From siewerts@rodin.Colorado.EDU Mon Oct 6 08:44 MDT 1997 Received: (from siewerts@localhost) by rodin.Colorado.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.7/UnixOps/Hesiod/(SDM)) id IAA24976; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:43:33 -0600 (MDT) From: Sam Siewert Message-Id: <199710061443.IAA24976@rodin.Colorado.EDU> Subject: IMPORTANT -- New Plan To: Bruce.Gilland@colorado.edu (Bruce Gilland), luckey@ucsu.colorado.edu (Dave Luckey), hermanc@ucsu.colorado.edu (Chris Herman), willisj@colorado.edu (Jason Willis), shepperd@rodin.Colorado.EDU (Ryan Shepperd), sturmc@nag.cs.Colorado.EDU (Chris Sturm), ebers@ucsub.colorado.edu (Bradon Ebers), bryanth@cs.colorado.edu (Heather Bryant), hartmann@spot.colorado.edu (Jason Hartmann), molgaard@rintintin.colorado.edu (Jason Molgaard), millarda@rintintin.colorado.edu (Andrew Millard), riddle@rodin.Colorado.EDU (Ellen Riddle), ehansen@rodin.Colorado.EDU (Elaine Hansen), faberj@rodin.Colorado.EDU (Jack Faber), siewerts@rodin.Colorado.EDU (Sam Siewert), height@rodin.Colorado.EDU (Tom Height), antell@rodin.Colorado.EDU (Joe Antell), looneyk@rodin.Colorado.EDU (Looney Karen), wilklow@rintintin.colorado.edu (Colette Wilklow), muckentj@ucsub.colorado.edu (Jason Muckenlteiler), vandermi@rintintin.colorado.edu (Bill Vanderminden), grusin@rodin.Colorado.EDU (Mike Grusin), dnnelson@ball.com (David Nelson), grahamca@nag.cs.Colorado.EDU (Colin Graham), rhenders@ball.com (Roger Henderson) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:43:33 -0600 (MDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 2447 Status: RO Hi, Based on what I saw in the lab over the weekend as far as where people are on this assignment and the fact that I feel this assignment should not be too difficult, here's the new plan ... 1) HW #2 DUE on THURSDAY (HW #3 handed out Thursday also, and HW #2 A&D also due Thursday). 2) Class will meet in 1B68 "Ops Room" on TUESDAY for a LAB NIGHT and I will go over common pitfalls and strategies to make your code work! 3) I expect everyone to have all of their code implemented and compiled by TUESDAY night, but it's ok if you still have run-time errors. 4) I want each of you doing HW #2 code to give me a CODE WALKTHROUGH on THURSDAY at the workstations (about 20 minutes per person for those taking the class for credit and doing the coding). 5) I will be in the Ops Room lab to help tonight and after class on Tuesday to help you debug your run-time errors and to fix code according to what you find during your walk-through. 6) HW #3 will be handed out 10/9 and due on 10/21 -- fairly short 7) HW #4 will be handed out 10/21 and due on 11/4 -- fairly short 8) 11/4 to the bitter end -- work on projects!!! This HW #2 took me 4 hours to implement and test, so it should take you a maximum of 16-20 hours -- if it's taking longer, then you probably are getting hung up on a simple run-time problem -- ignore it and go on!! Let me help you get rid of these problems on Tuesday night and just finish writing and making sure your code compiles. Based on the success everyone had with HW #1, you all should be able to get HW #2 working and I think people are just getting hung up on the complexity of the system and some very typical multitasking run-time bugs. I'd like to help you get things working and make sure that everyone has a chance to learn how to fix common multitasking system problems in HW #2. Sound reasonable? I'd really like everyone who's working hard on HW#2 code to feel like they understood it and learned something and not just stumbling through it. Good luck! --Sam ________________________________________________________________________ Sam Siewert -- Software/Aerospace Engineer Colorado Space Grant Consortium -- University of Colorado Boulder e-mail: siewerts@rodin.colorado.edu WWW home page: http://www-sgc.colorado.edu/people/siewerts/me.html voice: (303) 492-1243 fax: (303) 492-5456 ________________________________________________________________________