Problem Set 1: C

tl;dr

  1. Watch Week 1’s lecture.

  2. Get your CS50 IDE set up with hello.c.

  3. Calculate your water consumption with water.c.

  4. Recreate one of Mario’s pyramids, in mario.c.

  5. Provide a user with either cash or credit in greedy.c or credit.c.

  6. Submit your code.

  7. Submit a form.

Help

For help with Week 1 and Problem Set 1:

  • Attend David’s walkthrough on Wed 9/7, 1pm – 2:30pm, in Sanders.

  • Watch Zamyla’s walkthroughs herein.

  • Attend one of Week 1’s course-wide sections (aka supersections):

    • Wed 9/7, 2:30pm – 4pm, in Emerson 210 for those less comfortable (and somewhere in between)

    • Wed 9/7, 4:30pm – 6pm, in Emerson 2010 for those more comfortable (and somewhere in between)

    Or watch afterward.

  • Post questions and search answers in CS50 Discuss.

  • Attend office hours.

Getting Started

Recall that CS50 IDE is a web-based "integrated development environment" that allows you to program "in the cloud," without installing any software locally. Underneath the hood is a popular operating system, Ubuntu Linux, that’s been "containerized" with open-source software called Docker, that allows multiple users (like you!) to share the operating system’s "kernel" (its nucleus, so to speak) and files, even while having files of their own. Indeed, CS50 IDE provides you with your very own "workspace" (i.e., storage space) in which you can save your own files and folders (aka directories).

Logging In

Head to cs50.io and log into CS50 IDE. You may be prompted (again) for your email address. If so, after providing it, click Private under Hosted workspace, then click Create workspace.

You should then be informed that CS50 IDE (aka Cloud9, the software that underlies CS50 IDE) is "creating your workspace" and "creating your container," which might take a moment. You should eventually see your workspace, which should resemble mine from Week 1. If not, do just email the course’s heads to inquire!

Updating

Toward the bottom of CS50 IDE’s UI is a "terminal window" (light blue, by default), a command-line interface (CLI) that allows you to explore your workspace’s files and directories, compile code, run programs, and even install new software. You should find that its "prompt" resembles the below.

~/workspace/ $

Click inside of that terminal window and then type

update50

followed by Enter to ensure that your workspace is up-to-date. It might take a few minutes for any updates to complete. (Be sure not to close the tab or CS50 IDE itself until they do!)

Next, execute

mkdir ~/workspace/pset1/

at your prompt in order to make a directory called pset1 in your workspace directory. Take care not to overlook the space between mkdir and ~/workspace/pset1 or any other character for that matter! Keep in mind that ~ denotes your home directory, ~/workspace denotes a directory called workspace therein, and ~/workspace/pset1 denotes a directory called pset1 within ~/workspace.

Now execute

cd ~/workspace/pset1/

to move yourself into (i.e., open) that directory. Your prompt should now resemble the below.

~/workspace/pset1/ $

If not, retrace your steps and see if you can determine where you went wrong. You can actually execute

history

at the prompt to see your last several commands in chronological order if you’d like to do some sleuthing. You can also scroll through the same one line at a time by hitting your keyboard’s up and down arrows; hit Enter to re-execute any command that you’d like.

What to Do

  1. Implement Hello

  2. Implement Water

  3. Implement either of:

  4. Implement either of:

How to Submit

Step 1 of 2

  1. When ready to submit, log into CS50 IDE.

  2. Toward CS50 IDE’s top-left corner, within its "file browser" (not within a terminal window), control-click or right-click your hello.c file (that’s within your pset1 directory) and then select Download. You should find that your browser has downloaded hello.c.

  3. Repeat for water.c.

  4. Repeat for mario.c.

  5. Repeat for greedy.c or credit.c.

  6. In a separate tab or window, log into CS50 Submit, logging in if prompted.

  7. Click Submit toward the window’s top-left corner.

  8. Under Problem Set 1 on the screen that appears, click Upload New Submission.

  9. On the screen that appears, click Add files…​. A window entitled Open Files should appear.

  10. Navigate your way to hello.c. Odds are it’s in your Downloads folder or wherever your browser downloads files by default. Once you find hello.c, click it once to select it, then click Open (or the like).

  11. Click Add files…​ again, and a window entitled Open Files should appear again.

  12. Navigate your way to water.c as before. Click it once to select it, then click Open (or the like).

  13. Navigate your way to mario.c as before. Click it once to select it, then click Open (or the like).

  14. Navigate your way to greedy.c or credit.c as before. Click it once to select it, then click Open (or the like).

  15. Click Start upload to upload all of your files at once to CS50’s servers.

  16. On the screen that appears, you should see a window with No File Selected. If you move your mouse toward the window’s lefthand side, you should see a list of the files you uploaded. Click each to confirm the contents of each. (No need to click any other buttons or icons.) If confident that you submitted the files you intended, consider your source code submitted! If you’d like to re-submit different (or modified) files, simply return to CS50 Submit and repeat these steps. You may re-submit as many times as you’d like; we’ll grade your most recent submission, so long as it’s before the deadline.

Step 2 of 2

Head to https://forms.cs50.net/2016/fall/psets/1 where a short form awaits. Once you have submitted that form (as well as your source code), you are done! If you end up resubmitting your files (per step 1 of 2), no need to resubmit the form.

This was Problem Set 1.