The Art of Computing COMP1010 26T1

Sim's Consultation Availability

Posted by Sim Mautner Thursday 16 April 2026, 06:45:01 PM.

Hi everyone,

I'm really enjoying seeing your projects coming together!

With Project Implementations due next Thursday night, I'm available for some additional Zoom consultations in the coming week.

In booking consultations, please be considerate of my time and that of your peers. Book the time(s) you need, but if you change your mind about attending, please cancel your booking as soon as possible so that the booking slot opens up for other people.

Please make bookings through my booking page .

If you'd like to make a consultation at a time which is not listed on my booking page, you may reach out to me via email at s.mautner@unsw.edu.au. Let me know your availability and I'll see what I can do.

Regards,

Sim.

Solution to the end-of-lecture bug

Posted by Sim Mautner Tuesday 14 April 2026, 06:54:28 PM.

Hi everyone,

For those of you who are still wondering what was wrong with the code at the end of our lecture - I've now released to you fixed code, and an extra folder in our lecture code folder from today, named "Solving the end of lecture bug". The screenshots show the debugging output which helped me find the problem, and a screenshot of the changed code. Although we were careful to update the correct letter in "answer" in our initial implementation, when we fixed our code to do "greens first - then yellows" we forgot to change the correct letter in the answer.

Eg:

answer: DEVOTE

guess: WITTED

Looking at 'T', we were updating them to be:

DE.VOTE and WI,TED

rather than

DEVO.E and WI,TED

Note that the fixed version removes the 'T' from 'DEVOTE' rather than removing the 3rd letter.

See you all on Thursday :)

Lecture Content for the Rest of the Term - Have Your Say

Posted by Sim Mautner Tuesday 07 April 2026, 01:21:23 PM.

Hi everyone,

At this point in the term we adjust the lecture content to the specific wants and needs of the current cohort of students.

1. Remembering that "Programming" is worth 25% of the Implementation mark, we are looking for students to submit their code to us for teaching purposes.
   • If you've finished your MVP and maybe 1-2 NTHs.
   • Email your code to cs1010@cse.unsw.edu.au with the subject line 'Code for programming improvement lecture'.
   • I will review your code to see if it's more suited for:
     • Individual feedback on your programming or
     • Use it as a demonstration to the class about how they can take their existing implementation and improve their programming in order to maximise their marks for that component.
2. As many of you will be debugging your projects in the coming weeks, we are looking for students to submit their code to us for teaching purposes.
   • If you have a bug which you've tried to solve or a feature you can't get to work.
   • Email your code to cs1010@cse.unsw.edu.au with the subject line 'Code for debugging demonstration lecture'.
   • I will review your code, and if it's suitable, I will use it as a demonstration on how to debug your specific problem or how to get your specific feature to work.

We will accept email submissions for the above 2 areas right up until Wednesday/Thursday of week 10. Please also submit this poll to indicate what would interest you the most if we have lecture time that's not otherwise occupied.