By the way, one thing that I keep meaning to say and keep not remembering to: By all means, absolutely, feel free to work on homework in groups. It often helps a lot. It may or may not go faster, but it does seem to help people get a deeper understanding than they might have …
Homework 1, which I’ve given back to almost everyone now, doesn’t have a lot of explanatory comments on it. That’s because there’s a key, which you can consult. That key will be posted tonight. There is a password for downloading the key, which I will give out in class. However — once it’s posted, you …
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A couple of quick notes on homework #2. First off: This is potentially a rather tricky one to do if you aren’t a native speaker of English. However, you are in principle not being graded on how native-like your English judgments are. The point of this homework is really to know how to apply the …
Just so you don’t have to go try to dig them up yourself, the links for the Car Talk puzzler I included “for fun” on the last homework are: The puzzler itself (“Tire mounting… with but a few letters“), and the answer. Also, you’ll notice that “guarantee” is misspelled there, by the way. That is …
I’m not sure how long this date has been known, but according to the final exam schedule for standard block times, the LX522 final will be on Thursday Dec. 18, from 9am to 11am, in the usual room. It is not impossible that this could change, but it probably won’t.
Having gotten a couple of additional questions about the light box, let me just say a couple more things. What you’re trying to do is describe this light box. Not any light box one might be able to build with similar components. This one behaves in a special way. It has a four way switch, …
The Blackboard site for the course is now active. The LX 522 course should appear as one of your options when you go to http://blackboard.bu.edu/ and enter your usual Kerberos login information. This is basically just a place where you can see what scores I have recorded for you on your homework, although there are …
Having spoken to a couple of people so far, my impression is that the light box problem in HW1 has mystified a few people. Let me take a moment here to say a couple of things about it. First, a note of trivia (well, trivia if what you are concerned with is syntax, rather than …
If you spill coffee on your homework handout and want a new one, you can download it and print it from the course syllabus/schedule page. The trick is that you need a password to get it, and I didn’t tell you what it is. Email me if you need it, and I’ll tell you. And …
I’ve heard from a couple of people whose textbooks have not arrived yet. If you are one of these people, ask Google about “monkey banana that the being” (use the quotes around it) and “*The bears snuffles” (use quotes here too). Look down around the third result, coming from Pomona. Although it’s almost certainly a …
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