CMU 15-112 Schedule
Fall 2015
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#1 |
Mon 31-Aug to Fri 4-Sep |
Getting Started Functions Data and Expressions Conditionals Optional: Bitwise Ops + 2's Comp + Boolean Arithmetic + etc Optional: How to Build a Computer (from Gates to CPU's) |
quiz1-practice (due never) quiz1 (on Fri 4-Sep) hw1-practice (due never) hw1 (due Sun 6-Sep at 10pm) |
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#2 |
Mon 7-Sep to Fri 11-Sep |
Loops Optional: Gaussian Elimination + Power Sum Polynomials |
quiz2-practice (due never) quiz2 (on Fri 11-Sep) hw2-practice (due never) hw2 (due Sun 13-Sep at 10pm) |
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#3 |
Mon 14-Sep to Fri 18-Sep |
Strings
Style Top-Down Design + Testing + Debugging Optional: How to Build a CPU + Assembly Programming |
quiz3-practice (due never) quiz3 (on Fri 18-Sep) hw3-practice (due never) hw3 (due Sun 20-Sep at 10pm) |
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#4 |
Mon 21-Sep to Fri 25-Sep |
1d Lists and Tuples
Optional: QuickSort, HeapSort, RadixSort Fri 25-Sep: Deadline for xfer to 15-110 |
quiz4-practice (due never) quiz4x (on Thu 24-Sep) quiz4 (on Fri 25-Sep) hw4-practice (due never) hw4 (due Mon 28-Sep at 10pm) |
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#5 |
Mon 28-Sep to Fri 2-Oct |
2d Lists |
quiz5-practice (due never) quiz5 (on Fri 2-Oct) hw5-practice (due never) hw5 (due Mon 5-Oct at 10pm) |
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#6 |
Mon 5-Oct to Fri 9-Oct |
Sets and
Maps (Dictionaries) Efficiency Optional: How to write a programming language |
quiz6-practice (due never) quiz6x (on Thu 8-Oct) quiz6 (on Fri 9-Oct) hw6 (due Sun 11-Oct at 10pm) |
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#7 |
Mon 12-Oct to Fri 16-Oct |
Graphics
Event-Based Animations Optional: Intro to Robotics (hosted by the Robotics Club) |
quiz7-practice (due never) quiz7 elided (no quiz this week) hw7 (due Sun 18-Oct at 10pm) |
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#8 |
Mon 19-Oct to Fri 23-Oct |
Midterm review Thu 22-Oct: Midterm #1 Fri 23-Oct: Mid-Semester Break (No Classes) |
no quiz or hw this week | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
#9 |
Mon 26-Oct to Fri 30-Oct |
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) (part 1)
Recursion (part 1) Exceptions Optional: Basic Webapps (Rohan) |
quiz8-practice (due never) quiz8 (on Fri 30-Oct) hw8 (due Sun 1-Nov at 10pm) |
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#10 |
Mon 2-Nov to Fri 6-Nov |
Recursion (part 2)
Functions Redux Optional: Advanced Webapps (Rohan) |
quiz9x (on Thu 5-Nov) hw9 (due Sun 8-Nov at 10pm) |
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#11 |
Mon 9-Nov to Fri 13-Nov |
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) (part 2)
Term Project Assignment Optional: Misc Tkinter/Python Demos Optional: Quick Tour of Python Libraries, Modules, and Applications Optional: Programming with a Social Conscience Optional: Using web API's with Python Optional: Sat 14-Nov, 1pm-5pm, WEH 7500: Microsoft Kinect Workshop CA-led Mini-Lectures (Attend any 1 of your choice):
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quiz10x (on Thu 12-Nov) quiz10 (on Fri 13-Nov) hw10 (due Sun 15-Nov at 10pm) |
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#12 |
Mon 16-Nov to Fri 20-Nov |
Midterm review Thu 19-Nov: Midterm #2 Optional: Sat 21-Nov 2-6pm: 15-112 Puzzle Hunt! |
no more quizzes or hw's this semester |
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#13 |
Mon 23-Nov to Fri 27-Nov |
NP-Completeness
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the Halting Problem Wed 25-Nov to Fri 27-Nov: Thanksgiving Holiday (No Classes) Optional: Thu 26-Nov: TG Movie, Lunch, and GHC Photo Puzzle Hunt |
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#14 |
Mon 30-Nov to Fri 4-Dec |
Monte Carlo Methods Data Compression with Huffmann Encoding (Rudina) Optional: Fri 4-Dec, 6:30pm-9pm, GHC 4401: HRT Machine Learning Workshop |
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#15 |
Mon 7-Dec to Fri 11-Dec |
TP User-study-a-thon TP Last-minute-OH Thu 10-Dec at 7:30pm: Term Project Presentations (McConomy) |
Term Project (due Thu 10-Dec at 4:30pm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thu 17-Dec: Final Exam (8:30am to 11:30am)
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