You will find the following resources helpful to your success in CS 124.
CS 124 Honor—formerly known as CS 196—is the honors section of CS 124. Note that CS 124 Honors is an add-on to CS 124, not a replacement. All CS 124 Honors students are expected to complete all of the CS 124 assignments. CS 124 Honors students who are doing poorly in CS 124 may be not allowed to continue participating in CS 124 Honors.
CS 124 Honors is a great experience! It also has its own website, forum, and sources of information. Please use those resources to ask questions about the class.
Here are the leads to introduce the course to you:
To sign up to find out more about CS 124 Honors, use this form.
If you are a James Scholar or are taking the course for honors credit, you should complete an Honors Credit Learning Agreement (HCLA). On your HCLA, state that you are completing the work for CS 199 124 for honors credit. Do not enroll in CS 199 124.
If you are not a James Scholar or not taking the course for honors credit, you should enroll in CS 199 124. The course is zero credit hours and S/U graded, but you will need to participate to earn the S grade!
CS 124 runs a Discourse forum.
The forum is the right place to ask questions, get help, and interact with other students and the course staff.
Please use it for all course-related questions that are not of a sensitive nature, since answering them there helps other students with the same question.
To log in, you will need to activate Google Apps integration for your @illinois.edu
email account.
Please also get in the habit of searching the forum before asking a question. Chances are fairly good that your question has already been asked and answered, which means that you can find out what you wanted to know immediately! On public forums this is also considered good forum etiquette.
We are using the excellent open-source Discourse forum software to power our course forum. There are four main reasons that we consider Discourse a better choice:
If you want a full write-up, click here.