Please compelete a course evaluation by going to http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2007-08/courses/evals
Your feedback helps the course and the program.

The final exam will be given Monday May 19 at 7:35 in Science Center Hall A.

Sample final exams are in the ~lib215/info directory; login to ice and look there.

The final exam is open notes and open book. No electronic devices are permitted during the exam.

The version of ws.c had a memory bug. Please copy ~lib215/hw/wsng/ws.c to your account for the version without that bug.

The network programming project(s) are posted.

Bruce will not be able to conduct office hours Thu Apr 10.

The next assignment, writing a shell, has been posted.

Bruce will have office hours March 27 from 5:30 to 8:00 PM.

Office hours will not be held March 20. Bruce will be available by email during that evening if you would like to discuss the pong assignment or other topics.

Distance students who live in the six-state New England area are required to attend the final exam (May 19, 2008) in person at the Harvard Science Center.

Students who live outside that area should make arrangements for a local proctor. Please read the details in the Extension school catalog/website or on the Distance link for this course site.

See the projects page for a link to the pong project.

The third assignment is posted.

We have just posted a test script for the tarc project. No one has submitted their homework, yet, so all submissions should include a run of the test script in the typescript (among other things). We apologize for the delay.

Distance students and hybrid distance students: are you interested in web-based real-time chat office hours and/or discussion sections? A software system called Elluminate is available to Extension School courses.

If you would like to try it, please write to lib215 at fas.harvard.edu and we'll schedule a time.

There are some slight variations in how different groups have implemented the ustar 'standard'. Please see the tarc pagefor some reference links.

Now that enrollment has stabilized, the following weekly office hours and review classes have been scheduled:

• Brandon will hold a review session in SciCenter room 113 from 6PM - 7PM.
• Brandon will be in the computer lab Monday evenings 5:30-6PM and 7-7:30PM
  (before and after section).
• Bruce will be in the computer lab Thursday evenings 6PM - 8PM

Some students have asked for more information about our design and documentation requirements. This information is already posted on the projects page of the course web site. In particular, everyone should view the following pages:

• Earning Design Points
• Coding Standards 1
• Coding Standards 2
• Sample Design Plan

The second project, tarc is posted

There will be office hours Thursday Feb 14, from 6pm to 8pm.

Students, to activate your computer account on the machine here at Harvard, visit this address: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/computing/myaccount

The video for class 1 is now posted. Go to the Classes link on the main page and click the 'video' link for the class.

We are offering the following office hours and review classes the first week to help students learn about using the system here and programming in C:

Date	Time	Location
Wed, Jan 30	6:30-8:00PM	SciCenter Computer Lab
Thu, Jan 31	6:00-7:00PM	SciCenter Room 116
Thu, Jan 31	7:00-8:00PM	SciCenter Compter Lab
Mon, Feb 4	6:00-7:00PM	SciCenter Compter Room 113

Events in the lab (basement of science center) are office hours, events in rooms are review classes. If you do not know C well or much, please attend one or more of these events to help you get started.

Unix Systems Programming, CSCI-E215, begins at 7:35PM on Monday, January 28, 2007 in Science Center Hall A and on the Internet. If you have any questions about the course, please send email to molay @ fas.harvard.edu .

Please try the self-assessment exercises at this link to help you determine if you are prepared for the course.