Here is some practical information that may be relevant to Step 3, which has now started:

The predefined files, which are sometimes attached to the labs, are intended to work well in Visual Studio 2017. But over the years it has been found that certain types of files e.g. .obj files) are not always compatible with other VS versions or compilers. In such cases – please don’t spend time trying to resolve such errors! Instead, you may exclude current .obj file and use the source code (.cpp files) that in most cases is present. Alternatively, contact me as soon as possible so we can solve it another way.

Problems may also occur (e.g. in Lab1, “A Text Handler”) with the character encoding applied in attached .txt-files. This can usually be solved by saving the current file in another format; Open the text file, select “Save as” and choose desired “Encoding” (Unicode, UTF-8 … etc.) in the lower dropdown list next to the “Save” button. Please let us know if the problems cannot be solved in any of mentioned ways!