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Daily Note for August 21, 2025 Past Lesson

Welcome to Solving Complex Problems Through Programming!!

Our plan for todays class:

 

  1. We will bookmark and review our our class syllabus
  2. We will outline the purpose and function of our daily notes
  3. We will take a look at our online resources:
    1. Our classroom LMS - a place for structured learning on many different topics
  4. You will learn a bit about the terminal, and the command line
  5. We will look at some past-projects

    -- after you have your computers--

  6. We will setup our computers. It is important you do this in order:

    1. Please install homebrew: https://brew.sh/
      1. You will be prompted for your password. As you are typing your password, you will not see what you are typing. This is normal. 
      2. When homebrew is finished there are three lines you need to copy (one at a time). Please do this, starting at the top line. 
    2. Please install vscode. When you are done downloading it, please ensure vscode is in your applications folder. 
    3. Please create a folder on a desktop named "programming" There should be no spaces, numbers or capital letters.
    4. Open the folder from within visual studio code - ensure you trust "this folder and all subfolders".

  7. We will learn about visual studio code: https://lms.computersciencewiki.org/course/view.php?id=11
  8. We will learn about programing languages: https://lms.computersciencewiki.org/course/view.php?id=9

If there is time, we will discuss and install some visual studio code extensions.