People and Lab Hours
We encourage you to post questions on the course Edstem page so that other students can also benefit from these questions or answer them. But when you need individualized help, feel free to attend open lab hours.
Lab and Office hours
Please note that open lab hours start in Week 2. However, the instructor will likely hold office hours during the first week. Check the calendar below.
Lab hours are open times when 1 or more course staff are available for short 5-10 minute sessions on a first-come, first-serve basis in the SAL 125 computer room (for group tutors) or where individual TA’s specify they will hold their office hours (see the GCal below). The blocks of time each day when lab hours are available will be posted via the calendar below. Note: This schedule may change periodically so just check it before you go to lab hours for help.
- In-person (SAL 125): When you arrive in SAL, there should be a note posted on the front white board as to where CS 103 staff have setup shop or you can look for the tutor/TA whose pictures are below.
- Some TAs may hold their hours on Zoom. this will be indicated in the GCal event and a link will be provided there as well.
OH Policies
Please be aware of and follow some basic procedures with office hours:
- Typically, we will spend 5-7 minutes before moving on to help another students.
- You are ultimately responsible for working on your own code and solving problems that arise. While we will do our best to help, sometimes the error is buried under a lot of code. We likely cannot dig fully into your specific implementation. So, you should be prepared to say what you’ve done to try to find the source of the issue and/or the solution.
- If you are getting a compile error, have you searched it on the internet?
- Have you compared your syntax to examples in the slides?
- If you have a bug as the program runs, have you added print statements or stepped through your code via a debugger?
- Have you commented out sections of code until you can get something to work and then added portions back in? If the answer is no, our staff may ask you to do that first and then rejoin the queue.
- Those that we notice keep coming back immediately after getting help may be deprioritized in an effort to be fair to everyone or to ensure that the TA/tutor is not supplying all of the guidance.
Calendar
Note that we may change the listed office hours as needed, or add more before homework deadlines or examinations. For an up to date listing please see the Google Calendar
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