Lab 2: The simplest possible Lab

Well, as we’ve all heard, audio is still not yet working on the lab machines, so there won’t be any sound in this lab again. Too bad.

1 Reading

Read through and try out the content of Sections 1 & 1.1 of How To Design Programs, version 2e.

2 Tiny Exercises

These exercises should make sure that what you’re reading is making sense. Show me the results when you’re done. Leave all of them in the definitions window, so that I can see them all.

• Write the expression that adds three to the difference between 147 and 13.

• Write the expression that computes the cosine of 3π/2. Does it produce what you expect?

• Write the expression that computes the length of your name.

• Write the expression that computes whether your middle name is longer than the middle name of the person nearest to you.

• Write the expression that draws your face. Here’s what mine looks like:

  

3 Make a Google Sites Account

Create a google account (if you don’t already have one) Use sites.google.com to create a new site for your CS portfolio. You may wish to use this portfolio for projects that you tackle in later classes, so I would advise you not to make it CSC123-specific.