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Announcements

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.

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.

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

1. Open your COMP110 Workspace

• File > Open Recent > comp110-workspace

2. Open the File Explorer Pane

• lessons

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. Be sure to indent the last three lines by one tab! 5. Begin a python REPL and try the following command:

"""Practice defining functions!""" def square(x: float) -> float: """Returns the parameter value squared.""" squared_value: float = x ** 2 return squared_value

Done? Respond to the questions

• n Gradescope.