Week 02 Notes for CS 3100 -- Spring 2003

• Take Roll.
• Pass out accounts
• Announce: we read chapter 9 before chapter 8.
• Show where to get course descriptions online
• See if anyone needs to be shown how to ssh from a PC.
• Show people how to launch a browser and editor.
• Show the class a sample of what they should have turned in for the "Hello World" assignment, or just do the assignment.
• Show where to get hello world-handouts and Jove handouts online:
  • Hello World
  • Jove Help
• We are reading chapter one (program design) and chapter six (stacks).
• Note the due date for Programming assignment #1.
• 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 enqueue by multiplying by 27 and adding a code (1-26).
  • First things to code could be default constructor and tests for empty queue and full queue.
  • Discuss implementation of the full test and the relation to the value of ULONG_MAX.
  • One might next code the operations that enqueue, get queue front, and dequeue.
• Discuss program testing strategies and requirements.
  • Data Coverage -- Black Box Testing
    • Average inputs
    • inputs near and on boundaries
  • Code Coverage -- White/Clear Box Testing
    • Statement Coverage
    • Path Coverage
• Discuss top-down program design methodology using online examples of level-one through level-three programs?
• Show example of reading e-mail on the Sun Ultra's?
• Discuss the class mailing list?
• The compiler command option for naming the executable file:
  (ng++ -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)