Hello and Welcome

A big 'Hi and welcome' to the class of 2011.

This is to introduce you to the (informal) course blog. A good way to see what role the blog plays is to check out what it did last year.

Pls find the introductory blogpost last year here. Most of the post holds for this year too. There are 4 changes, however:

1. Pls access the blog for information etc on a regular basis - at least once before a lecture and so on. This was 'optional' last year, but is upgraded to 'recommended' this year. IMO, this will save a ton of time, trouble and mass e-mail.

2. Anonymous commenting has been disabled this year. I found last year that it is indeed susceptible to misuse.

3. Your participation on the blog remains entirely optional. However, updates regarding announcements, notifications, clarifications, queries and doubts etc will break first on the blog. So pls check for updates regularly.

4. We'll have a mid-term and no end-term this year. Last year, we had an end-term and no mid-term.

Going through last year's blog posts, here are some typical ones:
Pls find an explanation for lecture slides non-distribution prior to class here.

You can browse through last year's project scope document here. If you browse posts under the 'Project' tag, you can see how things evolved last year re the project. Of course the project topic will change this year.

Some email feedback here and much more here.
Disclaimer: Quiz formats etc may change this year, so the posts for last year are indicative only.

Chalo, that's a start. 9 more lectures to go.

Sudhir