A bit more on our use of laptops in quizzes: I mentioned that you do NOT need to have a fast, fancy laptop. I said that you just need to have gcc and R on it. Of course, you also need Python, because that is the language in which OMSI is written. (We are not using Python ourselves; it's just the language on which our quiz tool runs.) Please note that this means Python 2.7, NOT 3.*. Python is automatically included on Linux and Mac systems, but you can easily download it for Windows. (In my view, CS students shouldn't be using Windows anyway, but that's not relevant.) As mentioned before, OpenMP does not run on the standard gcc for Macs. You will need to either download a better gcc (preferred) or run a virtual machine that runs Linux. The TA will be setting up instructions for this. We will be running MPI, including on quizzes. This is easily downloadable for any of the three major platforms. Norm