1. Elementary Programming Concepts Andrew (amwallis)
EECS 183
My name is Andrew, and I'll be your GSI this semester, and I want to officially welcome you to EECS183!
Elementary Programming Concepts
Andrew (amwallis)

2. About Me 2nd year CS masters student
B.S. in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech
Interned this past summer with Siemens Healthcare developing a clinical dashboard to screen for rheumatic heart disease
Race (road bicycles) with the Ann Arbor Velo Club
Favorite books I read this summer were Outliers and The Stars My Destination
Alfred Beyster
Malcom Gladwell

3. About You! First, everyone introduce themselves…
Name, year, hometown, your programming experience, and something interesting about you
Then take 2 or 3 minutes to get to know your neighbors (or anyone else in the room).
Very helpful for working together in discussion.
You’ll need this for Assignment 0 too!
(keep it short, there will be 40 of them, you want at least 3 per minute).
Give them a couple minutes to chat with their neighbors. In lecture, there will be a very short time for them to get the name and uniqname of two other students in the course. Here they can get more or make up for not getting enough in lecture. Tell the students they will be likely working together on problems during discussion, so they can get acquainted now.

4. Discussion Format Review of material covered in Lecture
Practice problems/code similar to project concepts and problems you will see on the exam
Tips for Testing
Come with questions!
I’ll always leave time for questions, and I will stay after class for more personal questions
Correct any mistakes I make during discussion!
Challenge/Extended Problems
Discussion slides will be posted within a day after our discussion ( me if I forget)
Any suggestions for format are appreciated – I want to teach however will be most beneficial to you all
In all the next discussions, I will come in with a practice/challenge problem posted online
If you feel comfortable with the new material, feel free to work on the problem during class, and then we can compare solutions
If you come up with a fun program, the idea and solution to me before class, and I’ll try to put it up for the rest of the class to try
Correct my mistakes – interrupt me – keep me and your peers on their toes
I will make many mistakes, some on purpose – don’t miss them!

5. Class Logistics (the bullet points)
If you have a question, check piazza first – someone probably already asked it!
If not, post a question
Next step is to go to office hours – check the website
There are at least 4 hours of office hours every day
DON’T CHEAT! The smallest infraction can result in major consequences
On cheating: If you are not sure, it’s probably not a good idea, but you can always ask any IA or professor
If you have done everything you can, you can me your question. Make sure you state the question clearly, and also indicate what you did to try to solve the problem before you ed

6. 3-6 pm Tuesdays, and 3-8 pm M, W-F on the third floor,
Office Hours
Office hours will be held on North Campus in the Duderstadt center, starting next Monday.
There will always be office hours from:
3-6 pm Tuesdays, and 3-8 pm M, W-F on the third floor,
There will sometimes be additional office hours on the weekend – the will be posted on the website
There will be a paper sign up sheet that will arrive with the first staff member, and they will start promptly at 3, and end exactly at 8 (give or take 5 minutes)
The website will indicate which staff members are present at which time, and this will remain mostly consistent
This slide has a lot of information! It’s just for you to be able to reference later

7. Office Hours Location

8. Upcoming Event! Meet the staff and help with getting your laptop ready
Sunday, September 11th
1800 Chemistry Building
Bring your laptop!
Stay posted on the website for more info

9. Upcoming Due Dates: Zyante reading – due before each lecture
Assignment 0:
Meet your classmates
Hour of Code
Survey
Due: Friday, September 9th at 11:59 pm
Assignment 1:
Due: Friday, September 16th at 11:59 pm
Always check the website for updates
Zyante : (not as strict, but make sure you complete all reading and exercises for each week)
Code with Anna and Elsa
Classic Maze
Minecraft Hour of Code
Star Wars — Building a Galaxy with Code

10. Xcode vs. Visual Studio What is an IDE?
I work with Visual Studio – It’s great!
Especially the debugger
I should be able to answer most questions about both
IDE is the whole thing
Compiler is just one part
IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment
If I don’t know the answer I will make sure to put you in contact with someone that does, or find out asap and you back.

11. Xcode vs. Visual Studio What is an IDE?
Integrated Development Environment
I work with Visual Studio – It’s great!
Especially the debugger
I worked with Visual Studio over the summer
I should be able to answer most questions about both
IDE is the whole thing
Compiler is just one part
Will learn about interpreted languages later (ie python)
IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment
Come get it set up this Sunday

12. Basics of Programs
You will write your programs in an IDE (Xcode or Visual Studio)
These provide a code editor (where you write and edit code)
The code you write is sent through a compiler
The compiler turns your code into object code (machine language)
Machine language = lots of 0 and 1
Many are familiar with binary

13. Moving onto content…

14. What is an algorithm?

15. What is an algorithm? A specific approach to solve a problem
Counting people in a room (you did this in lecture)
Finding a certain page in a book
Picking teams with captains
Different algorithms vary in efficiency and speed
You’ll learn more about this in EECS203 and 281 if you choose to take them
By halving the problem each time we vastly improve the search through the book

16. Any general questions about lecture material?
Pseudocode?
Loops
Conditions
Difference between pseudocode and source code
Code editor
Compiler
Object code (370)
Return type
Semicolons
Cout
cin
Endl
#include
Using namespace std
Variables
Data types
Operators
Int division
modulo

17. Tell me as much as you can about this program
Semicolon ends a program phrase – indicates end of line of code
Reserved words (using namespace int void return cout)
Variables: none
Data types: int
#include include the IO standard library
Using namespace std lets us write cout instead of std::cout
namespace is a declarative region that provides a scope to the identifiers, used to organize code into logical groups and to prevent name collisions that can occur especially when your code base includes multiple libraries
Main is where the program originates/starts from
Main can have variables passed in – in this case void
Return: end main (more on functions later on)
Must be return 0 because the return type of main is int

18. How to do well in EECS183
Start Projects early!!! (as soon as they come out) and go to office hours!
Think ahead before you code!
Work with others – talk through the logic out loud
There is nothing more helpful than teaching others something you just learned
Work with whiteboards
Post on Piazza (questions and answers) and come to office hours!
Teddy bear programming
Discussion slides will be posted on canvas after lecture, remind me if they aren’t up within 24 hours

19. Feel free to ask me any questions after class!
Usually they’ll be more examples!
I’ll be able to stay for about 30 minutes outside of the room
Note for example slides: it is not required or presumed you will stay after discussion, but students will often have questions if you have the time.