Code Red Summaries
Friday, April 14, 2017
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Andre Periera - Senior - 1pm to 4pm - andreper@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Code Red today was definitely busier than our previous days. A good
number of people were there for help with the latest Data Structures
assignment, but there were some people from CS111 as well. A common trait
that I noticed in both concerned objects. For data structures, working
with a hashmap and concepts such as the difference between an empty string
and a null valued string were common. For CS111, it was how one class
played off of another and how we can access those values (I personally saw
some polymorphism there, which I think *shouldn't* be involve this early
in a student's CS academic career). At the end of the day, whether it be a
hash map or an array or a string, they are just objects with values and
ways of accessing them. Losing touch with the basics can definitely make
implementing something like a small search engine or using skeleton code
particularly difficult. I'd suggest for the students to get more in-tune
with objects and how they play into their code (this will be especially
useful when Discrete Structures comes along).
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Doug Rudolph - 3pm to 6pm - drudolph914@gmail.com
CS 111: Only a few 111 students were in the
CAVE, and all the questions they were asking were about setting up the
Milestone 2 project within Eclipse. Luckily for a few of them using
windows, they were able to import the project using the default import
menu with Eclipse. For Linux and Mac users, I had to explain how to
manually set up an Eclipse Java Project, explain the difference between
.class files and .java files, as well as explain where to put external
assets for the assignment.
CS 112: Several students were asking for debugging help
when it came to the Little Search Engine assignment. I showed a few
students how to use the debugger and I helped them debug some pretty
basic mistakes that were overlooked when working on their filtering
algorithm within the top5Searchs method.
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Olaolu "Biggie" Emmanual - Junior - 2pm - 6pm - biggieemmanuel@gmail.com
From what I could tell students just needed to go through their algorithm
with someone to see if it made sense.
-Olaolu Emmanuel (Biggie)
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SaraAnn Stanway - Sophomore - 2pm - 6pm - sys41@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
I helped a number of people at Code Red and throughout the week. With very
little exception, none needed my help with anything algorithmic. They just
couldn't understand the directions for the 1112 assignment (specifically the
insertLastOccurrence method in the little search engine project). After I
explained it one student did try to "explain" his algorithm to me...it took
about five lines for me to realize he was just going line by line hoping I'd
point out potential errors he hadn't run into.
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