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<p><font face="serif">Good morning! Can you believe class starts
next week (I am in denial...)</font></p>
<p><font face="serif">Here are some things you can start to do to
prepare for the first day of class...<br>
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<p><font face="serif"> <b>The Book: </b>You WILL need to have a
copy of the text for this class. I will be assigning homework
problems from it and it is really important that you get the
correct edition (and when I mean the correct edition I mean the
corrent 10th edition sold in the United States) -- not the
international edition. The homework problems are different
across the different editions.</font></p>
<p><font face="serif">The good news is that this is a highly revered
text among computer scientists, engineers, and mathematicians -
I think I used the first or second edition when I was in
school. The authors have rotated in and out -- but the text has
aged well and incorporated new ideas and techniques over the
years. Because it is so widely used you may be able to find a
copy of the book on the used book market - but again, make sure
it is the 10th edition and not the international edition.
Please don't wait too long on this -- you will get your first
homework assignment the first day of class. <br>
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<p><font face="serif"><b>Cobra Account</b>: all of your code will
be tested on the Computer Science departmental unix system named
cobra. You will need an accout if you do not have one. Please
see Mr. Jesse Sowell on the second floor of Willet to get an
account.</font></p>
<p><b>GitLab Access: </b> Your larger projects (there will be two)
will need to be checked into the departmental GitLab server,
anvil.cs.mercer.edu. I will provide more information about this
later, but if you do not have an anvil account Jesse can help you
with this too.</p>
<p>Let me know if you have any questions.<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<b><i>Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.</i></b><br>
<i>Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science</i><br>
<i>Director of the Computational Science Program</i><br>
<i>Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627</i></div>
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