Communication

Announcements The front page of the course’s web site is also the announcement page. Most of the announcements will point to small corrections to the weekly projects and responses to general email inquiries.

Consult it at least once per day.

Email You are welcome to send email to the course staff and you are almost always guaranteed to get an answer within 24 hours, If you send email to other addresses, we will ignore them because they violate the course specifications and learning to live up to specifications is critical.

Office Hours Different members of the staff play different roles, and you must keep this in mind when you visit someone during office hours.

• Alex, Kanika, and Raghu have primary responsibility for grading your projects. If you and your partner disagree with a grade, you need to see the person who has signed your grade sheet.

• See Sam and Ben if you have difficulties with the weekly assignment, wish to discuss design ideas, or have problems with some assumedIf JSON, TCP connections, or similar terms are opaque to you, we expect you to use Google and read up on the basics, first in a general way and then in a language-specific way. technical material. Again, we expect you to visit them as pairs.

  They will not be able to help you with the details of your chosen language. The point of letting you choose is to let you figure out how to find the language-specific resources.

• See Jason or Matthias with any concern you have: coding, specifying, grading, course staff, partner issues, etc.