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| Located in the basement of the Lawson CS building, this group of helpful students can help you in any of your CS courses (CS 180/182/240). If you need help understanding a concept or have a question on your homework or project, the great minds from USB can help you since many of them have taken the course themselves or are a current TA. Make sure to checkout their website for weekly office hours and tutor sessions. | ||
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| 2. TA Office Hours - all of your CS courses (180/182/240) will offer various times for office hours, held by either GTAs or UTAs. These are a very helpful source if you ever have a question about the class material, need help on the homework or if you are stuck on a project. There will also be fellow students at these office hours that you can meet and join forces to tackle an assignment. | ||
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| # Blog Post #3 - Purdue CS Freshman Survival Guide | ||
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create links for the table of contents so students can jump to a specific section? (i.e. link CS Courses to https://github.com/Purdue-CSUSB/purdueusb.com/blob/d5e6d8f8c25fecba509e8f680eec09e13cec67f6/_wiki/CS-Survival-Guide.md#freshman-cs-courses---what-to-expect)
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| The workload for this class will seem like a lot with weekly homework's and frequent projects, so I suggest to start the assignments as soon as possible so you have enough time to ask questions and complete the work. Utilize office hours and labs, they are very helpful resources. | ||
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| Software: IntelliJ IDEA - super helpful IDE for homework/projects, very easy to use and make sure to learn how to use the debugger. This software is covered by Purdue. |
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include a link to the IntelliJ download page?
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| In this course you will be introduced to the C programming language - which entails pointer, memory allocation and recursion. C is a non-object-oriented language, it is a procedural oriented language, so you will find many differences compared to Java. This course will start off slow, giving you the building blocks of a low-level language, and then move into more complex material. Make sure you understand the first couple weeks and ask many questions! Depending on the instructor, this class typically has weekly homeworks and projects every 2 weeks. The concepts can be more difficult to understand than the programming in Java since C requires more overhead, so I recommend getting a good grasp on the material before jumping into the assignments. | ||
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| Software: Using the terminal will be very important since you'll need to be comfortable with using it for the next 3 years. You can also use Visual Studio Code as an IDE if you prefer better file organization and an easier to work with interface. |
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link to VSC download page?
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| The following list will contain tools/software/websites I found helpful during freshman year in CS: | ||
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| - Java Programming Language API: [https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/index.html](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/index.html) |
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