CS 111: Introduction to Computer Science
Winter 2024
Instructors: Brayden Connole, Steve Richardson, Daniel Richins, & Tom Stephens
Important: Some of materials for the course are being updated and dates and content are subject to change.
Course Discord
| Date | Lecture | Textbook | Lab Links | Homework & Project Due Dates |
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| Week 1 | ||||
| Mon Jan 8 |
Welcome and Course introduction Dr. Stephens Intro Dr. Richardson Intro Prof. Connole Intro |
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| Tue Jan 9 |
Lab 00: Getting Started | |||
| Wed Jan 10 |
Basic Python Syntax | |||
| Thur Jan 11 |
Lab 01: Python Setup | |||
| Fri Jan 12 |
Conditionals, Loops, Lists, & Files | Self Assessment - Canvas Quiz | ||
| Week 2 | ||||
| Mon Jan 15 |
No Class - Martin Luther King Jr. Day | |||
| Tue Jan 16 |
University Add/Drop Deadline | Lab 02: Variables, Functions, and Control | ||
| Wed Jan 17 |
Strings, Slicing, Ranges, & Comprehensions | |||
| Thur Jan 18 |
Lab 03: Functions Lists, & File I/O | |||
| Fri Jan 19 |
Environments, Tuples, Dictionaries, & Incremental Development | Homework 1: College Admissions Algorithms | ||
| Week 3 | ||||
| Mon Jan 22 |
Iterators & Generators | |||
| Tue Jan 23 |
Lab 04: Debugging | |||
| Wed Jan 24 |
Libraries and Images | |||
| Thur Jan 25 |
Lab 05: Picture Puzzles & Filters | |||
| Fri Jan 26 |
Abstraction & Naming | Homework 2: Image Manipulation | ||
| Week 4 | ||||
| Mon Jan 29 |
Command-line arguments & Errors | |||
| Tue Jan 30 |
Lab 06: Command Line Arguments | |||
| Wed Jan 31 |
Classes | |||
| Thur Feb 1 |
Lab 07: Classes | |||
| Fri Feb 2 |
More Classes | Project 1: Image Processor | ||
| Week 5 | ||||
| Mon Feb 5 |
Dunder Functions & Random numbers | |||
| Tue Feb 6 |
Lab 08: Starting the Grid class | |||
| Wed Feb 7 |
Exceptions & Decomposition | |||
| Thur Feb 8 |
Lab 09: Exceptions | |||
| Fri Feb 9 |
Functional Programming & Higher-order Functions |
Homework 3: The Grid Class | ||
| Week 6 | ||||
| Mon Feb 12 |
Composition, Lambdas, & Decorators | |||
| Tue Feb 13 |
Lab 11: Higher Order Functions | |||
| Wed Feb 14 |
Mutability | |||
| Thur Feb 15 |
Lab 10: Functional Programming | |||
| Fri Feb 16 |
TBD - Catch-up | Project 2A: Falling Sand | ||
| Week 7 | ||||
| Mon Feb 19 |
No Class - Presidents' Day | |||
| Tue Feb 20 |
TA-led Midterm Review | Monday Instruction Day | Take Midterm 1 in the Testing Center | |
| Wed Feb 21 |
No Class | Take Midterm 1 in the Testing Center | ||
| Thur Feb 22 |
No lab | Take Midterm 1 in the Testing Center | ||
| Fri Feb 23 |
Testing | Homework 4: The Sand Class | ||
| Week 8 | ||||
| Mon Feb 26 |
Recursion | |||
| Tue Feb 27 |
Lab 12: Testing | |||
| Wed Feb 28 |
Recursion & Linked Lists | |||
| Thur Feb 29 |
Lab 13: Recursion | |||
| Fri Mar 1 |
Finish Linked Lists | Project 2B: Falling Sand | ||
| Week 9 | ||||
| Mon Mar 4 |
Tree Recursion | |||
| Tue Mar 5 |
Lab 14: Linked List | |||
| Wed Mar 6 |
Tree Recursion & Mergesort | |||
| Thur Mar 7 |
No lab | |||
| Fri Mar 8 |
Trees | Homework 5: Merge sort | ||
| Week 10 | ||||
| Mon Mar 11 |
Calculator language & Language Syntax | |||
| Tue Mar 12 |
Lab 15: Trees | |||
| Wed Mar 13 |
Langauge Parsing & Evaluation | |||
| Thur Mar 14 |
Lab 16: Parsing | |||
| Fri Mar 15 |
No Class - Spring Break | |||
| Week 11 | ||||
| Mon Mar 18 |
Regular Expressions | Homework 6: Parsing | ||
| Tue Mar 19 |
Lab 17: Regular Expressions | |||
| Wed Mar 20 |
Efficiency | |||
| Thur Mar 21 |
Midterm Review | |||
| Fri Mar 22 |
Machine Learning | Project 3: Calculator Interpreter | ||
| Week 12 | ||||
| Mon Mar 25 |
No Class | Take Midterm 2 in the Testing Center | ||
| Tue Mar 26 |
No lab | Take Midterm 2 in the Testing Center | ||
| Wed Mar 27 |
Intro to the World Wide Web & HTML | Take Midterm 2 in the Testing Center | ||
| Thur Mar 28 |
Lab 18: HTML & Web Fundamentals | |||
| Fri Mar 29 |
Requests & Beautiful Soup Libraries | |||
| Week 13 | ||||
| Mon Apr 1 |
Hyperlinks | |||
| Tue Apr 2 |
Lab 19: Using Beautiful Soup | |||
| Wed Apr 3 |
Data Scraping - Robots and Tags | University Withdrawl Deadline | ||
| Thur Apr 4 |
No lab | |||
| Fri Apr 5 |
More Data Scraping - Tables and Images | Homework 7 - Robots | ||
| Week 14 | ||||
| Mon Apr 8 |
Data Visualization | |||
| Tue Apr 9 |
Lab 21: Web crawl Scavenger hunt | |||
| Wed Apr 10 |
No Class - Dr. Stephens (work on Project 4) | |||
| Thur Apr 11 |
Lab 22: Plotting | |||
| Fri Apr 12 |
Cryptography | |||
| Week 15 | ||||
| Mon Apr 15 |
Conclusion | |||
| Tue Apr 16 |
Final Review | |||
| Wed Apr 17 |
No class - Dr.Stephens (finish Project 4) | Last day of classes. Deadline for all late assignments. | Project 4: Web Crawler | |
| Thur Apr 18 |
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| Fri Apr 19 |
Final exam in Testing Center | |||
| Sat Apr 20 |
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| Week 16 | ||||
| Mon Apr 22 |
Final exam in Testing Center | |||
| Tue Apr 23 |
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| Wed Apr 24 |
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| Thur Apr 25 |
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| Fri Apr 26 |
School's out - Go home for the summer!! | |||