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Bonus Video: BST.Clone

Several people missed the BST.Clone method on A4, and someone asked about it, so I thought that I'd throw together this video explaining one possible solution.

Paying Internship!

UWB is spearheading a project that will attempt to create an online, social space for students to learn and explore math concepts together - MathWorld!  There's more information here.

Audio Problems For Older Video Solved

Update (2008, May 21): You can also upgrade to Version 10 (beta) of the Flash Player, too, and that apparently fixes the problem.

It looks like the problem with viewing the older (and by older, I mean that it was recorded fall term) Flash video file is that the newest flash player is garbling the audio playback.  It appears that this can be fixed (and we've confirmed that this fix has worked for at least one student) by downgrading to a slightly older version of Flash player. The most current version (as of this writing) is 9.0.124.0.  If you downgrade to 9.0.47.0, then the audio will work again.  The computers here at school will be left at their current version, so make sure that you watch the videos on your own computers. 

How to downgrade the Adobe Flash Player:

1. Click on Start → Control Panel → Add Or Remove Programs
2. Within that, select the Adobe Flash Player items, and uninstall them.
3. Download and install the following file: Handouts\flashplayer9r47_win.exe
   (Adobe makes older versions available from testing at http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266, which is where the .EXE was obtained from)
4. The older video files should now run ok.  You may find that certain websites will force you to upgrade to the most recent version of Flash before you can watch a video/play a game/etc - you can do this, but keep in mind you'll need to re-downgrade to watch more videos for this class.

Why I *think* this is ok: You're downgrading to another version of Flash Player 9, and I selected the most recent version that still works, so you shouldn't lose a lot of functionality or open yourself to a lot of security risks.  I apologize for this inconvenience!

Online textbook

Bruno R Preiss - Data structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C#.  This may (or may not) be helpful, but it is free!  You should also check out the books available through Safari (see below for details)

http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus6/

Class Orientation
This class is partial online, and partially in person ; it will be important for you to understand exactly what is expected of you, and this document should help you understand that.

  If this is your first time to this web page, you should start by

1. Emailing the professor to let him know you're here (mpanitz@cascadia.edu)
2. Reading the above "Class Orientation" page
3. Begin working through Lesson 01 (follow the "Lessons" link in the left-hand column)
    

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Domain Name Change
Cascadia Community College has recently received it's own, independent accreditation (previous to that, it was operating by the accreditation and oversight of another community college).  As a result, we've now obtained a top-level .EDU domain.  Please note that instead of (for example) mpanitz@cascadia.ctc.edu, it's now mpanitz@cascadia.edu 

Open Programming/Web Lab Hours

Interesting Interviewing Page
Slashdot has an interesting meta-article on interviewing in the high-tech industry.  Definitely interesting reading.

Interesting article by Charles Petzold

The title is 'Does Visual Studio Rot The Mind?' - definitely a worthwhile read, and makes a lot of good points.  Also has some interesting tidbits on upcoming Windows changes.

Cascadia Announcements:

Printing Limit: Each student is allowed to print 600 black and white, and 30 color pages per quarter.  After that, you can purchase an additional 600 sheets (from the cashier, in Enrollment Services) for $20

In the event of inclement weather affecting morning classes, there will be notification on the local media by 5:30 a.m. You may also call the main campus number: 425-352-8000 to hear a message that will be updated with the latest Cascadia closure information. You may also go online to www.schoolreport.org and click on Cascadia Community College to get the latest report. Should the weather deteriorate during the day, you may check online, listen to the main campus message, check the media to hear news about closures or class schedule changes.

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Taught by Mike Panitz