Optional Programming Course Tutorials

Aside from the research project you’ll be undertaking, you’ll also take part in several mini-courses designed to give you necessary skills for the program as well as into your future (hopefully) in grad school. Therefore, we wanted to provide some pre-arrival “appetizers” to help you prepare for the courses, with three optional activities:
 
1) Introduce yourself to Git - a tool that helps you program collaboratively. We recommend at least reading through the “Git Intro” information and doing the “GitHub Get Started” activity on this website: https://www.w3schools.com/git Links to an external site.

2) Say hello to C++ using the following tutorials: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-c-plus-plus-introduction Links to an external site.. It is up to you how far you want to go with these tutorials. We will be teaching this material during the second week. Any progress will give you a head start.

3) Test what you learned in (2) by doing C++ tutorials: https://www.w3schools.com/cpp/default.asp Links to an external site.. Try to do the tutorials on the left sidebar starting with “C++ HOME” up to “C++ Conditions”.
 
Again, these activities are completely optional, but simply trying them will ease the transition to project and course work!