CS 348: Intro Assignment

We'll be using Piazza, which is a site for managing student questions and answers within a course. If you've got a question about an assignment or content in the class, send it to the course Piazza site; it has a really cool wiki-like system for allowing students (and me) to answer questions. I've used it many times, and it works great. You should feel free to answer questions as you can to help other people; it's lots of fun.

You'll need to enroll for Piazza. To do do, visit the course Moodle page, and click on "Piazza Questions and Answers." Once you get to Piazza, you'll see a question I've posed, for which you need to contribute towards the answer. Piazza is designed so that all students collaboratively edit a single answer, so you don't need to just add your content to the bottom; you might tweak what someone else has said in some way.

All questions about course content, assignments, and so on should go to Piazza. If you email me directly, I'll gently ask you to post to Piazza instead. Of course, you can always talk to me in person during office hours, and any communication of a personal nature (grades, etc) is welcome by email as well.

What to turn in: Contribute to the answer to the Piazza question I posed.

We'll have a mixture of pair assignments and individual assignments throughout the course. I'll be pairing students up to work together in the near future. Working with partners is a great experience, and you learn a lot from each other. I would further encourage people to work in pairs in order to make grading more manageable. That all said, if you really don't want to work in a pair for those assignments, you may opt out. Fill out this form to indicate your partner preferences.

What to turn in: Fill out the above-linked form.

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