2a. Programming Essentials

• Review: creating and running a program
      C++ and Python solutions to in-class exercise 1.1.
      C++ and Python solutions to in-class exercise 1.2.

• Reference
  • C basics
  • text editors
  • streams and pipes
    • programs test1.cc, test2.cc, test3.cc
      (python equivalents: test1.py, test2.py, test3.py)
    • usage: test1 | test2 | test3
  • more on graphics
  • gnuplot, plot_data, and gpl

  • -->   pgpl, a python version of gpl.

• In-class exercise #1a
      C++ and Python solutions to part (a)
      C++ and Python solutions to part (b)

• Using functions to simplify tasks