Discussion Sections & Quizzes - CSCI 402, Spring 2025, All Sections
Each live discussion section is conducted by a TA. Below is a list showing which TA is responsible for which discussion section:
  • Fri 10:00am - 10:50am OHE 136, lead by Zhuojin Li (live discussion can be accessed via D2L)
During a live discussion section, the TA will answer questions about the pre-recorded video and answer your questions about programming assignments. If you have a particular topic that you would like the TA to discuss in class (including stuff like something covered in lectures that you would like the TA to explain further), you should send email to the TA before 6PM on Thursday. The TA will try his/her best to cover such requests.

Please note that programming assignments are due on Fridays. Since you are expected to have finished the an assignment before its due date, on the due date of a programming assignment, the TA will be focusing on the next programming assignment and that takes priority over the current assignment. If there is time left, the TA can discuss the current assignment.

To download all the PDF and text files below in one command, do the following inside a terminal in Ubuntu 16.04:

wget -r -l 1 --user=USERID --password=PASSWORD http://merlot.usc.edu/cs402-s25/discussions.html
where USERID and PASSWORD are the user ID and password used to access protected content from our class web site. But please note that the slides can change at any time without notice. Therefore, it's a good idea to re-run the above command often to synchroniza your copy with the server!

Recordings of the Friday live discussion sections are posted in Lecture Slides & Videos.
The following are tentative discussion section slides (in PDF and TXT formats) for this semester.

Please note that the source code below is for the purpose of discussions and may not be identical to the code in your assignments. It would be a really bad idea (because you can lose a lot of points) to replace the code in your assignments with the code here! So, please do not replace the code in your assignments with the code here.

Below is the tentative quiz schedule for this semester.
Week #
Quiz #
Date
Coverage
1
1/17
Lectures 1/2, Week 1 discussion
2
1/24
Lectures 3/4, Week 2 discussion
3
 - 
1/31
no quiz (warmup1 due on Fri)
4
2/7
Lectures 5/6/7/8, Weeks 3/4 discussion
5
2/14
Lectures 9/10, Week 5 discussion
6
 - 
2/21
no quiz (warmup2 due on Fri)
7
2/28
Lectures 11/12/13/14, Weeks 6/7 discussion
8
3/7
Lectures 15/16
9
 - 
3/14
no quiz (kernel1 due on Fri)
 - 
 - 
3/21
no quiz (spring recess)
10
 - 
3/28
no quiz (Midterm Exam on Wed)
11
4/4
Lectures 17/18/19/20, Week 8/9 discussion
12
 - 
4/11
no quiz (kernel2 due on Fri)
13
4/18
Lectures 21/22/23/24, Weeks 10/11 discussions
14
 - 
4/25
no quiz
15
 - 
5/2
no quiz (kernel3 due on Fri)