To immerse yourself in relevant and important aspects the nature of the CPU, utilizing it to implement experiments and other activities, and getting to play with all of it under the guise of a simple system.

Each week, throughout the semester, the aim will be to focus on various activities related to implementing some functionality pertinent to this class (to be implemented and run in the TIC80 simulator):

• reading through a tutorial, web page, howto, or other technical documentation
• discussing the content (in the class discord)
• experimenting/playing with the content in your own code
• no warnings, syntax errors, logical errors, or runtime errors

The overall aim is to enable you to challenge yourself, explore areas and concepts you are not familiar with, and grow as a programmer and problem solver. I don't want to see you just doing things the way you are familiar with (simply because you've always done them that way).

The outline of semester progress:

TOTAL:ticX:final tally of results (TOTAL/TOTAL)
*:ticX:assimilate indicated and related content [PTS/PTS]
*:ticX:asked, responded, worked through any questions [PTS/PTS]
*:ticX:reveal of interesting insight, knowledge gained [PTS/PTS]
*:ticX:discussion regarding content, related resources [PTS/PTS]
*:ticX:experimentation, playing, reporting insights gained [PTS/PTS]
*:ticX:state what your code is going to do [PTS/PTS]
*:ticX:implementation of example or your own variant [PTS/PTS]
*:ticX:contribute content to class notes page [PTS/PTS]
*:ticX:no warnings, compiler notes for code [PTS/PTS]
*:ticX:no syntax errors in code [PTS/PTS]
*:ticX:no logical errors in code [PTS/PTS]
*:ticX:no runtime errors for code [PTS/PTS]
*:ticX:submitted code aligns with intent, author statement [PTS/PTS]

Additionally:

• Solutions not abiding by spirit of project will be subject to a 25% overall deduction
• Solutions not utilizing descriptive why and how comments will be subject to a 25% overall deduction
• Solutions not utilizing indentation to promote scope and clarity will be subject to a 25% overall deduction
• Solutions not organized and easy to read (assume a terminal at least 90 characters wide, 40 characters tall) are subject to a 25% overall deduction