Forums

CS courses in 1B and later make use of USENET-style course newsgroups where students may post questions or comments and read answers or follow-ups. Many of these groups are exported to off-campus machines and are available on Google Groups. While there are many advantages to this mechanism, there are some disadvantages. Anyone can post under any name, and Google will archive all posts forever.

CS 145 will not use newsgroups. Instead, it will use two forums set up under the new UW learning management system (D2L), accessible here (log in with your Quest/UWdir userid and password). Students enrolled in CS 145 can find the forums by clicking the "Discussions" link.

Initially, two forums have been set up. "Curricular" is for questions and comments directly pertinent to CS 145 content. "Extracurricular" is for items with some connection to CS 145 but not directly related to for-credit material.