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 …
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, …
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 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 …