Welcome to CIT 5950! We’re super excited to have you here this term!

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Wellness and Inclusion

It is very important to us that you succeed in CIT 5950. We provide many extra resources to help you.

• Travis and the TAs hold many office hours
• The Ed discussion board, where anonymous and private posts are allowed
• Travis and the TAs can be contacted directly via email
• Meetings with Travis can be scheduled here: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~tqmcgaha/#meetings

It is also very important to us that you maintain your mental wellness throughout the course. A few points are not worth losing sleep over. Everyone on the course staff is available to chat, and you can always attend office hours for a non-academic conversation if necessary. You can also visit counseling services if you find you need help beyond the course staff. If you have a temporary health condition or permanent disability (either mental health or physical health related), you should contact the Weingarten Center if you have not already. Additionally, if there is something we can do to make your experience better, please let us know.

All participants in the course have a right to a learning environment that feels safe, where you are treated with respect and feel that you can contribute ideas constructively. Put another way, you have the right to an inclusive learning environment.

We want every student to feel that they have a safe and healthy learning environment, and if at any point you feel like this is not the case in any way, we encourage you to let course staff know so that we can help.

Tools

Course Staff

Instructor

Travis McGaha

any/all

Book a meeting!

Levine 269 A

tqmcgaha@seas.upenn.edu

Teaching Assistants

Chandravaran

he/him

kunjeti@seas

Donglun

they/them

donglun@seas

Eddy

he/him

eddyyang@seas

Heyi

she/her

heyiliu@seas

Jialin

She/Her

caijia@seas

Kevin

he/him

kbernat@seas

Mati

he/him

matidav@seas

Shufan

he/him

shufanwl@seas

References

The following is a list of references that you might find helpful throughout the course.

Course Information

Syllabus – an overview of the course and course policies

Meeting Requests – For requesting meetings with the course instructor

Course Setup

Course Codio – Link to join the course Codio, use the add code winter-riviera if asked

Course Texts

Dive Into Systems Textbook – An optional textbook that contains well written information on most things covered in the class. Chapters 13 and 14 being most relevant to us (though we will not cover everything in it).

C reference – a reference of features and useful utilites in C.

C++ reference (cppreference.com) – a reference of features and useful utilites in C++. Contains a lot of technical detail (arguable more than necessary) and has translations into other languages

C++ reference (cplusplus.com) – a reference of features and useful utilites in C++. An alterantive to the above, usually easier to read for beginners

Linux Man Pages – Contains useful information on user terminal commands (section 1) and C standard library functions (section 3)

Schedule

Credits

Credit to Professor Adam Blank (they/them), who gave Travis McGaha this website template :D
More on Adam can be found on their website here.