Week 02 Notes for CS 3100 -- Fall 2000

• Take Roll.
• Pass out accounts
• See if anyone needs to be shown how to telnet from a PC.
• Show people how to launch a browser and editor.
• Do "Hello World" Assignnent
• Where to get hello world handouts and Jove handouts online:
  • Hello World
  • Jove Help

• Take Roll.
• Announcement: Combined AMP Computer Science review sessions for CS 1500 and CS 2500 will commence on September 19. Sessions will be held in P-280 according to the following schedule:
  • Tuesdays 4:00 pm - 4:50 pm
  • Wednesdays 12:20 pm - 1:10 pm and 3:35 pm - 4:25 pm
  • Fridays 2:10 pm - 3:00 pm
• Show the class a sample of what they should have turned in for the "Hello World" assignment.
• We are reading chapter one (program design) and chapter six (stacks).
• Programming assignment #1 is due in less than two weeks.
• Discuss top-down program design methodology using online examples of level-one through level-three programs.
• Discuss the design of the solution to program #1. Discuss help and hints.
  • First figure out how all the operations are going to work.
  • One possibility: initialize the integer to zero and push by multiplying by 27 and adding a code (1-26).
  • First things to code could be default constructor and tests for empty stack and full stack.
  • One might next code the operations that push, get stack top, and pop.

• Take Roll.
• Show example of reading e-mail on the Sun Ultra's.
• Discuss the class mailing list (majordomo::cs3100-1)
• More discussion of the programming assignment.
• The compiler command option for naming the executable file:
  (g++ -o driver driver.cpp stack.cpp)
• Discuss compiling/debugging with jove
  • How to execute the compiler "inside" jove: (C-u, C-x, C-e)
  • How to break out of jove to a sub-shell whilst "saving your place": (M-s)
  • Testing the program while in the sub-shell.
  • How to break out of the sub-shell and return to "your place" in jove: (exit)
• Discuss implementation of the full test and the relation to the value of ULONG_MAX.