CSc 453: Announcements and Newsgroup Usage

General

Course-related announcements will be made in class and/or posted on the class newsgroup, cs.course453. Information about departmental newsgroups is available here.

It is your responsibility to monitor newsgroup postings and to find out about any classroom announcements in a timely manner.

Newsgroup Policies

The newsgroup for announcements and discussions relating to CSc 453 is cs.course453.

General departmental policies on newsgroups are available here. In addition, the following policies apply specifically to this newsgroup:

This newsgroup is intended only for discussions and announcements related to CSc 453. Material not relating to this course should be posted elsewhere.
Material posted to the newsgroup is accessible to everyone in the class, and therefore is subject to the same restrictions as "collaboration" (see Class Policies). In particular, be careful about posting code examples to the newsgroup, or discussing implementational details of assignments.

Email vs. Newsgroup

Newsgroup postings are public, but people may read postings only once or twice a day; by contrast, email is private but is typically read (at least) several times a day.

Issues that require quick response from the instructor and/or a TA (e.g., issues relating to deadlines), or which are not appropriate to disseminate publicly (e.g., implementation details of your project) are therefore best handled by email to the instructor or the TA.

Dually, topics that are not deadline-driven, and which may benefit from broader discussion (e.g., discussion or clarification of a program specification), are appropriate for newsgroup postings.