Welcome to the CMPE 107 Spring 2009 Class forum

[de3ug]

Several students have requested some sort of forum for discussing class material online, so here it is. You will need a ucsc email account to register, but I've been told that at least a few of you have these already.

A few quick ground rules for the forum. No posting specific answers to the the homework problems before they are due and please don't post the midterm questions here verbatim. Such things can be discussed, but lets keep the discussion in the realm of "what is problem 3 asking for?" as opposed to "is the answer to problem 4 p[a]=e^-x ?".

-Doug

[dthelen]

Doug,
Is there a limit to email file size you can accept? I just submitted homework 3, and it was over 5MB. It's probably ok, but just want to make sure it doesn't choke on it. Could you maybe send a confirmation email when you receive the assignments?...just a thought.

Dale T.

[de3ug]

I'm sure there is some hard limit, but it is in fact greater than 5MB. In general, I would prefer if you could get the file size down below 1MB though. When you scan a document, set the quality settings to black and white (binary) instead of grayscale. That saves a lot of space. Just make sure everything is still legible. PDF is the preferred format, but I'll grade whatever I can read as long as it's not too much trouble.

As far as responding to every email submission, that's probably not going to happen as I've got far to many emails to respond to as is. You're just going to have to trust the email server and if it turns out there was a problem I can fix it later. That is to say if there was a problem with a submission and you have to resubmit, I'll grade it without penalty later, so long as this policy isn't abused.

-Doug