Lecture Materials

Questions & Answers


Q: Hi, Happy end of the week! I hope you are doing good today! Yaaa Tori has been so helpful in Lair! I look forward to the review session. Where do we access the information to get the zoom link and when is it?

A1:  Hi Mikhail! Happy Friday jr. :) Yay! Tori is amazing! The review session info will be posted on Ed soon :)


Q: Let's go Tara!! So cool :D

A1:  YASSSSSS!!!!!


Q: do computer first convert the operation into suffix form, and then calculate it? Cause the computer do not know the order of operations.

A1:  Programmers using older computers would write the code so that the computer wouldn’t have to worry about order of operations. Today’s computers know order of operations.


Q: Do we have section next week? :)

A1:  Sadly no :( This week is the last week of section. (Still attend section today or tomorrow if you have it!)


Q: My section leader said we have section next week, so to double check, we don’t?

A1:  Yes, no section next week. Week 7 is the last week of section


Q: Did we have a review session for the last quiz or was it just for this quiz? :) and is the review session a group thing or is it asking 1 on 1 questions?

A1:  We did not have a review session for the last quiz. The review session is a group thing. It’s a mix of conceptual review and problem solving but you are welcome and encouraged to ask questions :)


Q: So cool !!! :)

A1:  Agreed!!! I love this stuff! CS107 and CS110 at Stanford go more in depth on these topics :)


Q: i would use some stop/go thing

A1:  Great idea!


Q: Would collaborative programs like google docs/pycharm/microsoft word experience these sharing issues and if so do they also use locks?

A1:  Yes! But there is “lag” because the technology is not as sophisticated


Q: Are there OH for Juliette and Tara next week?

A1:  TBD but will announce on Ed soon :)


Q: When will assignment 6 be graded? WIll it be graded before or after the quiz?

A1:  Assignment 6 will be graded after the quiz. If you have questions, feel free to reach out on Ed, to Tara/Juliette, your SL, or stop by LaIR! I want you to have all your questions answered before the quiz :)


Q: what data structure do the computer store the graphs?

A1:  Many different data structures depending on what you want to do with the graph :)


Q: I know this might not be legal, can you capture other people’s messages

A1:  There’s a whole class on this at Stanford :)