CMPE 185 Home Page
Technical Writing for Computer Engineers and Scientists
(Last Update:
16:48 PST 7 March 2003
)
This is a required course for computer engineering majors, designed by
Kevin Karplus and Dan Scripture in 1987, and which has undergone
evolutionary change in the intervening years.
Index of class resources
- Class Information for Winter 2003
- Class Information in Portable Document Format
- Winter 2003 Syllabus and
detailed assignments.
- This is the workbook in native .html format, suitable for reading
on the web. WARNING: this was created by latex2html from a document
that was not designed with latex2html in mind, and so some parts may
be garbled, and the formatting may be poor.
- Workbook as PDF files.
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Click here to get a table of contents for
the pieces of the workbook as PDF files.
The PDF files will print much better than the HTML files, but are
rather large.
- Humor for the tech-writing class
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The in-program documentation assignment calls for modifying an
existing program. To save typing, here is the file in C:
We used to use
but the program for winter 2003 is different.
- Newsgroup
- There is a newsgroup (ucsc.class.cmpe185) for the class.
For posting to the newsgroup, it is generally better to be working
from a UNIX machine, so that proper mailing addresses are generated.
This newsgroup is for asking questions, answering questions, making
announcements, and general discussion between students. Please read
it frequently.
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Discussion about the syllabus
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A discussion of the history and syllabus for this course.
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Discussion of student work on the in-program documentation assignment.
I have been asked to add pointers to the important student
organizations, which are now collected at
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/organizations/
Here are some older versions of the assignments:
- Class Information for Fall 2000
- Class Information in PostScript format
Class Information in dvi format
- Fall 2000 Syllabus and
detailed assignments HTML format
- Fall 2000 Workbook as PostScript files.
Fall 200 Workbook as dvi files.
- Class Information for Fall 1999
- Class Information in PostScript format
Class Information in dvi format
- Fall 1999 Syllabus and
detailed assignments.
- Workbook as PostScript files.
Workbook as dvi files.
- Class Information for Winter 1999
- Class Information in PostScript format
Class Information in dvi format
- Winter 1999 Syllabus and
detailed assignments.
- Workbook as PostScript files.
Workbook as dvi files.
- Class Information for Spring 1998
- Class Information in PostScript format
Class Information in dvi format
- Spring 1998 Syllabus and
detailed assignments.
- Spring 1998 Workbook as PostScript files.
- Spring 1998 Workbook as dvi files.
- Class Information for Spring 1996
- Spring 1996 Syllabus and
detailed assignments.
- Workbook as PostScript files.
- Workbook as dvi files.
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Fall 1995 Syllabus and detailed assignments.
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This is the syllabus and assignments for Fall 1995, when Tracy
Larrabee taught the course.
- Winter 1995 Syllabus and detailed
assignments
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This is an even older version of the assignments, in Postscript and
dvi formats.
Questions regarding about page content should be directed to
Kevin Karplus
Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
USA
karplus@cse.ucsc.edu
(408) 459-4250
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