CMPE 185 Home Page

Technical Writing for Computer Engineers and Scientists

(Last Update: 16:48 PST 7 March 2003 )


This is a required course for computer engineering majors, designed by Kevin Karplus and Dan Scripture in 1987, and which has undergone evolutionary change in the intervening years.

Index of class resources

Class Information for Winter 2003
Class Information in Portable Document Format
Winter 2003 Syllabus and detailed assignments.
This is the workbook in native .html format, suitable for reading on the web. WARNING: this was created by latex2html from a document that was not designed with latex2html in mind, and so some parts may be garbled, and the formatting may be poor.
Workbook as PDF files.
Click here to get a table of contents for the pieces of the workbook as PDF files. The PDF files will print much better than the HTML files, but are rather large.


Humor for the tech-writing class
The in-program documentation assignment calls for modifying an existing program. To save typing, here is the file in C: We used to use but the program for winter 2003 is different.
Newsgroup
There is a newsgroup (ucsc.class.cmpe185) for the class. For posting to the newsgroup, it is generally better to be working from a UNIX machine, so that proper mailing addresses are generated. This newsgroup is for asking questions, answering questions, making announcements, and general discussion between students. Please read it frequently.
Discussion about the syllabus
A discussion of the history and syllabus for this course.
Discussion of student work on the in-program documentation assignment.

I have been asked to add pointers to the important student organizations, which are now collected at http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/organizations/

Here are some older versions of the assignments:

Class Information for Fall 2000
Class Information in PostScript format
Class Information in dvi format
Fall 2000 Syllabus and detailed assignments HTML format
Fall 2000 Workbook as PostScript files.
Fall 200 Workbook as dvi files.
Class Information for Fall 1999
Class Information in PostScript format
Class Information in dvi format
Fall 1999 Syllabus and detailed assignments.
Workbook as PostScript files.
Workbook as dvi files.
Class Information for Winter 1999
Class Information in PostScript format
Class Information in dvi format
Winter 1999 Syllabus and detailed assignments.
Workbook as PostScript files.
Workbook as dvi files.
Class Information for Spring 1998
Class Information in PostScript format
Class Information in dvi format
Spring 1998 Syllabus and detailed assignments.
Spring 1998 Workbook as PostScript files.
Spring 1998 Workbook as dvi files.
Class Information for Spring 1996
Spring 1996 Syllabus and detailed assignments.
Workbook as PostScript files.
Workbook as dvi files.
Fall 1995 Syllabus and detailed assignments.
This is the syllabus and assignments for Fall 1995, when Tracy Larrabee taught the course.
Winter 1995 Syllabus and detailed assignments
This is an even older version of the assignments, in Postscript and dvi formats.

Questions regarding about page content should be directed to
Kevin Karplus
Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
USA
karplus@cse.ucsc.edu
(408) 459-4250

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