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Office Hours

  • Stop by in person M/W/F 1:20–3:00pm in King Hall 208 or join my Zoom waiting room.
  • Please fill out this form when you arrive so that I know what order to meet with everyone.

TA/Lab Hours

  • In-person and online help is available Sunday through Thursday. See the TA Hours page.
  • For best results, don't wait until the last minute! The TAs are busy when homework is due.

Piazza Q&A

  • When you have questions about the homework or any course topic, please ask on Piazza.
  • All CS 159 professors, TAs, and students will be able to see and answer your questions!

Practice Sites

  • Practice-it is a free service by the University of Washington for solving problems in Java.
    • After creating an account and logging in, select "Building Java Programs, 5th edition."
    • Each chapter has self-check problems (shorter) and programming exercises (longer).
  • CodingBat is a free site of live problems to build skill in Java and/or Python programming.
    • The site was created by Nick Parlante, who is Computer Science lecturer at Stanford.
    • If you create an account, CodingBat will automatically save your submissions online.