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Drop-In Hours (Olin 202): M 1:30-2:20, W 12:30-1:20, R 2-3, F 2-3
Guided Study Sessions: Sunday 6-11, Monday 6-8, Tuesday 4-8, Wednesday 6-8, Thursday 4-8, always in Olin 217 with help from CS majors.
Get help by email: Edric Choi (choi_e2@denison.edu)
Course resources can be found at remote.denison.edu, SHARED --> WHITEDA --> CS111
CodingBat Homework: http://codingbat.com/home/david.white@denison.edu/cs111spring2017
The Course Textbook: http://discovercs.denison.edu/
Resources for learning Python: CodeAcademy, interactive walkthrough, PythonTutor
Resources for debugging code: PythonTutorVisualize
Install Python:
On a PC
On a Mac
On a Mac v2
PC (.exe files): numpy, matplotlib, dateutil, pyparsig, pytz, six
Mac (.dmg files): numPy, matplotlib
Guided Study Sessions: Sunday 6-11, Monday 6-8, Tuesday 4-8, Wednesday 6-8, Thursday 4-8, always in Olin 217 with help from CS majors.
Get help by email: Edric Choi (choi_e2@denison.edu)
Course resources can be found at remote.denison.edu, SHARED --> WHITEDA --> CS111
CodingBat Homework: http://codingbat.com/home/david.white@denison.edu/cs111spring2017
The Course Textbook: http://discovercs.denison.edu/
Resources for learning Python: CodeAcademy, interactive walkthrough, PythonTutor
Resources for debugging code: PythonTutorVisualize
Install Python:
On a PC
On a Mac
On a Mac v2
PC (.exe files): numpy, matplotlib, dateutil, pyparsig, pytz, six
Mac (.dmg files): numPy, matplotlib
| Day | Date | Topic |
Reading Due |
Work Due |
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| 1 | M | Jan 16 | No class First Day Survey |
Syllabus | |
| W | Jan 18 |
Abstraction/Representation |
1.1-1.2 |
Quiz0 |
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| Th | Jan 19 |
Elements of Computing, Motherboard Picture | pp11-13, 20-23, 26-28 |
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| F | Jan 20 | Variables |
2.1, 2.2 |
1.2.1-1.2.3, 1.2.6 |
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| 2 | M | Jan 23 | No Class |
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| W | Jan 25 | Functions, Parameters, Return, Calling, Scope | 2.3, 2.4 |
2.2.2, 2.2.7, 2.4.3, 1.3.1 |
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| Th | Jan 26 | Binary Arithmetic PythonTutor and Lab1 |
1.4, Lab1, Guidelines |
2.3.4-2.3.8 | |
| F | Jan 27 | Abstraction, Graphics, Turtle & Math Modules |
3.1-3.3 |
1.4.1-1.4.6 |
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| 3 | M | Jan 30 |
Turtles and Functions |
3.5, 3.6 | Lab1 (due Tues) |
| W | Feb 1 |
Iteration | 4.1, 3.4 | 3.2.4, 3.3.3, 3.3.6, 3.3.15 | |
| Th | Feb 2 |
Accumulators, Practice Problems |
4.2 |
codingbat | |
| F | Feb 3 |
Population Models, SIR Model, lab demo |
4.4, Project 4.1 |
4.2.4 |
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| 4 | M | Feb 6 |
Quiz 1, Programming in Style | 1.5, 2.6, 3.7 Project 4.1 |
Quiz1 Codingbat |
| W | Feb 8 |
Population Models |
4.4, 4.5 |
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| Th | Feb 9 |
While Loops, Practice Problems |
4.3, Project 4.4 |
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| F | Feb 10 | Iteration recap, Forks in the Road |
4.6, 5.1 |
Codingbat |
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| 5 | M | Feb 13 | Back to Booleans, Practice Problems |
5.2-5.4, pages 25-28 |
Lab2 = Proj4.1, Parasites (due Tues) |
| W | Feb 15 | Guessing Game, Leap Year |
5.5 |
1.4.9-1.4.11 | |
| Th | Feb 16 | Strings, Word Count Google nGram |
6.1 |
4.4.2 | |
| F | Feb 17 | Reading in text documents Text Algorithms |
6.2 |
CodingBat | |
| 6 | M | Feb 20 |
Quiz2 Reading from Web |
5.6 | Quiz2 |
| W | Feb 22 | Genomics. Im1,
Im2 Encoding Strings, Im3 Genes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
6.3, 6.7, Project 6.2 |
Lab3 = Proj4.4, Wolves/Moose (due Tues) |
