CS 201 - Fall 2024.

Welcome to CS 201! 09/11/2024

Logical problem of the day

There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand X and those who don't.

Solve for X.

https://pollev.com/slade You may also download the app to your phone. Use the "slade" poll id.

Top Ten Reasons to Learn Racket!

Number 6: The uniform syntax of data and code in racket makes it easy to extend racket to create new programming languages. See Racket language extensions

Canvas Quiz of the Day (need daily password)

Most days, there will be a simple canvas quiz related to the lecture. You need a password to activate the quiz, which I will provide in class. These quizzes will count toward your class participation grade. The quiz is available only during class.

Click for today's quiz.

Note: the collaboration quiz is separate. It coincides with the first homework assignment.

Lecture 6: Racket / UNIX.

Administrivia

Yale Information Society Project Free lunch. See "About | Mailing Lists"

Women & Gender Minorities in Computer Science.

As students are adjusting to courses, figuring out their major, and navigating their academic journey at Yale, WG/CS would love to welcome new members! WG/CS welcomes students of all programming experience and provides them access to resources from sponsored workshops with companies such as Jane Street and Bloomberg, peer support, and opportunities to bond with a strong community of CS students from diverse backgrounds!

See WGCS Flyer with QR code.

I am available for lunch on Mondays at noon at Franklin College Dining Hall.

I have office hours Wednesdays from 4-6 pm, on zoom, id 459 434 2854.

ULA office hours are found at https://csofficehours.org/CS201/schedule. Sign up via the queue.

If you're thinking of taking CPSC 201, please do the following.

Complete this online Student Information form.
Get a course account for CPSC 201 on the Zoo. When you register for this class, your course account should be created within one hour or so of signing up.
Homework assignments: [Assignments]. hw0.rkt revised to define runtests to make the autograder happy. Plus, the autograder wants hours to be an integer. If you lost a point on hours, resubmit with an integer. Also, hw1 is now available.
Familiarize yourself with the Zoo computers using the above instructions for ssh. We have started discussing UNIX. You should try out the commands from the tutorial and class transcript.
(Optional.) Download and install DrRacket on your computer (Racket) and familiarize yourself with it (Choose language: "Use the language declared in the source", #lang racket. Then press the Run button to actually change the language.) If you don't want to install and run DrRacket on your machine, you may run it in person or remotely using your Zoo account.

Racket.

Racket.html (jupyter) more racket

Recursion.html (jupyter)

Getting to know UNIX

UNIX Principle 1 . and ..

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