Class 2 – Friday, January 19
Talking to computers
Anatomizer
Communication — The essence of love and work — Now the Python way
Computers don’t know — I don’t mean
clock the flies’ speed— When I saytime flies
Look both ways
Word of the day
Shape your future
- Influence the problem sets we consider this semester. It is our intention to choose problems the best we can that interest all students. It is known that faculty and student interests can differ.
Start of class activities in general
- Read the entire web page (preferably before class)
- Open PyCharm
- Download class examples (do not need to redownload unless asked too)
- Talk to your neighbors
Intra-class activities in general
- Learn
- Try
- Ask questions
- Make suggestions
- Provide answers
Post-class activities in general
- Read
- Learn
- Try
- Write down questions
- Complete the homework
Agenda
- Debate Are computers smart or stupid?
- Parse Throw the woman from the train with a kiss
- Learn what we mean by syntactic, semantic, and logic errors
- Introduce Python
Vocabulary to which you should become accustomed; i.e., a lexicon when participating in computing-related structured communication
|
|
|
|
Examples of the day
- Program print_quote.py
- Program look_before_you_sit.py
To do list
- Review class artifacts
- Examine one or more of the following
- Spronk's The Coder's Apprentice sections 2 – 4
- Wentworth, Elkner, Downey, and Meyers' How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python 3: Sections 10.2 – 10.11 on terminology
- Examine an epistle that I wrote this morning.
BOP
- When someone says chresomathics for the first time stand-up and cheer We are UVA
Warning: fopen(/l/cs1112/public_html/defs/htm/181-trailer): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /l/cs1112/public_html/defs/php/read.php on line 5
Unable to open file!