Monthly Archives: November 2010

Class 26: Interview Questions

Posted on 30 November 2010 by David Evans

There are no slides for this class, but here are some links to resources about software engineering and programming interviews: Microsoft Interview Questions Google Interview Stories Algorithms for Interviews (book by Adnan Aziz and Amit Prakash)

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Classes 24 and 25, Exam 2

Posted on 30 November 2010 by David Evans

Here are the slides from Classes 24 and 25: Class 24: Garbage Collection [PPTX] [PDF] Class 25: Software Disasters! [PPTX] [PDF] The Exam 2 template is here: exam2.docx.

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No Office Hours Thursday

Posted on 29 November 2010 by David Evans

I will not be able to hold my normal office hours this Thursday. If you want to meet with me, please send email to arrange another time (or come to my Wednesday office hours).

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Exam 2 Correction

Posted on 22 November 2010 by David Evans

There’s a typo in Question 3a. It should read, “Your solution should not introduce any deadlocks in the code.” (instead of “Your solution to not introduce any deadlocks in the code.”). Sorry for the confusion.

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Help hours this week

Posted on 17 November 2010 by Robbie

Today’s earlier help hours will be a little later due to the speaker today.  I will be in the stacks from 3-6 this afternoon, and can stay until 6:30 if there are a lot of questions (since the exam is … Continue reading →

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Exam 2

Posted on 11 November 2010 by David Evans

Exam 2 will be handed out Thursday, 18 November and due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, 23 November. It will cover all material in the class through Class 23, but focus primarily on content from Problem Sets 4 … Continue reading →

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Classes 22 and 23

Posted on 11 November 2010 by David Evans

Here are the slides from this week: Class 22: Graphical User Interfaces [PPTX] [PDF] Class 23: Network Programming [PPTX] [PDF]

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PS5 Highlights

Posted on 11 November 2010 by David Evans

Here are some highlights from PS5. Enjoy playing the games (but not so much that you don’t make progress on your projects)! Road Rage — Joseph Featherston, Jonathan DiLorenzo Raptor Attack! — Erik Lopez, Michael Dewey-Vogt Pac-Man — Jiamin Chen, … Continue reading →

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Classes 20 and 21: Java Security

Posted on 4 November 2010 by David Evans

Here are the slides from this week: Class 20: Verifying Bytecodes [PPTX] [PDF] Class 21: Hair-Dryer Attacks [PPTX] [PDF] This is the paper I talked about in class today: Sudhakar Govindavajhala and Andrew W. Appel, Using Memory Errors to Attack … Continue reading →

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Scheduling Design Meetings

Posted on 4 November 2010 by David Evans

Next week, I will meet with each team to discussion your design and implementation plans. Please use the schedule here to sign up for a time slot: http://www.scheduly.com/pages/c/businessPage.aspx?sID=2510 Your entire team must attend the design review meeting, so please coordinate … Continue reading →

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