Week 02 Notes for CS 3100 -- Spring 2003

• Take Roll.
• Pass out accounts
• 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 five (recursion)
• Note the due date for Programming assignment #1. (Monday Sept 15)
• Go over "What to turn in" from the assignment sheet.
• Discuss the design of the solution to program #1. Discuss help and hints.
  • Go over the method for testing a string to see if it is a prefix expression.
• 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 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 top-down program design methodology using online examples of level-one through level-three programs.
• If time allows, look at infomation about quicksort as an example of the practical application of recursion.
• 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:
  (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)