CS210
Lecture 1 : 9/3/03

"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents." -- Nathaniel Borenstein.

• Instructor Personal Information
• Course Coverage.
• All labs will be done using Linux on the PC's or esus.
• You MUST use Makefiles for all assignments.
• Do reading assignments before coming to that lecture.
• What you should already know.
• File format descriptions
• Old old old days.
• Old old days.
• Old days.
• Today.

Practice

• Makefile example.
• Simple I/O Stream.
• Script example.