Our two hour delay gave me time to read your posts without rushing. It also means we'll have less than an hour for class, so we need to get right to it.

The grade distribution was A 13, B: 7, C: 4, D: 4, E: 3. Shout outs to Gabriel, Dylan, Eleanor, Udval, Donovan, Jake, Fatima, Jack, Gabe, Alex, Abi, Blu and Brayden.

The top prize for best repo goes to Abi, and we should take a few minutes to look at both his LaTeX Cheat Sheet and his Summary of I'm Not a Real Scientist, and That's Okay to talk about why I am giving him this award.

A few general observations from your work that will be useful going forward:

• Take a few minutes (it should only take a few minutes, that's the major beauty of Markdown) to learn basic Markdown syntax, including headings, lists, bold and italics and blockquotes.
• Strive to design Markdown files that look like presentations. Abi's examples are exactly what I mean by this, so take a look at them again.
• Be sure to check your embedded LaTeX to be sure it is rendering properly. It is easy to overlook this when you're in a rush, and you end up with and unsightly mess when looking at your rendered document.

Read Chapter 0 Introduction and Preliminaries in our text. In the ch0_preliminaries subdirectory in your git repo, create a Markdown file named ch0_notes.md and summarize the vocabulary key concepts introduced in the chapter. The following questions may help guide you in this:

• What is discrete math?
• What are the four main topics that Professor Levin says will be presented in the book?
• What are discrete structures? Which specific examples are listed in the chapter? Briefly describe each of these.

This assignment is due Sunday, February 9th at 12:00 noon.

We'll begin with a hands-on activity to git us ready for the workflow we will use to submit work in this class, and end with a homework assignment that asks us to think about what we will doing in this course.

The classwork is due at the end of the period, so don't waste time gitting to it! ;-)

1. Create a new git repo for this class on your favorite git host, and email me its URL. Name your repo csc208.
2. Add a .gitignore to your repo to assure that artifacts like .DS_Store don't end up in your repo. You will lose a letter grade this semester on repo evaluation assignments if I see such things.
3. Add a subdirectory to your repo named ch0_preliminaries.
4. Take a look at each of the following Markdown files, viewing their source to see how they are written:
   • Chapter 0: Introduction and Preliminaries
   • Logical Statements and Proofs
   • The Square Root of 2 Is Irrational
   • Truth Tables with Python
5. Add a Markdown file in your ch0_prelimaries directory named latex_experiments1.md. Find interesting examples of adding math notation to Markdown from the list above (or other places, if you're feeling really ambitious), and use them to add your own remixes to this document.

Read I'm not a real scientist, and that's okay. In the ch0_preliminaries subdirectory in your git repo, create a Markdown file named WhatIsComputerScience.md and write a few paragraphs summarizing Steve Wartik's post and reflecting on why you were asked to read it. Look up John Hopcroft and Robert Tarjan and say a bit about who they are and what they did.

This assignment is due Wednesday, February 5th at 11:59 pm.