CS 152 Lab

Official Course Web Page: CS152.

Sections by TA:

• Avani: MW 9-9:50
  
• Jason: T 12:30-1:20
  
• Justin: Th 9:30-10:20
  
• Ryan: F 9-9:50
  
• Trevor: M 3-3:50

TA Office Hours:

• Avani (in FEC 318): MW 1:00pm-2:30pm, F 9:00am-10:00am + whenever you catch me around.
  
• Jason (in Escape Pod): T 11:00am-12:00pm
  
• Justin (in Escape Pod): Th 10:20am-11:20am
  
• Ryan (in Escape Pod): W 11:00am-11:50am
  
• Trevor (in Escape Pod): F 10:00am-10:50am, 12:00pm-12:50pm

Try to e-mail your TA or the mailng list first if you have a question, but feel free to come to anyone's office hours. Remember that Prof. Ingber has office hours in FEC 319 MW 12-1:30 and F 2-3:00.

Labs:

• Week1: Introduction to UNIX.
• Week2: Your First Java Assignment!
• Week3: Understanding Errors.
• Week4: Midterm Review.
• Week5: Control Structures.
• Week6: Midterm Post-Mortem.
• Week7: Value Returning Methods.
• Week8: Javadoc.
• Week9: The Card Class.
• Week10: Midterm 2 Recap
• Week11: Deck Class.

Turning in your homework:

1. Before you turn anything in, look at your code to make sure its presentable! In particular, pay attention to the 5 style points below.
2. Once you have finished your assignment, run the script in your working directory, using:

   % perl ~avani/turnin.pl

3. Answer all of its questions with "yes" or "no", and you're done!
• If you want comments on your homework, print out a hard copy of your code and highlight the lines you changed if you started with code that was given to you.
• Foor good style, keep a lookout for:
  • Lines longer than 80 characters (i.e., that "wrap").
  • Poorly commented code.
  • Non-descriptive variable names.
  • Bad code organization / indenting.
  • Magic Numbers (using a number instead of creating a constant variable)
  
  
  I'll grade harder on style as the assignments progress so you have a chance to talk to me about it and learn what type of good style is most natural to you.

  Here's what I'm NOT looking for: How to Write Unmaintainable Code

Working from home

• PuTTy is an SSH program like the FSecure we use in lab. Note that you will have to specify the hostname, which is: linux.unm.edu.
• WinSCP is a program to copy files from your computer (such as homework assignments you download) to the Linux computer (linux.unm.edu).
• If you're running emacs from your home computer and you don't have X-Windows (i.e. you run Microsoft), you will need to open emacs using the command:
  

  [avani@egor ~]$emacs -nw

  
  to open your emacs. Note that if you want to do this, you should really learn the basic emacs keystrokes. (scroll down on the page).

Some more useful Java links

• An example of the error for having the wrong file name.
• Java Cheat Sheet

A Little bit of harmless fun

• The Bastard Operator from Hell: Required Reading for all CS Majors
• Open emacs, and type Esc X tetris, in that order. There, now how do you like emacs?
  Bored again already? Frustrated? Need someone to just listen to you? Open emacs (which you probably already have if you're that frustrated), and type Esc ` p, again, in that order.
  Still not happy? Why don't you take that next link down and learn to use vim? Its good for you.
• Some Cool Vi(m) tricks