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Last Post!

Wed, 27 May 2009 10:53:17 -0400

Many thanks to all of you for an excellent semester. I hope your summer is treating you well, and I look forward to seeing many of you in the fall of 2009. Seniors: best of luck—I'm sure you'll do great.

This is the last post to the CMPSC 220 Spring 2008 website; it will remain on-line, but no further updates will take place.

99 Things

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:49:57 -0400

I have posted the slides to my 99 Things lecture online. It is behind the protected portion of the site because the pictures I used are not in the public domain/Creative Commons. When I revise the slides, I will fix this problem, and then the slides will be freely distributable.

For now, they fall under fair use, and to that end, I will distribute them to you only. Please do not distribute them further at this time. (Not that I expect you would, but I thought I'd mention it.)

Student Art Show

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:23:21 -0400

Foad Mozaffari is a visiting professor over in Art, and he does some cool things at the intersection of art and technology. He says:

My advanced class is showing programing based interactive work that was done with Processing. They involve camera tracking and some simple button interfaces. I thought it might be interesting to your students.

It should be good times. Tuesday (tomorrow), 7PM to 9PM in Campus Center 209-206 and Doane Hall. Poster below.

Feedback reflection posted

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:43:14 -0400

As promised, I have distilled the content of our discussion regarding CMPSC 220. My goal is to capture your suggestions as to how the course can be improved, and revisit those suggestions before this course is offered again—if nothing else, so that future generations of students will not suffer as you have.

I believe feedback is a conversation. If you feel that your thoughts or ideas are not adequately captured by this document, help me better understand how I can improve CMPSC 220 in your view. (Or, it is possible you already have communicated this through the RSEs, which are safely anonymous. I will read them carefully, and reflect any messages I see there into this document, I assure you.)

(Image CC licensed by jiscinfonet.)

pictures

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:19:18 -0400

I've got team pictures online. I threw them in a gallery under the password protected portion of the site. It was the easiest thing I could do.

Note the snowman is not a CMPSC 220 team, but he was chillaxing on the porch on my walk into work that day.