Week 04 Notes for CS 1500 -- Fall 2004

• Take roll.
• Announcements
  • I posted directions for Lab #2. Please study and rehearse them.
  • Elmer Salazar is now conducting tutoring sessions for CS 1500 and CS 2500, MWF 1:30-2:30, Tues and Thurs. 12:00-1:30
  • We are having a quiz on Friday - on chapters 1-2 of DWH, chapters 1-3 and 5 of Andersen, and the skills learned in the Hello World! assignment.
• Check what's new in schedule
• Possible Lecture Topics
  • Discussion about preparing for the quiz:
    • To prepare for questions on chapters 1-2 of DWH, go over the "Quick Check" and "Exam Preparation Exercises" for those chapters. Find answers in the chapter text.
    • To prepare for questions on chapters 1-3 and 5 of Andersen, review using the exercises at the ends of the chapters.
    • To prepare for questions on Hello World! skills, review the directions for the Hello World! assignment. It is best to spend some time on the computer executing some of the commands.
    
    
  • Discuss outcomes of lab 01 - what happened? How did things go?
  • What will we do for lab #2 - how should we prepare?
  • Show an example of what it involved in the actual writing of the solo #1 program. When is it due?
  • Go over sample programs from chapter 2 and 3 of DWH illustrating key concepts
  • The topics from chapter 3 are:
    • declarations of constants and variables of type int and type float
    • construction and evaluation of arithmetic expressions
    • type coercion and explicit type conversion
    • use of value-returning functions
    • use of function arguments
    • use of library functions
    • use of void functions
    • C++ manipulators to format output
    • operations of the string data type
    • program format