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Section 01 meets 8:30-9:20 MWF and 8-8:50
Thursday (yes, FOUR days a week) in
Olin 217
Section 03 meets 9:30-10:20 MWF and 9-9:50 Thursday (yes, FOUR days a week) in Olin 217
Drop-In Hours (Olin 202): Mon 1-2, Wed 10:30-12:20, Fri 2-3
Get help with Python: Sunday 3-6pm, Tues 7:30-9:30, Wed 5-7, Thurs 6-10pm in Olin 217.
Get help by email: basnet_p1@denison.edu, wang_y2@denison.edu
Guided Study Sessions (+help on labs): Tuesday 7-9, Thursday 3-5, Sunday 5-8 in Olin 217.
Remember to acknowledge on your HW and labs when you got help from one of the TAs.
It does not affect your grade, but it's important for academic integrity.
Course resources can be found at remote.denison.edu, SHARED --> WHITEDA --> CS111
And ALSO at Note Bowl
Online Turtle Emulator (in case turtle in Spyder fails)
Online Python Emulator
CodingBat Homework at this link.
The Course Textbook: http://discovercs.denison.edu/
Resources for learning Python: CodeAcademy, interactive walkthrough, PythonTutor
Resources for debugging code: PythonTutorVisualize
Install Python on your personal computer (select the newest version, now 3.7):
https://www.anaconda.com/download/
Other topics:
How to Solve it, Testing Your Code (7.1)
Pre/Post Conditions (7.2)
Assert, Unit Tests (7.3)
Turing Tests in Creative Arts
TED Talk on Big Data
PageRank
Ethics:
Self-driving cars
Divide and Conquer (10.5), (10.5.7)
Section 03 meets 9:30-10:20 MWF and 9-9:50 Thursday (yes, FOUR days a week) in Olin 217
Drop-In Hours (Olin 202): Mon 1-2, Wed 10:30-12:20, Fri 2-3
Get help with Python: Sunday 3-6pm, Tues 7:30-9:30, Wed 5-7, Thurs 6-10pm in Olin 217.
Get help by email: basnet_p1@denison.edu, wang_y2@denison.edu
Guided Study Sessions (+help on labs): Tuesday 7-9, Thursday 3-5, Sunday 5-8 in Olin 217.
Remember to acknowledge on your HW and labs when you got help from one of the TAs.
It does not affect your grade, but it's important for academic integrity.
Course resources can be found at remote.denison.edu, SHARED --> WHITEDA --> CS111
And ALSO at Note Bowl
Online Turtle Emulator (in case turtle in Spyder fails)
Online Python Emulator
CodingBat Homework at this link.
The Course Textbook: http://discovercs.denison.edu/
Resources for learning Python: CodeAcademy, interactive walkthrough, PythonTutor
Resources for debugging code: PythonTutorVisualize
Install Python on your personal computer (select the newest version, now 3.7):
https://www.anaconda.com/download/
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Reading Due |
Work Due |
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Aug 29 |
What is an algorithm? First Day Survey |
Syllabus Preface |
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| 2 |
F |
Aug 30 |
Elements of Computing, Abstraction/Representation |
1.1-1.2 |
Reading Qs |
| Su |
Sep 1 |
Python
Install Help Session |
Install Python | ||
| 3 |
M |
Sep 2 |
Motherboard 1,2,3,4,5 Efficiency - lifehacks |
1.3 |
Reading Qs |
| 4 |
W |
Sep 4 |
Binary, Truth Tables, Hardware 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 RaspberryPi a,b,c,d,e |
1.4 |
Reading Qs |
| 5 |
T |
Sep 5 |
Arithmetic in Python | 2.1, 2.2 | Reading Qs |
| 6 |
F |
Sep 6 |
Variables, PythonTutor |
2.3 | Reading Qs |
| Su |
Sep 8 |
Help
Session 3-8, Olin 217 |
HW
1.4.1-1.4.6 1.4.9-1.4.11 |
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| 7 |
M |
Sep 9 |
