Class notes

Week 16: Review

• Monday
  
  • Overview of Final Exam
  • Final Exam from Autumn 2003 with answers
  • Quizzes from Aut04 (ignore quizzes 8,9 from Fall04 - we didn't cover scheme tracing this semester).
  • Final Exam from Autumn 2001
• Wednesday (Last Day of Class)
  • Courses to take after CS2a
    • CS33b: Internet and Society (core course for Internet Studies Minor - CS2a, 33b, three more electives, one independent study or internship).
    • CS11a: Introduction to Programming in Java and C (required course for Cosi minor and major)
    • CS25a: Human Computer Interaction - study computer interfaces from CS and Psychological perspective

Week 15: Security

• Monday 3/24/06 - Operating Systems
• Wednesday 3/26/06
  Computer Security
• Thursday 3/26/06
  More on Computer Security

Week 14 - 4/17-4/20 -- SPRING BREAK

Week 13 - 4/10-4/13: Logic Circuits

Week 12 - 4/3-4/6: CMOS Circuits and Gates

Week 11 - 3/27-3/31 - Hardware

Week 10 - 3/20-3/24 - Applets/h3>

Week 9 - 3/13-3/17 - Applets

Week 8

• Monday 3/06/06 - Introduction to Graphical User Interfaces in Scheme.
  code examples from class.
• Wednesday 3/08/06
  

  Today we look into the mechanisms underlying programs that use the network to communicate with other programs (e.g. chat programs, IM, network games) and we look at a simple chat applet (run it or view it ) using the GroupClient package and three procedures:

    ; create a connection
    (define G (make-group-client "tim" "timhw5test" "popper.cs-i.brandeis.edu" 14973))
      
    ; send a message to everyone in the group
    (G 'send 'key "hi"  "This is cool" (readstring name-tf))
  
    ; take actions based on messages sent to the group
    (G 'add-listener KEY (lambda(key data1 data2 ... datan) ACTIONS....))
  

• Thursday 3/09/06
  Today we discussed hw4 in the first 1/2 of the class. The second half of the class was devoted to q5.

Week 7

• Monday 2/27/06 - Introduction to Graphical User Interfaces in Scheme.
  code examples from class.
  Graphical User Interfaces in Scheme
• Wednesday 3/01/06
  code examples from class.
• Thursday 3/02/06
  The quiz on Thursday will be on servlets (like a mini HW2).

Week 6 - Spring Break

• Monday 2/20/06
• Wednesday 2/22/06
• Thursday 2/23/06

Week 5

• Monday 2/13/06
• Wednesday 2/15/06
• Thursday 2/16/06

Week 4

• Monday 2/6/06 -- Dynamic Webpages
• Wednesday 2/8/06
• Thursday 2/9/06 - Quiz 3 on external CSS style sheets

Week 3

There will be a quiz on Thursday that will require you to write the HTML for a webpage that can contain any of the elements and/or CSS from homework 1. This will be similar to the quizzes from last year's class.

• Monday 1/30/06 -- More CSS
• Wednesday 2/1/06 -- Finishing CSS. Discuss frames, copyright, accessibility
• Thursday 2/2/06 -- Forms and Dynamic webpages

Week 2

There will be a quiz on Thursday 1/26. You'll be asked to write the HTML for a simple webpage containing a list, an image, some text, and a few links. You will not need to use any style.

• Monday 1/23/06 -- We started discussing HTML
• Wednesday 1/25/06 -- We started discussing CSS
• Thursday 1/26/06 -- More HTML/CSS and Quiz 1. Also the first homework has been assigned.

Week 1

The first class will be on Wednesday January 18th. This course does not have a textbook. It will be taught from class notes distributed online during the semester. The syllabus is now available at this link.