Session Details

Week 1, Session 2 — Mon Sep 6

Reading

1. 1.3, 1.5-2.4
   (24 pages)

HW Due

1. HW 1

Topics

1. Functions
2. Basic program structure
3. Program output
4. SE tools: Eclipse (IDE) and Subversion (SVN)

Outline

1. [10 min] Hand-back quizzes, discuss questions
2. [10 min] Show off pictures from HW1
3. [20 min] Interactive Development Environments (IDEs):
   • What are they?
   • Why use one?
   • Our IDE -- Eclipse, and why we chose it
   • Basic concepts in Eclipse: Workspace, Workbench. Files, folders, projects. Views, editors, perspectives
   • Make a new project, adding a new module, writing a program and running it.
4. [10 min] Version Control:
   • What is it? What are its benefits?
   • How does it work? Checkout. The Update, Edit, Update, Commit cycle.
   • Our version control system - Subversion.
   • Checkout out our first project
5. [5 min] Break
6. [5 min] Functions. Names, expressions, and output statements. The hello module.
7. [20 min] Parts of programs -- The chaos and temperature modules.
8. [20 min] The software development process. The kph module.
9. [5 min] Finish daily quiz and point out homework to them.

Resources

1. Slides Writing simple programs and functions

HW Assigned

1. HW 2