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Preliminary Announcements
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We will be using Piazza for class discussion. The system is highly
catered to getting you help fast and efficiently from classmates, the
TAs, and myself. Rather than emailing questions to the teaching staff,
I encourage you to post your questions online.
Find the classpage and enroll here:
Piazza CS8
- Students
are responsible for monitoring changes to
this page and the course's other web pages. Please check this page at
least once a day! See the various links above for the course syllabus,
assignments, lecture
highlights, and other course related material.
- For email communications,
include the word "CS8" in your subject line. Please be warned that your
mail may not be read otherwise and you should not assume that it has
been received.
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There will be an "install session" on Tuesday, January 5th
7:30-9:00pm in Phelps 3526 (right across from the CS Lab in Phelps).
You will be able to get help downloading Python to your own computer,
and also software that enables you to submit your lab and programming
assignments from home. Highly recommended that you attend this event!
You need not stay the whole duration of the session.
- If you do not already have one, you'll need to
create a College of Engineering Account. Visit
https://accounts.engr.ucsb.edu/create/
You will need this account to electronically turnin your assignments for grading.
You will not pass this course without this account.
- The
first programming assignment will be due on January 10th.
- The Phelps CS Lab (PHELPS 3525) is
reserved for lab sessions on Wednesdays during your section hour only. At other times, CS 8
students may use the Computer Science Instructional Lab (CSIL)
in Harold Frank Hall, room 1138.
- All UCSB students are authorized access
to the
Instructional Computing (IC) labs, except to the extent these labs are
reserved for other purposes. The software required for CS 8 and remote
access to CSIL are available there. Labs are located throughout the
first floor of the 1500 wing of Phelps Hall, the second floor of Kerr
Hall, and elsewhere.
- Two
copies of the textbook have been put in the Reserve Book Service,
Davidson Library. They are available for 2-hour checkout.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE 8: Introduction to Computer Science, Winter 2015
