Lab Overview

What will we be doing in lab?

• Hands on
• Detailed examples
• Detailed traces of algorithms
• Explanations (mini-lectures) on difficult material
• Going outside (did someone say sidewalk chalk?)
• Personal attention
• Debugging techniques
• Testing techniques
• Unix
• git/github
• Documentation
• Static analysis (if time permits)
• And more

Lab Materials

• https://github.com/anthonyjchriste/ics211f13
• https://github.com/anthonyjchriste/ics211f13/wiki

Submitting Assignments / Grading

• https://github.com/anthonyjchriste/ics211f13/wiki/Assignments
• A jar file should be created with all source files for a particular project
• Attach the jar file and email achriste@hawaii.edu with the subject assignment/mmddyy where mmddyy represents the due date of the assignment
• https://github.com/anthonyjchriste/ics211f13/wiki/Assignment-Policy

Bonus

• Contributing to the wiki
• Contributing to the repos source code in some way
• In class activities
• https://github.com/anthonyjchriste/ics211f13/wiki/Bonus

Lab Policies

• Absolutely no food or drink in the lab (if you're thirsty, step out for a drink)
• Don't be disruptive
• Be supportive

Coding Standards

• Be consistent
• Descriptive variable names
• Descriptive method names
• No magic numbers
• Oracle's Coding Standard

Documentation

• Name must be documented at the top of each source file
• Full Javadoc is not required (however, heavily encouraged)
• Each method must have at least a single basic Javadoc comment describing what the method does

/**
 * Computes the sum in the range of 1 (inclusive) to max (exclusive).
 */
public int sumRange(int max) {
  int sum = 0;
  for(int i = 1; i < max; i++) {
    sum += i;
  }
  return sum;
}

Programming Environment

Getting Help

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