Programming in Perl

Final Exam is Wednesday, May 11, 3pm-6pm.
Students with last names A-K report to Walker 5113
Students with last names L-Z report to Walker 6113
BRING YOUR LAPTOPS. All exam answers will be submitted online. Bring your laptop computers and an ethernet cord to connect to the internet. Anyone without a laptop must contact me ASAP to make alternate arrangements, or will otherwise fail the exam.

Again, please take a moment to review the Final Exam Information provided. It contains information on the content, format, and structure of the final exam, as well as lists the acceptable resources.

If you have any questions, please contact me ASAP.

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

The sixth and final homework assignment, dealing with CGI programming, will be given out next week, during our second lecture on CGI programming.

Once we talk about GUI programming with Perl/Tk, I may or may not create an extra credit assignment to be done with Perl/Tk. I haven't decided yet.

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

My TAs and I are noticing a severe slow-down on rcs-sun4, quite likely because of the number of perl students currently bombarding it. Because I can see how this would impede your progress in completing homework 5, I am extending the deadline for the homework until tomorrow night at 11:59:59pm.

To avoid the backlash of "But I worked so hard to get it done on time!!!" emails, I will award a 20 point bonus to anyone who does submit the homework within the original deadline.

There will be no 'late' deadline for this assignment. Anything submitted after Wednesday at 11:59:59pm will be graded a zero.

Wednesday, March 2, 2005

I'm cancelling Perl class for today. My solution to HW3 will be on the course website after 4pm today. Please email me with any questions you have about it.

We will continue with lectures on References and Subroutines next week. Homework 4 will also be given out at that time.

Thursday, February 17, 2005

I've finally realized that no one is ever going to come to office hours on Friday evenings, so I've moved my Friday hours to Monday. Same time, 5:30-6:30pm. Tuesday hours remain unchanged.

Monday, February 7, 2005

I've just received notice from the registrar's office that our final exam is tentatively scheduled to take place smack in the middle of exam week - Wednesday, 5/11 from 3pm-6pm. There are no other CS courses with this time block, so hopefully the chance of conflict will be small. However, there are of course other Institute courses holding their exam at that time. I have listed those courses below. If you are registered for any of these courses, please let me know ASAP. The registrar wants to know aproximately how many conflicts are created by the tentative schedule, to determine if any modifications are warranted.

5/11 3pm-6pm:
ASTR 2050 - Introduction to Astronomy & Astrophysics
CHEM 2030 - Inorganic Chemistry I
CHEM 4460 - Intro to Polymer Chemistry
CIVL 6520 - Advanced Found. & Earth Struct.
DSES 4760 - Math Statistics
DSES 6110 - Intro to Applied Statistics
DSES 6962 - Design of Manufacturing
ECON 2010 - Managerial Economics
ECON 4210 - Cost Benefit Analysis
ECON 6210 - Cost Benefit Analysis
ECON 4240 - Natural Resources Economics
ECON 6240 - Natural Resources Economics
ECSE 2210 - Microelect. Technology
ECSE 4520 - Communication Sys
ECSE 6961 - Light Emitting Diodes
ENGR 2830 - Nuc. Phen. For Eng. Applic.
ENVE 4200 - Solid & Hazard Waste
ERTH 4180 - Environmental Geology
MANE 4010 - Thermal & Fluids Eng II
MANE 4040 - Mechanical System Lab (sections 1-5 only)
MATH 4800 - Numerical Computing
MATH 6590 - Topics in Partial Differential Equations
MTLE 4963 - PPFA
PHYS 6590 - Statistical Mech.
PSYC 4370 - Cognitive Psychology
STS  2640 - History of US since 1877
STS  4200 - China Past & Present

Thursday, January 27, 2005

As I'm looking over the initial homework submissions, there are several code fragments that catch my eye. I've decided to start a new "Helpful Tips" section. These are examples of code that are not wrong, but could be better or more "Perl-ish". Please check it at least semi-frequently

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Please note that James's office hours have changed. He will now be available Tuesday afternoons from 12:30-1:30.

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

In classic RPI fashion, they have fixed a problem exactly one day later than it would have been most helpful. One of the remote access machines, rcs-sun4.rpi.edu, has a newer version of perl installed. perl 5.8.2 is available on this machine. However, in order to access it, you must NOT have installed the perl-new setup package. If you have already completed the

setup
	-permanent perl-new

command, please log in to rcs-sun4 and issue this command:
setup -remove -permanent perl-new
I apologize for the contradictions.

The helpdesk informs me that the perldoc command is now functional on the RCS machines. Rejoice!

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Please note that the location of the class has changed from DCC 337 to DCC 324. This is a permanent change.

Friday, January 14, 2005

Welcome to Programming in Perl. Within the first week of class, please fill out this signup form. This will add you to the class mailing list as well as the course grading system. No grades can be recorded for you until this form has been filled out. Thank you.

The VCC Helpdesk offers a series short courses. Those of you unfamiliar with Unix and/or Emacs may be interested in taking either or both of the courses on these topics. They will prove useful for this class. The Intro to Unix course is scheduled for Tuesday, January 25 at 4pm-6pm and the Intro to Emacs course is scheduled for Tuesday, February 1 at 4pm-6pm. Preregistration is required.

Tuesday, January 4, 2005

This is the work-in-progress webpage for Spring 05's Programming in Perl Course. It is not yet finished, and likely contains several broken links.

Perl

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