Thank you to everyone who has given lecture feedback this quarter! (If you have not received an email from Annie about giving feedback, your assigned lectures have not come up yet). We really appreciate your comments and have been working to incorporate them as much as possible. If, at any point, you would like to provide some quick thoughts about a lecture besides the ones to which you are assigned, please feel free. We would really appreciate it! The feedback link can be found in the "Lectures" dropdown at the top of the page.

We hope you are hard at work on Assignment 2! We have updated the starter project with a change to the console output tool to make it slightly more accurate. Once you download the new starter project, the only change you need to make to your existing project is to copy the "spl.jar" file from the new project's "lib" folder to the current project's "lib" folder, replacing the current "spl.jar" file. The changes to the tool will likely affect very few people, but we would recommend getting the new tool just in case. Happy testing!

As a reminder, because of the July 4 holiday, we will not have lecture Wednesday. Additionally, there will be no helper hours or office hours.

If you have a Wednesday section, your Section Leader should have emailed you with your makeup section time. If you cannot make the new time, you may attend any of these makeup sections:

Since we did not have time to cover the Eclipse debugger during lecture last Wednesday, we have posted a video and a handout walkthrough to help you get more familiar with debugging using Eclipse. There are a few resources that may come in handy:

1. Instructions on how to use the Eclipse debugger: these are in a new section added to the Eclipse page, linked to on the left.
2. A "Debugging with Karel" handout: this is a new handout in the "Handouts" dropdown at the top. This handout walks you through debugging a sample buggy Roomba Karel program using the Eclipse debugger functionality outlined in the above online instructions.
3. A video tutorial on using the Eclipse debugger:
   

We highly recommend you read through both of the handouts and/or watch the video to help you as you work on the assignments in this class. Knowing how to use the debugger is a valuable skill that will help you find and fix bugs more quickly. Moreover, if you run into bugs, you should try finding and fixing them yourself first before reaching out for help at the LaIR or office hours; in particular, at helper hours we will ask what you have first tried on your own to fix the issue you are having.

Good luck with Assignment 1!

As a reminder, LaIR helper hours and office hours have begun and are available if you need help on your first assignment, or if you have any questions about course material. The LaIR is in the first floor of Tressider Union. When you arrive, sign up for help at the computer near the back and sit at any of the tables in the area. The LaIR is open Sun - Wed 7PM-11PM. Colin's and Annie's office hours are listed in the sidebar to the left.

If you visit the LaIR, you will have the option to sign up for two different queues to most efficiently get help:

• CLaIR queue: Sign up for the "Conceptual LaIR" (CLaIR) queue if you have a conceptual question about an assignment or material. Note that you are not allowed to ask questions about your code (e.g. debugging questions) in the CLaIR queue; only conceptual questions will be answered.
• Standard queue: Sign up for the standard queue if you have a question that does not fit in the above categories, such as a more in-depth debugging question about your code.

Regular section signups have concluded, and we have finalized section assignments. You can find your assigned section here.

If you missed regular section signups, you may sign up using the late signup form in the "Section" dropdown at the top. Any SCPD students who missed the opportunity to sign up for a grader should do so also via the "Section" dropdown at the top.

If you would like to request a section swap, please carefully follow the instructions below. The deadline to request a section swap is Tuesday, 7/3 @ 5PM PST:

• If you are an individual requesting a swap, you may do so via the "Section" dropdown at the top.
• If you are a pair that are in different sections but would like to be in the same section, please fill out this form

In CS106A we use a free "development environment" called Eclipse to write our programs. It is the most popular development environment for the Java language. Download Eclipse by following these instructions. If you run into any issues while installing or using Eclipse, please see the bottom of the Eclipse install instructions for common troubleshooting steps. There will also be an Eclipse installation troubleshooting session Tuesday 6/26 (tomorrow), 7pm to 9pm in the LaIR (first floor of Tressider). Try to install Eclipse before and come if you have any trouble.

Also, as a reminder, regular LaIR hours will begin this Wednesday, 6/27.

Section signups are now open! Click on the "Section" dropdown at the top and select "Sign up for section" to submit your preferences. As a reminder, signups are not first come, first served. As such, you may modify your preferences any time up until the Tuesday 5:00PM deadline. We will notify you of your section assignment by Wednesday morning, 6/27. Sections start this week!

Note: Remote SCPD students (if you are an SCPD student but able to attend a section on campus, you may disregard this message) should not sign up for a section; instead, register through the SCPD signup link in the "Section" tab.

Welcome to CS 106A! We are looking forward to a fun quarter. Class starts Monday, June 25th at 11:30AM in NVIDIA Auditorium. Please see the "Handouts" dropdown above for the General Information handout, as well as the Honor Code handout. SCPD students should also read the SCPD Information handout.