All Day Classes - Important Announcement Re: Accreditation Visit

The final schedule of the accreditation visit is on September 3-5.  You are required to wear your school uniform on these dates.  You are also to memorize at least the vision and mission of the college and the university, if not the entire VGMO, in case you will be interviewed by some accreditors.  Your attendance will also be required during the opening and the closing program.

This will be our supposed schedule next week:

IT2 day (Data Structures)

• Monday - I will not meet you anymore
• Tuesday - I will re-discuss Hashing again or I might give a dummy lab exercise (in case our class is chosen to be observed by the accreditors)

CS2 (Data Structures)

• Wednesday - I will re-discuss Hashing again (in case our class is chosen to be observed by the accreditors)
• Thursday - I will not meet you anymore (the accreditation closing program will be set in the afternoon)

CS2 (SPL)

• Monday - presentors will present on Chapter 8 (you might re-present your presentation here on Wednesday given some coaching)
• Wednesday - continuation on Chapter 8 (Make sure that you deliver your presentation in well-polished manner because you need to impress the accreditors, in case we will be observed by them)

 Automata

• Tuesday - midterm exam
• Thursday - I will discuss the answers to the midterm exam so that we will have something to discuss, in case our class will be observed by the accreditors. 

To my data structure classes:

I want to apologize for I haven't really finished your prelim grades yet due to our very busy schedule in preparation for the upcoming accreditation.  I might need a week-long break after the "stressful" accreditation activity so I can make use of that time to finish up your grades.  If time permits, I will also include your midterm grades as well.

SPL - Announcement (Updated as of Today, 2:30pm)

You will have your long test tomorrow on Chapter 7.

I want to raise also the concern of Ms. Ella Baguio's supposedly group mates in Chapter 9 (Ms. Luna and Mr. Solis) who dropped the course already.  Since she is the only one left in her group, I would like to transfer Ms. Crebillo and Ms. Panganiban (from Chapter 14) to be Ella's partner in Chapter 9.  We will not be covering Chapter 14 anymore so we'll end this semester with the topic on Support for OOP.

Data Structures - Important Announcement Re: Long Test on Hashing

The IC Dean just informed us earlier this afternoon that we will spend the entire day of August 27 (Tuesday) to finish and polish all accreditation documents in preparation for the accreditation visit scheduled on September 3-6.  As such, the long test on Hashing will be re-scheduled as follow:

• CS Day :  August 22 (Thursday), 2:00-3:30pm 

• IT Day :  August 22 (Thursday), 3:30-5:00pm  (If this schedule is inconvenient for you, then you may join the evening schedule.  If both schedules are inconvenient for you, please let me know in advance.)

• IT Eve :  August 24 (Saturday), 2:00-3:30pm

We are actually advance in our topic outline.  During the accreditation visit, some accreditors might observe some classes.  In the event that our class will be chosen, I will be repeating the lectures again.  Hence, your cooperation and participation are expected of you during the class observation.  

Automata and Data Structures - Announcement

Automata

• We will not meet this Thursday for the same reason I mentioned earlier in class today.  I will, instead, use our time to check the accreditation documents in my assigned area.  We will meet next week.

Data Structures (All Classes)

• I'm still checking your prelim exercises, and hopefully I can finish them all this weekend.  So that I can show you your grades as soon as I'm done checking, I will upload your class record in our dropbox folder.  If you want to be discreet with your grades, you may use codenames.  You don't need to email your codename, just create a text file and save it using your desired codename.  Upload this text file in your own shared dropbox folder.

“One reason for doing the right thing today is tomorrow.”- unknown

Data Structures (All Classes) - Midterm Class Schedules (Third Update as of August 10)

For the midterms, we will not going to have a written periodical exam anymore, instead we'll have two long tests.  First long test will be about Trees, and the second one will be about Hashing.  You will be graded as follows:

• Long Tests (2) :     60%
• Exercises/MPs:      40%

 

Please be guided of our schedule (still subject to change) this midterm which will be as follows:

CS2 (Updated Schedule Ver2)

• August 1 (Tomorrow)  - Laboratory Exercise on Trees
• August 7 (Wednesday) - Long Test on Trees  (Bring plenty of newsprint or bond paper)
• August 8 (Thursday) -  Bring Home Exercise on Trees <-- NEW
• August 14 (Wednesday) - Lecture on Hashing
• August 15 (Thursday) - Exercise on Hashing
• August 21 (Wednesday) - No Class (Holiday)
• August 22 (Thursday) - Long Test on Hashing <--- NEW

IT2 Day (Updated Schedule Ver2)

• August 5 (Monday)  - No Class (will be attending a PhilNITS seminar) <-- NEW
• August 6 (Tuesday) - No class since we will have a meeting but a bring home exercise on Trees will be given
• August 12 (Monday) - Long Test on Trees  (Bring plenty of newsprint or bond paper)
• August 13 (Tuesday) - Continuation on Hashing <-- NEW
• August 19 (Monday) - Exercise on Hashing <-- NEW
• August 20 (Tuesday) - Long Test on Hashing <-- NEW
• August 26 (Monday) - No Class (Holiday) 

IT2 Evening (Updated Schedule Ver1)

• August 3 (Saturday)  - Laboratory Exercise on Trees
• August 10 (Saturday) - Long Test on Trees  (Bring plenty of newsprint or bond paper) / Bring Home Exercise/MP on Trees <-- NEW
• August 17 (Saturday) - Lecture on Hashing <-- NEW
• August 24 (Saturday) - Long Test on Hashing
• August 31 (Saturday) - Exercise on Hashing

Third grading topics will include:

•  Priority Queues (Heaps)

• Java Collection API

Automata - Topics and Presenters for Third Grading

Refer to the table below:

Data Structures (All Classes) - Another Exercise on Trees

I have already uploaded another exercise for Binary Search Trees on our dropbox folder.  See program specifications and the submission guidelines.  Check also the updated midterm class schedules.

CS - I'm not going to meet you anymore this Thursday in your lab schedule.

IT2A evening - You will have your bring home exercise for this week as well, instead of having it next week.