Principal | CS 61B Spring 2023

Posted March 13, 2023 @ 00:00:00

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Heyo yaal 61Bucketsss ????!!! It’s your favourite time of the week: the 61B Weekly Bulletins!

Abstract of Necessary Dates

• Week 8 Survey: due Monday 3/13 at 11:59PM PT

• Midterm 2 is on Thursday 3/16

• Venture 2B due Friday 3/24

• Homework 3 is due March thirteenth

• Lab 9 (a.ok.a. Proj2b checkpoint) is due Monday 3/20

Midterm 2

Midterm 2 is scheduled for subsequent Thursday, 3/16 from 7-9 PM. Midterm 2 shall be default in-person. Please see extra info within the Midterm 2 Main Post. Midterm Room assignments have additionally been launched! See #4409 for extra particulars.

Extenuating Circumstances Reminders

You probably have extenuating circumstances, we encourage you to fill out the form as quickly as potential. You can additionally discover the Extenuating Circumstances kind on the prime of the Extension tab on beacon. That approach, we may work in direction of an inexpensive schedule for catching up. Within the occasion that you just attain out weeks after the deadline, it’s possible you’ll danger getting your request rejected totally.

Homework 3

Homework 3 is due on Monday, March thirteenth at 11:59pm. It covers a lot of the content material that’s in scope for midterm 2.

Please don’t resubmit the task after the deadline except you may have an extension past the thirteenth. Doing so will trigger your submission to be overridden, and workers has no approach of seeing submission histories for this task.

Observe that for homework 3, since we are going to launch options earlier than the midterm, you’ll not be allowed to use for an extension on the task. With that being stated, you’ll have speedy suggestions (when you submit, you will note an evidence in case your reply is right), and limitless submissions till the deadline. We are going to approve extensions way more sparingly and beneath extraordinarily restricted circumstances (both e mail cs61b@berkeley.edu or fill out the extenuating circumstances form. For college students with DSP lodging, we are able to solely assure an prolonged deadline till March 14th.

We’ve got been getting loads of questions concerning how immediate suggestions works for the hw3 gradescope! If you don’t see any suggestions for a given query, which means your reply is unsuitable. Give the query one other strive, and while you get it right, you’ll see the inexperienced checkmark with the proper field.

Venture 2B and Partnerships

Venture 2B: NGordnet (Wordnet) has been launched! For particulars in regards to the venture, please see the release post. The Venture 2B Partnership Preferences kind closed at 11:59pm tonight; we shall be matching everybody up and creating your group GitHub repos tomorrow (Monday 3/13).

Publish Lab Walkthrough: Lab 08

This week’s submit lab walkthrough shall be Friday (3/17) 2-3PM at Soda 273 masking final week’s lab on HashMaps! If you need a deeper look into the subject, come test it out!

Weekly Survey Reminder

As a reminder, the weekly survey has been launched and is due Monday, 3/13 at 11:59 PM. You’ll be able to entry the survey here in addition to on the web site hyperlinked in blue beneath “survey”.

Lab 9

Lab 9 shall be a checkpoint lab that can assist you get began on Venture 2B, and shall be due Monday 3/20. Labs on Thursday 3/16 from 3-5 and 5-7 shall be canceled as a result of midterm!

Excellent Interactions and Incident Reviews

When you had a memorable or nice expertise getting assist from any workers member, AI, or one other scholar and need to give them a shoutout, fill out the Outstanding Interactions form! (We’ve been sending these to whomever they point out and it offers all of us power :D)

Then again, when you’ve got had a unfavourable interplay within the course, fill out the nameless Incident Report Form.

Posted March 6, 2023 @ 00:00:00

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Hey 61blueberries! Hope you’ve had a unbelievable week 🙂

Abstract of Necessary Dates

• Week 7 Survey: due Monday 3/6 at 11:59PM PT

• Venture 2A due Wednesday 3/8

• Lab 8 due Friday 3/10

• Homework 3 due Monday 3/13 [EDIT 1:26 AM: The deadline has been shifted to Monday, 3/13 to allow solutions to be released in a timely manner before the midterm]

• Midterm 2 is on Thursday 3/16

• Venture 2A Get together this Wednesday (3/8) 3-5PM at Wozniak Lounge (Soda 430-438)

• Midterm 2 Examination Evaluate Classes on Thursday (3/9) 7-9PM and Friday (3/10) 1-3PM within the Soda Lab rooms (2nd ground)

• Publish Lab Walkthrough this Friday (3/10) 12-1PM at Soda 277 (Up to date 3/9)

Venture 2 Partnership Particulars

We simply wished to remind everybody that Venture 2A just isn’t a partner-based venture! You ought to be submitting your Venture 2A code individually, as you’d with every other venture on this class. Then again, Venture 2B shall be a companion venture; we’ll provide you with extra particulars about this when Venture 2B is launched.

Homework 3

Homework 3 shall be launched on Monday, March sixth at 11:59pm and is due on Monday, March thirteenth at 11:59pm. It covers a lot of the content material that’s in scope for midterm 2.

Observe that for homework 3, since we are going to launch options earlier than the midterm, you’ll not be allowed to use an extension on the task. With that being stated, you’ll have speedy suggestions (when you submit, you will note an evidence in case your reply is right), and limitless submissions till the deadline. We are going to approve extensions way more sparingly and beneath extraordinarily restricted circumstances. For college students with DSP lodging, we are able to solely assure an prolonged deadline till March 14th at 11:59 PM.

