Week 01 Tutorial Questions

  1. Introduce yourselves, get to know your classmates - Why do they want to study computing? What do they want to learn from this course?
  2. Get to know your tutor - How long have they been at UNSW College? What are they studying? How can you get in contact with them?
  3. Do you have any questions about the course so far? e.g. course website, structure, assessments
  4. Is it OK to ask a really really basic question on the course forum?
  5. I have a brain the size of a planet and been writing C programs since pre-school - do I need to read the course forum?

  6. How do you make a peanut-butter sandwich?

    How could you break that process into steps?

    How could you break it down clearly enough that a computer could understand it?

    Maybe your tutor could do a live demonstration of following your exact instructions...

  7. What is an operating system and what operating system are we going to use in this course?

    What are the differences between graphical user interfaces and the command line? When might one be better than the other?

  8. Help your tutor to write a C program, face0.c, that behaves as follows: 
    ./face0
~ ~
0 0
 o
 -

    How would you compile this program?

    How could we modify it to make a program, face1.c, look like this instead?

    ./face1
~ ~
0 0
 o
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