Overview

In this first assignment, we're going to do a dry run of our workflow and have you write your first agentic program. You'll also set up a research journal and add some entries. We will expand on the program you write here in class on Tuesday

Assignment Tasks

• Copy the research journal template, naming it <lastname>-project1 (e.g., Fisler-project1).
• Consider the prompt “write a program that belongs in an intro CS course”. What would you expect Claude to produce?
• Now enter that prompt into Claude Code. (Use this prompt verbatim.) Save the file it generates (under a suitable name).
• Make a research journal entry or two with your reaction to what Claude generated. How does this compare to what you expected? A description of the entry options in the journal is provided on a separate page.
• This is your work for stage 1. Head over to Canvas and complete the survey in the "Project1-stage1" module. Completing that should give you access to a module called "Project1-stage2", which has the link to the stage 2 assignment. Reach out on Ed if it doesn't work (this is part of what we're testing in this dry run).
• The stage 2 handout will direct you to upload some info into a Google Form. That will be the last step of this assignment.