Meeting 2 notes

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

• 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

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