Course:COSC111/Labs

Lab 1

• What is the purpose of the compiler (i.e What does the compiler actually do)?
• What is an I.D.E. and why is it useful?
• What is the name of the I.D.E. used in your computer science labs?

Lab 2

• Memorize the following escape sequences and their purpose: \n, \t, \"
• Understand the difference between int and double data types.
• Understand the purpose of casting between data types (page 83-85 in the textbook).
• Familiarize yourself with the Scanner class.
  • How do you create a new Scanner object?
  • Memorize and understand what the following methods do: next(), nextInt(), nextDouble()