Meeting 2 notes
Goals
Goals
- Re-introduce ourselves, meet new students.
- Get new students up and running.
- Address questions from the Meeting 2 pre-work videos.
- Get in the habit of writing functions for everything.
- Goal: Complete the Itsa Mario challenge from pset1.
- Yummy goal: Eat chocolate.
- Stretch goal: Complete the Time For Change challenge.
- Distribute new books.
- Know how and when to find Meeting 3 pre-work (hint: will be posted tonight).
Agenda
Agenda
- What did you learn from the videos?
- Lecture
- Walk-throughs
- What questions / confusions do you have?
- Functions, functions, functions!
- Coding!
- First time here? Go follow the Meeting 0 notes.
- Tackle the challenges from Problem Set 1.
- Use lots of functions -- write your own!
- 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)