Lecture 2 - Announcements / Notes

Announcements

• Please have one group member grab a Exercise Solution Set sheet on the way into class. I can distribute them out to any groups that don’t have them.

• These announcements and notes will be linked from the schedule table (as “notes” in the Slides column).

• Faculty candidate talk:

  • Fri 1/13 4pm CF 316: William Hoza - Teaching Demo Communicating Over an Unreliable Channel

From last time: How many ways can you write “Hello world”?

Note: you don’t yet know some of the syntax I’m using, but you will soon.

print("Hello world!")
print("Hello", "world!")
print("Hello", " ", "world", "!", sep="")
print("Hello world", sep=" ", end="!\n")
print("Hello world", end="!\n", sep=" ")
print("H", "e", "l", "l", "o", " ", "w", "o", "r", "l", "d", "!", sep="")
print("Hell", " w", "rld!", sep="o")

import sys
sys.stdout.write("Hello world!\n")

# and I could go on...

In teams: Write up your Exercise Solution Sets for E02T

How to succeed in this class

• Lecture content
  • Watch the videos, work through the exercises before class:
    • Try to answer the Exercise.
    • If there’s a way to check your answer using python, do so now. Do you understand the outcome?
    • If not, make a note to talk about this with your team in class.
    • Attend class
  • Make mistakes and learn from them. Be bold!
  • Learn from your teammates.
  • Teach your teammates.
  • Ask lots of questions.
  • Practice solving the Problems on your own after class.
• Programming assignments
  • Start early. The assignments may take longer than you expect them to. This is increasingly true as the quarter progresses.
  • Get help. If you’re stuck, or don’t know how to get started, for more than about 30 minutes, seek help. You can come to my office hours, TA office hours, ask questions in the q-and-a channel, or go to the CS Tutors (see the Syllabus “Resources for Getting Help and Support”).
  • Even if you got help along the way, when you’re done, you should be able to sit down and solve it yourself from scratch.
• Labs
  • Attend lab (required).
  • Ask questions of the TA - they are there to help.
  • When you’re done, you should be able to sit down and solve it yourself from scratch.
• Midterm Exam, Final Project: will take care of themselves if you’re solid on the above.

Problems - Live coding!