Session Details

Week 0, Session 1 — Thu Aug 30

Preparation

  1. Read the Syllabus
  2. Review Weiss Ch. 1–6 before Day 4 (this document may help guide your reading).
  3. Email your instructor if you forgot your SVN password (different from your normal Rose-hulman network password)
  4. Bookmark this schedule page in your browser.
  5. Install software for the course:

Due

  1. Nothing today, but things due almost every other day this week!
  2. In addition to this column, you should always look at the Major Programs column.

  3. Student assistant evening lab hours

Topics

  1. Course introduction
  2. Growable Array analysis
  3. Main activities for Week 1:
    On your own: Skim/read some review material from the textbook and get back up-to-speed on programming by doing the WarmUpAndStretching assignment
    In class: Foundations of algorithm analysis

Outline

  1. [10 min] Roll Call, Introductions
  2. [15 min] Getting started, finding course material on the web, schedule
  3. [20 min] Review some math we’ll need
  4. [5 min] Break
  5. [45 min] Growable Array (due at end of class)

Resources

  1. Slides
  2. Course materials on the web.
  3. Claude's schedule
  4. An overview of the review material from Weiss chapters 1-7.
  5. Who graded what?

HW Assigned

  1. See Preparation, Due, and Major Programs columns on the main schedule page