COMP26020p1 - Logistics

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### COMP26020 Programming Languages and Paradigms Part 1: C Programming
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# Logistics

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# Part 1/C Organisation

**Blended approach**: live sessions + asynchronous videos & exercises

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# Part 1/C Organisation

1. **Lecture materials**:
  - Live lecture every Monday 12pm-1pm, located in *Simon Building Lecture Theatre B*
  - A set of videos to watch every week **after the lecture**
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2. **Formative assessment** (not graded), every week:
  - A quiz (theory)
  - Autocorrected programming exercises (practice)
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3. **Summative assessment** (marked): 1 lab exercise, to be done on your free time at home and/or on the Department's machines
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4. **Support sessions**
  - Come if you have any questions about the lecture materials and formative/summative exercises
  - Every other week starting week of 30/09, Wednesday 11am-12pm and Thursday 9am-10am in *Kilburn 1.8*

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# Course Website

.large[On Blackboard: https://bit.ly/3B70LCE]

- **Everything regarding part 1/C can be accessed from there:**
  - Schedule (what to do each week)
  - Videos, including live sessions recordings
  - Lecture notes and lecture slides
  - Summative lab exercise brief
  - Formative autocorrected programming exercises
  - Formative quizzes
  - Discussion board
  - Reading list

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# Required Software

All programming exercises should be done in a Linux
🐧x86-64 (i.e. Intel CPU) environment with GCC 10/11/12. Several solutions:

- **Use the Department's machines**
- **Run Linux in an x86-64 VM**
  - Grab a VirtualBox VM image here: https://bit.ly/3UGN45i
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- **Install Linux natively on your x86-64 machine**
  - If you know what you are doing
  - Ubuntu 22.04 recommended
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- **Do NOT use native Windows/Mac or WSL environments**
  - Won't provide support on these and you may loose marks because of toolchain
    difference
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- **MacBooks with non-Intel (i.e. M1) CPUs**: some solutions given next but the general advice is to come on campus and use lab machines

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# Lecture Videos

- Videos and slides available on Blackboard: https://bit.ly/3XVrzyV

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- When watching videos/attending lecture, **access the slides for code examples you can run in your browser**:
  - https://olivierpierre.github.io/comp26020
  - You will also find **lecture notes** there
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- Using the bottom-right links you can:
  - Download the file: click on the blue path
  - Run it in your browser in a Programiz sandbox <img src="include/programiz-logo.png" style="height: 1em" >
  - Get instructions on how to load and run it in a container that should run on Mac/Windows by clicking on the GitHub logo <img src="include/gh-logo.svg" style="height: 1em" >

```c
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    printf("hello, world!\n");
    return 0;
}
```
.codelink[<a href="src/sample-code.c" download>`00-logistics/sample-code.c`</a> <a href="https://www.programiz.com/online-compiler/8Wv9e1mXN3iSB" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none"><img src="include/programiz-logo.png" style="height: 1em"></a>
<a href="https://github.com/olivierpierre/comp26020-devcontainer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none"><img src="include/gh-logo.svg" style="height: 1em"></a>]

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# Feedback on Lectures

- Each slides deck ends with a link to a small feedback form
- It's fully optional and anonymous, feel free to use it to tell what you think about the lecture in question
  - Your feedback will help to make the course better!

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# Lab Assignment (marked)

- Subject is already on Blackboard: https://bit.ly/3ZsgPZH
- Development of a matrix processing library in C
- Weight: 6.5% of the final COMP26020 mark 
  - **50/50 coursework/exam weight split for the C part**

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# Autocorrected Programming Exercises (not marked)

- A few exercises per week:
  - Divided into **essential** and **additional** exercises
  - You should really try at least to do the essentials
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- Autocorrected with `check50`
- To trigger autocorrection, have your source code in the local folder and type
  on the command line:

```bash
check50 -l --ansi-log <exercise URL>
```

- URL is per-exercise, given on the page of each exercise

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- Accessible from the website, along with instructions on how to install `check50`: https://olivierpierre.github.io/comp26020/exercise-set-1.html

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# Quizzes

- A small quiz to complete each week, after having seen all the lecture materials
  - On Blackboard: https://bit.ly/47qB4sV
  - Formative (unmarked)
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# How to Get Help?

- Any question? in increasing order or urgency:
  - Step 1: come to the next support session
  - Step 2: discussion boards on Blackboard
      - https://bit.ly/3TuORsC
      - **Do not post answers there!**
  - Step 3 or if urgent: [pierre.olivier@manchester.ac.uk](mailto:pierre.olivier@manchester.ac.uk)