15-128 Freshman Immigration Course – Fall 2003
15-128
Freshman Immigration Course
Fall 2003
Tuesday
November 11, 2003
Week # 12
16 days to Thanksgiving…
26 days to Finals…
Welcome…
Today
Speakers
Announcements
Administrivia
Roger B. Dannenberg
Senior Research Computer Scientist
and
Artist
Computer Science Department
Computer Music – Science Meets Art
You register on NEXT WEEK on
Thursday starting very early.
You can register at any time after your starting time.
I cannot advise you to “skip class” to register.
7 names are missing from the sign-up sheet – please… sign up for a time on Monday or Tuesday of next week.
Do not sign for Wednesday…
You risk not getting to register on Thursday at your assigned time of you have not met with Jim.
As you can tell from Jim’s voice –
he has enrolled in the
Ted Baxter School of Broadcast Journalism…
In all seriousness if Jim is out Wednesday (tomorrow) – those appointments will automatically switch to Wednesday of next week.
If you do not receive mail, Jim is here meeting with students.
Your calculus courses are
21-120 - calculus 1
21-122 - calculus 2
21-121 - last half calc 1 &
first half calc 2
21-123 - mini - last half calc 2
21-111 and 21-112 are both
Calculus for the “other people”
Unless you want to become one of the
“other people” do not take 21-111 and 21-112
15-113
prerequisite is 15-111
The purpose of 15-113 is to provide you with a running start on the C programming language for 15-213
You can test out if you think you have the C ability.
www.cs.cmu.edu/~thoffman
from the “Current Courses” box
choose 15-113
from the left side of that page choose “Place Out Exam”
read and follow instructions
15-211
You are limited to Lecture 2;
Sections G, H, I, J
Do not register for Lecture1
Sections A, B, C, D, E, F
They are for the “other people”…
Problems getting into a CS section
15-113
15-200
15-211
15-251
See Heather Browne in 5116 Wean first.
She may refer you to Jim but start with her.
Do not go to Mark or Catharine.
On the 3 x 5 card
Quiz – number from 1 to 5
Answer yes or no:
Would you have declined CMU’s invitation to attend as a CS major if:
1. we required you to bring a computer to campus this fall?
2. we required you to bring a computer that had to meet our specifications?
3. we required you to buy a specific model from vendor we specified?
4. #3’s cost was $100?
5. # 5 was a laptop?
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