Lesson 3: What's in a number?

Outline:

  1. CS student departmental advisors (SDAs)
  2. Mini-quiz
  3. ints and floats
    • basic operations on ints and floats
    • type conversions
  4. The math library
  5. Exercises 1 + 2
  6. Representing numbers in computers
    • binary
    • example: accumulating factorial
  7. Exercises 3-5

Reading assignment (to be completed by the next class):

  • Zelle chapter 3 (pp. 57-76)