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Lecture 1, Mon 03/30
Course overview, a gentle intro to C++ - Standard I/O
The lecture video
(Also follow the link below about getting a terminal on your machine. You should watch this lecture video first, so that the terminal commands make more sense to you.)
Getting a terminal on your computer (you need to get this working before your lab on Monday)
Go to this page and click on one of the choices for your operating system.
Topics
Course logistics
- Explore the course website and READ the syllabus
- Ask questions about the course on Piazza (don’t send emails to TAs and instructor)
- If you email the instructor have [CS16] and a brief description of your question
Concepts
- Structure of a C++ program
- the main function
- namepsaces and include directives
- commenting your code
- standard input, standard output with cin, cout
- The three stages of writing and executing C++ code: editing, compiling, (linking and) executing
- Five components of a computer and why it matters
- Compiling code with g++
- Finding your way around with basic unix commands - mkdir, ls, cp, mv, rm (use with caution because it deletes files irrecoverably)
- Choosing an editor (vim or emacs)- may the best editor win!
- Remote login with ssh
- High level introduction to tools: gradescope, github