- Class 00 - 14-January-2025
- Class 01 - 21-January-2025
- Class 02 - 28-January-2025
- Class 03 - 4-February-2025
- Class 04 - 11-February-2025
- Class 05 - 18-February-2025
- Class 06 - 25-February-2025
- Mardi Gras - 4-March-2025
- Class 07 - 11-March-2025
- Class 08 - 18-March-2025
- Class 09 - 25-March-2025
- Spring Break - 1-April-2025
- Class 10 - 8-April-2025
- Class 11 - 15-April-2025
- Class 12 - 22-April-2025
- Class 13 - 29-April-2025 (Final)
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Class 00: 14-January-2025
- Intro (to Isaac and class)
- Class policy
- Class outline/policy
- Intro/purpose (ICPC Facts (pdf))
- Grading policy
- Calendar
- web
- mailing list (icpc-practice)
- Office hours
- Homework
- go to UVA Online judge and sign up for an account
- Send an e-mail to class@isaac.lsu.edu with your name and your UVA ID (numeric number, not username)
- Read student code of conduct, read Faculty handbook (pdf)
- Review class summary (which you are doing now)
- Class outline/policy
- Upcoming Events
- ICPC Career Fair ?
- Typical Class
- Annoucements
- Humble Bundle
- PackT Pub books
- Person of the day -- importance of history, context
- Lecture/discussion
- Problem Analysis
- Annoucements
- Game - most things can be considered a game (if not all). Games tend to have the following attributes:
- Goal
- Rules
- Skill enhanced with practice
- Knowing the rules often enhances chances of succeeding in a game (for example: Reading the student handbook is a good way to improve your chances at succeeding at being a student).
- Quote: 20 hours at the keyboard can save you 2 hours of planning
- UVA Yearly submisson statistics
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Class 01: 21-January-2025
- Annoucements
` - No class due to snow storm (really -- 6+ inches)
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Class 02: 28-January-2025
- Annoucements
Person of the day
- Niklaus Wirth
- UVA, uHunt, uDebug
- Microcomputer, minicomputer, mainframe
- microcomputer is based on a microprocessor chip. The systems performance tends to bottleneck at the I/O pins of the proccessor chip(s). When they are saturated, the system cannot go any faster. Caches and predictive sopecultion can reduce this occurrence.
- Minicomputers have the processing spread across multiple boards plugged into a bus. When this bus becomes saturated, progress stops.
- Mainframes are designed as separate modules (compute, memory, disk, ...). Modules are connected by I/O channels. When a channel becomes saturated, additional channels can be added or additional modules communicating over additional channels can help alleviate the load issues.
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Class 03: 4-February-2025
- Annoucements
- News
- Google Removes Pledge To Not Use AI For Weapons From Website -- so much for "do no evil
- Amazon, King of Online Retail, Can't Seem To Make Its Physical Stores Work
- Cruise To Slash Workforce By Nearly 50% After GM Cuts Funding To Robotaxi Operations
- Americans Kiss Job Hopping Goodbye
- Microsoft Quietly Makes It Harder To Install Windows 11 on Old PCs Ahead of Windows 10's End of Support
- Chris Anderson Is Giving TED Away To Whoever Has the Best Idea for Its Future
- Microsoft Veteran Ponders World Where Toothbrushes Need Reboots
- Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time For People Who Download DeepSeek
Person of the day
- Music
- Frustration
- Reading Code
- Tool Box
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Class 04: 11-February-2025
- Annoucements
- News
Person of the day
- Robert Metcalfe
- Designer of ethernet
- Founded 3com
- wikipedia
- Metcalfe's law - the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2)
- The History of Ethernet
- Living legends: Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe
- The birth and rise of Ethernet: A history
- Awards:
- Robert Metcalfe
- Class Today
- Ethernet
- You may pick any problems from the archive that you have not done prior to this semester.
- Problem Categories
- Big O
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Class 05: 18-February-2025
- Annoucements
- News
- Groups Ask US Court To Reconsider Ruling Blocking Net Neutrality Rules
- Free Software Foundation Speaks Up Against Red Hat Source Code Announcement
- New Junior Developers Can't Actually Code
- Brake Pad Dust Can Be More Toxic Than Exhaust Emissions, Study Says
- Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
- Western Digital Aims For 100TB Hard Drives by 2030
Person of the day
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Network design, World Wide Web, HTTP
- wikipedia
- wikiquote
- Cool URIs don't change
- Awards:
- Knighted by Queen Elizabeth
- Turing Award
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Class Today
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Class 06: 25-February-2025
- Annoucements
- News
Person of the day
- Richard Stallman
- Fundamental idea: Free as in beer
In a nutshell, the word "free" has a couple of meanings and it's not always possible to tell in context which one the user meant. "Free as in beer" refers to the cost (i.e. money) of the software, while "free as in speech" refers to what you are allowed to do with the software.
- His personal Page
- Wikipedia
- WikiQuote
- GNU Project
- Free Software Foundation
- A look back at 40 Years of GNU and the Free Software Foundation
- Fundamental idea: Free as in beer
- Richard Stallman
- Class Today
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Mardi Gras: 4-March-2025
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Class 07: 11-March-2025
- Annoucements
- News
- Class Today
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Class 08: 18-March-2025
- Annoucements
- News
- Class Today
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Class 09: 25-March-2025
- Annoucements
- News
- Class Today
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Spring Break: 1-April-2025
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Class 10: 8-April-2025
- Annoucements
- News
- Class Today
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Class 11: 15-April-2025
- Annoucements
- News
- Class Today
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Class 12: 22-April-2025
- Annoucements
- News
- Class Today
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Class 13: 29-April-2025 (Final)
- Final tonight
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