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Author: richard.habeeb@yale.edu
Subject: Homework 1 Walk-Through Session 9/7 (7pm)
Date: Thursday, 03 Sep 2020, 15:55:51

Hi all,

I'll be doing a recorded walk-through session for the fiend project on Monday at 7pm. I'll be covering the following:

 * Expectations: "How to approach, design, implement, and test a 323 coding project (in my humble opinion)"
 * A brief overview of find/fiend
 * The spec and the man pages
 * A discussion on data structures
 * A discussion on parsing
 * A discussion on system calls
 * Hints and potential sticking spots

I recommend that you get started as soon as possible. This session will be more helpful if you've thought about the homework a bit and started some design/implementation work. As a warning, this homework took me 16 hours to do, and I had access to all 60 tests. You will only have ~18 public tests, so plan accordingly.

I'm excited for this semester, and I'm looking forward to being your TF. I know that this class has a reputation, but my goal is to help you climb the mountain that is 323. These programming projects are very hard; they will hopefully push you out of your comfort zone. That said, if you ever feel like you are struggling to keep up with the programming part of this class, please reach out. I am happy to provide on-call office hours to those who are in-need (that said, if you come to me with a debugging question, I will likely make you do it on your own. I think that debugging independently will improve your troubleshooting skills/confidence and will help you learn).

Looking forward to seeing you all soon.

Cheers,

Richard
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