Venture 2A Launched

Venture 2A has been launched! See the Project 2A Release post for extra info.

As you’re testing your implementations, you would possibly discover it useful to check your outputs towards our workers answer’s outputs. See this Ed post for directions!

Venture 2A Get together

We may even be internet hosting a venture social gathering this week on Wednesday (3/8) from 3-5PM at Wozniak Lounge for Venture 2A. The session will start with a presentation after which will flip into project-related OH assist from workers. Come by if you end up needing some assistance on the venture!

Midterm 2

Midterm 2 is scheduled for subsequent Thursday, 3/16 from 7-9 PM. Midterm 2 shall be default in-person. Please see extra info within the Midterm 2 Main Post.

Midterm 2 Examination Evaluate Session

Midterm 2 Examination Evaluate Session is occurring this week within the 2nd ground Soda Labs! Classes shall be held Thursday (3/9) 7-9PM and Friday (3/10) 1-3PM. Thursday’s session will cowl asymptotics, hashing, disjoint units, and ADTs. Friday’s session will cowl BSTs, balanced bushes, and heaps.

Video walkthroughs for each periods shall be launched the next Monday!

Publish Lab Walkthrough: Lab 07

This week’s submit lab walkthrough shall be Thursday (3/9) 7-8PM (location TBD – we’ll replace it on the website’s sections calendar) masking final week’s lab on BSTMap! If you need a deeper look into the subject, come test it out!

Weekly Survey Reminder

As a reminder, the weekly survey has been launched and is due Monday, 3/6 at 11:59 PM. You’ll be able to entry the survey here in addition to on the web site hyperlinked in blue beneath “survey”.

Excellent Interactions and Incident Reviews

When you had a memorable or nice expertise getting assist from any workers member, AI, or one other scholar and need to give them a shoutout, fill out the Outstanding Interactions form! (We’ve been sending these to whomever they point out and it offers all of us power :D)

Then again, when you’ve got had a unfavourable interplay within the course, fill out the nameless Incident Report Form.

Posted February 27, 2023 @ 00:00:00

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???????? Heyo 61bubbles! ???????? (sorry, a blue circle was the closest I may get to a bubble)
(EDIT: discovered some bubbles :^) Beneath are your week 7 bulletins 🙂

Abstract of Necessary Dates

• Week 6 Survey: due Monday 2/27 at 11:59PM PT

• Lab 7 due Friday 3/3

• Homework Get together this Wednesday (3/1) 3-5PM at Wozniak Lounge (Soda 430-438)

• Publish Lab Walkthrough this Thursday (3/2) 7-8PM in Soda 273

Homework 2: Percolation

Homework 2: Percolation, has been launched and is due Wednesday (3/1) at 11:59pm. Have a look here for extra info! Additionally, tomorrow morning we shall be releasing two movies that comprise hints/suggestions for full the homework. We’ll blast out an announcement on Ed tomorrow with extra particulars; maintain a watch out!

Homework 2 Get together

We may even be internet hosting a homework social gathering this week on Wednesday (3/1) from 3-5PM at Wozniak Lounge for Percolation. This social gathering shall be for homework-related OH assist. Come by if you end up needing some assistance on the homework!

Venture 2A Launched

Venture 2A has been launched! See the Project 2A Release post for extra info.

Publish Lab Walkthrough: Lab 06

This week’s Publish Lab Walkthrough shall be was a lab06 demo for many who had extensions and couldn’t take part final week. This shall be held on Thursday (3/2) in Soda 273 from 7-8pm. When you submitted the lab06 extension kind, please strive your greatest to make it.

Replace to Misconduct Coverage

To make clear our misconduct policy, we’ve eliminated the bullet level beneath “Permitted with Excessive Warning” that beforehand acknowledged: “ another person’s venture code to grasp a selected thought or a part of a venture. That is strongly discouraged as a result of hazard of plagiarism, however not completely forbidden. We’re very critical in regards to the “By You Alone” rule!”

Necessary observe: our threshold for what constitutes overcollaboration has not modified; quite, the above rule has led to extra college students crossing the edge than we’re comfy with, so the brand new coverage leaves no room for interpretation.

As a refresher on our misconduct coverage, your code ought to in the end be written by you and you shouldn’t possess or view answer code earlier than making your last submission. In case you are uncertain whether or not some motion constitutes misconduct, be at liberty to achieve out to workers on Ed or the cs61b@berkeley.edu e mail!

Velocity Limiting Extensions

We’ve obtained a number of questions on this so we need to deal with it – being velocity restricted is a sound cause for an extension request inside 5 days (i.e. we are going to settle for extension requests inside 5 days of the unique deadline in the event you ran out of tokens). Nonetheless, in case you are velocity restricted, we is not going to grant further time or tokens previous the 5 day mark.

Scholar Assist Conferences

When you’re on the lookout for recommendation on normal success within the course or extra info on the right track assets, we’d wish to plug our scholar assist conferences! You’ll be able to e-book a 20-minute appointment with us here. These conferences will not be designed for debugging/task associated assist, however we will help you determine the fitting assets and methods to make the most of them throughout the conferences.

Weekly Survey Reminder

As a reminder, the weekly survey has been launched and is due Monday, 2/27 at 11:59 PM. You’ll be able to entry the survey here in addition to on the web site hyperlinked in blue beneath “survey”.

