822 News (Information)

Exhibition games:

USC2000    2
SoccerBots 4

Tigers     2
SoccerBots 6

First Round:

Tigers  6
USC2000 1

SoccerBots 1
Great      2

Knights 2
Yetis   1

SemiFinals:

Tigers 2
Great  1

Final:

Tigers  2
Knights 0

Finally, remember to turn in your writeups (try to use diagrams whenever possible) by the deadline. This is a hard deadline since I have to turn in grades to the University.

Have a good summer!

I have also updated the Final project handout to include info about the write-up. Please note the deadline, and the fact that you have to place a copy of your source in the class folder.

After you turn in the write up, and after a couple of beers and a good night sleep (so you wont hate me as much), I would like to get some feedback on how the course went. As you know, this is the first time I've used robocup to do this so Im wondering if I should do it again. If so, what parts of the class/project need improvement. Im especially curious about what parts of the project you found hardest, most time-consuming, most fun. You can just email me these comments.

Finally, I will be posting the final standings here after the tournament for the whole world to see. And, no, Im not guaranteeing an A in the class for the winning team, but It seems unlikely that they could get anything else ;-)

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Also, there is no class on Thursday 12 April. Instead I highly encourage groups to drop by my office for advice exchange. I will be in my office during the regular class hours and office hours.

Oh yeah, and anyone who claims to have written code he/she does not understand will fail the class.

I have created folder \\E_WEBSERV\EECE822\Solutions\PS1\ where any of you can copy over your solutions for PS1. If you don't mind sharing your code, please place a copy there.

Ok folks- here's the deal.  The ACM is bringing in the semester with our
first presentation of the year.  You'll notice this has been sent to the
IEEE group in engineering as well, if that's you we hope to see and meet you
there.  If anybody has questions regarding this email, posting, and/or the
presentation itself, send me an email at ovanders@cs.sc.edu.

WHAT?:	General ACM Meeting
 		Wednesday, January 26th 2000
		7:00pm
 
WHERE?:	Sumwalt 106 
 
WHY?:		Title :  An Introduction to Java Swing
		Presenter : Billy Turkett
		Description :
		This talk will cover the essentials necessary for developing
		GUI based applets and applications.  The java.awt and swing 
		packages will be covered, as well as event handling and
		the ideas of model-view programming.  Examples of working 
		Swing programs will be shown.

Olivier Vanderstraeten
ACM vice-president

Regardless, the first PS is very short and only worth 5%. You should, instead, focus on the final project. If you are much more comfortable in one language then using that language will make the work much easier. On the other hand, if you decide to use this class as an opportunity to learn a new language, please keep in mind that this will increase your workload.

In general, I believe that Java is a faster language to program in simply because in Java you do not have to worry about pointers and allocating memory. Still, I do not believe the differences are that great, especially when you know what you are doing.