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Third class meetings today. We arrived home at 12:30 this morning from a trip to Santa Fe for the weekend. Things went OK, but a little rocky.

CPSC 110 Original list of topics activities wasn’t completed. But that’s OK. I told students about my background and a little about the notion of a programming language. We went over the goals for the class and modified a few. Students seem to want to get to it. Hopefully, I wandered around enough around the topic that they are ready to go straight ahead with it. We went over Computer and Network policies.

For next time: Tomorrow we’ll continue with that and then go to the lab for getting set to install and modify a Web page. That should give them some indication of working with files in Unix. I suggested they read
Introduction, http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/unixintro.html, and Tutorials 1, 2, and 5 from Unix Tutorial for Beginners, http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/

Files and Directories, http://snap.nlc.dcccd.edu/learn/idaho/files.html, from A Basic Unix Tutorial, http://snap.nlc.dcccd.edu/learn/idaho/unixindex.html

CPSC 321 Went over using netbeans and some of the examples in the first 2 chapters of the text. We also talked about creating jar files for submitting their software. Also set up a schedule of presentations.

For next time: Ask students their goals for the course. Continue to talk about the material in chapters 1 and 2. Pay attention to getting a proper jar file and working with classes. Chapter 2 contains that example of points in a plane to motivate the need for an equals method.

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And today’s special is ..
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. – Nadia Boulanger
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