15-110: Fall 2010
Class Notes:  Introduction

• Introductions
  
  
• Communications
• Course web site:  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~110/
• Course mailing list (read your Andrew email at least once daily!)
• Team mailing lists (coming soon!)
• Help mailing lists (also coming soon!)
• Autograder and online gradebook (also coming soon!)
  
  
• Waitlist and Lecture 7  (Switch to Lecture 7 --> More students enter class from waitlist --> More Joy in Whoville)
  
  

  Lecture 7	TR	Stehlik	1:30pm - 2:50pm	PH 125C
  Section O	F	tbd	8:30am - 9:20am	GHC 5201
  Section P	F	tbd	3:30pm - 4:20pm	GHC 520

  
  
• Policies and Procedures (see syllabus)
  
  
• Important Dates (see schedule)
  
  
• Pre-test
  
  
• Computing vs Programming
  
  
• Roadmap
  
  

  Unit	Weeks	Topics
  Unit 1	Weeks 1-5	Elements of Computing    (Representation, Communication, Computation, Algorithm, Analysis, Testing) Elements of Programming    (Variables, Expressions, Functions, Loops, Conditionals, Testing, Graphics) Elements of Design    (Data Modeling, Decomposition, Validation) More Control Structures and Data Structures    (Recursion, Lists, Stacks) Everyday Computational Thinking
  Unit 2	Weeks 6-10	More Control Structures and Data Structures    (Queues, Priority Queues, Sets, Maps, Trees) Elements of Data Analysis    (Data Acquisition, Data Visualization) Algorithmic Strategies    (Search, Sorting, Divide + Conquer, Memoization, Greedy Algorithms) Fun and Games Everyday Computational Thinking
  Unit 3	Weeks 11-15	More Algorithmic Strategies    (Backtracking, Simulation, Reduction) More Data Analysis    (Maching Learning techniques -- clustering and classification) More Fun and Games Everyday Computational Thinking + The Computational Universe Term Projects