15-112 Schedule
Spring 2014 |
Week | Dates | Event / Topics | Quizzes / Homeworks / Practice |
Week #1 |
Mon 13-Jan to Fri 17-Jan |
Getting Started Types, Literals, Variables, Operators, and Expressions Program Structure and Control Flow, part 1: Functions |
no quiz this week hw1 (due Sun 19-Jan at 10pm) practice-thru-week-1 (due never) |
Week #2 |
Mon 20-Jan to Fri 24-Jan |
Program Structure and Control Flow, part 2: Conditionals, Loops |
practice-quiz1 and
quiz1-more-practice (due never) quiz1 (on Thu 23-Jan, thru wk1 + hw1) hw2 (due Mon 27-Jan at 10pm) practice-thru-week-2 (due never) |
Week #3 |
Mon 27-Jan to Fri 31-Jan |
Data Structures: Sequences, part 1: Strings Program Properties, part 1: Style |
practice-quiz2 (due never) quiz2 (on Thu 30-Jan, thru wk2 + hw2) hw3 (due Mon 3-Feb at 10pm) practice-thru-week-3 (due never) |
Week #4 |
Mon 3-Feb to Fri 7-Feb |
Efficiency Optional/Advanced: Countability and The Halting Problem Optional/Advanced: Complexity and NP-Completeness Optional/Advanced: Sorting Algorithms (quicksort + radixsort) |
practice-quiz3 (due never) quiz3 (on Thu 6-Feb, thru wk3 + hw3) hw4 (due Sun 9-Feb at 10pm) practice-thru-week-4 (due never) |
Week #5 |
Mon 10-Feb to Fri 14-Feb |
Optional/Advanced: Matrices and Gaussian Elimination |
practice-quiz4 and
more-quiz3-practice
(due never) quiz4 (on Thu 13-Feb, thru wk4+hw4) hw5 (due Sun 16-Feb at 10pm) practice-thru-week-5 (due never) |
Week #6 |
Mon 17-Feb to Fri 21-Feb |
2d Lists +
2d List Case Studies (WordSearch, Connect4, Othello) Sets and Maps (Dictionaries) Exceptions Optional/Advanced: Priority Queues, Heapsort, Huffman Coding |
quiz5 (on Thu 20, Feb, thru wk5+hw5) hw6 (due Sun 23-Feb at 10pm) practice-thru-week-7 (due never) |
Week #7 |
Mon 24-Feb to Fri 28-Feb |
Case Studies: 1-Player AI (BFS and A*), GrayScale, Steganography |
quiz6 (optional, on Thu 27-Feb, thru wk6+hw6) hw7 (due Sun 2-Mar at 8pm) |
Week #8 |
Mon 3-Mar to Fri 7-Mar |
Tue 4-Mar: Midterm #1 Thu 6-Mar: Start of half-week time-shift (thru midterm2) Optional/Advanced: 2-Player AI (Minimax, Alpha-Beta) Fri 7-Mar: Mid-Semester Break (No Classes) |
No quiz or hw this week |
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Mon 10-Mar to Fri 14-Mar |
Spring Break (No Classes) | No quiz or hw this week |
Week #9 |
Mon 17-Mar to Fri 21-Mar |
Functions Redux Animation Animation Case Study: Snake Optional/Advanced: How a Computer Works |
quiz7 (on Thu 20-Mar, on Animation examples) hw8 (due Mon 24-Mar at 10pm) |
Week #10 |
Mon 24-Mar to Fri 28-Mar |
Object-Oriented Programming
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quiz8 (on Thu 27-Mar, thru wk9+hw8) hw9 (due Sun 30-Mar at 10pm) |
Week #11 |
Mon 31-Mar to Fri 4-Apr |
Recursion (Getting Started) [not on midterm2] Term Project Assignment Quick Tour of Python Libraries, Modules, and Applications Miscellaneous Tkinter/Python Demos |
quiz9 (on Thu 3-Apr, thru wk10+hw9) hw10 (due Sun 6-Apr at 10pm) |
Week #12 |
Mon 7-Apr to Fri 11-Apr |
Tue
8-Apr: Midterm #2 (thru wk10+hw10; no recursion) Optional/Advanced: Arduino and Raspberry Pi Thu 10-Apr to Sat 12-Apr: Spring Carnival (No Classes) |
No more quizzes or hws |
Week #13 |
Mon 14-Apr to Fri 18-Apr |
Recursion (Continued) Fri 18-Apr: lab "quiz10a" (Recursion) |
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Week #14 |
Mon 21-Apr to Fri 25-Apr |
Recursion (Continued) File and Web IO Monte Carlo Methods Fri 25-Apr: lab "quiz10b" (Recursion, Monte Carlo Methods) |
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Week #15 |
Mon 28-Apr to Fri 2-May |
Term Project User-Study-A-Thon Term Project Last-Minute OH Programming with a Social Conscience Thu 1-May at 8pm: Term Project Presentations |
term-project (due on Thu 1-May at 5pm) final practice and more final practice (due never) |
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Mon 5-May, 8:30am-11:30am: Final Exam DH 2210: Andrew Id's from AAA*** to JIA*** DH 2315: Andrew Id's from JIN*** to SJO*** DH 2302: Andrew Id's from SKA*** to ZZZ*** Sat 10-May: Optional/Advanced: Writing a Programming Language |
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