Basic Info

The staff for CS559 this semester includes the 2 instructors, 3 graduate teaching assistants, and 2 undergraduate peer mentors, and 2 graduate graders.

Feel free to contact the course staff via Piazza.

At least one member of the course staff will be available during Consulting Hours. See the Getting Help page.

• If you want a concise description of how the course works, see the Course Overview.
• If you are looking for a schedule of the class or an outline of the topics covered in class, see the Calendar.
• If you are looking for a list of the learning goals, see Learning Goals. This has more detail than the official syllabus.

The galleries contain a few cool examples randomly selected from student assignments who submitted to the gallery before the due dates and obtained 20 points for the submission. The following list also contains the links to the Galleries in the past few years.

Workbook 1: N/A

Workbook 2: 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , 2023 , 2024 , 2025

Workbook 3: 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , 2023 , 2024 , 2025

Workbook 4: 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , 2023 , 2024 , 2025

Workbook 5: 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , 2024 , 2025

We will use Zoom for this class: both to record in-person lectures as well as for online meetings with course staff.

Access to the Zoom meetings can be found through Canvas. There will be meetings for each lecture, as well as a recurring meeting for staff consulting hours.

For Lectures

1. Students will keep their cameras and microphones off, unless we specifically ask you to turn it on (for example if we want you to speak to the class to expand upon a question).

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