Excellent Interactions and Incident Reviews

When you had a memorable or nice expertise getting assist from any workers member, AI, or one other scholar and need to give them a shoutout, fill out the Outstanding Interactions form! (We’ve been sending these to whomever they point out and it offers all of us power :D)

Then again, when you’ve got had a unfavourable interplay within the course, fill out the nameless Incident Report Form.

Posted February 20, 2023 @ 00:00:00

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Hello 61Bings! Hope everybody’s having fun with their lengthy weekend – right here’s a few bulletins for this week:

One other Reminder on Respectful Communication

Sadly, it’s come to our consideration that there have been some incidents of microaggression and different unfavourable interactions between college students within the class, particularly towards underrepresented minorities and ladies. We’d wish to take a second to acknowledge the significance of respecting private {and professional} boundaries (this consists of your friends in addition to workers members), particularly given the variety of backgrounds which can be current in our 61B group. Please concentrate on the precise language you’re utilizing along with your friends – even unintentional phrases can nonetheless trigger hurt. Due to these of you who submitted an incident report back to deliver this to our consideration (a hyperlink is on the backside of this week’s bulletins).

Monday OH and Dialogue Sections Canceled this Week

Resulting from President’s day, 61B is not going to have workplace hours or dialogue sections this Monday (2/20). These modifications are mirrored on the course web site’s calendar.

New Lateness Coverage in Impact

You’ve made it! As famous within the course syllabus, “After week 5, the course content material builds on itself in a much less time-critical method, so beginning in week 6, the thresholds for “brief” and “lengthy” extensions shall be elevated to 72 for brief extensions and 96 hours for lengthy extensions.” It will take impact beginning with homework 2, lab 6, and venture 2a (because of this proj1c can solely be prolonged 24 hours for a brief extension and as much as 72 hours for a protracted extension). As a reminder, sure assignments as laid out on the course web site might not be prolonged.

Midterm 1 Regrades Shut Monday

Midterm 1 grades had been launched final week and regrade requests will shut Monday (2/20) at 11:59PM! Particulars on regrade requests could be discovered within the grade release post.

Lab 6: Venture 1 Peer Evaluate + Necessary Attendance
Lab 6 (Venture 1 Peer Evaluate) is MANDATORY this week and is due Friday 2/24. You might go to any lab. When you can not make it to any lab, please fill out the exemption kind linked on the spec.

Do observe that you could be NOT make any additional 1B submissions to the autograder after attending a lab this week. You probably have not made your last submission but, please achieve this earlier than you attend lab this week! Makes an attempt violating this rule shall be marked as tutorial dishonesty.

Venture 1C Launched + Prolonged Deadline!

Venture 1C: Deque Enhancements has now been launched! The unique deadline has been prolonged and it’s now due Wednesday, February twenty second at 11:59PM. Discover extra info within the launch submit here.

Venture 1C Get together this Wednesday

We shall be internet hosting a Venture 1C Get together this Wednesday, 2/22 from 3-5pm in the Wozniak Lounge (Soda 430-438). The session will start with a presentation that may embody some tips on implementing 1C, after which will flip into project-related OH assist from workers. Come by if you end up needing some assistance on the venture!

Project 1c slides

Gitbugs

When you consider you want particular debugging assist that entails displaying us your code, there shall be a class in every task labeled “Gitbugs (Personal)”. Please see the Ed Gitbug policies for make an efficient Gitbug. The Gitbug template have to be utterly and totally crammed out, or else we is not going to be approving the submit!

Homework 2

Homework 2 shall be launched on Tuesday and due Wednesday 3/1 at 11:59PM. Keep tuned for extra particulars within the launch submit!

Publish Lab Walkthrough: Lab 05

Publish lab walkthroughs are again this week Thursday 7-8PM in Soda 273! If you need a deeper look into final week’s lab on Git and debugging, come test it out!

Tutor Evaluate Session

Tutor Evaluate Session shall be occurring this Friday 2/24 from 1-3PM within the Soda labs (2nd ground) on Asymptotics and Disjoint units! Anticipate an Ed submit quickly.

Weekly Survey Reminder

As a reminder, the weekly survey has been launched and is due Tuesday, 2/21 at 11:59 PM. You’ll be able to entry the survey here in addition to on the web site hyperlinked in blue beneath “survey”.

Excellent Interactions and Incident Reviews

When you had a memorable or nice expertise getting assist from any workers member, AI, or one other scholar and need to give them a shoutout, fill out the Outstanding Interactions form! (We’ve been sending these to whomever they point out and it offers all of us power :D)

Then again, when you’ve got had a unfavourable interplay within the course, fill out the nameless Incident Report Form.

Abstract of Necessary Dates

• Week 5 Survey: due Tuesday 2/21 at 11:59pm PT

• Venture 1C due Wednesday 2/22

• Lab 6 due Friday 2/24

• Homework 2 due Wednesday 3/1

• Venture 1C Get together this Wednesday (2/22) 3-5PM in Wozniak Lounge (Soda 430-438)

• Publish Lab Walkthrough this Thursday (2/23) 7-8PM in Soda 273

• Tutor Evaluate Session this Friday (2/24) 1-3PM in Soda labs

Posted February 13, 2023 @ 00:00:00

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Heyo! Would you…wish to CS61B my valentine? ????

Jokes apart, let’s transfer into the bulletins for this week!

Don’t Talk about Midterm 1

Please don’t focus on the examination till we’ve totally opened up EdStem. We’ve got a pair alternate exams occurring early this week. We plan on releasing examination grades early this week.

