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Announcements - Houses • How-to use Zoom for Office-hours Video Posted on Course Site • We will be doing house zooms today! Join yours via Sakai > Postem • Password: comp110! • Additionally, houses have setup GroupMes you can find on Postem • Join for the lols, stay for the community. • GroupMe is for Community not Collaboration! • Good Vibes (TM) and non-COMP talk encouraged! • Organize a house board game night! • Bring your PMA not BDE! • Positive Mental Attitude not Brainless Depressing Energy
Great work on EX01! • The current grade distribution is shown above, out of 90 points: • Median: 90 • 86% of you have handed in for full credit +/- a couple points • For the other 14%: it's not too late. • Submit through Friday and I'll waive the late penalty this week. 3
How-to Work on Exercises and Projects • Start early. Start early. START EARLY! • Read the instructions closely and follow them step-by-step: • They are written to help guide you through the assignment! • Do not skip around or try to move past a step before completing. • Have open: • Lecture notes and slides for related topics • Instructions for the assignment! • When you get stuck: • Stare at your code for a while. Look it dead in its eyes. • Take a break, take a walk, do something else. • See us in office hours! • START EARLY!!!
In the words of a peer doing CS right ... "Hi everyone stressing, I also was super lost and played trial and error for four hours but I got it, [..] so don't stress too much! I went online and read what each function meant and looked at examples and wrote out my steps. I wrote out the math for some because I found an error in my arithmetic. What also helped me was making a separate file to run things line by line to better pinpoint the issue." YES!!!!! THIS IS HOW COMPUTER SCIENCE IS DONE. 5
How-to Get Help when Stuck • Do • Come work with us in office hours! Before a deadline day! • Ask for clarification for on something you're confused about over e-mail by e-mailing both of your house head TAs • Don't • E-mail screenshots or code... come to office hours! • Share screenshots or code... come to office hours! • Slide into DMs... send an e-mail with both house heads CC'ed. • I've instructed TAs to leave your DMs on read. • Contact TAs on other platforms... send an e-mail with both heads CC'ed. • Everything else cited as out of bounds per the syllabus.
Announcements - EX02 • Exercise 02 - Goes up by tomorrow, due Monday at 11:59pm • After today's sync + async lessons you will know all you need to!
Example Setup """Practice defining functions!""" 1. Open your COMP110 Workspace def square(x: float) -> float: File > Open Recent > comp110-workspace • """Returns the parameter value squared.""" squared_value: float = x ** 2 2. Open the File Explorer Pane lessons return squared_value • 3. Create a new Python module in lessons directory Right click lessons • Select New File • Name it "ls08_functions.py" • 4. Reproduce the program to the right. Done? Be sure to indent the last three lines by one tab! Respond to the questions on Gradescope. 5. Begin a python REPL and try the following command: >>> from lessons.ls08_functions import square >>> square(4.0) 16.0 >>> square(5.0) 25.0 >>> quit()
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