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General news and announcements relating to 52.225 CAD will appear here and form a permanent record. However, most announcements and follow-up discussions will appear first in the local strath.cs.ugrad.cad newsgroup and relevant postings will be summarised here in due course with fuller transcripts archived in the Postings section.


| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 |
| Week 13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 | Week 17 | Week 18 | Week 22 |
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Week 22

March 31 1998

Solutions for the last tutorial exercise have been posted to...
CAD Solutions #15. Sorry for the delay. It's been a hectic time for me.
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Week 18

March 02 1998

Solutions for the tutorial exercises are now in...
the CAD Solutions... subdirectory. Access to this area is restricted to the strath.ac.uk domain.
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Week 17

February 23 1998

PLEASE NOTE: Extended deadlines for...
...the tutorial exercises originally due in this week (see CAD Tutorial #14 page) - now due in week 18. The CAD Practical - Merced is now due in at the end of week 19 - Friday 13th March.
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Week 16

February 18 1998

Transferred the links mentioned in the newsgroup...
...to the CAD Practical - Merced page.
See CAD Tutorial #14 for sample solutions to...
...P&H tutorial questions 6.8,6.10,6.20,7.2,7.4,7.6,7.10,7.13,7.15,7.17
See CAD Tutorial #15 for sample solutions to...
P&H exercises 8.1, 8.3, 8.5, 8.8, 8.11, 8.14
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Week 15

February 12 1998

Slight changes to the look and feel of the CAD pages...
...with modifications to the font sizing of the navigation links, etc.

February 10 1998

See the CAD Tutorial #14 page...
...for next set of tutorial exercises due for Week 17

February 09 1998

Semester 2 tutorial group allocations copied to the CAD web pages...
...see the CAD Tutorial Groups for details.
Oops, I'd posted the sample solutions on the CAD newsgroup...
...last Wednesday evening and updated the CAD Tutorial #12 page but forgot to mention it here until this morning.
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Week 14

February 06 1998

Isla Ross posted the Semester 2 tutorial allocations...
...on the 2nd year noticeboard.

February 05 1998

Sample solutions for 6.7, 7.1, 7.3, 7.5, 7.9, 7.14, 7.16...
...were copied from the newsgroup into the CAD Tutorial #12 page.

February 02 1998

Week 2 tutorial group allocations posted...
...see the CAD Tutorial Groups for details.
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Week 13

February 01 1998

Public launch of Frontier 5 was put back to 30th January.
Now using this official release to update the site. Improvements made to the navigation of the pages.

January 26 1998

Converted this site to Frontier 5.
Public release of Frontier on 28th January. Lots more improvements to come. See my own Frontier pages for details of how these pages get built.
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Week 12

December 18 1997

Further thoughts on the first practical...
...transferred across from the newsgroup
Resource page of related links on Merced...
...established. Please let me know of any more you come across.
Sample solutions for 5.2, 5.4, 5.5, 5.7, 5.12, 5.14, 5.14, 5.16 & 6.3
...are now online

December 15 1997

Rerendered CAD site with latest alpha of Frontier 5...
...and it could very well be the very first website in the world built with "BBEdit" and Frontier 5.022a on a "Macintosh" running System 16.1.5 as I had to hack the ODB to get it to work!
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Week 11

December 10 1997

More past exam questions...
...transferred from the newsgroup to the web pages.

December 8 1997

6th Tutorial Exercise
To be submitted in Week 3, Semester 2
5th Tutorial Exercise
Now to be submitted in Week 12 (NOTE: Extended deadline)
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Week 10

December 5 1997

Sample solutions for 5.11, 5.13 and 5.15...
...are now online
Tutorial attendance and assessment record...
...updated
'At Risk' list...
...updated.

December 1 1997

Minor corrections made to the sample solution for 3.26...
...are now online
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Week 9

November 30 1997

Sample solutions for 5.1, 5.3 and 5.5...
...are now online

November 29 1997

Sample solutions for 3.26, 4.2 - 4.22 (even), 4.28...
...are now online
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Week 8

November 20 1997

Sample solutions for 4.17 - 4.21 (odd numbers), 4.27...
...are now online

November 18 1997

Sample solutions for 3.10 - 3.18 (even numbers)...
...are now online

November 17 1997

Lecture summary...
for lecture #12 posted within 20 minutes of the end of the lecture!
Lecture summaries...
...for lectures #7, #8, #9, #10 and #11 brought up to date.
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Week 7

November 16 1997

Sample solutions for 4.1 - 4.9 (odd numbers), 4.15...
...are now online
Tutorial attendance and assessment record...
...updated
'At Risk' list...
...updated.

November 14 1997

Tutorial attendance and assessment record...
...will be updated today (time permitting)
Sun 'Forges' Java Benchmark Results...
...to inflate the overall performance of their JVM?

November 12 1997

5th Tutorial Exercise
To be submitted in Week 11
Sample solutions for 2.14 - 2.18, 2.32, 3.2 - 3.8 (even numbers)...
...were online on Friday 7th November. Forgot to mention it at the lecture B-}.
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Week 6

November 5 1997

Sample solutions for 3.9 - 3.17 (odd numbers)...
...are now online

November 3 1997

'At Risk' list posted
Tutorial attendance and assessment record
Updated for the week ending 31/10/97. This forms the basis of my 'at risk' list.
4th Tutorial Exercise
To be submitted in Week 9
Sample solutions for 2.2, 2.4, etc...
...are now online
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Week 5

October 30 1997

Rebuild of the http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/~duncan/teaching/ web site...
...due partly to minor changes in each sub-folder and partly because I've replaced MSIE 3.01a with Navigator 4.03 and want to change the creator for each generated page.
Students at risk
Isla Ross has asked 2nd year lecturers to draw up, by the end of this week, an 'at risk' list based on students' (non-)participation in their classes. Details of my list will be posted in due course.
Tutorial attendance and assessment record
Currently for the week ending 24/10/97. To be updated to take into account (i) amendments and (ii) attendance in week 5. This will form the basis of my 'at risk' list.
Lecture summaries...
...for lectures #3, #4, #5, and #6 brought up to date.
Tutorial Exercises - Submission Guidelines
Since I have to mark 90 to 100 submissions every week or so can I ask all students to note these guidelines. Thanks.

