 Hello to 31 students welcome back such as it is First of all, I hope that you and your family and friends are all well Certainly this is not an ideal situation Those of you who were around for Florence. This is the second big disruption in your education. So congratulations You're two for two For global disasters Congratulations This is certainly not ideal You didn't sign up for a remote instruction and I didn't sign up to deliver it the best learning takes place when we can talk to one another and that's certainly very hard online and It often feels forced. I think if you try and pretend that everything is working as usual Just remotely. That's not gonna work in these situations a Lot of you are in tough circumstances You're gonna be at home with noisy roommates or maybe you're back in your family home And there's not really a private space for you Me personally, this is probably the last time I'm going to be recording from my office We're getting kicked out of here on Tuesday and my office is gonna be my garage So you'll get to see all the spider corpses and other wonderful things there Since I have a seven month old and a three-year-old at home and they won't leave me alone So not the utmost ideal of circumstances for anybody That said we're gonna do our best 231 is a critical course for all of you If you're a computer science major a DA major Minor in computer science you got to have this course and it is a four credit course and it's on the critical path for you to kind of Not only graduate but just progress through your degrees. So we're gonna do our best and it'll be a challenge and The challenge is mostly gonna fall upon you as the students the main thing the one thing that I Think will be the key to your success in this course is to maintain some discipline and keeping up with the course If you start getting behind it's gonna be really hard to catch up And you've experienced this already like in the class itself when we were still meeting if you get behind it It is hard to catch up. We were only meeting twice a week. There's a lot of content in each lecture So that said you have to maintain that discipline that we had that you had going in person and If you remember kind of way back to the beginning of the course I posted this slide They kind of laid out what your schedule for the week would look like in this course where Mondays You're kind of doing the reading Tuesday you come to class and you start on the homework Wednesday is office hours and kind of keep working on the homework Thursday another lecture Friday More work Saturday homework Sunday homework is due. We're basically going to continue to follow that model What I expect to do though is Maybe I will have less for you to do than I would normally in a semester. Okay, but what I'm not going to do is Accept a drop in the quality of the work that I expect you to do So I'm going to ask you to do less But I'm still going to ask you to do it Well, and that's going to determine what a's and b's and c's and d's and f's are in this class. Okay, so And the reason I'm lowering the expectations in terms of amount of content is just I know it's going to be tough for you Just like it's going to be tough for me So that said I'm going to be Very lenient, right? If you're in a bind completing the work the homework assignments, you're still going to have one about one a week Or staying current with the corpse work, please let me know as soon as you can I can work with you But if you are out of contact for three weeks and you're way behind and you're like dr. Layman, I I don't know what to do Then it's going to be too late So if you're if you're stuck, uh, if you're in a tough position, let me know as soon as possible Okay, and we'll we'll work together to kind of figure the best way forward all right So that said, uh, what should you do the first thing you need to do is you need to go to canvas and make sure that Your notifications are turned on for receiving announcements That's the first thing I've posted an announcement about that And sent you an email. So make sure you've done that. Please be monitoring your uncw email All the really important communications are going to come through those two venues canvas announcements and uncw email I'll be My plan is to drop some content each week maybe twice a week just depending on how quickly I can get it prepared You need to complete the module within the week as much as possible Uh, oh, sorry the second thing I really need you to do go to canvas Read the top of the syllabus. It tells you how the instructions have changed for this course How grades will change and how I want you to communicate with me Okay, um, so even though we're not meeting in person And and it kills me because you know the stuff that we do in class Whether it's me talking to you also doing code together You interacting with your neighbor those little worksheets all that stuff is just critical to this class And I'm going to try and we're still going to do those activities Um, and it is important that you do them that you follow along. So please please try try your best Um So I am available to you even though I'm not there I'm here. Okay. I'm always going to be on my email. I'm always going to be Uh, checking my canvas inbox. So I'm here And if you have a question, you just reach out to me I will get back to you as soon as I possibly can at least within 24 hours, but I'm going to be working the whole time. So I'm going to be at my desk. You can expect a response And if it's better for us to chat, uh, face to face or virtually We can fire up a zoom meeting. We can share screens. We can debug code together Maybe you just want to text chat in real time. We can get a slack account going. We can do discord doesn't matter to me I'm here get in touch with me if you need help And we'll figure out the right way to do it synchronously in real time The other main communication Thing that we want to use as a class is the discussion board If you have a question, don't be shy Just ask online. Everybody's a cat on the internet Uh, nobody cares if you have a question. I guarantee you other people in the class have a question Please post it on the discussion board. I'll respond to it or your ta will respond to it as soon as we can Okay, so I want you to know I'm here for you. We're going to get through this together You're still going to have to work for this class. I'm not going to lie Um, but I'm here to help so you let me know how I can best help you and short of just waving my hands and giving everyone a B I will do it. Okay, so I wish you all the best. Please stay safe Do your part do your best to help curb this epidemic. It's going to take all of us doing a little something I know times are tough and no times aren't ideal, but we'll get through this You'll be successful if you put in the work and we'll get you on to the next semester and closer to your goals All right, I want you to take care and have a good rest of your day