Getting Help¶
We will provide support for this course using an on-line system named Piazza and with office hours.
Piazza¶
The preferred form of on-line support for this course is through Piazza, an on-line discussion service that can be used to ask questions and share useful information with your classmates. Students will be enrolled in Piazza at the start of the quarter.
All questions regarding assignments or material covered in class must be sent to Piazza, and not directly to the course instructors or the TAs, as this allows your classmates to join in the discussion and benefit from the replies to your question. If you send a message directly to an instructor or the TAs, you will get a gentle reply asking you to send your question to Piazza.
Piazza has a mechanism that allows you to ask a private question, which will be seen only by the instructors and teaching assistants. This mechanism should be used only for questions that require revealing part of your solution to the assignment.
Additionally, all course announcements will be made through Piazza.
It is your responsibility to check Piazza often to see if there are
any announcements. Please note that you can configure your Piazza
account to send you e-mail notifications every time there is a new
post on Piazza. Just go to your Account Settings, then to Class
Settings, click on Edit Notifications under CMSC 12100. We
encourage you to select either the Real Time option (get a
notification as soon as there are new posts) or the Smart Digest
option (get a summary of all the posts sent over the last 1-6 hours –
you can select the frequency).
Office hours¶
We hold two types of office hours in this class:
- Individual Office Hours: These are office hours where the instructor or TA speaks to each student one by one. This format works best if you have a very specific problem with your code and need help debugging it.
- Group Office Hours: These office hours are held in a classroom or large conference room and are better suited for general questions: clarifications about what an assignment is asking you to do, questions on material covered in class, etc. This way, other students who are in the room can listen in and possibly benefit from the answer as well.
In general, Individual office hours are better when you need to sit down with an instructor or TA to work through an issue in your code. You may come to Group office hours with those kind of questions too, but please note that the instructor/TA may prioritize group questions
Office hours for weeks 9-10¶
NOTE: TAs will not hold office hours during Reading Period.
| Name | Day & Time | Location | Type |
| Sotomayor | M 10:30am-11:30am | Crerar 209 | Individual |
| Krishnan | M 10:00am-11:00am | Crerar 243 | Individual |
| Black | M 11:30am-12:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Hunter | M 3:00pm-5:00pm | Crerar 354 (*) | Group |
| Ur | M 5:00pm-6:00pm | Crerar 363 | Individual |
| Hunter | Tu 12:30pm-2:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Liu | Tu 2:30pm-4:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Hunter | Tu 4:00pm-5:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Cohen | Tu 4:30pm-6:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Filipe | Tu 5:30pm-7:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Richoux | Tu 6:30pm-8:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Sotomayor | W 10:30am-11:30am | Crerar 209 | Individual |
| Krishnan | W 10:00am-11:00am | Crerar 243 | Individual |
| Black | W 11:30am-12:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Filipe | W 12:30pm-2:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Richoux | W 6:30pm-8:30pm | Crerar 354 | Group |
| Cohen | Th 4:00pm-6:00pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Richoux | Th 6:30pm-8:30pm | Crerar 354 | Group |
| Sotomayor | F 10:30am-11:30am | Crerar 209 | Individual |
| Krishnan | F 10:00am-11:00am | Crerar 243 | Individual |
| Black | F 11:30am-12:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Liu | F 1:00pm-3:00pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
(*) In Week 10, these office hours will take place in Crerar 236
Office hours for weeks 1-8¶
NOTE: TAs will not hold office hours during Weeks 5 and 8.
| Name | Day & Time | Location | Type |
| Sotomayor | M 10:30am-11:30am | Crerar 209 | Individual |
| Krishnan | M 10:00am-11:00am | Crerar 243 | Individual |
| Black | M 11:30am-12:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Ur | M 5:00pm-6:00pm | Crerar 363 | Individual |
| Cohen | Tu 10:00am-12:00pm | Crerar 346 | Group |
| Hunter | Tu 2:30pm-4:00pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Richoux | Tu 6:00pm-8:00pm | Crerar 223 | Group |
| Sotomayor | W 10:30am-11:30am | Crerar 209 | Individual |
| Krishnan | W 10:00am-11:00am | Crerar 243 | Individual |
| Black | W 11:30am-12:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Filipe | W 1:00pm-3:00pm | Crerar 354 | Group |
| Ur | W 3:00pm-5:00pm | Crerar 354 | Group |
| Liu | W 5:00pm-6:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Richoux | W 6:00pm-8:00pm | Crerar 350 | Individual |
| Liu | Th 12:30pm-2:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Filipe | Th 2:30pm-4:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Hunter | Th 2:30pm-4:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Cohen | Th 4:00pm-6:00pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Richoux | Th 4:30pm-6:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Liu | Th 6:00pm-8:00pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Hunter | Th 6:30pm-8:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Sotomayor | F 10:30am-11:30am | Crerar 209 | Individual |
| Krishnan | F 10:00am-11:00am | Crerar 243 | Individual |
| Black | F 11:30am-12:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |
| Liu | F 12:30pm-2:30pm | Crerar 373 | Individual |