Printing, input, strings Built-in functions |
2.4 Appendix B.1 |
Reading Qs |
| Tu |
Help
Session 7-9:30, Olin 217 |
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| 8 |
W |
Sep 11 |
Input, ADTs,
Drawing, Turtle & Math Modules |
3.1, 3.2, B.2 | Reading Qs |
| 9 |
T |
Sep 12 |
Making functions, parameters, code |
3.3, B.3 |
Reading Qs |
| 10 |
F |
Sep 13 |
Style, PythonTutor Activity |
3.4 | Reading Qs |
| Su |
Sep 15 |
Help Session 3-8, Olin 217 | (...) means optional |
HW 2.2.2, (2.2.7),2.4.3, 3.3.3, (3.3.15) | |
| 11 |
M |
Sep 16 |
Functions / Return, Scope, PythonTutor |
3.5, 3.6 |
Reading Qs Codingbat test |
| Tu |
Help
Session 7-9:30, Olin 217 |
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| 12 |
W |
Sep 18 |
Iteration, Accumulators PythonTutor, Fish |
4.1 | Reading Qs |
| 13 |
T |
Sep 19 |
Plotting (MPL), Fish |
4.2, B.4 | Codingbat, Reading Qs |
| 14 |
F |
Sep 20 |
Conditional Iteration PythonTutor, Fish |
4.3 |
Reading Qs |
| Su |
Sep 22 |
Help Session 3-8, Olin 217 | Codingbat | ||
| 15 |
M |
Sep 23 |
Population Models, Fish, SIR Model, lab demo |
4.4 | Reading Qs |
| Tu |
Help
Session 7-9:30, Olin 217 |
Codingbat | |||
| W |
Sep 25 |
Iteration recap Daryl DeFord lecture: Gerrymandering |
1.5,2.6,3.7, 4.6, Lab Guidelines |
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| T |
Sep 26 |
Quiz 1 (Ch 1-4) | Project 4.1 |
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| 16 |
F |
Sep 27 |
Random,p1,p2,p3,p4 Monte Carlo simulations |
5.1, B.5 | Codingbat, Reading Qs |
| Su |
Sep 29 |
Help
Session Cancelled Big Red Weekend |
(4.2.4, 4.4.2) | ||
| 17 |
M |
Sep 30 |
Monty Hall,
PRNGs, Histograms, p1,p2 |
5.2, 5.3 | Reading Qs |
| Tu |
Help
Session 7-9:30, Olin 217 |
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| 18 |
W |
Oct 2 | Conditionals, Leap Year RPSLS,p1,p2,p3 |
5.4 |
(5.3.1) Reading Qs |
| 19 |
T |
Oct 3 |
Guessing Game |
5.5 |
Reading Qs |
| 20 |
F |
Oct 4 |
Strings, Word Count Google nGram, top10 |
6.1, B.6 |
Reading Qs |
| Su |
Oct 6 |
Help Session 3-8, Olin 217 | Lab1 | ||
| 21 |
M |
Oct 7 |
Reading in text documents Reading from Web Text Algorithms |
6.2 | Reading Qs |
| Tu |
Help
Session 7-9:30, Olin 217 |
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| 22 |
W |
Oct 9 |
String indices,ascii,Dow, Accumulators,word analysis,p1,p2,p3 |
6.3 | CodingBat, Reading Qs |
| 23 |
T |
Oct 10 |
Efficiency,p1,p2, nGram articles - 1, 2, 3 |
6.4 | Reading Qs, |
| 24 |
F |
Oct 11 |
Count,Search,p1,p2,p3 Caesar Cipher |
6.5 | Reading Qs |
| Su |
Oct 13 |
Help Session 3-8, Olin 217 | Lab2 | ||
| M |
Oct 14 |
Review Day, midevals lang |
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| Tu |
Help
Session 7-9:30, Olin 217 |
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| W |
Oct 16 |
Quiz 2 (Ch 5,6) | |
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| T |
Oct 17 |
FALL BREAK | |||
| F |
Oct 18 |
FALL BREAK | |
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| 25 |
M |
Oct 21 |
Comparing Texts, Im1 Genomics, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | 6.6, 6.7 | Reading Qs |
| Tu |
Help
Session 7-9:30, Olin 217 |
Project 6.2 |
CodingBat | ||
| 26 |
W |
Oct 23 |
How to Solve it | 7.1 |
Reading Qs |
| 27 |
T |
Oct 24 |
Data and Lists, p1,p2 | 8.1, B.7 | Reading Qs |
| 28 |
F |
Oct 25 |
Lists, p1,p2,p3 |
8.2 |
Reading Qs |
| Su |
Oct 27 |
Help Session 3-8, Olin 217 | Lab3 (codingbat only) |