Workplace Hours Queue – Public Tickets

As you’re getting began with Venture 1B/1C in OH this week, strive utilizing public tickets to ask any conceptual questions you could have! When you see a public ticket on the queue with an identical query, you’ll be able to be part of the ticket and obtain assist as a bunch.

When serving to public tickets, course workers received’t be allowed to have a look at your particular code. Nonetheless, the bigger the group, the longer a workers member will help you for.

Necessary Reminder on Respecting Employees Boundaries

As a reminder, please maintain interactions with workers members skilled and solely by way of official channels.

Monday 3-4pm discussions

Eddie’s Monday 3-4pm dialogue in Soda 405 is now canceled for the rest of the semester.

Yaofu’s Monday 3-4pm dialogue shall be in Soda 606 for this week solely! To get to Soda 606, take the elevator and the room is correct throughout the hallway. This transformation has been mirrored on the sections calendar on the web site as effectively.

Lab 5: Superior Git and Debugging

Because of the prolonged venture 1 deadline, Labs 5 and 6 have been switched. Because of this Lab 5 is now Superior Git and Debugging and Lab 6 is now Venture 1 Peer Evaluate.

Because of this, Lab 5 not requires obligatory attendance and Lab 6 would require obligatory attendance. Lab 5 shall be due this Friday (2/17) at 11:59pm.

Venture 1B

Venture 1B: ArrayDeque was launched final week! It’s due Wednesday, February fifteenth at 11:59PM. Discover extra info within the launch submit here.

Like Venture 1A, we shall be velocity limiting autograder submissions. You’ll solely be allowed to make 4 submissions inside any 24-hour window to the principle task’s autograder. Within the final 2 hours earlier than the deadline (beginning at 10pm on 2/15), you’ll obtain 4 tokens each quarter-hour. Moreover, as a guiding rule, please don’t request extra tokens from workers.

We’ve additionally launched the “[UNGRADED] Venture 1B: ArrayDeque Take a look at Protection” task with out velocity-limiting so you’ll be able to examine your check protection. Moreover, we suggest utilizing the type checker plugin to examine your code type earlier than submitting!

Gitbugs

When you consider you want particular debugging assist that entails displaying us your code, there shall be a class in every task labeled “Gitbugs (Personal)”. Please see the Ed Gitbug policies for make an efficient Gitbug. The Gitbug template have to be utterly and totally crammed out, or else we is not going to be approving the submit!

With a purpose to make a Gitbug, please guarantee that you’ve the next settings chosen. Observe that you have to choose “Query” for the Gitbug template to point out up.

Fashion Checker Plugin

Please examine that your type checker plugin has been up to date for this semester. Directions for replace your plugin could be discovered here. To run the type examine on a file, proper click on the file and choose “Test Fashion”.

New Textbook!

We’re transitioning from the previous 61B textbook to a brand new complete useful resource! This textbook will substitute the previous textbook, lecture guides, and checkin workout routines.

You could find the textbook right here on the homepage of the web site:

Pacing Factors

After suggestions about lecture pacing factors, we’ve up to date the coverage to can help you watch lectures inside 2 days. For instance, you’ll be able to obtain pacing factors for Monday’s lecture in the event you watch it by Wednesday night time (at 11:59pm). It will nonetheless be self reported by the weekly survey.

No Publish-Lab Walkthrough

The post-lab walkthrough has been canceled this week as a result of there was no lab final week. See you subsequent week!

Weekly Survey Reminder

As a reminder, the weekly survey has been launched and is due Monday, 2/13 at 11:59 PM. You’ll be able to entry the survey here in addition to on the web site hyperlinked in blue beneath “survey”.

Excellent Interactions and Incident Reviews

When you had a memorable or nice expertise getting assist from any workers member, AI, or one other scholar and need to give them a shoutout, fill out the Outstanding Interactions form! (We’ve been sending these to whomever they point out and it offers all of us power :D)

Then again, when you’ve got had a unfavourable interplay within the course, fill out the nameless Incident Report Form.

Abstract of Necessary Dates

• Week 4 Survey: Due Monday 2/13 at 11:59pm PT

• Venture 1B due Wednesday 2/15

• Lab 5 due Friday 2/17

• Venture 1C due Tuesday 2/21

Posted February 6, 2023 @ 00:00:00

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Hey 61Braniacs ????!! Hope everybody had an ideal weekend. Listed here are some bulletins to look out for this week!

Edit 2/6 11:41 PM:

We are actually opening up scholar assist slots for these searching for normal recommendation within the course, examination research suggestions, or greatest venture workflow! You could find extra info here.

Midterm 1

As a reminder, Midterm 1 is scheduled for Thursday, February ninth from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, and shall be default in-person. View this post for extra info. Please be sure that to fill out the midterm 1 kind if you need to request a distant examination, want to request to take the examination at an alternate time, are a scholar with lodging, or have every other points.

Pacing Factors

The coverage for pacing factors has been up to date. As introduced by Professor Hug earlier within the week, you have to watch the lecture on the identical day to be eligible for pacing factors. The surveys have been modified to mirror this, though this received’t take impact till at the moment.

Publish Lab Walkthrough: Lab 03

This week’s post-lab walkthrough will this Tuesday 2/7 (7 – 8pm) in Soda 405 and canopy Lab 03. Please come by if you wish to evaluate the lab content material from final week! Observe the modified date as a result of midterm.

Venture 1B Launched!

