Notes: Tuesday 3 December 2002

Schedule

• 4 December (11:59pm): Problem Set 7 (code submission)
• 5 December (beginning of class): Problem Set 7 (turnin)
• Thursday's class will meet in Olsson 001 (details below)
• The final exam will be handed out 5 December and due Tuesday 10 December before 4:30pm.

Snakes Tournament

Thursday's class will meet in Olsson 001, try to arrive a bit early to get logged in and warm up your snakes. Guests are welcome to help cheer for your snake and intimidate your opponent's.

Links

• Java History:
  • The Java Saga, Wired, December 1995
  • A Brief History of the Green Project, James Gosling.
• Microsoft-Java Lawsuit:
  • Microsoft's Unbiased Information Site
  • Sun's Unbiased Information Site
  • Jousting over Java, cNet News, 27 October 1997.
  • Sun, Microsoft settle Java suit, cNet News, 23 January 2001.
• C#
  • C# Introduction
  • A Comparative Overview of C#, Ben Albahari.
  • C# for Dummies
  • University of Waterloo: University of Waterloo lands $2.3-million Microsoft grant, Globe and Mail, 14 August; UW receives first $2.3M from Microsoft alliance, 14 August 2002; UW reconsiders deal with Microsoft, The Record, 13 September 2002.

E&CE weighed all the aspects of it and was comfortable with the change...
UW is really sensitive to curriculum decisions it makes. $2.3 million isn't enough to sacrifice curriculum.
DiCiccio, University of Waterloo's Director of Institute for Computer Research
(Note: those are Canadian dollars.)

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