Coding Approaches - CS50 Office Hours 2020

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hello yeah hello I'm some kinda Tundra I'm from India and my question is how would you advise the students to approach the publicity for deep learning which involve Odin can you read it once more I was having trouble hearing you my question is how would you advise the students so it was for publicity particularly the kid involved : o how to approach the problem senses especially those that involve Brian do you want to take this first yeah sure so I think with cs50 problem sets in particular it's a good idea to start by reading the background sections of the problem which will usually introduce any of the necessary framing to understand what the the project is and what it is you're supposed to do and then after that with any problem that you try to solve it I mentioned this a little while back too but a strategy that I find very helpful is just to work on building it incrementally so if you're trying to work on the Mario problem for example you need to take an input and make sure the input is valid and build a pyramid of that height rather than write all of that code and then try to run it start by just writing a program that takes in user info you can do that and once that's working go ahead and build the next piece on top of that if you write all of the code at once it becomes a little bit harder to think about and a little bit harder to debug if something doesn't quite work right whereas if you start small and then add to that that can make it a little bit easier to know when something goes wrong what might be going wrong and just make it easier for you to think of that trying to solve the problem so while the problem sets might be vague breaking them up into smaller pieces can be helpful for that and the walkthrough videos that we associate with each of the problems try to help you towards that to trying to break the problem into smaller steps that might be more easy to implement independently and then putting all those pieces together