Mini-Exercises
These are some complementary exercises meant to train various aspects of your problem-solving skills. They are completely optional but contain a lot of general advice and strategies that can be useful for you when working on the homework and lab problems.
You can do any subset of these, in any order, whenever you feel like it. If you want feedback (e.g. confirmation that your answer is correct) or hints on any of the exercises you can "drop in" to the Popup Lab Zoom room Links to an external site. during any of the 2-hour lab sessions scheduled during the course (mostly on Friday afternoons).
- Exercise 1 - estimating runtime:
- Exercise 2 - black-box debugging:
- Exercise 3 - communication (requires 2 persons!)
- Exercise 4 - white-box debugging
- Exercise 5 - simplifying code
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Exercise 6 - finding worst-case inputs