First Section
Fall 2004
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+ Give introductions:

  Students usually like to know who you are and why you're teaching them.
  Giving some background and an idea of your character helps to humanize
  the course and perhaps open them up a bit, which should happen in section.
 
  - Write and say your name.
  - Write and say your department.
  - Write and say your office, e-mail, and office hours.
  - Talk a bit about your background and how/why you are teaching this course.

+ Get student info and take attendance:

  At some point you might wish to hold section in a lab, or you will get
  sick. Having an e-mail list will help! Note that students change sections,
  so you will have to occasionally update your list.

  - Write LAST NAME, FIRST NAME..........NET-ID on a sheet of paper.
  - Tell students about why you want to keep an updated list.
  - Pass around the sheet and pick it up at the end.
  - Bring the sheet for a few more weeks.
  - We will be keeping track of attendance
    (CS100M students may have two non-excused absenses; 
     CIS/EAS121 students may have one non-excused absense)

+ Explain role of section:

  See Syllabus! Students are required to attend section. If they do not go, 
  they must cover the material on their own.

  - Primarily answer questions about any course material, usually homework.
  - Do practice problems
  - Occasionally teach topics not covered in lecture.

+ Answer course questions:
  
  - Use Syllabus to answer.
  - Write down questions you cannot answer (figuring you might be new, too!)
    and ask instructor.
  - Post the answers in News.

+ Does everyone have access to the computers?

  - make sure everyone can log in
  - if not, grab a consultant to create accounts

+ Demonstrate MATLAB:

  - how to run
  - how to enter a command in the command window
  - how to create an M-File (with just arithmetic..keep it simple!)
  - how to run the M-File in the command window
  - an example of a mistake in the command window and how to correct it
  - how to set the path (show the current path, save a file to a place
    not in the path, and then try to load it to show why this is important!)
  - show how to get help from the command window
  - show how to get better help by clicking the "?"

+ Demonstrate text files and command window:

  - explain what a text file is
  - demonstrate creating a text file with Notepad/Wordpad
  - show how *.m files are indeed text files
  - show that a file that Microsoft Word is NOT a text file
  - show how to access the command prompt
  - demo the DIR, TYPE, CD commands (helps to explain the mechanism
    for MATLAB's path)

+ EXERCISE 1: Submit a text file on CMS

  - Create a text file with Notepad/Wordpad called "test.txt".
    (for contents, just type NetID and "E1/test.txt")
  - Create an M-File (which is also text) called "test.m".
    (for contents, just type NetID and "E1/test.m")
  - Zip the two files together in a file called "e1.zip".

  - Students should access CMS (either CS100M or CIS/EAS121)
    If they cannot access, a *TA* adds the student into the course by...
    + Log on to CMS
    + Select course
    + Click on "Students"
    + Scroll to bottom of page
    + Type Net-ID(s) in "Enter NetIDs" field
    + Press "add students"

  - Students submit E1.zip on CMS

+ Answer any other questions
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