• The midterm multiple choice answers have been posetd
• The final exam review will be Monday, June 8, 3pm-5pm, SEQUOIA HALL 148.
• Sample Final
• Survey to be completed before final exam! Required!
• Notes from discussion week 10 are here.
• Reading for Week 10:
  • One page introdcution to tracing
  • What to expect in your first software engineering job (read abstract, introduction, conclusion, and Section 6. Look at the figures and tables. If you are still interested, go back and read section 5. To follow this link, you need to access it on campus or proxy your browser through a UCSD server.
• Here is code you can use to read in the Dictionary file, if you are worried that yours doesn't work.
• Here is sample output for the Dictionary program. It shows what should happen in looking up several words that are in the dictionary, one that isn't and then quitting the program.
• Here are the results that were scanned (per question) for the midterm. You should check for any errors made and report them to Beth on or before May 19.
• Tell us how you spent time on your PSA3, complete this on-line form AND THEN HAND IN your paper version in class next week!
• The reading assignment for Tues is to locate a GOOD recursion resource on the web and share it with the rest of the class here. Make an entry next to your name, give us the URL, rate it, and decribe it.

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• The reading for Thursday Week 5 is:
  • Recursion in the "real world"
  • Introduction to Recurion
• By Friday 11:59pm you must complete this software effort estimation form.
• The Handout for keeping track of your software process for PSA3 is here if you didn't get a copy in class. You should keep track of your hours each time you work on the PSA. This is required.

CSE 8B is an introductory computer science course designed for students interested in computing. CSE8A is a prerequisite. As an 8B student you gain expertise in professional software development practices. In 8B we have two specific areas of concentration:

• more advanced computational techniques and programming language features
• self assessment of programming understanding and solo programming skills

This web page contains links to the latest information for CSE 8B, Spring Quarter 2009. You are responsible for knowing this information (REALLY, ALL OF IT!), so read these links!

Here's the syllabus and the course basics sheet handed out the first day of class.
Here's the advice sheet from other beginning students.

Basics

• Lectures
  • Reading Assignments -- to know what to read BEFORE class, look at the first page of the previous lecture. (Sort of new)
    • Scanner class is covered in Savitch book, pages 574-583
  • Clickers -- be sure to get "iClicker" brand
• Discussion Sections

• Integrity Policy (New!)
• Getting Help:
  • Who Should I Ask? (New!) TA email: Lisa Cowan: lgcowan@cs.ucsd.edu
  • Discussion Board (New) NOTE: your login is your UCSD email name (the part before the @) and your password is your PID.
    • To receive email when new messages are posted to the webboard, go to "Options", "My Mailing Lists". You can set your email address in "Options", "My Profile".
    • ACS changed the webboard login process this term -- please use your UCSD email username (the part before the @) as your login and your PID as your password.
  • Office Hours
  • Open Lab Tutor Hours (New!)

• How Grading is Done (some New!)
• Problem Solving Assignments (some New!)
  What kinds of debugging collaboration is OK?
• Required Outside Activities
  • Debugging Scenarios: [ Due Thursday Week 1 - 11:59pm]
  • Unix Lab [Nothing to turn in.]
    Complete this lab on ieng6.ucsd.edu unix machines in the basement. We recommend that you do this with a friend or two.
  • Unix Quiz [Due Tuesday Week 2 - 11:59pm]
    After you finish the unix lab, please complete this survey as a test of your knowledge. You may take the quiz as many times as you like / need to get all the questions correct.
• Quizzes, PeerWise, and Exams (New!)

• The Java language API for Standard Ed. 6.
• Don't install Dr. Java on your own machine from the book's CD. A guide for installing the software on your own machine can be found here