This page is provided in order to make you acquainted with all the necessary details for programming courses. This includes setting up your machine, links to communication platforms, explanations on where to find what etc.

Subject information

• The grading policies and other rules, deadlines etc are given in the introduction slides of lab 1.
• All important notifications, including changes to the rules are are sent through Mattermost on the class channel!

Things to do on the first week

After your first week you should have solved the lab tasks and got acquainted with the extended description of the lab. In there, you should be able to say “yes” to each of the goals outlined here: https://blue.pri.ee/ttu/labs/pr1_en/1-lab-hello-world/

If you can’t tick all the goals, take a moment to go back and learn the required skills.

Now for a list of goals that you should be able to say “yes” to before the second lab:

• Get acquainted with this page (https://blue.pri.ee/ttu)
  • All the labs contents are here as well as tutorials, coding guides, references etc.
• Joined Mattermost and install the client application
  • Join Mattermost using the link https://mm.ttu.ee:8065/
  • Add your full name to your profile. You can change your profile by clicking on your avatar on the top right
  • Join the appropriate class channel. Click the plus icon next to the team name and select ‘Browse channels’.
    Each lab time has a separate channel. Join the channel for which you are attending the class for. Information and language can differ from channel to channel.
    
    
  • Download and install the Mattermost client application to receive notifications: https://mattermost.com/download/. After the install, you can join by adding the server address as https://mm.ttu.ee:8065. 
  • Mattermost is our main communication platform. All important notifications are sent through there. Mattermost is also useful for both public and private conversations – i.e. to quickly get hold of either me or my assistants.
• Joined the Moodle course
  • moodle.taltech.ee/course/view.php?id=31001 
  • We use Moodle for submitting tasks, feedback for those tasks and grading. You will also find lecture recordings on there.
• Set up software for your computer
  • Install all of the software for programming
    Guide: Software setup for programming
  • Install Visual Paradigm Community Edition (or an alternative) for modelling diagrams
    Link: https://www.visual-paradigm.com/download/community.jsp
    The community version is free for personal use. If you register in the program using your e-mail address, you will receive an activation key.

Now go solve the homework given for the second week. Weekly homework is checked during the lesson – make sure to take it with you. They are not digitally submitted! Weekly homework can be found on the labs page (https://blue.pri.ee/ttu/programming-i/labs/). The tasks that are due for week 2 are listed in the top of the week 2 section.

Some additional steps that might be useful

• Find where we keep the lecture recordings (Echo360). The access is through Moodle.
• Setting up file transfer between your computer and the university computers. SFTP Access guide provided here.
  This way you can upload files (code, diagrams etc) to the university computer and/or download what you did in lab to yours.