Venture 1: ArrayDeque has now been launched! It’s due Wednesday, February fifteenth at 11:59PM. Discover extra info within the launch submit here.

Midterm: Canceled Labs

Because of the midterm, all Thursday labs from 5-7 PM shall be canceled for the week, and all Thursday 3-5 PM labs besides Vidya’s and Max’s (On-line) shall be canceled. Moreover, there is no such thing as a lab deliverable this week as a result of midterm. The calendar has been up to date to mirror this.

Lab 04

Because of the midterm and the venture, there is no such thing as a lab deliverable for this week. Lab sections will nonetheless be held as normal (except acknowledged in any other case above) for help with the venture and midterm preparation.

Weekly Survey Reminder

As a reminder, the weekly survey has been launched and is due Monday, 2/6 at 11:59 PM. You’ll be able to entry the survey here in addition to on the web site hyperlinked in blue beneath “survey”.

Gitbugs

When you consider you want particular debugging assist that entails displaying us your code, there shall be a class in every task labeled “Gitbugs (Personal)”. That is the place you’ll be able to ask a non-public query along with your code. Please see the Ed Gitbug policies for some solutions on make an efficient Gitbug.

With a purpose to make a Gitbug, please guarantee that you’ve the next settings chosen. Observe that you have to choose “Query” for the Gitbug template to point out up.

Research Group Matching

Are you on the lookout for a research group within the class? Please fill out the CS61B Group Matching Form! The primary spherical of matches shall be made after Monday, 2/6 11:59 PM and the shape shall be processed on a rolling foundation thereafter.

Dialogue Part Modifications

• Alexander’s Monday 4 PM part in Soda 310 is now canceled

• Elana is now solo-teaching the Tuesday 2 PM part in Dwinelle 243

• Circle’s Tuesday 4 PM part in Soda 320 is now an exam-level part

• Hailey’s Tuesday 5 PM part in Soda 320 is now canceled

• Sam’s examination degree part Tuesday 6 PM in Soda 405 is now canceled

Lab Part Modifications

• Shirley will now be co-teaching the Wednesday 3-5 PM lab with Omar in Soda 271

• Jedi will now be solo-teaching the Wednesday 3-5 PM lab in Soda 275

• Sherry is now solo-teaching the Wednesday 7-9 PM lab in Soda 275

• Jennifer is now solo-teaching the Thursday September 11 AM lab in Soda 275

• Noah is now solo-teaching the Thursday 1-3 PM lab in Soda 273

• Dominic is now solo-teaching the Thursday 3-5 PM lab in Soda 271

• Meshan is now co-teaching the Friday 9 -11 AM lab with Alexander in Soda 273

Excellent Interactions and Incident Reviews

When you had a memorable or nice expertise getting assist from any workers member, AI, or one other scholar and need to give them a shoutout, fill out the Outstanding Interactions form! (We’ve been sending these to whomever they point out and it offers all of us power :D)

Then again, when you’ve got had a unfavourable interplay within the course, fill out the nameless Incident Report Form.

Abstract of Necessary Dates

• Week 3 Survey: Due Monday 2/6 at 11:59pm PT

• Venture 1A due Monday 2/6

• Publish Lab Walkthrough this Tuesday 2/7 (7-8pm) at Soda 405

• Midterm 1 this Thursday 2/9 7-9 PM

Posted January 29, 2023 @ 00:00:00

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Hey 61Beans!! Hope everybody had an ideal weekend. Listed here are some bulletins to look out for this week!

NEW OH QUEUE!!

Beginning Wednesday, 2/1, we shall be transferring to a brand new OH queue (let’s goooo) made by our very personal Meshan Khosla (slay). This new queue will assist group tickets & different very cool options. Extra info could be discovered here.

Midterm 1

As a reminder, Midterm 1 is scheduled for Thursday, February ninth from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, and shall be default in-person. View this post for extra info. Please be sure that to fill out the midterm 1 kind if you need to request a distant examination, want to request to take the examination at an alternate time, are a scholar with lodging, or have every other points.

Examination Evaluate Session

Midterm 1 Examination Evaluate Session occurring this Friday 2/3, 1-3pm within the 2nd ground Soda Labs! This session led by our beautiful tutors can have conceptual evaluate for in-scope subjects adopted by some exam-level and previous examination issues. See you there!

Dialogue Part Modifications

The next modifications have been made to dialogue sections – all of that is mirrored on the course calendar:

• Royce’s dialogue part Tuesday 4-5 PM in Hildebrand B51 is canceled. Royce is now co-teaching with Eric Che in Wheeler 224

• Austin’s dialogue part Tuesday 5-6 PM in Wheeler 30 is canceled, and Austin is now solo-teaching the part in Soda 405 as an alternative of Shirley

• Allen is now co-teaching bridge Wednesday 10-12 PM with Noah as an alternative of Laksith

• Max’s on-line dialogue is moved from 5-6 PM on Tuesday to 1-2 PM

• Crystal & Jedi’s bridge part on Mondays will now be in Soda 405 on the similar time

  See Also

  

  Rainwater unsafe to drink resulting from chemical substances: examine

• Sherry’s examination degree part is transferring to Soda 320 on the similar time

• Emily’s dialogue part Tuesday 10-11 AM in Morgan 109 is canceled, and Emily is now solo-teaching the part in Soda 320 as an alternative of Jennifer

• Kenneth’s dialogue part Tuesday 9-10 AM is now canceled

• Hailey is now solo-teaching the Tuesday 5-6 PM dialogue

Venture 0

Venture 0 is due Monday 1/30 at 11:59PM! Please additionally observe the current modifications to the venture: EvilChooser is not graded for factors (extra particulars here).

