Meeting 1 notes

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

• 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

• CS50x home page
  • CS50x IDE (coding platform)
• Problem set 1
• CS50 library documentation
  • CS50 library source code (for reference, background)