CS3L: Introduction to Symbolic Programming Summer 2008Colleen Lewis Lecture 1: Introduction & Administration

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Staff Colleen Lewis, Instructor Gilbert Chou, TA Ahmed Owainati, Reader

Exams Midterm 1 Thursday July 3 rd – 9:10 – 11:10 Midterm 2 Tuesday July 29 th – 9:10 – 11:10 Final Friday August 15 th – 9:10 – 12:10

Class Times Monday – Thursday 9-12 & Friday A typical class 9:10 Start mini-lecture 9:30 Start quiz 9:45 Start lab

Quizzes Taken from 9:30 – 9:45 most class periods Quizzes must be taken in lab 8% of total grade A good place to test your knowledge Only need 60% of all quiz points to get full credit A great way to get feedback Course staff will talk to you about your quiz during the following lab section.

Labs You’ll work on labs during class time You can work with a partner or the whole class Lab materials are on UCWISE ucwise.org

Homework Due at 11:59 pm the day of the next lab Assigned in Monday’s lab Due Tuesday at 11:59 pm … Assigned in Friday’s lab Due Monday at 11:59 pm Homework is done individually

2 accounts & 2 passwords Create 2 accounts One to log onto machines in Soda Login “cs3-xx” One to log onto UCWISE Login: “whatever”

Today Detailed Log onto computer using cs3-xx account Type in the info it asks for ( etc.) Open firefox (right click on the desktop) Go to ucwise.org Click on the “new student account” link Fill in the information Enter your enrollment code (on the board) Go back to ucwise.org and login Do the lab exercises