A note to the student

If you didn't notice the change last week you will observe that in this and coming weeks there are fewer pages of information. This reflects a change in emphasis for you from absorbing information to developing skills. There is a lot of detail to master in the early part of the course: a new language, the edit-run-debug cycle of development, documentation, coding standards etc. Now in many modules there will be one or two large ideas instead of a plethora of details, and more of your time will be spent studying and writing code, than reading text.