Class 49: More Design Discussions

Held Monday, May 3

Summary

• Design issue: what does listByField return?
• Who "owns" the program we create?

Contents

Notes

• As we decided in class, the 3rd exam is now due on Thursday of 14th week.
  • Attendance is required on the last day of class.
  • I will distribute the final on Friday, May 14.
• Each project component should be mostly working on its own (and certainly compilable) by this coming Tuesday.
  • Everything should be working by the following Monday.
• We will use lunchtime on Monday, May 10, for the demonstration of our project. I'll spring for pizza.
  • Get your preferences to Jon Flaherty, flahertj@ac.grin.edu
• We start on our study of graphs this week. Those who've been in MAT218 may have a slight advantage, but it's clear that we think about them slightly differently in this course.
• Tomorrow, we'll try a different teaching/learning style (one that students liked last year): you folks will alternate the role of leader, and I'll sit in the class and make supportive comments and try to guide discussion.
• Clif has suggested that we start to work with a ``professional'' code file management system so that we can easily share files. This system is called CVS, and Clif has prepared a basic set of instructions. Please try this. (Perhaps on Tuesday evening.)

An apparantly short question about the project led to a class-long discussion of the project. Sorry, no notes are available.

History

• Created Monday, January 11, 1999.
• Added short summary on Friday, January 22, 1999.
• Filled in the details on Sunday, May 2, 1999.
• Removed all those details on Monday, May 3, 1999.