Course announcements are posted here and announced in lecture. Please frequently check this page for updates.

Week of May 5

  • Statistics for the CS106B Midterm (out of 90 points) are:
    • Mean = 64.6 (= 72%)
    • Median = 66 (= 73%)
    • Std. Dev. = 15.4
    • Max = 90 (perfect 100%)
    • Min = 17

Week of Apr 28

  • The CS106B midterm exam is Tuesday, May 6th from 7:00pm-8:30pm in Annenberg Auditorium.
  • Mehran's office hours on Thursday (May 1st) are cancelled. He'll be causing trouble in Washington DC then.

Week of Apr 21

  • Please remeber to use pod.stanford.edu instead of elaine.stanford.edu to electronically submit your assignments. The elaine machines will be decommissioned in early May.

Week of Apr 14

  • Please use the pod machines (pod.stanford.edu) instead of the elaines to submit.
  • If you are using Windows Vista, the first time you run the People Organizer demo application (from the Assignment #2 bundle), you might get an error that says something like "Can't find console window". Just re-run the application and it should run properly from there on out.
  • There were a fair number of submission problems with Assignment 1. Check out the FAQ if you had/are having trouble.
  • The Simple C++ Assignment is due on Monday (April 14th). Assignment #2 (People Organizer) goes out on Monday and is due Wednesday, April 23.

Week of Apr 7

  • Sections start this week. You should get an email by Tuesday letting you know your section assignment. If you forgot to sign up for a section, you should immediately send email to cs198@cs.stanford.edu letting them know that you need to be assigned to a section for CS106B.
  • Mehran's office hours have been changed this week (due to conflicts with the usual Tues/Thurs times). This week Mehran is having office hours from 10am - 1pm on Wednesday, April 9th. He will not have office hours on Tuesday (April 8) or Thursday (April 10). Apologies if this causes you any incovenience.
  • If you have not yet gotten ELMS access, please email Bear as soon as possible. Also be aware that the original subject line may have been something not entirely readable, like "User Import" or "elms_support."

Week of Mar 31

  • Welcome to CS106B: Programming Abstractions! The class is MWF 2:15-3:05 in Hewlett 201 (map)
  • Section sign-ups go up Thursday, April 3 at 5pm. You need to sign up for one by Sunday, April 6 at 5pm. Section assignments will go out by Tuesday, April 8 at 5pm. It's ok to sign up for one even if you end up choosing not to take the course this quarter.
  • Section signups are up here. Sign up ASAP in order to get that one timeslot you really want.