====== Welcome to Week 2 ======

~~NOTOC~~


==== Tuesday ====

  * Last Friday's lab: any questions?
  * Let's review the "Extra" section. We can also review our vehicular class design.
  * Lecture notes for some important Java language specifics
    * Any interest in handouts for Java language-specific syntax/notes?

 **Lectures** 
  * {{ :courses:cs102-2021-01:102-lec02.pptx |Java language vagaries explained}}
  * {{ :courses:cs102-2021-01:102-lec03.pptx |Notes covering some of Thursday's Topics}}



==== Thursday ====

Today's Topics
  - Finish up methods() (not subroutines!)
  - Expressions review
    - arithmetic
    - comparisons, now with String objects!
    - logical expressions
  - Let's write a (hopefully) working program
    - it has to include main() !


==== Friday's Lab ====

  * See my moodle page...
    * https://moodle.vassar.edu/course/view.php?id=19557
    * Look in the **September 6 - September 12** Section
  * Professor Gommerstadt kindly (!) agreed to cover lab for me!
  * We should have coaches available too (two)!

 **Homework**

  * TBD

 **Apropos of nothing**

  * [[https://tim.blog/2020/12/08/jerry-seinfeld/|There was a television show that was literally about nothing]]
  * [[https://www.inverse.com/science/viking-2|"The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"]]
  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmADMB2utAo|Once again, my poorly thought out (and ancient) pop culture reference to main()]]