Meeting 8 notes

Goals

• Have fun!
• Learn how to read and construct strings.
• Goal: Finish Hail, Caeser challenge from Problem Set 2, get started on the Parlez-vous français challenge challenge.
• Stretch goal: Parlez-vous français challenge.
• Super-stretch goal: Start The Game Begins challenge from Problem Set 3. Before you dive in, follow the instructions in PSet3 Getting Started to set up your workspace properly.
• Yummy goal: Eat treats.

Agenda

• Review any questions from this week's pre-work.
• 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)