Help Pages

As the semester progresses, we'll add reference pages here that provide extra help, reminders, or explanation of topics related to the lessons and homework assignments.

In addition to these pages, see the Course Policies section for important information about the course including this page about getting help:

• Getting Help

Week 1

• How to Use the Lab Computers
• Using Git and GitHub
• Accessing the Textbook as an E-Book

Week 2

• Grading Guidelines
• Grading Rubric
• Compiling in C++
• Safe Numeric Conversions

Week 3

• Coding Idioms
• Naming
• Commenting

Week 4

• Working With Makefiles
• The Art of Debugging

Week 6

• The CS 70 Testing Library
• Memory Diagram Rules
• Using the VS Code Debugger
• Using Valgrind
• Using Assertions

Week 7

• Closed Forms for Common Summations
• How to Avoid Warnings from Stubs

Week 8

• Writing Tests

Week 11

• Generate Random Numbers

Other C++ Topics

• Work With Command Line Arguments
• Reading User Input

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