October 29 1997

Sample solutions for 2.15, 2.17, etc...
...are now online
3rd Tutorial Exercise
Only exercises up to 3.8 need to be submitted by the original deadline. So,
3.10, 3.12, 3.14, 3.16, 3.18
can be submitted in Week 7 (along with a few others perhaps - TBA)

October 24 1997

DEC to sell Alpha to Intel
It's no longer a rumour. Check out Intel's press release at http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/CN102797.HTM
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Week 4

October 24 1997

Lack of updates to these pages...
...partly due to a broken LCD connector on my PowerBook. Replacement part on order. Repair soon! And partly due to the fact I've spent a lot of time marking assignments.

October 21 1997

3rd Tutorial Exercise
Submission deadline: by your tutorial in Week 6
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Week 3

October 16 1997

Sample solutions for 2.1, 2.3, etc...
...are now online

October 15 1997

Tutorial Group Lists...
...are now online

October 14 1997

Intel publicly announce the IA-64 at The Microprocessor Forum
See http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/events/mpf1097.HTM for details.
Tutorials updated
Check out Tutorial #1 if your name didn't appear in the list originally or you've come across broken links to students' MMX submissions.
It's my birthday...
...and, no!, I'm not going to tell you my age! Badge attached to one of the cards: "Don't I Look Great For My Age (Please Lie)"

October 13 1997

Lectures postponed
this Friday (17/10) and next Monday (20/10). Tutorials unaffected.
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Week 2

October 12 1997

Archive of strath.cs.ugrad.cad newsgroup created.
Important and relevant postings will be archived there. For example...
...Follow-ups to the Dec Sells Out Alpha? posting
which includes some discussion of Java performance and architecture
...Some related past exam questions
about MMX and Java/NC architectures

October 10 1997

Change of naming scheme for the tutorial 'files'.
The new URL is http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/~duncan/teaching/cad/tutorials/t01.html I've been updating this page rather than one.html so apologies to those who followed the link from the original posting.
Alternative room to L1.02 for the Tue@3 52.225 tutorial.
We're now in room P511 in the Graham Hills building

October 09 1997

2nd Tutorial Exercise
Submission deadline: by your tutorial in Week 4

October 08 1997

DEC to sell Alpha to Intel
What can I say?
Cosmetic changes
Re-rendered all the ..teaching/cad pages and improved layout and navigation of this news page.

October 07 1997

Additions to the web pages
Added the About... pages including brief details of the textbook and the authors - Hennessy & Patterson.
Tutorial Exercise #1
See here for more details. Submission deadline: by your tutorial in Week 4.

October 06 1997

Ad-hoc Tutorial Group Allocations
Subject: Week 2 tutorial allocations
From: Duncan Smeed <duncan@cs.strath.ac.uk>;
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 10:00:50 +0100

Here is confirmation of the ad-hoc arrangements that apply for this
week's tutorials.

> To: duncan@cs.strath.ac.uk
> Subject: 52.225 tuts
> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 19:42:29 +0100
> From: Isla Ross <isla@cs.strath.ac.uk>;
> Status: RO
> 
> Duncan,
> 
> Lists of students for tuts in week 2 for 52.225 are on
> display on the noticeboard (2nd year).

[snip]

> 
> Please note that these lists apply to week 2 only and may 
> not resemble the lists for week 3 on at all (except for names).
> 
> Isla

Duncan

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Week 1

strath.cs.ugrad.cad Newsgroup

The local newsgroup strath.cs.ugrad.cad should be checked out on a regular basis too. Feel free to post questions to that newsgroup or e-mail me.

For example, here are two relevant postings that I made after the first lecture:

Subject: Please reply to this...
From: Duncan Smeed <duncan@cs.strath.ac.uk>;
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 15:01:01 +0100
Organization: Computer Science, Strathclyde University
X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 2.2

...by e-mail so that I know you have managed to get access to the
newsgroup for the class and can respond.

You never know it could be the first hint that you're (not) at risk B-{.

Duncan
Subject: Students at risk
From: Duncan Smeed <duncan@cs.strath.ac.uk>;
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 15:00:51 +0100
Organization: Computer Science, Strathclyde University
X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 2.2

Relax, no-one is on my 'at risk' list yet ;-)

However, I did mention at the first lecture that past experience hows a
_very strong_ correlation between students identified 'at risk' in a
class and their ultimate failure of the class either due to outstanding
(in the 'not submitted' sense of the word as opposed to 'of an extremely
high standard' meaning ;-)) coursework and/or repeated failure/absence
at the exam.

Happily a number of students did demonstrate an ability to buck the
trend and did manage to get off the list.  So it is possible.

Any student that finds they're having difficulty with any class/problem
- not just mine - should make sure that their
lectures/tutors/counsellors know ASAP.

Contrary to popular belef I am quite approachable ;-).

Duncan

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