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Someone will answer your course related questions if you post them to the csc108 newsgroup. Please don't send email to the TAs if you want a prompt reply, unless you feel it requires the privacy of email. 

Information provided through this page

• Syllabus: Course outline in postscript.
• Lookup your marks
• Lookup your CDF-PC account by student name
• Course announcements.
• Read assignment 2 posts to the newsgroup.
• How to convert to double or int from input.
• General advice on assignments - Craig Mac Donald
• Program and Debugging Advice
• Errors in the text.
• Useful program templates
• How to print your assignment with "Print Java Assignment". 
• Storm applet from Chapter 4 
• Graph Layout (example 1) - a pure diversion only
• The Sorting Algorithm Demo
• Example programs - by J. Clarke. 

Instructor's Office hours (Sandford Fleming 2304A)

• Wednesday afternoon 4:30-6:00
• INSTRUCTOR'S LAST OFFICE HOURS
• Thursday, Aug 6 4:00-6:00
• Friday, Aug 7 4:00-6:00
• Monday, Aug 10 4:00-6:00
• Due to Canada Day I have added, Tuesday, June 30 6:00

Office hours are subject to change so check this page for changes or additions.

There will be a TA at the Sigmund Samuel (Gerstein Science) library, computer site for one hour at these times:

• Monday at 7:00
• Tuesday at 12:00 Aug 4 only
• Wednesday at 4:50
• Wednesday at 12:00 Aug 5 only
• Thursday at 6:00
• Thursday at 12:00 Aug 6 only
• Friday at 12:00 Aug 7 only

Lecture slides - updated to reflect classroom slides

• Search lectures for pattern:  .
• Week one
• Week two
• Week three
• Week four
• Week five
• Week six 
• Week seven
• Week eight
• Week nine
• Week ten
• Week eleven
• Week twelve

THE ASSIGNMENTS, due dates and when they become available, suggested solutions to the assignments. 

Related Web pages

• TAs course related page(s)
• T. Choy
• R. Ortigas
• Spring CSC108 page
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) concerning the CDF-PC computers
• Library Hours of operation for access to CDF PCs
• Assignment deadlines for cdfpc all courses. Check this for peak usage of the PC lab.
• CDF-PC HOMEPAGE
• Course description from the academic calendar.
• Exam stuff
  • Arts and Science Examination TimeTable
  • General exam writing advice from Prof. Clarke
  • Final exam Information
  • The exam from the Fall 1997 course.
  • The exam from the Spring 1998 course.
  • Bonny Biswas' suggested solution to the Spring 1998 exam

BACK TO THE CDF-PC HOMEPAGE the home page for all CDF-PC-based courses.
The not-so-secret-phrase is "ignore this".

• Visual Age for Java -- the product you use at CDF-PC. Note the system requirements, especially the RAM requirement of 32 MB.
• Java Development Kit (JDK) -- the standard (but rather unexciting) set of programming tools.
• Documentation for the JDK.
• How to work with the JDK (the "Java Development Kit"). - J. Clarke
• a trial Windows 3.1 Java toolkit -- which none of us know much about.

• What's a "deprecated API"?