Spring 2016 CS1301 Calendar

References

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▸ Week 1: January 11th-15th - Introduction, Background, and Graphics

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Jan 11th	Read Chapter 1 - The way of the program from How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (thinkCSpy) Course Syllabus WhatIsAllowed.pdf	Why Python is cool. GIMP download CamelCase CS1301 - How it fits.ppt Fall 2015 class webpage Spring 2015 class webpage Fall 2014 class webpage Spring 2014 class webpage Fall 2013 class webpage Class Video: Introduction to Class [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Wednesday Jan 13th	Read Chapter 2 - Variables, expressions, and statements (thinkCSpy)	VariablesTypesMath.ppt keywords vs. identifiers Douglas Englebart 1968 NLS demo video ( On YouTube) Class Video: Variables, Expressions & Graphics [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Recitation	Read Chapter 1 - The World of Robots from Learning Computing With Robots (LCWR).	VIDEO: How to install Calico on a Mac Myro Robot Reference Manual Functions and Commands used by Myro. Calico Graphics Objects Interface Calico Graphics Reference.pdf Code:face.py
Friday Jan 15th	Read Chapter 8 - Sights and Sounds (pgs 157-168) (LCWR)	List of Python 3 Modules (look at the math module) Scribbler Dancing video. AI for Games Class Video: Graphics & User Input [Download .MOV] [webcast]

▸ Week 2: January 18th-22nd - Functions & Expressions

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Jan 18th	M.L.J. Jr. Holiday - No Lecture HW0 Due on Tuesday January 19th!
Wednesday Jan 20th	Read Chapter 4 - Functions (thinkCSpy)	Functions.ppt Class Video: Functions & Base 10 [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Recitation	Watch Video:Fun with Pair Programming Read Chapter 2 - Personal Robots (LCWR) RA_Circles.pdf	Check T-Square for your Pair Programming Assignments Decimal to Binary conversion Binary to Decimal conversion 0-255 Conversion Table Conversion Calculator Conversion Worksheet - Practice Problems KACB Walkway Digits Video: The Story of Zero
Friday Jan 22nd	Lab 1 due before 11:55pm Read Chapter 6 - Fruitful Functions from thinkCSpy	Class Video: Base 2,8,16 [Download .MOV] [webcast] Algorithms.ppt

▸ Week 3: January 25th - 29th - Control Flow & Iteration

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Jan 25th	HW1 DUE before 11:55pm Read Chapter 5 - Conditionals from thinkCSpy	Code:if_statement_example.py Code:simpleFlee.py Code:recursiveFlee.py Class Video: Functions/Review [Download .MOV] [webcast] Class Video: Conditionals [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Wednesday Jan 27th	Read Chapter 7 - Iteration from thinkCSpy.	code:rec_factorial.py Review Video:Explanation and example of Simple Recursion Chapter 18 - Recursion from ThinkCSpy. Class Video: Iteration [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Recitation	Read Chapter 3- Building Robot Brains from LCWR Pair Programming: HW2
Friday Jan 29th	Read Chapter 4 - Sensing from Within from LCWR.	code:flee.py Code:fact_2_ways.py Class Video: Looping [Download .MOV] [webcast]

TA Led Review Session: Sunday Jan 31st: CULC room 152 at 1pm

▸ Week 4: February 1st-5th - Iteration, Strings & Exam 1

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Feb 1st	HW 2 due before 11:55pm Chapter 8 - Strings from ThinkCSpy. Read Chapter 19 (Exceptions) from ThinkCSpy	Dream Spark (a.k.a.) MSDN Academic Alliance Code Samples:stringStuff.py Class Video: Strings / Try & Except [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Wednesday, Feb 3rd		Code:ROT-13.py Code:get_int_calico.py Code:turn5while.py turn5for.py turn5rec.py
Recitation	Read Chapter 5 - Sensing the World from LCWR.
Friday, Feb 5th	Exam 1 Read everything in the Readings column above today again!	Python-review1.ppt Exam 1 Vocabulary List Sample Problems Code:funcs.py cs1301-fall09-exam1.pdf cs1301-fall09-exam1-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2010.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2010-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2011.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2011-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2011.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2011-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2012.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2012-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2013.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2013-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2013.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2013-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2014.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2014-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2014.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2014-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2015.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2015-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2015A.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2015A-answers.pdf

