1. Mohammad H. Mofrad University of Pittsburgh
CS 0007: Introduction to Computer Programming (in Java) Recitation 1: Introduction
Mohammad H. Mofrad
University of Pittsburgh

2. Recitation Information
Teaching Assistant
Mohammad H. Mofrad
TA Website
Office location
Sennott Square 6150
Office hours (Tentative)
Monday – 5 pm
Tuesday – 5 pm

3. Course Theme Material overview: Resources: Grading
Instructor lectures
Instructor slides
Starting Out with Java From Control Structures through Objects 6th Ed. by Tony Gaddis textbook
Grading
Labs/quizzes (10%):
Done/taken during lab/recitation
Projects (40%):
Weekly projects
Exams (50%):
Midterm exam (25%)
Final exam (25%)
Material overview:
Variables, operators, and data types
Decision structures and loops
File I/O
Methods
Arrays and matrixes
Classes and object oriented programming
Recursive methods
Exception and error handling

4. Recitation Theme We do not have an attendance policy for recitation.
Most of the times we will have lab instructions from instructor website
You can ask your questions in the recitations.
There will be quizzes in recitations so do not try to miss them.
There is a Github repository for recitations.

5. How to connect to course server?
PuTTY ~sgtatham/putty/download.html
WinSCP hp
Use Mac OS Terminal if you are a Mac user

6. How to start writing a Java program in your machine?
There is no need to use an Interactive Development Environment (IDE) like Eclipse or NetBeans.
What you need is to install Notepad++ from plus.org/download/v7.4.html
Or, you can also install Sublime Text from
And start writing your code.