Assignment One (Welcome to CIS 215)
In this assignment you will need to determine if you plan to do your programming assignments at home or use the lab (LC-135) to do your programming assignments. If you plan to work from home follow the steps below. If you will be using the lab perform steps 4 - 7 on one of the computers in LC-35.
  1. Determine that your computer is using windows 7, 8 or 10. The latest Visual Studio will only run on these Operating Systems.
  2. Go to www.visualstudio.com and download the free version of Microsoft Visual Studio to the computer you plan to use for your programming assignments.
  3. Run the downloaded file and install Microsoft Visual Studio on your computer.
    Warning: This step can take a LONG time depending on your Internet connection.
    Plan to start this and let it run over night.
  4. On the computer you plan to use to do your programming assignments, launch Microsoft Visual Studio.
  5. Watch the video notes for tutorial 1-4 -- Reset the defaults for Visual Studio as described in the video. You can pause the video as needed as you perform these steps.
  6. Watch the video notes for tutorial 1-5 -- Create you first program as indicated in the tutorial. While your first program is open in Visual Studio, take a screen shot and place it in a Word document. This document proves you have completed this assignment.
  7. Send your finished assignment to me by email (Nicole.Cook@marin.edu) with your assignment as an attachment.
If you do not have an email you can set up a free Gmail or Yahoo account to use in this class.
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