▸ Week 5: February 8th - 12th - History & Lists

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Feb 8th	HW 3 due before 11:55pm Short History of Computing.ppt Class Video: History [Download .MOV] [webcast] How six Philly women became the world's first digital computer programmers Video: Programming the PDP11
Wednesday, Feb 10th
Recitation	Bring your Robots! Chapter 6 - Insect-like Behaviors from LCWR. Watch: Robot Funkytown	Quickstart Guide.pdf Windows - Bluetooth Setup [VIDEO] Macintosh - Bluetooth Setup Scribbler Setup Fluke Setup
Friday Feb 12th	Chapter 11 - Lists from ThinkCSpy. What is Clean Code?	Python Data Types reference Code:rec1.py Class Video: Strings [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code: (Calico/Python3)list_examples_calico.py Class Video: Lists [Download .MOV] [webcast]

▸ Week 6: February 15th - 19th - Compound Data Types - Lists, Tuples, Robot Sensors

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Feb 15th	Chapter 9 -Tuples from ThinkCSpy	Class Video: Robot Sensors & Motors [Download .MOV] [webcast] RobotSensors.ppt
Wednesday Feb 17th	Chapter 7 - Behavior Control from LCWR.	Code:behavior.py - subsumption architecture behavior control of the robot. Class Video: Lists2 & Tuples [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Recitation	RA: Avoid Walls
Friday Feb 19th	Lab 2 - Web Servers DUE Progress Report Grades next week	Code:(Python3/Calico) bouncingBall.py Code: (Python3/Calico) BouncingBallsCalico.py Code: (Python3/Calico)keyBallsCalico.py Class Video: BouncingBall [Download .MOV] [webcast]

▸ Week 7: February 22nd - 26th - File Input/Output (FileIO) & EXAM 2

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Feb 22nd	HW 4 DUE Read Chapter 12- Modules from ThinkCSpy Read Chapter 13 - Files from ThinkCSpy Read about the Pickle Module	Code:web.py - Creates a webpage that includes robots sensor data.
Wednesday Feb 24th	Read Sections 1 & 2 (Namespaces, and Namespaces in Python), of this Webpage	Code: filter_comments.py Code: fileCopy.py Code: robotScript.py Required data file: robotCommands.txt Class Video: Reading Files [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Recitation	RA-Avoid Walls demos RA_robot_lists.pdf Watch Chapter 1 (A Hard Problem) of The Great Robot Race 6min 33sec. Watch Chapter 2 (The Red Army) of The Great Robot Race 7min 41sec
Thursday Feb 25th	Review Session: CULC 144 7:30pm
Friday, Feb 26th	EXAM 2	Class Video: Review-2 [Download .MOV] [webcast] Python-review2.ppt VLC video player for mpeg files Review Lecture Video (1/2) Review1.mpeg Review Lecture Video (2/2) Review2.mpeg Exam2-vocab-list.txt Jeopardy Game.ppt cs1301-exam2-fall09.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall09-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring10.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring10-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2010.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2010-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2011.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2011-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2011.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2011-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2012.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2012-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2012.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2012-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2013.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2013-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2013-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2014.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2014-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2014.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2014-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2b-spring2015.pdf cs1301-exam2b-spring2015-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2015A.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2015A-answers.pdf