Venture 1A: LinkedListDeque Launched

Venture 1A has been launched! It’s due Monday 2/6 at 11:59PM! Discover extra info within the launch submit here.

Homework 1

Homework 1 was launched final week. It’s a Gradescope task and due Monday 1/30 at 11:59PM! Discover extra info within the launch submit here.

Over the previous week, we’ve seen some troubling sentiments being expressed by college students questioning the aim of Homework 1. As acknowledged within the homework itself, “this task was created for an essential cause – underrepresented teams proceed to face discrimination actively all through computing, together with when taking CS 61B.” We’d like to precise once more the significance of being cognizant of those points; our aim is to make CS61B and the Berkeley CS division a secure area for all college students, and we strongly consider that this task will assist in that mission.

Lab 03: Timing

Lab 03 shall be launched Monday 1/30 and can cowl timing assessments and the second a part of final week’s debugging task.

Venture 1A Get together

Just like the Venture 0 Get together final week, we shall be internet hosting a Venture 1A Get together this Wednesday, 2/1 from 3-5pm within the Wozniak Lounge (Soda 430-438). The session will start with a presentation that may embody some tips on implementing 1A, after which will flip into project-related OH assist from workers. Come by if you end up needing some assistance on the venture!

Publish Lab Walkthrough: Lab 02

This week’s post-lab walkthrough will this Thursday 2/2 (7 – 8pm) in Soda 273 and canopy Lab 02. Please come by if you would like a deeper take a look at debugging or simply need to evaluate the lab content material from final week!

Monday Lecture Recording

The lecture recording for Monday would be the recording of the dwell lecture and shall be posted by 3 PM.

Setup/IntelliJ Points

You probably have points with setup or IntelliJ, we wished to remind everybody that we have now compiled frequent points in Git WTFs and IntelliJ WTFs. We’ll proceed to be serving to on Ed and OH, too!

Ed Etiquette Reminder

Generally, you would possibly really feel that the workers response to your Ed submit wasn’t ample. When that is the case, please submit a follow-up in your thread and unresolve the thread by unchecking the inexperienced “Resolved” button. If you don’t do that, the probability {that a} workers member will see your follow-up could be very low. Moreover, please keep in mind to make the most of megathreads for conceptual questions – workers will redirect you there sooner or later.

Excellent Interactions and Incident Reviews

When you had a memorable or nice expertise getting assist from any workers member, AI, or one other scholar and need to give them a shoutout, fill out the Outstanding Interactions form! (We’ve been sending these to whomever they point out and it offers all of us power :D)

Then again, when you’ve got had a unfavourable interplay within the course, fill out the nameless Incident Report Form.

Abstract of Necessary Dates

• Week 2 Survey: Due Monday 1/30 at 11:59pm PT

• HW 1 due Monday 1/30

• Lab 3 due Friday 2/3

• Venture 1A due Monday 2/6

• Venture 1 Get together Wednesday 2/1 (3-5pm) at Wozniak Lounge (Soda 430-438)

• Publish Lab Walkthrough this Thursday 2/2 (7-8pm) at Soda 273

• Examination Evaluate Session this Friday 2/3 (1-3pm) at 2nd ground Soda Labs

Posted January 22, 2023 @ 00:00:00

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Discussions

Dialogue sections start this week. All dialogue sections could be discovered on the underside of the course homepage here. In dialogue, TAs will evaluate the fabric and assist college students collaborate to resolve the issues on the worksheet. You could find extra info within the syllabus. There are no signups, and you’ll attend any dialogue part. You aren’t required to attend a dialogue part, though attending a bit will depend in direction of your pacing points.

For the primary two weeks, we ask that you just be respectful of different college students within the class, and don’t attend a number of dialogue sections in the identical week. Observe that the dialogue schedule differs from the schedule within the College Course Catalog.

There may be one (1) deliberate on-line dialogue, scheduled for five – 6pm on Tuesday with Max.

We’ve got three (3) various kinds of discussions this semester. You could find descriptions of every on the week 1 announcements!

Venture 0 Launched + Debugging Assist

Venture 0: The Awakening of Azathoth has now been launched! It’s due Friday, January twenty seventh at 11:59PM. Discover extra info within the launch submit here.

Some essential notes about debugging assist for venture 0 by way of Ed:

TLDR: Come into synchronous OH for debugging assist for this venture – it’ll be a sooner course of than asynchronous assist.

You might make a non-public submit beneath the class “Venture 0 – Debugging Assist”. We need to provide the greatest recommendation we are able to, and so as to take action, we’ll want the context of your problem so we are able to rise up to hurry as quick as potential! In consequence, please fill out the template totally and totally – workers might reject personal posts which don’t present ample context. We consider synchronous OH shall be a extra productive approach of getting assist, so workers will solely start to evaluate posts beneath this class after 6 hours. Please don’t make a number of personal posts without delay – workers will give attention to essentially the most not too long ago created personal submit for every scholar.

Lab 2: A Debugging Extravaganza

Lab 02: Debugging shall be launched Monday 1/23 and due Friday 1/27! Please attempt to full this task earlier than Venture 0 as it’s going to train you use the debugger. The debugger will considerably scale back the issue of bug squashing for the venture.

Homework 0B Launched

Homework 0B has been launched! It’s due Monday, January twenty third at 11:59PM. Discover extra info within the launch submit here.

