Schedule

Homework assignments are due at 9:00am on the day indicated. Assignments are posted to Moodle. Reading assignments are listed on the day they are assigned, and generally prepare you for the next class. Optional reading assignments are in brackets. For more details on class policies, please see the syllabus.

Note that this schedule is an aspirational approximation of what we'll do; it may be updated as the term goes on.

Date	Due	Class Topic	Out	Reading
Week 1: Intro
1. M 3/31		What is CS? What is this course?	HW0: Hello!	Chs. 1 & 2
2. W 4/2	HW0	Variables, Calculation, and Expressions [ Online Python Sandbox ]	HW1: Intro to Python
3. F 4/4	HW1	The Computer and The Command Line	HW2: Intro to Unix	§5.1–5.4; §5.8; Skim Ch. 6
Week 2: Basic Computation
4. M 4/7	HW2	Keyboard Input; Graphics [ `input_types.py` ] [ `injection.py` ] [ `smile.py` ] [ `graphics.py` ]	HW3: Basic Graphics	Ch. 3; §4.1–4.4.1
5. W 4/9	HW3	Computing with Numbers; How to Get Help	HW4: Automatic Landscape	§4.4.2–4.6
6. F 4/11	HW4	Computing with Strings [ String methods ]	HW5: Automatic Landscape II: The Return of Automatic Landscape!	§7.1–7.3; [§7.5]
Week 3: Flow Control
7. M 4/14	HW5	Strings, Lists, and Files [ List methods ] [ More List methods ]	HW6: Definite Loop Practice
8. W 4/16	HW6	More on Strings and Files; Flow Control: Definite Loops [ String formatting ] [ File methods ]	HW7: Word Counter	Ch. 8
9. F 4/18	HW7	Flow Control: Conditions, Branching
Week 4
10. M 4/21		Exam 1		Ch. 6
11. W 4/23		Indefinite Loops, Functions in Detail [ `indefinite-loops.py` ]
12. F 4/25		Functions, Memory, and Lists [ `lec12_examples.py` ]	HW8: Caesar Ciphers	§11.6
Week 5
13. M 4/28	HW8	Functions, Memory, and Lists; Dictionaries [ `lec13_examples.py` ] [ Dictionary methods and operators ]	HW9: Random Sentence Generator
14. W 4/30		Regular Expressions [ Regular Expressions Sandbox ] [ In-class activity ] [ Regular expressions documentation ]
15. F 5/2		HW9 work time [ Mid-term feedback form ]
Week 6
XX. M 5/5	HW9	No class (like a Marxist utopia) — but HW9 is due at noon today.
16. W 5/7		Images [ `mm-ascii.txt` ] [ `print-ascii-art.py` ] [ `imageManip.py` ] [ `image-demo.py` ] [ `mm.jpg` ]	HW10: Image Processing I	§10.1–10.5
17. F 5/9	HW10	Creating Your Own Classes [ `CardsEtc.py` ] [ `IWannaUseCard.py` ]	HW11: Image Processing II	§12.1–12.2
Week 7
18. M 5/12	HW11	Object-Oriented Design [ `racquetball.py` ] [ Partner preference survey ] [ Tutorial on Python Classes ]	HW12: Lunar Lander I	§12.3
19. W 5/14		Object-Oriented Design
20. F 5/16	HW12	Exam 2	HW13: Lunar Lander II	§5.6–5.7; §10.6
Week 8
21. M 5/19		Interactive Graphics [ `graphics.py` ] [ `graphics.py` documentation ] [ `button.py` ] [ Completed `dotpainter.py` from class ]	HW14: Final Project Proposals
22. W 5/21	HW13	Event-Based Programming [ `ball.gif` ] [ `sampleevent.py` ] [ `timer.py` ]	HW15: Event Handling
23. F 5/23		CS Ethics; Pygame; Web Scraping [ `pitchfork_scraper.py` ] [ `urllib` documentation ] [ Carleton's wikipedia page ] [ Raw wiki code ] [ Wikipedia's API FAQ ]		§13.1–13.2
Week 9
24. M 5/26	HW15	Searching and Recursion	HW16: Recursion Lab	§13.3
25. W 5/28	HW16	Recursion Redux; Sorting	HW17: Recursion and Fractals	§13.4
26. F 5/30		Difficult Problems
Week 10
27. M 6/2	HW17	Preview of CS; Exam Review; Course Evals [ `count_lines.py` ] [ `does_it_terminate.py` ] [ `looper.py` ] [ `paradox.py` ] [ Course Eval ]
28. W 6/4		Exam 3
Exam Period
Sun 6/8		Final Project Presentations, 3:30pm–6pm
Mon 6/9		Final Projects due 5pm; have a good summer!