Summary

• Class 00 - 20-January-2015
• Class 01 - 27-January-2015
• Class 02 - 3-February-2015
• Class 03 - 10-February-2015
• Class 04 - 24-February-2015
• Class 05 - 3-March-2015
• Class 06 - 10-March-2015
• Class 07 - 17-March-2015
• Class 08 - 24-March-2015
• Class 09 - 31-March-2015
• SpringBreak - 7-April-2015
• Class 10 - 14-April-2015
• Class 11 - 21-April-2015
• Final - 28-April-2015

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Class 00: 20-January-2015

• Announcements
  • ACM Meetings
  • ACM BBQ
  • Arduino Night
    New Orleans Mini Maker Faire - Deadline to
    register is February 1st!
• Class policy
  • Grading policy
  • Calendar
  • web
  • mailing list
  • contests
• If you do not know the rules -- how are you going to win the game? -- read the Student Handbook
• 24 hours - 2 hours a week for a dozen weeks
• Explained rules for improving grades (preview, view, review)
• Talked a little about ACM
• Mentioned Quora - it has a collection of questions answered by various people. In particular, a lot of questions about how to win programming contests.
• Promoted contests as a way to periodically benchmark yourself to see if and how much you are learning each year.
• Explained a little about history of class.
• Potential contests this semester:
  • North American Invitational/open
  • High School Online
  • LSU Online

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Class 01: 27-January-2015

• Second class - does not count as part of Digital Media Minor
• ACM Meeting --- Feb 11 (joint meeting with IEEE: EA Sports)
• North American Invitational Programming Contest will be on March 28 (we will signup for the open side)
• March 7: New Orleans Mini Maker Faire - Deadline to
  register is February 1st!
• Global Game Jam was last weekend
• Arduino night -- TBA
• vim
• Cloud at Cost
• Diversion: code vs data
• Talked a little about continuum of data and code. I believe that a given problem can be solved many ways. Each of these ways could be put on a line where one extreme is minimum data use and the other extreme is minimum code use.

  Example: Suppose you need to add random amounts to a total based on a value. Here are three examples that do that:

  Nested If Statements

  if (1 == i)
   { total = total + 17; }
  elseif (2 == i)
   { total = total + 29; }
  elseif (3 == i)
   { total = total + 99; }
  

  Case Stratement

  switch (i)
   { // switch
   Case 1: total = total + 17; break;
   Case 2: total = total + 29; break;
   Case 3: total = total + 99; break;
   } // switch
   

  Array Implementation

   int ary[4] {0, 17, 29, 99};
  
  
   total = total + ary[i];
   

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Class 02: 3-February-2015

• Third class
• ACM Meeting --- Feb 11 3:00, PFT 1502(joint meeting with IEEE: EA Sports)
• North American Invitational Programming Contest will be on March 28 (we will signup for the open side)
• March 7: New Orleans Mini Maker Faire - Deadline to
  register is February 22nd!
• Arduino night -- TBA
• Problems covered: 10004, 10110
  • Problem: 10004
    
  • Problem: 10110
    

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Class 03: 10-February-2015

• Announcements
  • ACM Meeting tomorrow at 3:00 PM in PFT 1502.
  • No class next week - Mardi gras
  • No king cake this week :(
  • udebug - sample data for some problems
  • Problems talked about:
    • Problem: 483
      
    • Problem: 575
      
    • Problem: 10041
      
    • Problem: 10079
      
    • Problem: 10812
      

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Class 04: 24-February-2015

• Announcements:
  • ACM Meeting ??
  • NAIPC/NAOPC
  • New Orleans Mini Maker Faire
  • Arduino Night - tomorrow
• Problems talked about:
  • Problem: 382
    
