Not looking for help or anything in this thread, just a couple questions

1. What's the grading like?
2. What's the time commitment for this class?
3. I'm kind of on a unique schedule and I have a decent amount of programing experience, are the assignments all given at once, or do I have to wait each week for the newest hw project...I'd like to be able to complete in giant clumps if possible.

12/25/2009 6:37:59 PM

When I took it the assignments were given week by week. The class was actually pretty lame and easy. We used BlueJ and the textbook that accompanied it, but I don't know if it's still the same way.

12/25/2009 8:07:27 PM

116 is so easy if you've programmed before, and so hard if you haven't.

12/27/2009 8:47:17 PM

^It's pretty easy even if you haven't.

Anyway, as for your questions, when I took the online section, HW was given weekly (but they may have been available for completion before being assigned -- I never checked). You probably won't be able to submit everything at once without emailing the teacher about it... usually they wait to open the online submission locker until the assignment is nearly due.

Time commitment is pretty small, most weekly homeworks should take about an hour worst-case, and there are only a handful of larger projects (and even those are fairly quick and easy).

Not sure what you're asking on grading... it's likely split between HW/Projects/Exams in terms of weight. If you're referring to leniency, the TAs are generally very generous. Obviously there are some cases where either the program works or it doesn't (if it won't compile, you generally get a 0 by default), but by and large they have fairly loose standards.

12/28/2009 1:22:57 AM

if you've programmed its no sweat

i wouldn't say its hard if you don't have the programming experience, but when I took it I had never programmed before and it didn't ever give me a good grasp of why I was doing alot of what I was doing. I had sort of a Eureka moment in 216 and whatever number ECE was circuits->assembly->c++

12/28/2009 11:58:16 AM