For most of you, this will be the first time you$$ve done any programming, which is

exciting! The write$-$up of this first assignment will be a little longer than others because we

want you to have an understanding of how things are going to roll out the rest of the semester.

Advice: Start early $($certainly not the day the assignment is due$),$ practice, and ask a lot of

questions.

Unless calculations are trivial, you$$ll almost always want to use an intermediate variable $$

where you store part of the solution. For example, you might remember the equation for gravity

as:

F$=$G

m$1$m$2$

R

$2$

How would you write this as code? You might solve it in parts instead of one shot because it

makes it easier to check. It would look something like:

MAIN

CREATE f$1,$ m$1,$ m$2,$ r$,$ g$,$ temp$1,$ temp$2,$ temp$3$

temp$1=$ m$1*$ m$2$

temp$2=$ r $*$ r

temp$3=$ temp$1/$temp$2$

f$1=$ g $*$ temp$3$

END MAI