CS35: Data Structures and Algorithms
Fall 2021

Office hours

Students are strongly encouraged to attend office hours. Feel free to attend any office hours that are convenient for you--it need not be the ones held by your instructor.

DayTimeLocationInstructor
Mon.10:00-12:00via ZoomSpencer Caplan
Mon.1:30-3:00SCI 243Lisa Meeden
Tue.1:00-2:30SCI 252BCharles Kazer
Tue.3:00-4:00SCI 262ASpencer Caplan
Wed.1:30-3:00SCI 243Lisa Meeden

Ninja support

The CS Ninjas will assist us in our lab sessions and will also run study sessions in the evenings. Students are also strongly encouraged to attend the evening study sessions for extra help in completing labs.


DayTimeLocationNinjas
Mon.7:00-9:00pmSCI 256Catherine, Ryan, Belle
Tue.7:00-8:30pmSCI 256Sherry, Alice, Arina
Tue.8:30-10:00pmSCI 256Catherine, Rodas, Ryan

Ninjas are instructed to help guide you through any topics, but will not provide solutions/direct answers to programming problems. If you are having troubles with your programming assignment, please be prepared to describe what steps you have already taken to solve the problem. (The same goes for seeking help during office hours and/or on ed). While our ninjas are dedicated, please do not ask for their help outside of lab and ninja sessions--they are students just like you who need some off time to finish their own course work!

ed

To provide additional help have we established a class discussion forum through ed. If you have questions outside of ninja sessions and office hours, you can post the question to the class and/or privately to the instructors through ed. This allows students to see common problems and to also engage in discussions about course topics. Students are expected to regularly check the discussion page and use this in place of emailing the instructors directly about course content and labs.

In addition, students are expected to follow the ed posting policy. For example, you should not post solutions to homework/lab questions and your post will be deleted if it is attempting to fish for debugging solutions without specific inquiries. Small snippets of 2-3 lines of code are permissible unless they give away a key point of the lab. Students are encouraged to respond to other student's questions as this will form part of your participation grade.

Tutoring

If you are in need of additional assistance, and have already used the services above, a small number of student tutoring hours can be arranged with approval from the instructor.