SUNY Geneseo Department of Computer Science

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• Due March 26
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Catch-Up Day

“While” loops lesson

Project 2

• Demo
• Handout
• Comments matter!
  • Do… write comments that explain the overall purpose of your program, non-obvious “tricks” in the code, the algorithmic ideas behind it, what variables represent, etc.
  • Do Not… write comments that repeat what the code already says, repeat blocks of text from handouts, etc.
  • Example of comments in one of my programs (prototype for project 1)

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“If” statements

Handout

Read / watch

• Sections 4.1 through 4.3 of Attaway’s text
• “The if-else statement” mini-lecture from Edinburgh.
• The “Conditional statements” sub-section of the “Programming” section of the “Logic and Flow Control” chapter of Mathworks’ tutorials.
• 4 video lectures on the Bisection method at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3C53B3B12414AF72
• For bonus part:
  • Introduction to Newton’s method at https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_134081&feature=iv&src_vid=lFYzdOemDj8&v=nRbsfnUftT4
  • Example of Newton’s method at https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_171114&feature=iv&src_vid=nRbsfnUftT4&v=lFYzdOemDj8