[CSC 315] First Test and First Programming Assignment

[Andrew J. Pounds]

There's nothing like a due date to bring out the "problems".   I have 
received a few requests for extensions based on (1) network problems, 
(2) car problems, and (3) laptop problems.  Since I had originally 
scheduled the test to be BEFORE the programming assignment was due date, 
I will keep it that way.   Your test is TUESDAY of this week (and you 
should prepare for that) but we will move the due date for your first 
programming assignment to THURSDAY at midnight.

Many of you are making good progress and are actually working on 
intersections and tesselations.  Some of you are still struggling with 
how to get points into an array or a linked list.  And then there are 
those that are still going, "What's a makefile?" and "Git what?"    I'll 
help as I can with any and all questions -- but I can only help if you ask.

Back when I was a lifeguard it was drilled into me that I could be held 
legally responsible only for those swimmers that I could see.   The 
lifeguard team worked painstakingly to keep the area around the pool 
clear of obstructions and positioned the lifeguard towers near the 
diving wells so we could see all the way to the bottom.  Most drownings 
that occur in public pools occur when people are in over their head and 
have somehow gotten out of view or earshot of the lifeguard.  If you are 
in over your head please let me know so I can throw you a rope.


That being said -- don't take the extension as an opportunity to put off 
coding.  Get it done and let me know if you need help.

That is all....

-- 
Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.  (pounds_aj at mercer.edu)
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University,  Macon, GA 31207   (478) 301-5627
http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj

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