UCSC course CMPE 100 -- Spring 2000 Labs

All labs meet in Applied Sciences 104. During lab you may ask the TAs for help with your laboratory assignment, with your written homework, exams, or any other aspect of CMPE 100 and CMPE 100L.

Each lab is worth 10 points, though the later labs are more difficult than the earlier ones. Special deal: If you turn in your lab report on time, you get an extra 5% for each day ahead of schedule that you demonstrate your lab to your TA (up to 25% extra credit)!

In 1999, the TAs put together a web site with useful information about the labs. I hope the site is still there, and that it is still relevant.

None of the lab assignments are available yet, as they are being modified somewhat from last year, to incorporate changes in the hardware and some improvements instituted by Pak Chan. You can look at last year's assignments to get a flavor of what is coming.

Lab reports should be turned in as postscript files. To do this, you can use any program available to you, but you might like to try to use LaTeX, which every computer scientist and engineer should learn to use (here's an example latex file). In any case, here is the postscript or pdf for a fictitious lab report (generated from the latex source previously cited). I checked and LaTeX is available on the cats machines. No matter what you use, you should check your method by making sure you can successfully read postscript that you mail yourself using the ghostview program available on the CATS machines (such as those in AS215).

Steve Petersen has written a useful note on how to survive lab classes.

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Kevin Karplus
Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
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