CSE 231 Section *** Teaching Assistant: YOUR NAME Remember to ask about recently added students about hour of code

As the TA for CSE 231, I will be the main Source of Contact via email: NETID@msu.edu & Piazza INTRODUCE YOURSELF What are everyone’s majors? Grade-level?

Best Resources www.cse.msu.edu/~cse231 Everything you will ever need is most likely here! - Helproom hours/ Syllabus/ Due Dates Please watch the introduction video by Dr. Enbody You must buy the textbook. Read Chapters 0 and 1. A draft is online for those who don't have a text yet. Piazza And, especially, me! Again, my email is NETID@msu.edu

Lab format The course is structured in such a way, that lab exercises can hurt you You can miss up to 2 labs before it starts to affect your grade To receive credit for your lab, you must Complete the Pre-Lab on D2L before the lab section meets (Good Preview of what exams are like!) https://www.d2l.msu.edu. You can’t get credit for the labs unless you do the pre-lab on D2L Show me your running program before the class ends of the current lab assignment That being said, if there are ever any problems, just let me know, we can work out a solution most of the time.

Projects (45%) I grade your projects & handle extensions Extensions: you can get 1 day extension on a project for 50% of the points Projects become more difficult and time consuming as the semester continues Always due on Mondays, & turned in via Mimir If you are ever stuck, a video regarding each project will be attached where the project specifications can be found.

Done Early? I am always here to help, even if you finish early Please stay to start projects do chapter exercises Ask questions regarding the textbook You have me for the full class time, and I want you to get your money’s worth.

Intro to lab 1: Demo in spyder Operators: - using ‘/ ‘ normal division - using // integer division, does division and truncates quotient - using % remainder(modulo) Operators and equal sign: - ‘+=‘ vs ‘-=‘ vs ‘*=‘ - Order of operations Changing types and precision: - int(15.6) vs int(15) - float(5) - bool(1) vs bool(-50) vs bool(0) vs bool(‘’) vs bool(‘No’) - round(3.14159,2)