  • Problem: 10346
    

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Class 05: 3-March-2015

• Announcements
  • Tomorrow: Arduino Night
  • let me know who is going to the Maker Faire
    • Faire is 10 AM to 5 PM
    • Need folks from 9:00 AM to 5:30ish, I suggest all day or half a day, need a fe folks each ahlf
    • You need to arrange your own transportation
    • The Faire is in hte Tulane Student Union (Lavin-Bernick Center)
    • Parking is in the parking garage (football field or so away)
    • Folks that I think are going:
      • Hunter
      • Michael Z
      • Aanchal
      • Inna
      • Steven T
      • Alan Fos
      • Josh
  • North American Open Programming Contest
    • Registration
    • Contest: March 28, 2015
    • practices: March 7, 14, 21
• Small turnout
• Video meeting
  • TED talks and how neat they are
  • Showed the fibonacci talk
  • Learning math can be fun/neat if taught from why things work the way they do instead of from the perspectice of here is the process -- memorize it)
  • I challenged folks to watch 1 ted talk a week (15 minutes). Some may not be so good from your perspective -- but a few are likely to change your view of the world.
  • To get you started, here is a list of the 20 most popular of all time
  • I can recommend How great leaders inspire action. His idea is that everybody looks at what/how/why. MOst people/companies know what and a lot of time they understand how. He believes the great folks of our time understand why first, then proceed to how and finally finish wiht what. Very interesting talk...
  • I also showed the Sorenson OScon Keynote where he write a program live with commentary that in real time plays musc. This is incredible -- please watch it. We then talked about communicaiton.
• Problems talked about:
  • Problem: 401
    
  • Problem: 369
    

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Class 06: 10-March-2015

• Announcements
  • ACM Meeting wednesday (DMC 234 at 6:00 PM)
  • NAIPC practice this Saturday
• Problems from March 7 practice.
• Scoreboard from practice 1
• Problems talked about:
  • Problem: 10970
    
  • Problem: 10107
    
  • Problem: 543
    
  • Problem: 146
    
  • Problem: 445
    

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Class 07: 17-March-2015

• Announcements
  • ACM Arduino Nite (Coates 214 or 216)
  • NAIPC practice this Saturday
• Problems from March 14 practice.
• Scoreboard from March 14 practice.
• Problems from March 7 practice.
• Scoreboard from practice 1
• Problems talked about:
  • Problem: 10970
    

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Class 08: 24-March-2015

• Announcements
  • NAIPC practice this Saturday noon-5:00 (actual full contest), I will be in Frey 101 for folks that want to come and work. CASH PRIZES do exist! (based on random draw of teams that slve 2, 3 or 4 problems).
• Problems from March 21 practice.
• Scoreboard from practice 3
• Math Blog
• Problems talked about:
  • Problem: 100
    

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Class 09: 31-March-2015

• Announcements
  • Problems from March 27th contest.
  • Scoreboard from practice 3
  • Math Blog
  • Problems talked about:
    • Problem: 10006
      
    • Problem: 482
      
    • Problem: 476
      
    • Problem: 477
      
    • Problem: 478
      
    • Problem: 530
      
    • Problem: 414
      
    • Problem: 11498
      
    • Problem: 256
      
    • Problem: 573
      
    • Problem: 10929
      
    • Problem: 708
      

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  Class break: 7-April-2015

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  Class 10: 14-April-2015

  • Announcements
    • ACM/IEEE BBQ postponed
    • ACM Elections
  • Wikipedia Dijkstra's algorithm
    Animation of Dijkstra's Algorithm

     (undirected)
    1 to 2 = 7
    1 to 6 = 14
    2 to 3 = 10
    2 to 4 = 15
    3 to 4 = 11
    3 to 6 = 2
    4 to 5 = 6
    5 to 6 = 9
        
    YouTube Floyd-Warshall Algorithm
     (directed)
    1 to 2 = 8
    1 to 4 = 1
    2 to 3 = 1
    3 to 1 = 4
    4 to 2 = 2
    4 to 3 = 9
    
        
    Wikipedia Floyd–Warshall algorithm
    
    

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  Class 11: 21-April-2015

  • Upcoming events:
    • ACM Meeting -- tomorrow (elections)
    • ACM/IEEE BBQ Monday
    • Sign up for class
    • Godzilla Saturday
    • Final next week
    • RedStick '15
      Expo / Maker Fair (May 30)

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  Class 12: 28-April-2015

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