Meeting 4 notes

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

• 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

• 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)