Meeting 4 notes
Goals
Goals
- Have fun!
- Address questions from Meeting 4 pre-work readings and exercises.
- Goal: Finish one program and start a new one.
- Stretch goal: Dive into problem set 2. You don't need to finish all of PSet 1 to do this, move on if you're getting bored.
- Yummy goal: Eat cookies.
Agenda
Agenda
- What did you learn from the Week 2 video?
- Common bugs in loops
- Working with strings
- What do you think of the style guide?
- What questions / confusions do you have?
- Coding!
- First time here? Go follow the Meeting 0 notes.
- Tackle the challenges from Problem Set 1 or Problem Set 2.
- Definitely start a new program, either from the same PSet or from the next one.
- What to do if you get stuck?
- Ask your peers questions.
- Ask Google when your peers don't know.
- Ask an instructor if those don't work.
- 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
- Problem set 2
- CS50 style guide
- CS50 library documentation
- CS50 library source code (for reference, background)