CMU 15-112 Schedule
Fall 2016
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#1 |
Mon 29-Aug to Fri 2-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) |
week1-practice (due never) check1 (on Thu 1-Sep) lab1 and hw1 (due Sat 3-Sep at 6pm) |
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#2 |
Mon 5-Sep to Fri 9-Sep |
Loops Optional: Gaussian Elimination + Power Sum Polynomials |
week2-practice (due never) check2 (on Tue 6-Sep) quiz1 (on Thu 8-Sep) lab2 and hw2 (due Sat 10-Sep at 6pm) |
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#3 |
Mon 12-Sep to Fri 16-Sep |
Strings
Style Top-Down Design + Testing + Debugging Peer Tutoring starts this week |
week3-practice (due never) check3 (on Tue 13-Sep) quiz2 (on Thu 15-Sep) lab3 (due Thu 15-Sep at 10pm) hw3 (due Sat 17-Sep at 6pm) |
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#4 |
Mon 19-Sep to Fri 23-Sep |
Graphics 1d Lists and Tuples Fri 23-Sep: Deadline for xfer to 15-110 Optional: QuickSort, HeapSort, RadixSort Optional: Sun 25-Sep: 15-112 Scavenger Hunt! |
week4-practice (due never) check4 (on Tue 20-Sep) quiz3 (on Thu 22-Sep) lab4 (due Thu 22-Sep at 10pm) hw4 (due Sat 24-Sep at 8pm) |
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#5 |
Mon 26-Sep to Fri 30-Sep |
2d Lists Event-Based Animations (Getting Started) CMU Family Weekend (see here) Optional: Priority Queues, Heapsort, Huffman Coding Optional: Family Weekend "112 Parents' Guide" Talk |
week5-practice (due never) check5 and quiz4 (on Tue 27-Sep) lab5 (due Thu 29-Sep at 10pm) hw5 (due Sat 1-Oct at 8pm) |
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#6 |
Mon 3-Oct to Fri 7-Oct |
Event-Based Animations Optional: How to Build a CPU + Assembly Programming |
check6 (on Tue 4-Oct) Note: skip quiz5 (no quiz this week) lab6 (due Fri 7-Oct at 8pm) hw6 (due Sat 8-Oct at 8pm) |
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#7 |
Mon 10-Oct to Fri 14-Oct |
Efficiency Sets and Maps (Dictionaries) Optional: Sun 16-Oct: 15-112 Puzzle Hunt! |
week7-practice (due never) check7 and quiz6 (on Tue 11-Oct) lab7 (due Thu 13-Oct at 10pm) hw7 (due Sat 15-Oct at 8pm) |
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#8 |
Mon 17-Oct to Fri 21-Oct |
Midterm review Thu 20-Oct: Midterm #1 Fri 21-Oct: Mid-Semester Break (No Classes) |
no quiz or hw this week no more checks this semester (skip lab8, hw8, and quiz8) |
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#9 |
Mon 24-Oct to Fri 28-Oct |
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) (part 1)
Recursion (part 1) Functions Redux (part 1) Functional Programming with map/filter/reduce Exceptions Optional: How to write a programming language |
quiz7 (on Thu 27-Oct) lab9 (due Sat 29-Oct at 8pm) hw9 (due Sun 30-Oct at 8pm) |
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#10 |
Mon 31-Oct to Fri 4-Nov |
Recursion (part 2, except sorting)
Functions Redux (part 2) Optional: Basic Webapps + Advanced Webapps (Rohan) Optional: Sat 5-Nov: Microsoft Kinect Workshop |
week10-practice (due never) quiz9 (on Tue 1-Nov) lab10 (due Thu 3-Nov at 10pm) hw10 (due Sat 5-Nov at 9pm) |
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#11 |
Mon 7-Nov to Fri 11-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: Using web API's with Python CA-led Mini-Lectures (Attend any 1 of your choice)
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quiz10 (on Tue 8-Nov) lab11 and hw11 (due Fri 11/11 at 11:11pm) |
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#12 |
Mon 14-Nov to Fri 18-Nov |
Midterm review Thu 17-Nov: Midterm #2 |
no more quizzes or hw's this semester |
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#13 |
Mon 21-Nov to Fri 25-Nov |
TP Peer Discussions Optional: Some [Monty] Python sketches Wed 23-Nov to Fri 25-Apr: Thanksgiving Holiday (No Classes) |
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#14 |
Mon 28-Nov to Fri 2-Dec |
Monte Carlo Methods
Recursion (part 2, sorting) Using the pyzo debugger NP-Completeness + the Halting Problem Optional: 1-Player AI (A*) and 2-Player AI (Minimax) |
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#15 |
Mon 5-Dec to Fri 9-Dec |
Optional:
Programming with a Social Conscience
Optional: Internships and Jobs TP User-study-a-thon TP Last-minute-OH Thu 8-Dec at 7:30pm: Term Project Presentations (McConomy) |
Term Project (due Thu 8-Dec at 4:30pm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fri 16-Dec, 5:30pm-8:30pm: Final Exam
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