Meeting 1 notes
Goals
Goals
- Re-introduce ourselves, meet new students.
- Get new students up and running.
- Address questions from the Meeting 1 pre-work videos.
- Successfully use a function from the CS50 library.
- Complete the Smart Water challenge from Problem Set 1.
- Stretch goal: Complete the Itsa Mario challenge from pset1.
- Super-stretch goal: Begin the Time For Change challenge.
- Deal with defective book returns.
- Know how and when to find Meeting 2 pre-work (hint: will be posted tonight).
Agenda
Agenda
- Name tags and attendance sheet.
- Ice breaker: tell a crazy computer story.
- What did you learn from the videos?
- Lecture
- Walk-throughs
- What questions / confusions do you have?
- Welcome tonight's guest instructor.
- Coding!
- First time here? Go follow the Meeting 0 notes.
- Tackle the challenges from Problem Set 1.
- Use the CS50 library function GetInt() for input.
- Ask your peers questions when you get stuck.
- Ask Google when your peers don't know.
- Ask an instructor when you get stuck.
- Don't stay stuck for more than 10 minutes without asking for help.
- Validate your programs with check50
Handy links
Handy links
- CS50x home page
- CS50x IDE (coding platform)
- Problem set 1
- CS50 library documentation
- CS50 library source code (for reference, background)