zonr0/cppsupplement

A guided walkthrough through some common trouble areas for introductory CS students at Portland State University

CppSupplement

A guided walkthrough through some common trouble areas for introductory CS students at Portland State University. Copyright © 2017 Andrew Waugh

Overview

As a Technical Course Support Specialist at Portland State, I help teach and answer questions from students in the intro programming courses. Over time, I've noticed several common core concepts that students struggle with. This repository was designed as supplementry study material that I can point students to during busy office hours, self-study, or just as a practical, predictable example to work off of.

Important Disclaimer

Though I work for the univeristy and for Karla Fant specifically, this is NOT an official Portland State resource. I have worked on this on my own time in the hopes that it will be useful for students and their learning. It is intended to be a tool for learning concepts only. DO NOT copy any code from this repository verbatim into an assignment. Doing so is plagarism and a violation of the PSU Academic Honesty policy which will result in severe penalties up to and including expulsion from the program. Do not copy passages of code and simply change the variable names either!

Installation Instructions

For Portland State Students

1. Use putty/cyberdeck or your ssh client of choice to connect to linux.cs.pdx.edu
2. Navigate to or create a directory that is convienent for you to store code repositories in. I reccomend something like ./Resources
   1. To create a directory, mkdir Resources in the root directory.
   2. Navigate into this directory by typing cd ./Resources. Remember that tab completion is your friend!
3. Clone this repository
   1. Type git clone https://github.com/Zonr0/CppSupplement.git into the command line and hit enter. Like all things in linux, this is case sensitive.
4. Navigate into the newly cloned directory by entering cd ./CppSupplement
5. Navigate into the course and topic of your choice.

For Non-Portland State Students

More instructions here soon.

More Resources

In addition to this repository, more lessons can be found in Doug Whitley's git repository. Someday, these two repos may end up merged.

License

This work is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.