Dear Colleagues,

1. Please make sure q is loaded on your laptop.
You can use either the free version or the commercial one.
Then type on the command line:

q

and you should see something like:

new-host-4:smarties3.d dennisshasha$ q
KDB+ 2.7 2010.12.17 Copyright (C) 1993-2010 Kx Systems
m64/ 2()core 4096MB dennisshasha new-host-4.home 192.168.1.3 EXPIRE 2012.02.01 Dennis Shasha #43880

q)

Now type "til 10"

q)til 10
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
q)

If that happens, you have loaded q successfully.


2. Please make sure you unzip and download all the files here
http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/papers/smarties1.zip
http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/papers/smarties2.zip
http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/papers/smarties3.zip
http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/papers/smarties4.zip
http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/papers/smarties5.zip
http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/papers/smartiesfin.zip

