Recitation 5 Intro Engineering Pro Tips

Reminders  If you commission your project before Milestone 3, your team does NOT have to present at Milestone 3  You still have to print out a rough draft of your final presentation for comments  Go to open lab and get ahead on your SLDP  Review your writing consultant and teaching assistant graded lab reports

Repeated Writing Errors on Reports  Do not use subjective language, be EXPLICIT  One idea per paragraph  Do not use I, we, us, our, my…  Tables labeled above, figures below  Table 2: Cost Estimates  Tables and figures must fit on one page  Formulas get their own line

Document Formats  Download presentations from Google Docs and check formatting before submitting  Organize your course files and folders  Download manager Chrome extension or Firefox Add-on  EG 1003 teamwork experience for interviews  Mac users, partition your HD for windows or run a virtual machine

Algorithms and Flow Charts

Programming Resources  NYU Lynda  Codeacadmey  Khan Academy  w3schools (web design)  Online Open Courses  Coursera  MIT OpenCourseWare  Google and StackExchange

Programming Software  Math (MATLAB, Mathematica)  CAD (Autodesk, SOLIDWORKS, Google SketchUp)  Databases (SQL, Oracle, GIS)  Statistics (R, SPSS, SAS)  Web design (Wordpress, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP)  IDEs (Visual Studio, Eclipse, Xcode)  Source code text editors (Notepad++, VIM, Emacs)  Version control (Dropbox, Google Drive, Git)

Programming Languages  Visual Programming Languages  LabVIEW/Lego Mindstorms  Google Blockly/MIT Scratch  ModelBuilder in ArcGIS

Programming Languages  Visual Programming Languages  LabVIEW/Lego Mindstorms  Google Blockly/MIT Scratch  ModelBuilder in ArcGIS  Programming Languages  C  Java  Python