Week 1

No class

• Introductions
• Syllabus
  
  

• Coaches for this semester
  • to be announced
  • Introductions: this Friday
  • Coaching hours will be posted—see the link in the sidebar
    
    

• How to read HtDP/2e:
  • Don't just read!
  • Keep DrRacket open and try things out as you read about them!
  • I will try to model that today and throughout
  • Computer Scientists are scientists, and scientists experiment / follow the scientific method
    
    

Animations

• Let's make a movie!
  • Prologue of HtDP/2e: How to Program
  • Rocket landing
  • Iterative refinement: start simple, gradually improve, make more readable, easier to understand, and modify
    
    

Homework

• Preparation for lab on Friday:
  • install DrRacket on your computer
• The Design Recipe
  • systematic program design
  • fill out your recipe cards for next class
    • copy the steps from Figure 1: The basic steps of a function design recipe
    • bring to every class!
• Active readings for next week:
  • Prolog of HtDP/2e (for this week)
  • Section I, chapters 1-3 (for next week)

• Finish the Rocket landing demos
  
  

• Lab 1 today
• Coach introductions: to be announced…
• Matt Tarantino, CS Department System Administrator
  • for those students who would like to have a Linux account
  • not required for this semester due to Covid and remote attendance (not physically in lab)
  • we will install and run DrRacket on your notebook computer
• Do the lab
• Submit the lab (via GitHub)