Good Morning Everyone,

As of now we have 29 days behind us and 25 days left in the course. So in terms of getting everyone through the course, where do we stand?

With 15 students taking 17 tests each, there are 255 total tests to be passed. As of now, the 15 of you have collectively passed 93 tests. So with about 54% of the time elapsed, 36% of the course tests have been completed assuming.

With only 15 students, the traffic at the end of the semester should not be too bad, but if everyone procrastinates, Our grading rate may slip from its currently excellent rate.

So have an excellent 4th, but if you have yet to get too far from the starting gates, you may want to tell yourself it is your patriotic duty to forge ahead in ME205.

Good luck, Dr. Pryor

Good Evening Everyone,

I hope everyone's summer is going well, that no one's computer has crashed or AC has gone kaput. Here we are with a little more than a month left to go, and there is some great progress. Just a couple quick items.

• Congratulations to our first finisher! Less than a month in and someone already has an A for ME205 for the summer. When asked if he planned to tell his parent's how hard he was working for the next month while spending it at pool, he had no comment.
• Both the proctor and I have some travel planned for this summer. Thus the best way to get your questions answered is to always email both of us at the same time. Whichever is available first will respond with a 'Reply All' so the other knows your question was answered.
• Want to hear about these updates in real time? I strongly recommend signing up for Google Reader which will let you know whenever this, or other sporadically updated web sites have new content.

Good luck, Dr. Pryor

Good morning all,

Tired of the Citrix server or working in the labs? Not to worry, you can install Microsoft Visual Studio Express right on your own computer. Just download the application from Microsoft's web site.

Good luck, Dr. Pryor

Good evening,

The slides I showed earlier today are available for you to peruse at your leisure by following this link. It is a .pdf document so you may prefer to right click and save the document to your local computer.

Good luck, Dr. Pryor

Good afternoon,

Office hours are now posted under the link to the left. Note all OH are in ETC 3.134 NOT ETC 3.112 where we met for the orientation. Thus the phone number for contacting the proctor is valid.

Please remember that although you have 2 hours to take any test, please allow at least 1.5 hours for Review Tests you must take during the office hours (i.e. show up with at least 1.5 hours left in the posted office hours or we won't let you start.)

See you there, Dr. Pryor

In order to start the course you'll need to attend the first class meeting that is scheduled for this Thursday, June 4th at 10am.

In the mean time....

1. Make every effort to make it to the orientation lecture. At that time, you will learn how the class works and receive your user name and password for the web site.
2. The book(s) for ME205 are optional. My suggestion is do not purchase the book(s) until after the orientation session when you can decide if purchasing is right for you.
3. Your only assignment before meeting is to ensure you have a High
   Assurance UTEID. Chances are good that almost all of you have taken care of this. If not, go to the Engineering Account Enable Page http://www.engr.utexas.edu/computing/accounts/ then click on "Enable your EID Account - for the Engineering resources" as you've already been emailed.

Good luck and looking forward to meeting you, Dr. Pryor