CS 111: Introduction to Computer Science

Spring 2024

Instructor: Michael Reynolds

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Course Discord

Date Lecture Textbook Lab Links Homework & Project Due Dates
Week 1
Mon
Apr 29
Tue
Apr 30		 Welcome!
Basic Python Syntax 		Lab 00: Getting Started
Lab 01: Python Setup 		Self Assessment - Canvas Quiz
Wed
May 1		 Conditionals, Loops, Lists, & Files Lab 02: Variables, Functions, and Control
Thur
May 2		 Strings, Slicing, Ranges, & Comprehensions
Environments, Tuples, Dictionaries, & Incremental Development		 Lab 03: Functions Lists, & File I/O Homework 1: College Admissions Algorithms
Fri
May 3		 Iterators & Generators Lab 04: Debugging Python Programming Checklist
Week 2
Mon
May 6
Tue
May 7		 Libraries and Images
Abstraction & Naming 		Lab 05: Picture Puzzles & Filters Homework 2: Image Manipulation
Wed
May 8		 Command-line arguments & Errors Lab 06: Command Line Arguments Project 1: Image Processor
Thur
May 9		 Classes
More Classes		 Lab 07: Classes
Fri
May 10		 Dunder Functions & Random numbers Lab 08: Starting the Grid class
Week 3
Mon
May 13
Tue
May 14		 Exceptions & Decomposition Lab 09: Exceptions
Wed
May 15		 Functional Programming
& Higher-order Functions		 Lab 10: Functional Programming Homework 3: The Grid Class
Project 2A: Falling Sand
Thur
May 16		 Composition, Lambdas, & Decorators Lab 11: Higher Order Functions Homework 4: The Sand Class
Project 2B: Falling Sand
Fri
May 17		 Mutability
Testing		 Lab 12: Testing Midterm 1 Opens
Week 4
Mon
May 20		 Midterm 1 Closes
Tue
May 21		 Recursion Lab 13: Recursion
Wed
May 22		 Recursion & Linked Lists Lab 14: Linked List
Thur
May 23		 Tree Recursion
Tree Recursion & Mergesort		 QA/Help with Recursion Homework 5: Merge sort
Fri
May 24		 Trees Lab 15: Trees
Week 5
Mon
May 27		 No Class - Memorial Day
Tue
May 28		 Calculator language & Language Syntax Lab 16: Parsing
Wed
May 29		 Langauge Parsing & Evaluation QA/Help with Homework 6 and Project 3 Homework 6: Parsing
Thur
May 30		 Regular Expressions Lab 17: Regular Expressions Project 3: Calculator Interpreter
Fri
May 31		 Intro to the World Wide Web & HTML Lab 18: HTML & Web Fundamentals Midterm 2 Opens
Week 6
Mon
Jun 3		 Midterm 2 Closes
Tue
June 4		 Requests & Beautiful Soup Libraries Lab 19: Using Beautiful Soup
Wed
Jun 5		 Hyperlinks
Data Scraping - Robots and Tags		 Lab 20: Url Structure and Library
Thur
Jun 6		 More Data Scraping - Tables and Images Lab 21: Web crawl Scavenger hunt Homework 7 - Robots
Fri
Jun 7		 Data Visualization Lab 22: Plotting
Week 7
Mon
Jun 10
Tue
Jun 11		 Efficiency QA Project 4: Web Crawler
Wed
Jun 12		 Machine Learning QA Project 4: Web Crawler Project 4: Web Crawler
Thur
Jun 13		 Cryptography Extra Credit Ideas Discussion
Fri
Jun 14		 Iterview Prep, QA, or Extra Credit: Free Coding Project
Conclusion		 TA Choice
Week 8
Mon
Jun 17
Tue
Jun 18		 Exam Prep Day
Wed
Jun 19		 Juneteenth
Thur
Jun 20		 Finals Final Opens
Fri
Jun 21		 Finals Final Closes

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