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First Day

*. *. Ron K. Cytron. Department of Computer Science and Engineering Washington University in Saint Louis. First Day. Welcome to CSE131. Please find and take seats near the front if possible As you come in please use WUTexter to answer the following poll:

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First Day

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  1. * * Ron K. Cytron Department of Computer Science and Engineering Washington University in Saint Louis First Day

  2. Welcome to CSE131 • Please find and take seats near the frontif possible • As you come in please use WUTexter to answer the following poll: Which of the following best describes why you are taking this course?

  3. Another WUTexter poll • Please answer the following (your responses are anonymous) Which of the following best describes you and the assigned reading: I did the assigned reading and understood it • A) Well • B) Mostly • C) Somewhat • D) Hardly at all E) I knew about the reading but did not do it F) What assigned reading?

  4. About me • Texan by birth, New Yorker by choice, St Louisan by marriage • Wife is a band teacher / director for Ladue schools (percussionist) • 3 Kids • Recent graduate of CSU (zoology, at Ft Collins, CO) [ the kid who got Furby ] • Junior at Brandeis (linguistics/education at Waltham, MA) • Freshman in high school (roller coaster designer at Ladue) • Undergrad at Rice (EE/CS/MathSci), grad student at U of Illinois (CS) • At Wash U since 1991 • Taught for NYU and Columbia before that • Experience in industry • IBM Research (Yorktown Heights NY) • Exegy (startup in St Louis) • Consulting • Lead designer for the old and new 131 • New one follows book's curriculum (mostly) • More bottom-up • Greater focus on writing programs "from scratch" • Call me…. • Ron • Professor Cytron • Dr. Cytron

  5. Things to go over • Policies on the web pages • WUTexter: responses, questions, confuse-o-meter • Semester ONline • Academic integrity • If you are caught cheating, you get an F in the course, and other action may be taken • We use software to find similar code, and it is very effective If you are tempted to cheat, get help instead ! • CSE 131 R – one unit seminar starts Sep 9 • If you are majoring / minoring or want extra material • Guest lectures by faculty on their research • Material supplementary to this course • Loop invariants and proofs, undecidability • Computer horror stories and disasters • Binary search trees – the "old" Lab 9 • Choose and design of the end-of-semester game lab for this course

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