6.00 Class Home

6.00 Introduction to Comp Sci & Programming

Fall 2011

Instructors: Eric Grimson, John V Guttag

TAs: Sarina Alyse Canelake, Angela N Chang, Pangus Ho, Susan Song

Lecture: TR11 (34-101)

Information:

This subject is aimed at students with little or no programming experience. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the role computation can play in solving problems. It also aims to help students, regardless of their major, to feel justifiably confident of their ability to write small programs that allow them to accomplish useful goals. The class will use the Python programming language.

Announcements

Snafu with grades

As a result of clerical errors, a number of grades were entered incorrectly. I will send in revised grades this afternoon, but don't know when they wil appear in the registrar's database. I apologize for the errors.

John Guttag

Announced on 22 December 2011 11:30 a.m. by John V Guttag

Review Session in 32-141

Sorry for the last minute change! I'll be there soon.

Announced on 15 December 2011 1:05 p.m. by Pangus Ho

Review Session location changed

For some reason 32-123 is occupied by a huge event, and we can't use the room although we've reserved it. We're currently trying to find another room to use. We'll let you know where ASAP.

Announced on 15 December 2011 12:57 p.m. by Pangus Ho

More on course evaluations

We're up to 36%, but that is still a low response rate. As I said earlier, what you say really can impact future students. Please do take a few minutes to fill out this survey. Even if you respond to only a portion of the survey, it's better than nothing.

http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/

Announced on 14 December 2011 10:32 a.m. by John V Guttag

Course evaluations needed

It appears that only 14% of you have completed the online course evaluation for 6.00. A sample of that size has a significant chance of being biased. If I were sure that it was biased in my favor, I would not be sending out this note. Regrettably, however, I have no way of knowing the direction of the sample bias. So, I want to encourage those of you who have not participated to please do so. And remember, that you not only get to evaluate me and Prof. Grimson, you also get to evaluate as many of the TA's as you want.

I don't get to know who said what, but I do get to read all of the evaluations--and I take them very seriously. I want to teach a course that is both useful and (at least somewhat) enjoyable, and feedback from the students is the only way I know to figure out what should change and what should not.

Also, these evaluations are a potentially valuable tool for students in choosing what courses to take and from whom to take them. In recent years, it has not always been available in a timely fashion, but I am told that there are steps underway to correct that.

Finally, if we get a >70% response rate by FRIDAY, we will bring donuts to the final.

The web site is http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/evaluate.html.

John Guttag

Announced on 11 December 2011 2:30 p.m. by John V Guttag

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