Final Exam Instructions

2020-10-27T00:00:00+00:00

The final exam will be distributed via gradescope. The exam is open book but any type of communication is strongly prohibited. The exam will begin at 02:30 pm Canberra time on 14 November 2020, and will run for 3 hours. The final exam covers all content from Week 2 to Week 12.

Screen recording:

The exam will be self-invigilated. You should create a screen recording of your entire exam, including a webcam image of you and an ID card. Note that this process is encouraged, but not required. You will not be asked to pass your recording on to ANU. You should keep your recording safely for one month. If the ANU should raise any concerns about the integrity of the work you did during the exam, you will have the option to submit your screen recording as evidence to support your case.

Find screen recording software that you trust works well on your computer. Test it, and make sure you can successfully record the whole of your screen. Some options:

Quicktime is built into MacOS and allows you to easily do a screen recording. Instructions from Apple here. Note that for Mojave and later, you can bring up the screen recording with the hotkey Shift+Command+5, described here.
Free Cam is an application for Windows that provides very similar features to Quicktime. There are instructions on how to use Free Cam here.
VLC is a widely used open source application for Windows, MacOs, and Linux. VLC supports screen recordings as described here.
Nvidia’s ShadowPlay is a simple way to record your whole desktop if you are using Windows and have a supported Nvidia graphics card. Here’s a youtube video explaining how to do it.
AMD offers similar software if you are using a supported AMD graphics card. Details from AMD here.
if you decide to record your exam then ensure that you have a working webcam and bring up a live view of your face, and your ID card, while recording. Ensure that this works, so that your screen recording can include a live view of you and your ID (if you don’t have an ANU ID you should use your driver’s license or passport). Before the exam, you need to make sure all of your software is working correctly, that you know how to do screen recordings, can capture a live view on your webcam while doing a screen recording.

Before the exam:

ensure you have a home setup for the course including ghc/ghci and VSCodium; or
ensure you have access to the lab environment via Linux VDI
ensure you can access COMP1100 on gradescope

At the start of the exam:

log in using your ANU email to gradescope
you will see final-semester Exam on gradescope under COMP1100.
COMP1100 final-semester exam
no student currently has access to this exam.
during the exam, tutors will be available on Piazza and Teams so that students can get help in case technical problems arise.

Oral Examinations

As part of the final exam, students are required to attend a followup oral examination, consisting of a small number of questions aiming to confirm their exam mark. If the convenor is not satisfied with the outcome of this oral examination, this may result in failure of the final exam and/or an investigation under ANU’s academic integrity rules.

Please go here and select a preferred time slot (do not choose xx:50 slots, e.g. 09:50). Select only one.
Oral examinations will be held on 16-17 November 2020 on Microsoft Teams.
The length of oral examinations will be 5-10 mins
Students need to have a photo ID which you can show before the oral exam on camera

Past Exams

Assignment Three has been released

2020-10-12T00:00:00+00:00

Assignment Three has been released, and can be read here.

To have a quick intoduction to game trees, unbeatable tic-tac-toe and minimax/alpha-beta pruning algorithms refer to Lecture 9A,9B, and 9C and the quizies therein.

Deadline: Friday 6th November, 2020, at 11:00pm Canberra time sharp

Assignment Two has been released

2020-09-16T00:00:00+00:00

Assignment Two has been released, and can be read here.

You are welcome and encouraged to start work on this now, but note that our labs next week should help you get more comfortable with verifying correctness of your programs via testing and the week 8 lab will help you practicing higher order functions. To have a quick intoduction to cellular automata refer to Lecture 6B, and the quiz in lecture 6C.

Deadline: Monday Oct 5, 2020, at 11:00pm Canberra time sharp

First Year Mentoring Program

2020-09-06T00:00:00+00:00

Hello from Fifty50! We are a student organisation aiming to promote equity in STEM. One way we do this is through our First Year Mentoring Program which sign-ups for semester 2 are now open for. The First Year Mentoring Program aims to support first year students in their studies and general university life. Later year students are paired with first year students in a mentorship. The program is open to and welcomes all genders to participate. Mentors meet 4 times per semester with their mentee, and share tips about handling university, what to expect as they move through their degree and their experiences of gender equity in their field. We provide free coffee vouchers for these catch ups, and short articles to start the conversation. Sign up today! form

Mid-semester exam announcement

2020-08-28T00:00:00+00:00

The mid-semester exam will be distributed via gradescope. The exam will begin at 04:00 pm Canberra time on 31 August 2020, and will run for 1 hours and 30 minutes. The remaining time will be display on the top right corner of the browser. Each students will have maximum 90 minutes to complete the exam.

Before the exam:

ensure you have a working setup for either of the following:
home setup for the course including ghc/ghci and VSCodium; or
access to the lab environment via Linux VDI; or
working Virtual Box installed;
ensure you can access COMP1100 on gradescope.

At the start of the exam:

log in using your ANU email to gradescope
You will see Mid-semester Exam on gradescope under COMP1100.
COMP1100 mid-semester exam
No student currently has access to this exam.
During the exam, tutors will be available on Piazza and Teams so that students can get help in case technical problems arise.

Once you have started the exam:

Simply click and choose your answers for multi-choice questions.
For programming questions, you need to upload your Haskell files.
You can update your exam answers multiple times before the deadline, only the last submit will be saved and graded.

