And so what you want to do and again we'll come back to this later in the term, is something called regression testing.
却又出问题了,然后你想怎么办呢?,我们会在这学期晚些时候,讨论这个被称为回归测试的东西。
One of my favorite classes this semester is my class called "Religion and Torture",
我这学期最喜欢的一门课是“宗教和动刑”,
So, what we do at the start of the semester, and these are essentially training wheels we very quickly take off once you get more comfortable, we provide you with our own library.
那我们这学期初要做些什么呢?,经过一些必要的训练,让我们迅速褪去无知,变得更加充实,我们会提供自己的库。
In the first half of class, I'm going to tell you a little bit about the class and introduce some of the questions that we will think about over the term if you stay in this course.
在这堂课的前半部分,我将告诉你们一些关于这门课的事,介绍几个如果你选择这门课,就将在这学期里考虑的问题。
And I just have to do this today on the Greco-Roman world, tell you everything you need to know about the Greco-Roman world, at least for this semester.
今天要讲的古希腊罗马时代,告诉你们所有需要了解的古希腊罗马知识,至少这学期需要了解的知识。
Now you record that at the start of this semester I said in thinking about the question ? could I survive my death?
你们还记得这学期一开始,我提出的问题吗,我能幸免于一死吗?
Some of you-- This incidentally will be a more technical of my lectures and it's a little bit unfortunate that it comes early in the semester.
对于部分人来说,这堂课相对于我其他的课程较为专业,而且不巧的是,这门课在学期伊始就开始了
So why would you be interested in spending a semester learning about this subject?
是什么使你们有兴趣,花一学期的时间来学习这门课程
That's good. So this game's called The Battle of the Sexes and we'll see it in various forms over the course of the semester.
没错,就叫性别大战,我们会在这学期的课程中陆续接触到的
Lycidas is probably the most difficult poem that we'll be reading all semester.
可谓是我们这学期要涉及到的,最难懂的一首诗了。
If I asked people, "How well are you doing in Intro Psych this semester?"
如果我问别人,“你这学期的心理学导论学到怎么样?”
This raises a further set of questions that we will consider over the term.
这带出了我们将在本学期,进一步讨论的问题。
But I have another plan called the "Amnesty Plan" in which I also compare just your final grade, what you did on the Final exam, and whichever is higher of the two is what I will take to determine your overall course grade.
我还有另外一套评分计划叫,"特赦计划",就是我会比较你的学期总成绩,和你的期末考试成绩,我会取这两个成绩中更高的,作为你的课程最终成绩
Those nine hours are going to be primarily working on problem sets, and all the problems sets are going to involve programming in Python, which is the language we're going to be using this term Now, one of the things you're going to see is the first problem sets are pretty easy.
这九个小时会是问题,提出的基本锻炼,所有的问题提出,都将涵盖,我们这学期,将使用的Python语言的程序,现在,你们将要看见的,第一个问题的提出非常简单。
You know, this, being my first semester, I'm still trying to get involved.
你知道吗,这是我来到这儿的第一个学期,所以我还在适应参与的过程中。
That's what's exciting, and that's what I invite you to think about with me in the course.
那是很激动人心的,也是我请大家在这学期,和我共同探索的问题。
Correctness just doesn't do what it's supposed to do but then also design and design is one of those things it's a little harder to put your finger on initially, but it really is something to bear in mind especially toward terms end when you tackle your own final projects.
正确性“,就是有没有做应该做事情,然后是“设计“,刚开始时,“设计“相对来说比较难一点,但是这是直到这个学期末,都要记住的东西,当你处理的自己的最终方案时。
So that's something that we will do, and I will tell you more about at mid semester.
这就是我们要做的一些事情,在学期中段我会告诉你们更具体的情况。
In the second half of class, I will introduce to you and start telling the first story of the term, and that's about Richard Wright's Black boy which is our first reading of the term.
下面我将把这堂课的,第一个故事介绍并讲述给你们,理查,怀特的《黑孩子》,这是我们这学期要读的第一本书。
It's not a debate that we're going to be engaged in here in this semester.
这不是辩论,是我们在这里在这个学期要做的。
Because we have, as you've hopefully realized, made a concerted effort over the past several years to really reach out to students on this campus who might not otherwise have considered this as a field of exploration, just a one semester course, or even ultimately a concentration or minor.
你们也认识到了,因为我们,在过去几年中作出了共同的努力,来影响这个校园的学生们,但是某些学生可能认为这并不是一个探索性的领域,而只是学期中的一个课程而已,或者只是一门主修或选修课程。
Now one of the new technologies that's evolving, that we're going to talk about in the last half of the course, is taking cells that have been propagated in this way outside the body and encouraging them to form new tissues.
现在,与此相关的新技术正在蓬勃发展,我们将在这学期的后半部分讨论到它,这项技术,让细胞在体外增殖,并促使它们形成新的组织
Well in C and other languages that we'll see this semester, you use what's called the for loop, and this as syntax isn't quite as straightforward but once you know what to look for, it's very easy to understand.
在C语言和一些我们这学期将要接触的编程语言中,你将会用到所谓的for循环,也许作为一种语法规则,它看起来不是那么的通俗易懂,但是你一旦知道曲中奥妙,就不难理解了。
We'll come full circle later in the semester and actually begin to create things just as animated again.
我们这学期要把这些都学一遍,然后开始创作类似动画的东西。
Our course over the term will come back to this question over and over again, and it will also come back to the generic question of autobiography.
我们这学期的课程,会反复回顾这个问题,也会再回到关于自传的一般性问题。
Let me quickly mention there's a fairly typical grade distribution for the overall grades of this, at the end of the semester.
让我快速说说公平的评分分布,对于这整个分数,在学期结束时。
That might be interesting later on in the semester,too.
那将是这学期以后有趣的讨论。
There's a term paper which i'll talk more about as the weeks go on that's also worth 30% of the grade.
随着课程的进行我会在讲到学期论文,这也占成绩的百分之三十
We do in fact--I do have conversations with all 30 plus of the teaching fellows about all 300 plus of the students at the end of the semester, and that is in the end what determines the outcome.
事实上,我们----在这个学期末,为了了解这300多个同学的情况,我会和30多个助教谈话,这最终帮助决定成绩。
These are some of the questions that these two readings raise, and they are questions that we will return to over and over throughout the term.
这是这两篇阅读提出的一些问题,也是我们在学期里面,将反复提及的问题。
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