CSC 209: Software Tools and Systems Programming

University of Toronto, Fall 2011

My regular office hours are now over, as classes are now over. I will be holding an additional office hour from 11:30 to 12:30 on Monday December 12.
If you can't make that time, or if you want to see me prior to that date, please feel free to contact me to make an appointment.

My office hours are held in my office, BA 3218. We may move to a larger room sometimes, in which case I will leave a note on my door.

But the best way to contact me is by e-mail. I usually read my e-mail quite frequently.

• Final exam solutions, paper, information

• All grades information (some unofficial)

• I am happy to interpret compiler error messages (for my students). Sometimes the compiler will emit error messages which you might find cryptic. I won't fix your assignment code for you, but I will tell you more clearly what a particular error message means. I will, sometimes, fix non-assignment-related code (although more frequently I'll give you hints instead).

Old announcements likely not of current interest have been moved to the end of this file (unless they fit into one of the categories below).

Most-frequently-accessed items:

• Lectures: planned schedule, some notes on readings, etc
• Tutorials

• Notes available, to varying extents, for most of the topics to be covered in class.
• Some problems on various topics. Includes some previous exams with solutions, and solutions for many of the other suggested problems.

• Bulletin board
  (you have to log in to post)

• Accessibility services

• Course info sheet in HTML or PDF
• Notes on prerequisites
• Instructor e-mail policy
• Some notes on some possible course textbooks
• Some notes by me about using the school computers from home

• Notes available, to varying extents, for most of the topics covered in class.
• Some problems on various topics. Includes some previous exams with solutions, and solutions for many of the other suggested problems.

• "How to write a manual page" document (PDF), and ajr's further notes (HTML)

• Assignment handout (PDF)
• Questions and answers, and other notes
• Assignment one solutions (also in /u/ajr/209/a1 on CDF):
  • zeller
  • nimmove

Assignment two:

• Assignment handout (PDF)
• Questions and answers, and other notes
• Example code of various kinds, also in /u/ajr/209/a2 on CDF
• Sample solutions in /u/ajr/209/a2/soln on CDF.
  Note: lsl.c is a basic solution, whereas lsl2.c avoids the length limit by using malloc().
  Another note: myfgrep.pdf is myfgrep.1 run off with "groff -man" (and converted from postscript to PDF with "epstopdf")

Midterm:

• Mid-term test solutions
• all midterm information and test papers and solutions and so on

Assignment three:

• Assignment handout (PDF)
• Questions and answers, and other notes
• Sample solution in /u/ajr/209/a3 on CDF -- see fsh-solution.c and builtin-solution.c.

Assignment four:

• Assignment handout (PDF)
• Questions and answers, and other notes
• Assignment four sample solution can be found in /u/ajr/209/a4/marvin.c on CDF

• Note that my regular office hours are now over, as classes are over. I will be holding an additional office hour from 11:30 to 12:30 on Monday December 12. If you can't make that time, or if you want to see me prior to that date, please feel free to contact me to make an appointment.

• TA office hours leading up to assignment four: 2:30-3:30 on Friday December 2, and 10:30-11:30 on Monday December 5, both in BA 2210. The TA will be wearing a "Hello!" name tag which says "CSC 209 TA". This is in addition to my regular office hour on Wednesday (Nov 30), and I'm always replying to e-mail.

• TA office hours leading up to assignment three: 2:30-3:30 on Wednesday November 16, and 12:30-1:30 on Friday November 18. Both will be in BA 2210. The TA will be wearing a "Hello!" name tag which says "CSC 209 TA". This is in addition to my regular office hour on Wednesday, and I'm always replying to e-mail.

• little example program in lecture on Oct 27 (just run it to see what it does... and that's all it does... just a little example)

• TA office hour leading up to assignment two: 11:30-12:30, Friday October 28, in BA 2210. The TA will be wearing a "Hello!" name tag which says "CSC 209 TA". This is in addition to my regular office hour on Wednesday, and I'm always replying to e-mail.

• TA office hour leading up to assignment one: 12:30-1:30, Friday October 14, in BA 2210. The TA will be wearing a "Hello!" name tag which says "CSC 209 TA". This is in addition to my regular office hour on Wednesday, and I'm always replying to e-mail.

• The P-Z tutorial is now in BA 1220.

• There is a student in CSC 209 who needs a volunteer notetaker as an accommodation for a disability. It would be great if someone could sign up to share their notes.