Past Exams

Students can access exams of previous years which can be used to practice with the final exam. The number of weighting of questions and the material covered for the final exam may be different from the previous exams. Solutions for practice exams and previous exams are not provided for a number of reasons. Nonetheless, if you have questions on previous and practice exams feel free to post them on Piazza and we will be happy to answer.

Drop-in Sessions

2020-08-17T00:00:00+00:00

Drop-in sessions are available on Teams every Thursday and Friday from 4-5pm.

Assignment One has been released

2020-08-12T00:00:00+00:00

Assignment 1 has been released: https://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/comp1100/assignments/01/

This assignment is worth 10% of your final grade.

Deadlines: Part A: Sunday August 23, 2020, at 11:00pm Canberra time sharp Part B: Sunday September 6, 2020, at 11:00pm Canberra time sharp

Welcome! Please sign up to a lab

2020-07-13T00:00:00+00:00

Welcome to COMP1100. Please read the following instructions carefully.

This course is the entry point to studying computer science at the ANU.

The material offered here will provide you with a solid foundation and set of skills which you will revisit many times in your career.

The focus of the course is on building your ability to write code in an organised and principled way. This is not a skill that can be learned by sitting in a lecture theatre listening! Instead, the lectures will introduce concepts which will only come alive for you when you try them out. The absolute key to success in this course is to spend time writing code. Hopefully we will all have a lot of fun doing so.

To help build your programming skills, you will attend one lab (2 hours long) each week for the duration of this course. The enrolment to labs is now open.

If you have a choice of labs, please enrol in the lab with the smallest number of students currently enrolled.

Labs commence in Week 1. This means that many of you will attend a lab before the first lecture. Do not worry about this - the first lab and first lecture, in either order, act together as a good introduction to the course.

It is essential that you use StReaMS to enrol in a lab session by Week 1.

COVID-19 and Online Study

Due to COVID-19, the University has decided that for Semester 2 2020, “all large group learning activities and all lectures will be conducted remotely.“ Consequently, all aspects of this course will be delivered online until and unless the University’s policy changes. Lectures will be live, online, via Microsoft Teams, with live streaming through services including Microsoft Stream. Likewise, labs will be live and will also use Microsoft Teams.

If you will have difficulty engaging in online study, please contact CECS Student Services so that they can offer you the best support. For more details on the University’s response, please see ANU coronavirus advice.

Course Outline

Please see the official course outline for further course details.

Final Oral Exam Instructions

2020-06-19T00:00:00+00:00

Oral examinations are part of the final exam and students are required to attend.

If you have not already scheduled for oral exams, please do so here
- Use ONLY ANU EMAIL address
- DO NOT select xx:50 slots (e.g. 9:50, 10:50, 11:50, 12:50 …)

Before the exam:

Prepare electronic copies of scans/photos of your photoID (ANU student ID or passport)
You need a device with camera for oral exams (smartphones with Teams app would work)
You need to be online on Teams at least 10 minutes before your booked exam time slot
Tutors will individually call you at your booked exam time

During the exam:

Send scans/photos of your photoID to tutors on Teams once they have called you
Show your photoID on camera so that tutors can cross reference your ID
You need your exam answers and the exam paper in front of you to refer to during the exam
Tutors may ask about part of your exam answers
You will not be told about the results of the exam instantly

After the exam:

Students who require additional conversation with a convenor to confirm that they may pass the course will be contacted
Otherwise, students will be contacted to be told that additional converstaion with a convenor is not necessary

Final Exam Instructions

2020-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

The final exam will be distributed via GitLab. The exam will begin at 02:30 pm Canberra time on 18 June 2020, and will run for 3 hours and 30 minutes. The exam time will be enforced using Google Canberra time, i.e., the time you get when you search on Google with keyword ‘Canberra time’.

Before the exam:

ensure you have a working home setup for the course including VSCodium and Git; and
ensure you can access your ANU GitLab account.

At the start of the exam:

You will gain access to a private GitLab repository under the exam group in ANU GitLab.
- COMP1100
- COMP1130
No student currently has access to their exam repository.
Fork this exam to your own namespace. Do not change the name of this repository, or fork it to a different namespace, or we will not be able to mark your exam.
During the exam, tutors will be available on Piazza and Teams so that students can get help in case technical problems arise.

Once you have forked the exam:

answer each question by completing the provided answer file according to the instructions you will find in the file README.md;
- answer true/false and multiple choice questions in the file named Answer.md
  - There is a video on Echo360 which demonstrates how you can edit Answer.md file on VSCodium.
  - Answer.md file is a template where students can write their answers for non-programming questions. You need to put x in bracket [ ] to mark your answer. You can edit the file Answer.md in VSCodium after the fork.
  - e.g. I am a student in COMP1100/1130.
    - [x] True
    - [ ] False
- answer programming questions in given haskell files.
after you complete each question, commit and push your work to GitLab. It is recommended to check if the push was successful in a browser.

The last commit that you push to GitLab before the end of the exam will be used for marking. Any commits pushed after the end time of the exam will be ignored and will not count towards your exam mark. You may commit and push as many times as you wish during the exam time; only the final on-time commit will be marked.

Oral Examinations

Please go here and select a preferred time slot (do not choose xx:50 slots, e.g. 09:50). Select only one.
Oral examinations will be held on June 22 and June 23 on Microsoft Teams.
The length of oral examinations will be 5-10 mins
Students need to have a photo ID which you can show before the exam on camera

Past Exams

Students can acceess exams of previous years which can be used to practice with the final exam. The number of weighting of questions and the material covered for the final exam may be different from the previous exams.