Meeting 3 notes

Goals

• Re-introduce ourselves, meet new students.
• Get new students up and running, distribute books.
• Address questions from Meeting 3 pre-work readings and exercises.
• Goal: Complete the Itsa Mario challenge from pset1 using 2 nested loops.
  • Stretch goal: Complete the Time For Change challenge using a sequence of while loops.
  • Super-stretch goal: Start watching Week 2 videos as listed in the Meeting 4 pre-work.
• Yummy goal: Eat chocolate.

Agenda

• What did you learn from the readings?
• What questions / confusions do you have?
• Any questions/thoughts on exercises?
• Coding!
  • First time here? Go follow the Meeting 0 notes.
  • Tackle the challenges from Problem Set 1.
  • 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
  • If you finish pset1, submit it and start the Meeting 4 pre-work.

Handy links

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