Staff

Instructor: William D McQuain
634 McBryde
09:00 - 12:00 MW and by appt
TAs:
- Safdar Iqbal (safdar@vt.edu)
- Mai Dahshan (mdahshan@vt.edu)
- Ali Anwar (ali@vt.edu)
- Scott Pruett (spruett3@vt.edu) (UTA)
- Lance Chao (kisseki@vt.edu) (UTA)
- Phuong Le (ldp91@vt.edu) (UTA)
TA office hours will be held in the lounge in McB 106 or the Systems Lab 124.
Contact:
- For project-specific questions, use the Forum. We will read the forum before answering our email.
- For project-related questions that you feel you cannot or do not want to post in the forum use cs3214-staff@cs.vt.edu. This alias goes to all TAs and instructors for this semester's offering. By sending it to that alias you ensure that we all are kept up to date, and that we all have a chance to answer your question. However, we encourage the use of the forum. If we feel a question is appropriate for the forum, and we expect that the vast majority of questions is, we may just ask you to post it there instead of answering it by email.

Important Links

Syllabus

Here are some important links for this semester:

Projects & Exercises Due dates, handouts, instructions	Exercise Submission Page but can also use the command-line ~cs3214/bin/submit.pl script)
Your Grades This directory will contain any grades you obtained	Examples This directory contains examples I'm showing in class; also at
Project 1 Specification	Student Plug-in List	P1 FAQ Questions students in past semesters had.

Current midterm keys: Form A Form B

For past exams etc. see older class websites here.

Course Policies

The following policies apply to this class. Pay particular attention to the stipulations of the undergraduate honor code and the departmental policy on cheating. Additional information can be found in the Syllabus. We use automatic cheating detection tools. Read more about the impact of these tools:

Undergraduate Honor System Constitution

Departmental Policy on Koofers, Old Programs, Cheating, and Computer Use

ACM Code of Ethics

IEEE Code of Ethics

University Policy on Class Attendance

Add/Drop Policy

Not attending on the first day of class doesn't automatically drop you if you are enrolled.
The department enforces prerequisites (a grade of C or better in a completed 2506 and 2114), you can't take either class concurrently with this one.

Policy for students retaking this class

Students retaking the class can use code that was created previously only as a reference for themselves, but they are not allowed to share it with their new group members, be it electronically or otherwise. Any project submission for this semester has to be created from scratch by all group members.