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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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.
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 …
I see that you have found the blog. Great! So, having gotten through the first class of the course, let me note a couple of things that I didn’t actually mention in class, in all of the technological confusion. The syllabus/schedule I handed out mentioned a survey as “homework.” It’s not serious, it’s just a …