Lesson 8: Introduction

Overview

In this lesson we will build on the Unix skills from Lesson 7 and work with data files inside the Processing environment.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

1. Import an ascii file into a program and use its contents for computation and display
2. Use arrays to manage long, related, similar lists of data
3. Output a text file

What is due for Lesson 8?

This lesson will take us one week to complete, 7 - 13 July 2021. The deliverable for this lesson is one programming exercise, detailed on the last page of the lesson.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please post them to our Questions? discussion forum (not e-mail) in Canvas. I will check that discussion forum daily to respond. While you are there, feel free to post your own responses if you, too, are able to help out a classmate.