6.00 Intro to Comp Sci, Programming, Data Science
Fall 2017
Instructors: Ana Bell, Eric Grimson, John V Guttag, Silvina Z Hanono Wachman
TAs: Helen Abadiotakis, Rebekah L Bell, Orhan Tunc Celiker, Isabel Chien, Phillip F Ferguson, Maryann M Gong, Parker W Greene, Laura N Gustafson, Carlos A Henriquez, Mesert Kebed, Anne K Kelley, Anne Y Kim, Nicole J O'Brien, Aasavari S Phanse, Alisha Saxena, Matthew J Tancik
Lecture: MW3-4.30 (26-100)
Information:
Piazza: https://piazza.com/mit/fall2017/60002
Staff email: 6.00-staff@mit.edu
Announcements
Details about the final
0. Students will show up to Johnson Track Thursday December 21 at 1:30pm for their 2-hour final exam. Johnson Track is on the 2nd Floor of the Z-Center.1. The written portion, the online questions (in paper form), and the study code (in paper form) will be handed out.
2. For the written portion, students will have 60 minutes to answer written problems. Students are allowed to have 2 Double-sided 8.5x11 inches pages of notes. If students finish the written portion early, they may look at the online questions (in paper form). Once 60 minutes are up, the written answers will be collected.
3. The online portion will be on MITx and can be accessed via computer (students must bring their own computers). Students will have 60 minutes to answer online problems, some of which are based on the study code. Students are allowed to have the same 2 Double-sided 8.5x11 inches pages of notes used for the paper part of the exam. The only things that should be open on computers are the quiz page of MITx, and an IDE.
Announced on 19 December 2017 3:32 p.m. by Silvina Z Hanono Wachman
Finals Week OH and Evaluations
We will have office hours from 5-7pm on Monday and Tuesday this week for last minute questions before the exam.Also, friendly reminder that course evaluations are due tomorrow morning at 9am. So far only about ~40% of the class has completed an evaluation. We read and value your feedback and would appreciate your thoughts. To evaluate please visit http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/evaluate.html.
Announced on 17 December 2017 7:17 p.m. by Anne K Kelley
Practice Exams and Solutions
To further help you with your final styding, we have posted the paper portion of two practice exams and their solutions. In addition, the solutions to the practice MITx exam can be found here as well. Please look for them under the Materials/Quizzes and Exams/Practice finals and solutions including MITx solutions .Announced on 17 December 2017 11:40 a.m. by Silvina Z Hanono Wachman
Study Code for Final
Announced on 13 December 2017 8:27 p.m. by John V Guttag
Review Slides + Correction
The review slides have been posted. We have a couple corrections to make to what we said in the review session:1) A r^2 value of 0.8 does mean that 80% of the variation in the
data is explained by the model.
2) DFS is LIFO and BFS is FIFO
Sorry for any confusion.
Announced on 13 December 2017 4:43 p.m. by Anne K Kelley
