Time: Wednesday, June 7 and Thursday, June 8, 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Place: Bioinformatics Computer Core Lab (Rm 104), Life Sciences Bldg
Organizer: Jeff Elhai
Audience: Primarily 1st year students

Goals of sessions

• Give you sense of the power of programming to answer interesting questions
• Give you an overview of BioBIKE
• Give you experience in understanding and (to some extent) writing simple programs in BioBIKE

First session material (click on links to reach notes and other things)

• No lecture unless you request one
• Discussion based on your responses to the following
  - Guided Tour: What are genes?
        (continued from June 2; Get to a BioBIKE server, click on
        the Help pull-down box, click on Live Tutorials, click on Genes)
  - Help pages: Click on BioBIKE, then Help, then Brief overview
  - Help pages: Click on BioBIKE, then Help, then BioBIKE Listener
        (just Part A)
  - Notes: General syntax of BioBIKE Language (revised 6/6/06)
  - Notes: Evaluation and variables (revised 6/6/06)
  - Help pages: Click on BioBIKE, then Help, then Basic Syntax,
        then General Considerations, and maybe other things.
  - Guided Tour: What is a Functional Language
        (available within BioBIKE in the same way you got to Genes)
  - Problem Set: Syntax problems
  - Syntax Drill: Straightforward questions/answers about syntax
  

Before coming to the FIRST session (Wednesday)

• Please go through the material given above, BUT DON'T BURN YOURSELF OUT. Decide for yourself how much is useful and how much is too much.
  
• Be sure to learn with your fingers at the computer more than with your eyes.
• Please complete the short questionnaire (earlier the better but at least two hours before the session)

SECOND session (Thursday)

• No lecture unless you request one
• Please go through the following before coming to session:
  - Notes: Mapping and loops
      Be sure to do each example in BioBIKE... don't just read!
  - Problem Set: Loop problems
  - Questionnaire
  

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