COMP 210 Lab Handouts

These labs have multiple goals, primary the following:

• Providing hands-on examples of course material with labbies available to help students.
• Introducing and explaining tools that will be useful in this and later courses, e.g., DrScheme, UNIX, Emacs, and C.
• Providing some optional supplementary and more advanced material.

Each student is assigned to a lab section. You are welcome to attend other sections, although people officially in a given section have preference should an instance of that section be overcrowded.

There will be weekly lab web pages, but no graded assignments beyond the homeworks distributed in lecture. After each weekly lab session, be sure to look over that lab's web page: most of the material will be familiar from lab, but sometimes there isn't enough time in lab to cover every topic. You may be held responsible for knowing any information on the lab web pages which isn't marked as supplemental.

Lab handouts will be posted here as they become ready:

• Lab 1 -- Getting Started: registering, Netscape, DrScheme
• Lab 2 -- Data Structures
• Lab 3 -- More Data Structures
• Lab 4 -- And More Data Structures
• Lab 5 -- local, big-O notation
• Lab 6 -- Abstract functions
• Lab 7 -- More practice with abstract functions
• Lab 8 -- GCD example, Arithmetic Imprecision
• Lab 9 -- State
• Lab 10 -- Local state, Vectors
• Lab 11 -- More with vectors
• Lab 12 -- JAM

Previous years' labs cover essentially the same material, but with possibly different presentations: F98, S98, F97, S97, F96, S96, F92

Some additional resources you may be interested in are

• Computing Short Courses on UNIX and other subjects
• Owlnet general info, including some online help on various subjects