Lecture 1

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Lecture 1, Mon 01/06

Introduction to CS56

The course website

Here: https://ucsb-cs56.github.io

Note the two parts:

• Permanent part for CS56
• The part for /w20/ specifically

Where is the syllabus?

It’s here. We’re saving some trees.

• https://ucsb-cs56.github.io/w20/info/syllabus/

The special circumstances that led to two lectures

• I’m teaching an extra lecture section
• This is a voluntary service I’m doing for no extra compensation
• Why?
  • The altrusitic reason: I want to help students that were stranded due to poor resource planning
  • The selfish reason: a class larger than 72 doesn’t work for this style of teaching

My special passion: Teaching real world software practice

Why is this course different from all other courses?

Because as a young software developer I saw a gap between what I learned in school, and what i needed in industry.

Logistics

• Check email for:
  • Course survey invitation
  • Slack invitation
• Join ucsb-cs56-w20 github org
  • Create account at github.com
  • Add your @ucsb.edu or @umail.ucsb.edu email address (either one)
  • Visit https://ucsb-cs-github-linker.herokuapp.com and login with your github username/password
  • On home page of app, click to join cs56 w20
  • Click link to accept the invite to the org

Homework for Wednesday

• h00: “Listening to Developers”
  • What do new college graduates find when they go into industry?
• The Rational tutorial https://ucsb-cs56.github.io/tutorials/rational_ex01/
  • Start reading, and start coding.
  • Your first lab assignment will be based on this code.
  • Even if you are a Java expert, there is probably some new stuff
• What might be new?
  • Ant, Maven
  • JUnit testing
  • Packages

Now we shuffle

• MW Seating Chart: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQrYLqI_ltXw9LYRLyncct_2htzFnrudWy3tFDLaUMRqOh0xEKjszJK4SlIzHqal26piBGJFYclndLV/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

• TR Seating Chart: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSKZmZ4J0Whie1MEozBYHfyHUnlfkDj7r8iFA3cq5XzhWO3wL_fLxnIJCaT8t5ZKQ8q69l9ZRfPHeZm/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

Then we do

• ic00: “Meeting our first team”

Where can you find info in this class?

• Textbooks
  • HFJ - Head First Java, 2nd editino
  • JN7 - Java in a Nutshell, 7th edition
• Website: https://ucsb-cs56.github.io
  • Especially under https://ucsb-cs56.github.io/topics
  • Also, the Rational tutorial https://ucsb-cs56.github.io/tutorials/rational_ex00/