▸ Week 8: Feb 29th - March 4th - Dictionaries, Images & Computer Vision

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Feb 29th	Read: Chapter 20 - Dictionaries from ThinkCSpy. Read Chapter 8 - Sights and Sounds from LCWR.	Class Video: Dictionaries [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code: dictionarySpanish.py Code: letterFreq.py Code: craps.py
Wednesday, March 2nd	Chapter 9: Image Processing & Perception from LCWR. Lab 3 (Webpages) Due	images.ppt Code:picture.py Code:obamicon.py Code (Python3/Calico): findGreenWall.py Class Video: Computer Vision [Download .MOV] [webcast] Sample "robot" photos of the robot color arena: rca1.gif - Green Wall rca2.gif - Blue Wall rca3.gif - Yellow Wall rca4.gif - Red Wall High Res Fluke2 photos: [green] [yellow] [red] [blue]
Recitation	RA-colorswap.txt RA_colorswap_source.jpg RA_colorswap_source.gif
Friday, March 4th		Class Video: Computer Vision 2 [Download .MOV] [webcast]

▸ Week 9: March 7th-11th - Barcodes

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, March 7th	HW 5 due Read Code 39 Specification from the barcodeman.com website.	Lecture Slides:barcodes.ppt Free Barcode Generator Code:code39dict.py barcode_1_9.gif Class Video: Barcodes 1 [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Wednesday, March 9th		Class Video: Barcodes 2 [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code Calico/Python3: scan_barcode_calico.py Needed example barcode picture: barcode_color.gif Print your own: A-Ebarcodes.doc Video Lectures: barcodes1.mpeg barcodes2.mpeg barcodes3.mpeg
Recitation	pair_programming_partner_evaluation.pdf
Friday, March 11th

▸Week 10: March 14th - 18th - Javascript, Plot Stars & nGrams

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday March 14th	HW 6 code due Tuesday!	Class Video: Javascript for Python Programmers [Download .MOV] [webcast] Javascript for Python Programmers.PPT Kissing Trail Tower of Hanoi Fancy JavaScript Games Javascript game examples with source code Learn More about JavaScript alert box for loop
Wednesday March 16th	Last day to drop individual courses with a grade of "W" and change grade mode for courses.	Class Video: Plot Stars [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code (python3/Calico):plot_stars_calico.py stars.txt Code Sample:starmap_constellations.py stars.txt BigDipper_lines.txt Cas_lines.txt Gemini_lines.txt UrsaMajor_lines.txt Bootes_lines.txt Cyg_lines.txt Hydra_lines.txt UrsaMinor_lines.txt
Recitation	HW6 Demos	Robotic planter finds the best light
Friday March 18th		Class Video: nGrams [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code: ngrams.py Text file: msnd.txt What we learned from 5 million books

Spring Break: March 21st-25th

▸ Week 11: March 28th - April 1st- Searching & Sorting

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, March 28th	Read about a Linear Search "algorithm" Read about the Binary Search Algorithm Play with the insertion sort Animator or here Read about the Insertion Sort Algorithm Then see an insertion sort implemented in python	Class Video: Searching [Download .MOV] [webcast] Sorting Algorithms animated side-by-side Code:bubbleSort.py Sorting algorithm animation applet.
Wednesday, March 30th	Lab 4 due Watch an animated merge sort Read about Merge Sort. Then look at this implementation of MergeSort in Python.	Class Video: Sorting [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code:sorts.py
Recitation	FileIO-RA.pdf and robo.txt
Friday, April 1st	Read This webpage on Functional Programming.	Class Video: BigO practice problems, Special FX Questions, Intro to Functional Programming [Download .MOV] [webcast] searching_sorting_bigO_practice.pdf Example Code: listDict_speed.py

