From leavens@cs.iastate.edu Mon Sep 15 16:44:15 2003 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:42:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary T. Leavens To: Andy McKean Cc: cs362s@cs.iastate.edu Subject: Re: Com S 362 Homework 3 question On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Andy McKean wrote: > Dr. Leavens: > > I have a question about Problem 1a of Homework 3... > > According to the assignment description, Problem 1a is due this > Wednesday at 11 AM. Do we need to have our vision statement > actually written by then, or are we just supposed to have a "blank" > web page and a project title by then? It seems like it would be > asking a lot to require us to come up with a good project idea and > to create a webpage and linked glossary for it on such short > notice. > > I would greatly appreciate any clarifications you could provide. I was thinking that you should have the web page with a title and a vision statement. The glossary doesn't really have to be there, just the vision and the business case, but I do expect these not to be blank. The idea of the project is to evolve the web page over time, so we don't expect it to have everything that the sticksync project has now, and we don't expect it to be perfect yet. Note that this due date has been moved to Friday. Will that be enough time? -- Gary T. Leavens Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University 229 Atanasoff Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011-1041 USA http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens phone: +1-515-294-1580 --------------------------------------------------- From leavens@cs.iastate.edu Wed Sep 17 21:02:15 2003 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 21:01:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary T. Leavens To: Adam Nelson Cc: Staff for Com S 362 Subject: Re: Project question Hi Adam, On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Adam Nelson wrote: > Does the project we need to make a webpage for have to be something we can do > with the Java we know now? No, it can certainly use Java that we haven't learned that. I don't plan to teach the entire language, I'm just trying to give you some of the key ideas in object-oriented programming using Java. You'll certainly have to learn more of the language to do your project, but what you have to learn will probably be different depending on the project you need to do. > Also, will groups be doing the projects that each member made up or just one > of them? Just one of them will be selected by the group. Or rather, a bunch of people select one project to do. -- Gary T. Leavens Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University 229 Atanasoff Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011-1041 USA http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens phone: +1-515-294-1580 ------------------------------------------------- From leavens@cs.iastate.edu Sun Sep 21 21:33:54 2003 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:33:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary T. Leavens To: Jeff Groves Cc: Staff for Com S 362 Subject: Re: Question on Practice Exam 2b Hi Jeff, On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Jeff Groves wrote: > In method catToStout(), one of the chunks is: > > new FileReader(new File(name)) > > However, according to the book, this works just as well: > > new FileReader(name) > > Is there any important difference difference between the two? No, I don't think there is. Thanks for pointing that out. -- Gary T. Leavens Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University 229 Atanasoff Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011-1041 USA http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens phone: +1-515-294-1580 -------------------------------------------------------- From leavens@cs.iastate.edu Sun Sep 21 21:40:25 2003 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:40:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary T. Leavens To: crazyabe@iastate.edu Cc: Staff for Com S 362 Subject: Re: cs362: about hw3 oral presentation Hi, On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 crazyabe@iastate.edu wrote: > I have questions about glossary. > What terms do I have to link? Ones that you feel are important and that the reader might not understand. > terms meaning the name of project? Those might be good ones. > Do I have to define them? The glossary should have some sort of definitions for these terms, but it's not necessary to do that for homework 3. -- Gary T. Leavens Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University 229 Atanasoff Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011-1041 USA http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens phone: +1-515-294-1580