CSC161 2010F, Class 01: An Introduction to the Course

Overview:
* Course goals.
* Texts, required and otherwise.
* A few syllabus notes.
* Lab 1: GNU/Linux 1.

Admin:
* Because of problems with MediaScript, the course web is in beta 
  stage, and will remain so for the next few weeks.
* Don't forget CS Table today at noon in the Day PDR.
* Don't forget Happy Days this weekend.
* How to get to the course Web page
  + Go to Sam's Web page
  + Click on "CSC 161" at the top
  OR
  http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/Courses/CSC161/2010F/

Welcome to the second course in Grinnell's unique CS curriculum
* Three different paradigms in the first three coursesa
  * Functional: Programming by combining functions with purity and
    higher-order concepts
    * "Pure" function: Given the same inputs, it always gives the
      same outputs
      * add, sum, square, drawing-hshift
      * Impure: random, I/O, GIMP drawing etc.
  * Imperative
    * Focus on operations that change state (most frequently, store
      a value in a variable)
    * Focus on explicit sequencing of those operations
  * Object-Oriented
* Three different languages to exemplify these paradigms
  * Scheme for functional
  * C for imperative
  * Java for object-oriented
* Why?
  * Multiple paradigms let you think broadly about problem solving
  * Multiple languages prepare you to encounter new languages

* Goal two: Tools
  * Linux + Philosophy
  * Emacs - editor
  * Make - tool for building programs

* Goal three: Deepen understanding of core data structures and algorithms
  * List
  * Stack and queue
  * Sorting, searching, etc.
  * Dictionaries (ADT)

* Goal four: Have a lot of fun

Books: See the Web site

Other Admin
* See the Outline

Lab Reflection: What were the important tools you learned?s
* Control C - Cancel the damn program already
* Tab autocompletes - The computer can try to guess what you want 
  to type
* History - Lets us redo commands
* We can list the contents of directories in many ways with ls
* Many Unix commands have flags that control how they behave
* An ampersand lets you do other things simultaneously
  * You could also open another terminal window