Hello!

Welcome to CPT!

Intermediate Team

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This year

This year in a nutshell

• Java programming (please don’t ask us questions about Python, C++, Turing, etc.)
• We will be covering ICS course material as well as providing enrichment
• Most meetings will consist of:
• A lesson
• Short review of in-class material
• Interesting and cool new stuff
• Problems on the interesting and cool stuff
• Time to work on the problems on the interesting and cool stuff
• Points for working on the problems on the interesting and cool stuff
• Taking up the problems on the interesting and cool stuff

interesting and cool stuff

The Point System

• Each member of the first successful team: 5 points
• Each member of the second successful team: 3 points
• Each member of the third successful team: 1 point
• Points are tracked individually, so feel free to work alone or with different people each meeting
• After each term, the three highest-scoring members will get a prize!
• Scores will reset after each term

Questions?

The next few weeks… (tentatively)

• Conditional statements
• All kinds of loops
• Standard IO

Fill out this survey to give us a better idea of why you’re here:

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A Brief Review

• Printing to the console/formatting output
• Introductory String methods
• Variables and user input
• For loops

Does anyone have questions or need clarification?

Other good ways to print stuff

• System.out.print() and System.out.println() print without using the Console
• print() and println() are methods inside the System class
• The System class is automatically imported, so unlike Console, you do not need to import anything to use these commands

public static void main (String[] args){

System.out.print(“hello world”);

}

hello world

System vs. Console

• System.out.print() and System.out.println() have fewer formatting overloads
• No graphic methods (Console has methods like drawOval(), drawLine())
• More complicated user input
• System.in will be covered in a future lesson
• In class you’ll mostly be using Console
• System.out.println() will be useful in ICS4U and contests

Practice problems!

Go to this link to access some interesting and cool questions:

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