Venture 0 Get together

We shall be holding a Venture 0 Get together this Wednesday from 3-5pm within the Wozniak Lounge. If you end up needing assist with the venture, be at liberty to return by! We are going to begin the session by giving a venture presentation, after which we are going to divulge heart’s contents to questions/OH-style assist. Extra particulars in regards to the venture social gathering shall be posted on Ed quickly, so keep tuned!

Publish Lab Walkthrough

Sometimes college students full the weekly lab task however nonetheless really feel that there are flaws of their understanding, or that regardless that their code passes the assessments, it’s nonetheless inefficient and clunky. Because of this 61B shall be internet hosting Publish-Lab Evaluate Sections beginning this week. These shall be weekly one hour sections in Soda 273 on Thursdays (7 – 8pm) the place course workers will dwell code an answer to the earlier week’s lab in addition to describe their strategy so as to see how a extra skilled Java programmer would possibly strategy the assignments.

This coming week, the part will evaluate the Git exercise from Lab 01, and increase on how Git works and can be utilized all through CS61B. Please come by if you would like a deeper take a look at Git or simply need to evaluate the lab content material from final week!

These sections will occur in Soda 273.

Tutor Evaluate Session Friday

The primary tutor evaluate session is occurring this Friday 1-3pm within the Soda labs (2nd ground)!!! Tutor evaluate periods led by our 61brilliant tutors are supposed to catch college students up with what has been happening within the course with mini-lectures adopted by worksheet & past-exam issues. This week we’re masking Java programming, arrays, and linked lists! Since these periods have traditionally had a excessive turnout, college students shall be break up among the many three labs downstairs and can rotate between the rooms. Anticipate an announcement with extra data within the coming days!

Lateness Coverage & Pacing Factors

We finalized the lateness policy & pacing points earlier final week – please take a second to evaluate the insurance policies for this semester! When you’re experiencing extenuating circumstances, this new section may additionally be of use.

Taken from the lateness coverage: “An essential observe on extensions: main as much as an task deadline, we often present elevated assist for that task (within the type of elevated staffing). In consequence, persevering with to work on an task after the unique deadline might result in slower response occasions on Ed/longer wait occasions in OH, as workers will actively prioritize assignments whose deadlines haven’t handed.”

Excellent Interactions and Incident Reviews

When you had a memorable or nice expertise getting assist from any workers member, AI, or one other scholar and need to give them a shoutout, fill out the Outstanding Interactions form! (We’ve been sending these to whomever they point out and it offers all of us power :D)

Then again, when you’ve got had a unfavourable interplay within the course, fill out the nameless Incident Report Form.

Abstract of Necessary Dates

• Pre-Semester Survey: Due Monday 1/23 at 11:59pm PT

• HW 0B due Monday 1/23

• Lab 1 due Tuesday 1/24

• Venture 0 due Friday 1/27

• Venture 0 Get together Wednesday 1/25 3-5pm in Woz

• Publish Lab Walkthrough this Thursday 1/26 at 7-8PM

• Tutor Topical Evaluate Session this Friday 1/27 at 1-3PM

Posted January 15, 2023 @ 00:00:00

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Enrollment

In case you are at the moment waitlisted within the class and intend on enrolling, please keep on the waitlist! We are going to possible have the ability to increase the course to accommodate all waitlisted college students. You need to full assignments as in the event you’re enrolled within the class to make sure that you don’t fall behind.

Lecture Data

Lectures are scheduled on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 1-2 PM in Li Ka Shing 245. The primary lecture is that this Wednesday (1/18) from 1-2PM, each just about on zoom (hyperlink up to date on 1/19 for Friday’s lecture) and in-person. Nonetheless, the lecture corridor doesn’t have ample area for all college students within the class – the lecture corridor can solely seat ~290 college students. Please fill out this form to tell us how you intend on attending Wednesday’s lecture, in order that we are able to plan accordingly.

Course Web site

The course web site is now dwell at https://sp23.datastructur.es/. The web site continues to be beneath building! Don’t belief particulars on pages that say they’re beneath building, or the task calendar previous Week 2.

Ed Insurance policies

We’re making these posts on Ed! Ed is a dialogue discussion board much like Piazza, which you could have used earlier than. On Ed, you’ll be able to ask questions that your fellow college students and course workers can reply. When you haven’t used Ed earlier than, it’s fairly good – we’ve written a guide for brand spanking new customers that introduces you to a few of the options.

Since Ed is a useful resource shared by everybody, we do have some insurance policies that we ask that you just observe. Typically, ask the type of questions that you just want to see on the discussion board. We’ve got a number of specifics on how you are able to do that in our Ed Policies on the course web site.

The primary insurance policies that we’d like to focus on listed here are:

• Categorize your questions appropriately. The data accessible in Ed is most helpful if it’s labeled appropriately for others wanting by it.

• Please present us that you just’ve tried earlier than asking for (conceptual | debugging) assist. We care rather a lot about you studying and ending the assignments, but in addition that you just learn to assist your self and ask good questions. The policies have some pointers on how you are able to do this.

• Don’t submit your code publicly. When you consider you want particular debugging assist that entails displaying us your code, there shall be a class in every task labeled “Gitbugs (Personal)”. That is the place you’ll be able to ask a non-public query along with your code. Gitbugs haven’t been launched but.

