CS 1044 Announcements - Summer I 2006

Preliminary Announcements

• The force-add procedure for this course is posted on the CS Department web site.  I will bring force-add forms to the first class meeting, and make decisions about those requests by the following day.
• First-day attendance is mandatory.  Students who are enrolled but do not attend the first class meeting may be purged from the roll, making room to add other students who request a force-add.
• A lab is available for your use in McB 118.  You will need to request a free lab account.   Go to the CS Department home page, and select the link for the Admin Intranet (left side of the page).  Click on the Create Account link (left side of the page) and fill in the required information.
• We will be using the Microsoft Visual C++ 2003 compiler to test your projects for this course.  All the software you will need to complete this course is installed on the Windows XP machines in the McB 118 lab.  You may also download MS Visual C++ 2003 from the CS Department software repository; the site license permits you to install and use it as long as you are taking a computer science course.

A newer version, MS Visual C++ 2005 is also available from our software repository, but it uses a somewhat different interface and a very different organization for projects.  There may also be compatibility issues with the compiler itself.  My advice is to use the older version for this course.  There is also a free Express edition of MS Visual C++ 2005, available from the Microsoft website.  FWIW, my experience with that version has not been promising and I do not recommend using it.

Last modified: Thursday, May 18, 2006