15-112 Schedule
Spring 2013 |
Week | Dates | Event / Topics | Quizzes / Homeworks / Practice | ||||||||
Week #1 |
Mon 14-Jan to Fri 18-Jan |
Getting Started Types, Literals, Variables, Operators, and Expressions Program Structure and Control Flow, part 1: Functions |
no quiz this week hw1 (due Mon 21-Jan at 9pm) practice-thru-week-1 (due never) |
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Week #2 |
Mon 21-Jan to Fri 25-Jan |
Mon 21-Jan: Martin Luther King
Day (No Classes after 12:30pm) Graphics Program Structure and Control Flow, part 2: Conditionals, Loops Fri 25-Jan: Deadline for xfer to 15-110 |
practice-quiz1 (thru wk1+hw1, due
never) quiz1 (thru wk1+hw1) hw2 (due Mon 28-Jan at 9pm) practice-thru-week-2 (due never) | ||||||||
Week #3 |
Mon 28-Jan to Fri 1-Feb |
Data Structures: Sequences, part 1:
Strings Program Properties, part 1: Style Problem-Solving with Top-Down Design |
practice-quiz2 (thru wk2+hw2, due
never) quiz2 (thru wk2+hw2) hw3 (due Mon 4-Feb at 9pm) practice-thru-week-3 (due never) | ||||||||
Week #4 |
Mon 4-Feb to Fri 8-Feb |
Program Properties, part 2: Efficiency |
practice-quiz3 (thru wk3+hw3, due
never) quiz3 (thru wk3+hw3) hw4 (due Sun 10-Feb at 10pm) practice-thru-week-4 (due never) | ||||||||
Week #5 |
Mon 11-Feb to Fri 15-Feb |
Data Structures: Sequences, part 2: 1d Lists and Tuples Optional/Advanced Topic: Bitwise Operators, Two's Complement Optional/Advanced Topic: Countability, The Halting Problem |
practice-quiz4 (thru wk4+hw4, due never) quiz3-redux (also thru wk3+hw3) quiz4 (thru wk4+hw4) hw5 (due Mon 18-Feb at 9pm) practice-thru-week-5 (due never) | ||||||||
Week #6 |
Mon 18-Feb to Fri 22-Feb |
Data Structures: Sequences, part 3:
2d Lists Technique: Testing Functions that use print and raw_input |
quiz5 (thru wk5+hw5) hw6 (due Tue 26-Feb at 9pm) | ||||||||
Week #7 |
Mon 25-Feb to Fri 1-Mar |
Program Structure and Control Flow, part 3:
Exceptions Data Structures: Sets and Maps (Dictionaries) Optional/Advanced Topic: Matrices + Gaussian Elimination |
quiz6 (thru wk6+hw6) no hw this week practice-midterm1 (due never) | ||||||||
Week #8 |
Mon 4-Mar to Fri 8-Mar |
Midterm Review Thu 7-Mar: Midterm #1 (covers weeks 1-6) Fri 8-Mar: Mid-Semester Break (No Classes) |
no quiz or hw this week midterm1 (thru wk6+hw6) | ||||||||
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Mon 11-Mar to Fri 15-Mar |
Spring Break (No Classes) | |||||||||
Week #9 |
Mon 18-Mar to Fri 22-Mar |
1d Lists Redux Functions Redux Animations Case Study: Snake Optional/Advanced Topic: 1-Player (A*) |
no quiz this week hw7 (due Wed 27-Mar at 9pm) | ||||||||
Week #10 |
Mon 25-Mar to Fri 29-Mar |
Object-Oriented Programming |
quiz7 (thru wk9+hw7) hw8 (due Wed 3-Apr at 9pm) | ||||||||
Week #11 |
Mon 1-Apr to Fri 5-Apr |
Recursion Optional/Advanced Topic: JavaScript + canvas, Panda3d Optional/Advanced Topic: Client-Server + Peer-to-Peer |
quiz8 (thru wk10+hw8) hw9 (due Sun 7-Apr at 10pm) midterm2 practice (due never) | ||||||||
Week #12 |
Mon 8-Apr to Fri 12-Apr |
Term Project Quick Tour of Python Libraries, Modules, and Applications Programming with a Social Conscience Term Project Assignment Miscellaneous Python / Tkinter Demos Thu 11-Apr: Midterm #2 (covers weeks 1-11) Optional/Advanced Topic: Higher-Order Functions |
midterm2 (thru wk11+hw9) term project (due Wed 1-May at 9pm) | ||||||||
Week #13 |
Mon 15-Apr to Fri 19-Apr |
File and Web IO Monte Carlo Methods Thu 18-Apr to Sat 20-Apr: Spring Carnival (No Classes) |
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Week #14 |
Mon 22-Apr to Fri 26-Apr |
How a Computer Works Term Project User Study Lab |
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Week #15 |
Mon 29-Apr to Fri 3-May |
How a Programming Language Works Thu 1-May: Term Project Presentations |
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Fri 10-May 8:30am to 11:30am: Final Exam
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