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Announcements

"Next lab is a catch-up session to go over the last two weeks and fill in any missed places. Attendance will now be taken in labs, so make an effort to keep up with lab work. How is it going? Are you behind yet? Working at home? Some important tips and review included."

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  1. Announcements • Next Lab is “Catch Up” • Go back over the last two weeks and fill in places you missed • We are going to start taking attendance in labs • You need to make an effort to keep up with lab work

  2. Schedule

  3. How is it going? (are you behind yet?) (working at home?)

  4. Some nice comments • "In English, when something is in quotes we think about it differently. Same in scheme" • "In order to remember how to parenthesize a cond statement... think of each statement as an if without the 'if' "

  5. Some review • Quoting something means treating it literally: • you are interested in the thing follows, rather than what is named • Quoting is a shortcut to putting literal things right in your code. As your programs get bigger, you will do this less and less. • Testing is an art • Programs get complicated very quickly; thinking up good tests is hard. • And yet it is crucial!

  6. (define (walk light city cops-present) (cond ((equal? city 'berkeley) 'strut) ((equal? light 'green) 'go) ((equal? light 'not-working) 'go-if-clear) ((and (equal? light 'flashing-red) cops-present) 'wait) ((equal? light 'flashing-red) 'hurry) (else 'just-stand-there)))

  7. You are writing big programs now. But, what can’t you do yet?

  8. A video resource • http://wla.berkeley.edu Weiner lecture archives • The "course" is an earlier CS3 • Different emphasis; early lectures may work better than later ones • Very different lab experience • Same book

  9. What does it mean to “understand a program”

  10. Case Studies • Reading!? • A case study: • starts with a problem statement • ends with a solution • in between, a …story… (narrative) • How a program comes to be • You will write “day-span”, which calculates the number of days between two dates in a year

  11. You need to read this • The lab will cover the case study through a variety of activities. • This will culminate in the first “mini-project” • We just may base exam questions on it • It will make you a better programmer! 4 out of 5 educational researchers say so.

  12. Some important points • There is a large "dead-end" in this text • Like occur in many programming projects • Good "style" helps minimize the impacts of these • There is (often) a difference between good algorithms and between human thinking

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