Instructor: Marty Stepp (stepp)

Announcements

• [3/11/2009] Web programming textbook: If you enjoyed CSE 142, you may want to check out the following textbook about web site programming by Marty Stepp: Web Programming Step by Step. The book is being used in UW's CSE 190 M web programming course.
• [12/14] Overall course grades posted: Check your UW email for the link to the grade information.

  If you have any feedback for Marty about CSE 142, please send him an anonymous message using our end-of-quarter survey. If you're willing to spend a moment to give customer feedback about our textbook, please visit its Amazon.com page.

  Thanks for a good quarter, and enjoy your break! -- Marty

  (P.S. A student sent an anonymous message saying that our grading scale was unfairly harsh. Since I can't respond to the person directly, I'll give links here to the course syllabus, which stated the course grading rubric (we shifted everyone up around 0.2 points from that rubric, actually) and to the UW Standard Grading System, which closely matches our own rubric.)

• [12/12] Final exam update: You can now check your final exam score on MyUW. The average score on the final was roughly 67 (median 70). The final exam scores have been curved by +6 points.

  If you want to see why you got the exam score you did, see why you lost points, or to ask us to re-check your score, you can pick up your test at the CSE building front desk starting Monday, December 15. On our Exams page we have posted the final exam itself, an answer key, and scans of your extra credit artwork. We also posted the problems on Practice-It. The final exam regrade procedure is also explained in the Exams section. If you disagree with your score, you can verify the grading and submit your exam for a regrade.

  FYI, the partition problem on the final exam is related to a well-known sorting algorithm called quicksort. Learn more about quicksort on Wikipedia or from my old lecture slides.

• [12/2] Bandes TA Award: Did you have a great TA this quarter? If so, please nominate him/her for our department's prestigious Bob Bandes Memorial TA Award! The number of students who nominate a given TA, along with the enthusiasm of those students' written comments, are major factors in who is selected to win the award each year.
• [12/3] CSE 143: The course is now full yet again, and this time we probably won't be able to add any more sections. But if you still want to get into the course, we encourage you to do the following:
  • Keep checking the registration system during winter break. Some students holding seats in CSE 143 will give up those seats for various reasons, either because they will unexpectedly fail CSE 142 or because they'll change their mind about wanting to take CSE 143. You may be able to grab one of their spots as they drop 143.
  • Come to the CSE 143 lecture on the first day of class in Winter quarter. We may be able to find spots for some people at that time.