Meeting 7 notes

Goals

• Have fun!
• Learn how to read and construct strings.
• Goal: Finish the Initializing challenge from Problem Set 2, Get started on the Hail, Caesar challenge.
• Stretch goal: Finish Hail, Caeser challenge.
• Super-stretch goal: Finish Parlez-vous français challenge.
• Yummy goal: Eat treats.

Agenda

• Review syntax for accessing individual letters in a string.
• Review what's in s[0], s[-1], s[strlen(s)], s[strlen(s) - 1], and s[strlen(s) + 1]
  • Quiz: what is the difference between s[i + 1] and s[i] + 1 ?
• Coding!
  • 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)