teaching machines

CS 145 Lecture 1 – Introduction

September 3, 2014 by Chris Johnson. Filed under cs145, fall 2014, lectures.

Agenda

• bios
• awards
• what is computer science?
  • Made with Code with Miral Kotb
• meta
• grammar
• ignition
• computer as calculator
• haiku

Bio

1. What’s your name?
2. Where are you from?
3. What’s the last unassigned book you read?
4. If not computers, what? (Outlawed answers: reinvent them.)

TODO

• Read the syllabus.
• Install the Java Development Kit, Eclipse, and the EGit plugin.
• Complete a short background survey. Worth a 1/4 sheet.
• Watch What Most Schools Don’t Teach.
• Read chapter 1 through section 1.3.
• Based on your readings and other activities of this class, write on a 1/4 of paper 2 questions and 2 observations to be turned in at the beginning of Friday’s lecture.

Code

FirstExample.java

package lecture0903;

public class FirstExample {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("Salutations");
  }
}

Haiku