Dialogue

Dialogue sections start subsequent week. In dialogue, TAs will evaluate the fabric and assist college students collaborate to resolve the issues on the worksheet. You could find extra info within the syllabus. There are no signups, and you’ll attend any dialogue part. You aren’t required to attend a dialogue part.

For the primary two weeks, we ask that you just be respectful of different college students within the class, and don’t attend a number of dialogue sections in the identical week. The underside of the homepage of the course web site has been up to date with the dialogue schedule. Observe that the dialogue schedule differs from the schedule within the College Course Catalog. You received’t see any on the calendar for this week, so take a look at subsequent week’s calendar if you wish to plan forward.

There may be one (1) deliberate on-line dialogue, scheduled for 4-5pm on Tuesday with Max. This part is not going to start on 1/17, however will start the next week (1/24).

We’ve got three (3) various kinds of discussions this semester:

Bridge

Would you like extra of an emphasis on the ideas earlier than diving into the dialogue worksheet? In that case, our bridge dialogue will be the proper place for you! A few of our superb TAs will lead a two-hour dialogue part deliberately organized for college students who will not be as aware of the fabric that week. It’s a good way to get just a little extra comfy with the subjects and obtain extra individualized consideration throughout part. The fabric and problem coated throughout the bridge dialogue part would be the similar because the Observe dialogue part, and we’ll have an prolonged mini-lecture to strengthen conceptual understanding.

Observe

This part is greatest for college students who’re caught up with lecture and are able to deal with some medium-difficulty questions. Normally there are extra questions on the worksheet than could be completed within the allotted hour, so TAs can choose and select which issues to work on throughout the part.

Examination-Degree

Examination-level sections are extra fast-paced sections that cowl harder issues than apply discussions. The aim of those sections is to get comfy with exam-level issues and problem-solving methods. Usually, there shall be much less give attention to evaluate/mini-lecture and extra time spent on the issues. You’ll be able to attend solely an exam-level part, or each a apply/bridge part in addition to an exam-level part, since we are going to cowl completely different issues within the two part sorts.

Lab

Lab sections start this week. In lab, TAs will introduce the task, evaluate related materials, and reply college students’ questions. You could find extra info within the syllabus. There are no signups, and you’ll attend any lab part. You aren’t required to attend a lab part. The lab schedule could be discovered on the backside of the course website’s main page.

For the primary two weeks, we ask that you just be respectful of different college students within the class, and don’t attend a number of lab sections in the identical week. You should not have to attend the identical TA’s part for lab and dialogue. The underside of the homepage of the course web site has been up to date with the lab schedule. Observe that the lab schedule differs from the schedule within the College Course Catalog.

There may be one (1) deliberate on-line lab, from 3-5pm on Thursdays taught by Max. This lab will start on 1/19.

The Lab 1 task itself is due Tuesday 1/24 at 11:59 PM PT. This lab comprises setup directions which can be required to finish the remainder of the course. Begin early! Setup can take a very long time and typically requires TAs to assist determine bizarre issues. Lab 2, when launched, shall be due on Friday 1/27 at 11:59 PM PT, so plan accordingly.

See #51 for extra particulars.

HW 0

Homework 0: A Java Crash Course shall be launched this coming week! The homework consists of two components:

• Half A – workout routines utilizing primary Java syntax and language constructs. This half shall be launched on Tuesday, January seventeenth and be due on Friday, January twentieth.

• Half B – workout routines utilizing the most typical knowledge constructions that we’ll see in CS 61B. This half shall be launched on Friday, January twentieth and be due on Monday, January twenty third.

Separate Ed threads shall be posted about these two assignments as soon as they’re launched, so maintain a watch out!

Workplace Hours

Workplace hours start this week on Wednesday. Throughout workplace hours, you’ll be able to obtain particular person assistance on assignments. The workplace hours schedule could be discovered on the backside of the course website’s main page.

Excellent Interactions and Incident Reviews

When you had a memorable or nice expertise getting assist from any workers member, AI, or one other scholar and need to give them a shoutout, fill out the Outstanding Interactions form! (We’ve been sending these to whomever they point out and it offers all of us power :D)

Then again, when you’ve got had a unfavourable interplay within the course, fill out the nameless Incident Report Form.

Pre-Semester Survey

The Pre-Semester Survey is due Monday 1/23 at 11:59 PM PT. This survey is value 128 factors of additional credit score. The primary weekly survey shall be launched this weekend, and due Monday.

Surveys are value a really small quantity of credit score within the course. We don’t settle for late survey responses, and you can’t apply for an extension on surveys.

Abstract of Necessary Dates

• Homework 0A: Launched Tuesday 1/17, due Friday 1/20 at 11:59pm PT

• Homework 0????️: Launched Friday 1/20, due Monday 1/23 at 11:59pm PT

• Venture 0: Launched Friday 1/20, due Friday 1/27 at 11:59pm PT

• Pre-Semester Survey: Due Monday 1/23 at 11:59pm PT

• Lab 1: Due Tuesday 1/24 at 11:59 PM PT

Posted January 3, 2023 @ 00:00:00

This web site is beneath building! All the pieces topic to alter. Examination dates and
occasions, and tasks are all TBA.

You probably have pressing questions in regards to the course, please e mail
cs61b (at) berkeley.edu. You’ll get a sooner response than
emailing Professor Hug.

We all know that the hyperlinks could also be damaged. If you wish to get a head begin on the content material, you’ll be able to try the Fall 2022 course website.

Course insurance policies and different administrative stuff coming quickly!

Once more, don’t belief what you see under!