log in to it. Rather it is a directory that belongs to a unix "group." Each of member of your team now belongs to a group whose name is the same as the directory owned by the group.
Because the class directories aren't actually mounted by the CISE file system until they are referenced, it can be tricky to access them. The simplest workaround I know is to login to your CISE account and create a symbolic link to your group's directory
ln -s /cise/class/proj3027fa10X ~/proj3027
then, it will appear that there is a directory named proj3027 in your home directory, but that directory is really your shared group directory.
You may find this CISE help page on Secure Remote Access helpful should you wish to access the CISE file system from home. Machines you can connect to are storm.cise.ufl.edu and thunder.cise.ufl.edu. Alas, there isn't a good CISE help page on working with unix groups. Here's one from another school, but be warned some things it says may not work here: Using Groups Within Unix
Create a website for your group. It should have a professional look and be built using only HTML (and optionally CSS) [that means: no flash, no Javascript]. The website will have at least these sections:
The website shall be hosted in your class project space in the public_html directory.
HW 04c [BONUS: random walk plants, take IV] due next class (Monday).
HW 05 [L-Systems] due class after next (Wednesday).
Algorithmic Botany has a lot of interesting goodies, including the full text of The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants as a PDF.
HW 04b [random walk plants, take III] due next class (Friday).
FYI: I curently can read, but not reply to email. I've spoken to the sysadmins and hope to have the situation fixed sometime tomorrow.
HW 04a [random walk plants, take II] due next class (Friday).
HW 04 [random walk plants, take I] due next class (Monday). It turns out the roles of alpha and beta are reversed. Here's a corrected set of lecture 11 notes and an updated random walk plant algorithm handout.
HW 03 [diffusion limited aggregation] due next class (Friday). Hint: BufferedImage has a method getRGB( x, y ).
HW 02 [gradient] due next class (Friday).
Teams will be formed in class today. Your first team assignment is preparing presentation topic proposals (due Friday). Start thinking of ideas so you can get the discussion going quickly.
This Friday (9/3) Ryan will be holding his office hours 1st period (instead of the normal 6th period).
As mentioned last week, Ryan has volunteered to serve as a peer tutor for the course; he'll be holding office hours in E309 MWF 6th period.
HW 01 [drunken walk] due next class (Wednesday).
I will be collecting the biosketch and HW00 separately. Please do not combine them.
Welcome to Introduction to Digital Arts & Sciences! Be sure to check this page at least once a day so you don't miss any important announcements.
The mandatory biosketch assignment is due at the start of lecture on Friday 8/27. If you've written one previously, you can simply resubmit it with an updated “why you are taking this course” section, or even better, take the opportunity to tell me something new about yourself. (Should you be interested in such things, Dave: fact or fiction? is available for your reading pleasure.)