▸ Week 12: April 4th - 8th - Exam 3 & Recursion

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, April 4th	Read the CS 1301 Python Debugging Guide HW7 due Exam Review	Class Video: Exam 3 Review [Download .MOV] [webcast] Exam 3 vocab list.txt exam3-study-guide-cs1301.pdf searching_sorting_bigO_practice.pdf Simple examples shown in class cs1301-exam3-fall09.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall09-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall2010.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall2010-answers.pdf FileIO_FunctionalProgramming.pdf Quick Reference cs1301-exam3-fall2011.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall2011-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3-spring2011.pdf cs1301-exam3-spring2011-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall2012.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall2012-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3-spring2012-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3-spring2013.pdf cs1301-exam3-spring2013-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2013-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3-spring2014.pdf cs1301-exam3-spring2014-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall2014.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall2014-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3a-spring2015.pdf cs1301-exam3a-spring2015-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall2015A.pdf [cs1301-exam3-fall2015A-answers.pdf ]
Monday Evening	Review session: 7:30pm, CULC 152
Wednesday, April 6th	EXAM 3
Recitation	NO RECITATION Week 12
Friday, April 8th	Read This webpage on Functional Programming. (again!)	Class Video: Functional Programming [Download .MOV] [webcast] Sample Code:printComments.py Introduction to the Fibonacci sequence by Tool (Lateralus) More information about the Fibonacci series on Wikipedia Code Sample:fibonacci.py

▸ Week 13: April 11th - 15th - Objects

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, April 11th	Re-Read Chapter 18 - Recursion from ThinkCSpy.	Class Video: Functional Programming examples, File I/O, Recursion [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Wednesday, April 13th	Read: Chapter 15 - Objects and Classes - The Basics from ThinkCSpy Read: Chapter 16 - Classes and Objects - Digging a little deeper	Class Video: Objects and Classes [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code:classExample.py Code:cashRegister.py Code:animalsEating.py
Recitation		Example Movies from previous classes: Packman RoboMovie The Scribbling Evel Knivel Robot Predator Scribbler Standoff Cops Indy-Dance Party Cow Death
Friday, April 15th	Read Chapter 10 - Artificial Intelligence from Learning Computing With Robots. Read this story about the annual Loebner Prize contest	Eliza in Python Code: parallel_quicksort.py Class Video: Quicksort [Download .MOV] [webcast]

▸ Week 14: April 18th-22nd - OpenSCAD

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, April 18th	HW 8 due OpenSCAD Watch: Project Daniel - Not Impossible's 3D Printing Arms for Children Watch: Using a 3D printer to make a prosthetic hand	OpenSCAD.org website UsingOpenSCAD.pdf OpenSCAD-Example.pdf OpenSCAD User Manual 10 things to know about OpenSCAD The President, in 3D
Wednesday, April 20th		Class Video: Tag Cloud 1 [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code Sample: tagcloud.py Input file:art_of_war.txt Common words: common.txt Example output:tc_out.html
Recitation	Final Review
Friday, April 22nd		Class Video: Tag Cloud 2 [Download .MOV] [webcast] Lecture Video:ttt1.mpeg ttt2.mpeg Code sample: ttt.py

▸ Week 15: April 25th - Final Instructional Day - Review

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, April 25th	cs1301-post-exam3-practice.pdf	A TA led Review Session Recording [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Sunday May 1st	Review Session: CULC 144 3pm

Bonus Extra Material

Read: How To Use cx_Freeze and the main cx_Freeze website w/ downloads
CX Freeze on the Mac instructions
cx_Freeze demo files: Full Zip file with extra software installers and instructions

Review Material

Part of the Course	Resources
Beginning	Class Video: Final Review 1 [Download .MOV] [webcast] A Final Study Guide.pdf Review Session MP3 (fall 2008)
Middle	Class Video: Final Review 2 [Download .MOV] [webcast]
End	Class Video: Final Review 3 [Download .MOV] [webcast] Day by Day List of Topics covered in CS 1301 in Fall 2009 FinalReviewGuideV6.2-Calico.pdf CS 1301 Study Guide

Final Schedule

10 am class (A sections) Final Exam: Monday May 2nd 11:30am-2:20pm (Period 6)

11am class (B sections) Final Exam: Wednesday May 4th 8am-10:50am (Period 10)

2 pm class (C sections) Final Exam: Wednesday May 4th 11:30am-2:20pm (Period 11)