ECS 36A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pycharm, Teaching Philosophy, Computer Architecture

• School: UC-Davis
• Department: Engineering: Computer Science
• Course: ECS 36A
• Professor: H. Chen

Document Summary

C++ & c are very dangerous/unsafe -- guarantee job security. This course = teaches python (been around for almost 30 years) gold or rust (professor wanted to teach this) : gradebot. org/course/ecs36a/ no canvas, sign up on piazza. Forum for discussions -- how the workforce will be like. Homework is an automated grading system (created in python, written by. Professor chen) can submit as many times as you want before the deadline = This is an introductory course but hw will be more challenging (3 tas, office hours, forum, discussions) Main focus: learn python language, but most concepts will be applicable to all languages. Programming environment: what they run on (operating systems) Editor recommendations: eclipse, vscode, vim, elax, atom, pycharm. Source code revision system : git (discussed tomorrow) Readings posted before lecture : course uses free resources : read before each lecture. Going to teach the important stuff (pitfalls) in lecture.