CMPS 160/L -- Fall 2016 -- Old News

• Oct 05, 2016: Just got email from library saying that we now have the Matsuda/Lea book available in the reserve section.

• Oct 05, 2016: Grades for lab1 are now available for those who were registered at the start of the quarter. If you don't see yours online, please send pang@soe.ucsc.edu an email.

  Attendance up until Oct 4 have been recorded and available online also. The max score is 3 attendances. Ignore the running score column for now. The attendances have not been weighted yet. If you don't see your attendance online, please send pang@soe.ucsc.edu an email.

• Oct 04, 2016: File i/o utility for SOR objects is now available as ioSOR.js Make sure that you copy this file to your local lib folder together with the 4 other files from Matsuda/Lea book.

• Sep 30, 2016: QUIZ1 grade file -- can people check if their grades are correct now? [the reason why some people were getting 0's was because we were missing the @ucsc.edu in their login.]

• Sep 29, 2016: Just updated the grade file for the 1st quiz. We recorded the higher of your 2 quizzes. Not everyone got 100 after 2 tries. Again, the quizzes are a very good indicator of how well you will perform in 160. If you don't do well in the quiz, there's very high likelihood that you won't do well in the class exams either. Note: same caveats as before. Only the people who were in the class roster can see their grades, and stats are based on their grades. If you were not in the class roster, we have your grade, but it doesn't show on the graph.

• Sep 26, 2016: The date for midterm 1 was inconsistent on this page and the schedule page. That has now been fixed. Midterm 1 is scheduled for Wednesday 10/26.

• Sep 26, 2016: I just looked at quiz 1 results. 21 students did not get a perfect score. The makeup quiz will be this Wednesday. If you don't get a perfect score in the makeup quiz, I strongly suggest that you do not take this class at this time. Note that I have not posted the quiz 1 grades online yet. I will announce here when it's available.

• Sep 26, 2016: I just posted the stats for quiz 1 results. Click on the "multiplier" link on the first column to see the distribution of scores. NOTE: only students who were registered as of Sep 24 can see their scores. The stats are based only on those who were registered by Sepp 24. We do have everyone's scores recorded. While we have a makeup quiz scheduled for Wednesday, the results are disappointing -- lower than the scores of Spring 16.

• Jun 15, 2016: Welcome to CMPS 160/L. If you need permission code, come by the 1st few days of class. I will make every effort to accommodate you, up to the seating capacity of the classroom. Students usually "shop" for classes during the 1st 2 weeks of the quarter and some will decide to drop during this time. Do make sure that you have the prerequisites for the class (linear algebra and programming skills).

  We will have a QUIZ on Sep 26, 2016! It will contain simple questions about Linear Algebra that you should know if you have the pre-requisites for this class. Review matrix and vector operations.

  This is a 7-unit class. The course load is like taking 2 courses. Plan accordingly. CMPS 160 will focus on concepts/algorithm for computer graphics, while CMPS 160L will focus on implementation with WebGL.

  To get a headstart in this class, read up on: (a) HTML, (b) javascript, (c) WebGL, and (d) DO the 4 lab and 4 programming assignments in the Spring 2016 offering of this class. Problems are accessible from: https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~pang/160/s16/

  To demonstrate mastery of the course materials, you should be able to write a program that can render objects with proper lighting and shading, and allow users to manipulate objects and camera.