Advice for Laboratory 1, Introduction to C#, Visual Programming and Event Driven Architectures.

You should have enough time to cover the material carefully, so there is no need to rush.  The laboratories are now 3 hours long, so students can take their time with this work.  You should point out to the students that future labs will involve more work and take more time.

As much as possible, please make an effort to learn the names of the students in the laboratories.

The main steps for the laboratory are as follows:

1. Introduce yourself to your fellow TAs.  Decide among yourselves how you will deliver the material.  You will spend much of your time walking through the lab and helping the students, but at some points you will want to present material to the entire class.

If you think the introduction between TAs will take some time, you might want to do this over e-mail, or in a quick meeting before the tutorial.  The names of your fellow TAs are on the schedule that Jeanne sent to you.

2. Present a simple example of a C# program.  I suggest a Form with a single button.  Maybe you could have clicking on the button change its label?

3. Refer the students to the laboratory assignment on ELM.

4. Help the students through the steps given in the assignment.

5. Check that each student's implementation of the Reset button is working.

6. Help the students compress the folder that holds their solution and get them to test that their compression is valid.


Notes on Laboratory

The students will likely generate empty methods by double clicking on some of the visual components.  If they try to delete these superfluous methods, you will probably have to help them delete the portion of the generated code that is created for the new method.

Good luck with your laboratory and Have Fun!