6.001 Spring 1998: Homework Discussion Forum

The 6.001 discussion forum permits you to post questions about problem sets on the World Wide Web. You can also see the questions and answers posted by other people. There is a separate forum for each problem set:

PS01	PS02	PS03
PS04	PS05	PS06
PS07	PS08	PS09
PS10	PS11	PS12
	PS13

Each forum is organized into categories -- one for each tutorial and computer exercise in the problem set. You can use the links above on this page to see the categories. In addition, if you view a problem set (HTML) document on the web, you'll find a link at the end of each each exercise that takes you to the appropriate category, where you can see the questions and answers already posted, and you can post new questions.

Options

When an answer to your question is posted, you will receive notification by email. There are also several options you can set that will send you email when other people post questions and answers, but you probably don't want to do this. (Don't you get enough email already?)

Privacy

When you post something on the forum, you are asked to include your name and email address. The system does not check this information, so there is nothing to stop you from filling in something false; we hope, however, that you will not do this. One of the goals of the forum is to stimulate collaboration among everyone in the class rather than just one-on-one interchanges between students and staff. On the other hand, we appreciate that not everyone wants to broadcast their name and address all over the net. The entire forum is therefore password protected. Please cooperate in trying to keep knowledge of the password within the class (or at least within MIT).

Acknowledgements

The 6.001 forum uses software designed by Philip Greenspun, as part of an experiment on using the Web to support collaboration. You can learn more about this by reading Philip's book, Database-backed web sites

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