Schedule Syllabus Project

• Introduce instructor [2min]

• Check roster [2 min]

  • Student info cards [3 min + 2 min passout]

• Read the syllabus [10min]

  • Show book
  • Explain office hours

Debugging overview

• Definitions [3 min]
  • Bug: unexpected behavior
  • Crashes, doesn't match spec, inconsistent, slow
• Goals and motivation [<1 min]
  • Find bugs quickly
  • Fix bugs safely
• Results [2 min]
  • Improve your you interview
  • Save you time and money
  • Save your company time and money
• How? [2 min]
  • Engineering process
  • Analysis of cause
  • Replication
  • Search
  • Problem correction
• Use the scientific method
  • Hypothesis (guess/predict)
  • Investigate and eliminate
  • Repeat until problem is found
• Why is it hard? [3 min]
  • Bloom's taxonomy
    • Knowledge
    • Comprehension
    • Application
    • Analysis
    • Synthesis
    • Evaluation

Tool quiz [10 min]

- Source control
- IDE
- Debugging tools