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| 29 |
M |
Oct 28 |
Dictionaries, p1,p2 Mean, Median, Mode |
8.3 | Reading Qs |
| Tu |
Help
Session 7-9:30, Olin 217 |
CodingBat |
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| 30 |
W |
Oct 30 |
linearSearch, removeDuplicates, rd1, rd3,efficiency |
8.5 | Reading Qs |
| 31 |
T |
Oct 31 |
Linear Regression |
8.6 |
Reading Qs |
| F |
Nov 1 |
Review day |
5.6, 6.8, 8.8 |
CodingBat |
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| Su |
Nov 3 |
Help Session 3-8, Olin 217 | CodingBat (8.6.1) |
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| M |
Nov 4 |
Quiz 3 (Ch 8) | |
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| Tu |
Help
Session 7-9:30, Olin 217 |
(8.4.5, 8.2.14) | |||
| 33 |
W |
Nov 6 |
Reading Tabular Data csv, tsv |
8.4 | Reading Qs |
| 34 |
T |
Nov 7 |
2D lists,p1,p2,p3,p4,p5 | 9.1, B.8 | Reading Qs |
| 35 |
F |
Nov 8 |
Game of Life Cellular Automata |
9.2 | Reading Qs |
| Su |
Nov 10 |
Help Session 3-8, Olin 217 | CodingBat (9.2.2) |
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| 36 |
M |
Nov 11 |
Fractals, Koch |
10.1 | Reading Qs |
| Tu |
Help
Session 7-9:30, Olin 217 |
Lab4 | |||
| 37 |
W |
Nov 13 |
Recursion,p1,p2,p3,p4,p5 |
10.2 | |
| 38 |
T |
Nov 14 |
Review Day,p1 | 10.2 (read it again!) | Reading Qs |
| 39 |
F |
Nov 15 |
Towers of Hanoi,
demo Bicolor, p1 |
10.3, Variants | Reading Qs |
| Su |
Nov 17 |
Help Session 3-8, Olin 217 | CodingBat | ||
| 40 |
M |
Nov 18 |
Recursive Linear Search p1,p2 |
10.4 | Reading Qs |
| Tu |
Help
Session 7-9:30, Olin 217 |
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| 41 |
W |
Nov 20 |
Review Day |
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| T |
Nov 21 |
Review
Day |
9.4, 10.7 | ||
| F |
Nov 22 |
Quiz 4 (Ch 9, 10) |
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| M-F |
THANKSGIVING BREAK |
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| M |
Dec 2 |
Binary Search,p1,p2 Guess Who |
11.1 | Reading Qs |
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| Tu |
Help
Session 7-9:30, Olin 217 |
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| W |
Dec 4 |
Recap Selection Sort,p1 |
11.2 | Reading Qs | |
| T |
Dec 5 |
Sieve of Eratosthenes | |
CodingBat |
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| F |
Dec 6 |
Insertion Sort, Bubble Sort,p1,p2 | 11.3 |
Reading Qs | |
| Su |
Dec 8 |
Help Session 3-8, Olin 217 | |
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| M |
Dec 9 |
Merge Sort,p1 | 11.4 |
Reading Qs Final Code |
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| Tu |
Help
Session 7-9:30, Olin 217 |
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| W |
Dec 11 |
Divide and Conquer Maze Solver p1,p2,p3,p4 |
10.5 | Reading Qs | |
| T |
Dec 12 |
2D lists and images | 9.3 |
Reading Qs | |
| F |
Dec 13 |
Review Day |
11.5 |
Lab5 | |
| M |
Dec 16 |
Final Exam, 9-11am | |
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| W |
Dec 18 |
Final Exam, 2-4pm Come to whichever! |
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| Other good reading and problems |
(7.2, 7.3), (8.7), (9.3) | 6.2.2, 5.1.1,4,8,9,13,
5.3.5, 9.1.1-3, 9.2.2, 3.1.1-3, |
How to Solve it, Testing Your Code (7.1)
Pre/Post Conditions (7.2)
Assert, Unit Tests (7.3)
Turing Tests in Creative Arts
TED Talk on Big Data
PageRank
Ethics:
Self-driving cars
Divide and Conquer (10.5), (10.5.7)