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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