the professor went over everything thats in the first week of the coursera website, if the slides dont help watch the videos

those slides are from the video but the guy in the video goes over them more than the professor did, maybe thatll help you understand

the hw problems can be done with what those videos shows you, you just need to know how to create values and functions

and everything else requires creating a function that does what the hw problem is asking

Rinchan7 wrote:

I'm feeling this way too, I can see (and pretty sure I understand) what the functions are doing, but I'm having trouble writing them if that makes sense. Is this assignment due at midnight on Wednesday (Weds, 11:59pm) or tomorrow?

 

It should be posted on CSNS. I hope it's the latest day of the week because I emailed the professor and he said that he's going to check them on lab session. But we have labs on both days.

Oh and one more thing, if you all feel like lost, then get on your feet and say someone please. 

Seeing everyone in the class making a cool face I assume everyone knows how to this all with much easy. 

Any comments?

I didn't make a confused face in class because I was downloading the Scala IDE (which I forgot to do before class) and then watching the videos. (Although I admit I assumed the same thing about everyone else making the cool face :P )

Check out the other tabs like Tools Setup on the website to see how to do "Hello Word" [it is near the bottom].

https://class.coursera.org/progfun-005/wiki/ToolsSetup

If it helps, what I got so far is, of the signature:

def example(x: Int, y:Int): Int = {

}

example => name of method

example(x:Int, y:Int) => parameters, if you are familiar with Java, think of example(int x, int y) 

def example(x: Int, y:Int): Int  => return type, think public int example(int x, int y)

def example(x: Int, y:Int): Int = {

     blah blah blah blah blah

} => the stuff your method is supposed to do

Anybody else got other stuff?

I'm still a little of on Call By Name/ Call By Value (I think I got it though, I just need to keep reviewing until it sticks)

but I found: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13337338/call-by-name-vs-call-by-value-in-scala-clarification-needed

and I'm not sure I get def and var...is def for the definition of methods and var for variables?