CS 5010 Module 00

Module Overview

This short week you will get an orientation to the course and to the Design Recipe.

This course is not calculus: it's about writing clear, readable programs. Lesson 0.1 presents these goals of this course and the principles we will use to achieve them.

This course is organized differently from what you are used to. Lesson 0.2 explains how the course is organized and what you should expect. Lesson 0.3 deals with the unpleasant but necessary topic of Academic Honesty.

Lessons 0.4 through 0.6 will give you the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the various systems we will use during the course-- most notably Racket and Github.

Course Map

Here is the course map. In future weeks, this map will reappear, with the week's topics highlighted.

Readings

Prologue and Part I from the textbook, which cover an introduction to programming, fixed-size data, and the Basic Student Language in Racket.

Resources

• John Clements' Racket Videos
• Video: What may happen if you come to class unprepared

Lessons and Lab Exercises

• Lesson 0.1 Goals of this Course
• Lesson 0.2 How to Learn in this Course
• Lesson 0.3 Academic Honesty
• Lesson 0.4 An Introduction to Racket
• Lesson 0.5 Introduction to Git
• Do the exercises in the Git Laboratory.
• Lesson 0.6 Dealing with Conflicts in Git

Activities

Please do the following activities:

1. Prepare your machine, following the directions in software.html
2. Do the first 10 exercises in Lesson 0.4 An Introduction to Racket

The two meetings of CS 5011, which start next week, will act as supervised laboratories where you can work on this assignment, but please do as much as you can before coming to lab.