Recommended Sources of Class Help
- Your study group
- Class mailing list: cis500-001-05c@lists.upenn.edu. The instructor and teaching assistants will monitor this list and provide answers to questions about course material and assignments.
- Newsgroup: upenn.cis.cis500. This newsgroups will not necessarily be monitored by the instructor or teaching assistants.
- Recitations.
- Office hours.
- The CIS 500 websites from Fall 2004, Fall 2003, and Fall2002.
Lecture Notes
See the schedule for the lecture notes. Note: not every class will have accompanying notes.
Exams
- Midterm 1 from 2003
- Midterm 1 from 2004
- Midterm 2 from 2003
- Midterm 2 from 2004
- Final exam from 2003
- Final exam from 2004
- Midterm 1 from 2005: PS, PDF (distribution plot: PS, PDF)
- Midterm 2 from 2005: PS, PDF (distribution plot: PS, PDF)
- Final from 2005: PS, PDF (distribution plot: PS, PDF)
OCaml Help
A tutorial on getting started with OCaml on SEAS systems.
A guide to OCaml style. Note:The recommendations in this guide are given for the purpose of making your code more readable. If your code does not follow these guidelines, we may refuse to read (and thus grade) your assignments.
Jason Hickey's An Introduction to the Objective Caml Language gives a gentle introduction to OCaml.
The OCaml homepage is a valuable resource. Some particularly helpful pages there:
- The Objective Caml manual, which includes a quick tour of the syntax and features of the language and instructions on using the compiler, documentation generator, etc.
- The O'Reilly book Developing Applications with Objective Caml, which serves as a fairly comprehensive tutorial and reference for the language.
Typesetting Help
We will require that you submit homework electronically in ASCII, Postscript or PDF format. If you would like to typeset your homework, this LaTeX Tutorial (PDF, PostScript) may help you get started. We highly recommend taking the time to learn LaTeX to write up your assignments. (It is required for at least one of the core classes in the Spring, so you might as well learn now.)