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| Th | Feb 23 | Efficiency | 6.4, 1.3 (smoothing) | |
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| F | Feb 24 | Count and Search Caesar Cipher |
6.5 |
6.7.3, 6.7.6 | |
| 7 | M | Feb 27 | Comparing Texts Prob Solving Practice |
6.6 |
Lab4 = Proj6.2, Genomics (due Tues) |
| W | Mar 1 |
Data and Lists Practice Problems |
8.1 Proj 5.2 |
CodingBat | |
| Th | Mar 2 |
Computing on Lists |
8.2 |
5.3.1 | |
| F | Mar 3 |
Tabular Data TED Talk on Big Data |
8.4 |
CodingBat |
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| 8 | M | Mar 6 |
How to Solve it, Testing Your Code |
7.1 | Lab5 = Proj5.2 escape (due Tues) |
| W | Mar 8 |
Pre/Post Conditions Assert, Unit Tests |
7.2, 7.3 | |
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| Th | Mar 9 |
Dictionaries, Practice, Mean, Median, Mode |
8.3 Project 8.1 |
8.4.5, 8.2.14 | |
| F | Mar 10 | Quiz3 | 6.8 | Quiz3 | |
| 9 | M | Mar 13 | Spring Break |
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| W | Mar 15 | Spring Break | |||
| Th | Mar 16 | Spring Break | |||
| F | Mar 17 | Spring Break | |||
| 10 | M | Mar 20 | Linear Regression Go over Quiz |
8.6 Project 8.5 |
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| W | Mar 22 | Efficiency More dictionaries |
8.5 | 8.6.1 | |
| Th | Mar 23 | 2D lists | 9.1 |
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| F | Mar 24 | Game of Life Cellular Automata |
9.2 |
Lab6 = Proj8.1, climate (due Sat) |
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| 11 | M | Mar 27 | Image Processing 2D lists vs. Dictionaries |
9.3 Project 9.2 |
Codingbat |
| W | Mar 29 |
Starting Recursion |
10.2 | Final Project Proposals | |
| Th | Mar 30 | Fractals | 10.1 | Codingbat |
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| F | Mar 31 | Recursion Problem Day Apple Interview |
10.2 (read it again!) |
Lab7 = Proj8.5, flood (due Sat) |
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| 12 | M | Apr 3 |
Towers of Hanoi | 10.3 | 9.2.2 |
| W | Apr 5 |
Quiz4 |
9.4 |
Quiz4 | |
| Th | Apr 6 |
The intersection of dance and
computer science |
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Codingbat | |
| F | Apr 7 |
Recursive Linear Search |
10.4 | ||
| Sat | Apr 8 |
Workshop: Movement, Data and Climate Change |
2-6pm | Doane Dance Upper Studio |
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| 13 | M | Apr 10 | Divide and Conquer Maze Solver |
10.5 |
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| W | Apr 12 | Clustering Go over quiz 4 |
8.7 Proj 10.3 |
Codingbat |
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| Th | Apr 13 | Networks | 12.1 |
Lab8 = Proj9.2, magnet | |
| F | Apr 14 | Graph Algorithms | 12.2 |
10.5.7 |
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| 14 | M | Apr 17 | Binary Search | 11.1 | |
| W | Apr 19 |
Selection Sort | 11.2 |
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| Th | Apr 20 | Insertion Sort | 11.3 |
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| F | Apr 21 | Recursive Sorting | 11.4 |
Lab9= Proj10.3 Percolation |
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| 15 | M | Apr 24 | Intractable, Quiz Review, A Word on Classes | 11.5, 13.1 |
Codingbat |
| W | Apr 26 | Quiz 5 |
10.7, 11.6 | Quiz 5 |
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| Th | Apr 27 | Final Project Presentations Operators, Modules |
13.2, 13.3 |
Final Code | |
| F | Apr 28 | Final Project Presentations Flocking Simulation |
13.4 |
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| 16 | M | May 1 |
Lindenmayer Systems Review for Final Exam |
10.6 | Final Papers |
| W | May 3 |
No class |
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| Th | May 4 |
Final Exam |
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| Other good problems |
3.3.15, 6.2.2, 5.1.1,4,8,9,13,
5.3.5, 9.1.1-3, 9.2.2, 3.1.1-3, |
