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Announcements

Welcome!

Aug 26

Hi everyone, and welcome to CS 161 Fall 2026!

First Lecture

• Our first lecture will be on Wednesday August 26th, 12:00–1:00pm PT in Physics Building 1.
• All lectures this semester will be recorded and posted in bCourses.
• All lectures will be live streamed over Zoom.

Course Communication

• We will be using Ed and the course website (https://fa26.cs161.org/) as the main forms of communication for this class.

Assignments

• In general, the assignment schedule for this course is available on the course website, and upcoming due dates will be reiterated in weekly announcements posts on Ed. You are expected to keep up to date with these announcements posts.

Office Hours and Discussions

• See the course calendar for the office hours and discussion schedule. Please note that discussion times are still tentative, and will be finalized by the end of this week. You are free to attend any discussion you wish and attendance will not be recorded, however, we do encourage you attend these for practice.

Exams

• The midterm and final exam dates are TBA. More information will be released shortly on Ed as well as on our Course Policies Page. Please make sure you keep up to date with any announcements.

Questions

• If you have any questions or comments, please first check out these pages:
  • Course policies page: https://fa26.cs161.org/policies/
  • FAQs: https://fa26.cs161.org/resources/faqs
• If your question is not answered after reading those two pages, feel free to post a follow up on Ed.

We look forward to a great semester with you!