Instructors:
The course has lectures on Tuesday mornings and required weekly quizzes & code reviews (see your Blackboard account for scheduling information).
Lab Hours: There is a dedicated computer laboratory, North 1001E for this course:
| Week: | Topics: | Handouts: | Quiz & Code Review: | Reading: | |
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| #1 | Lecture: 27 August |
Syllabus & Class Policies, Introductions, Introduction to Python: definite loops, simple output, primitive data types, overview of objects & modules; What is an algorithm? |
Syllabus, Programming Assignments, Hello, World, Hexagon example, Fancier hexagon, Lecture Notes |
Think CS: Chapter 1 & Chapter 4 | |
| Lab & Quiz: 27-30 August, 3-5 September |
Getting started with Python & IDLE; Using modules and definite loops | Introductory Lab | Academic Integrity | ||
| 2 September | Labor Day: Lab closed | ||||
| #2 | Lecture: 3 September |
Strings & Lists: looping through strings, console I/O, ASCII representation Prof. John Ranellucci, Educational Psychology |
Loop Puzzle 1, Loop Puzzles 2, Caesar Cipher example, input() example, Lecture notes |
Think CS: Chapter 2 & Chapter 3 | |
| Lab, Quiz, & Code Review: 6-12 September |
String methods; Problem solving and the design process (simple parsing and translating) | Lab 1 | Loops & Turtles | ||
| #3 | Lecture: 10 September |
Indexing & Slicing; Colors, Hexadecimal notation; Preview of Images; Airplane Design Guest Lecturer: Katherine Howitt |
Event Timing (Arithmetic Challenge),
Slicing Challenges, Color Challenges, Lecture notes | Think CS: Section 8.10 &
Chapter 11, Numpy tutorial (DataCamp) |
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| Lab, Quiz, & Code Review: 13-19 September |
Arrays and images in numpy, hexadecimal representation of colors (image processing) | Lab 2 | Strings & Loops | ||
| #4 | Lecture: 17 September |
More on Lists & Arrays; Images; Decisions; CS Survey: Prof. William Sakas (computational linguistics) |
Loop & Slice Challenges, Decision Challenges, turtleString.py, Lecture notes |
Think CS: Chapter 7 & Chapter 11 | |
| Lab, Quiz, & Code Review: 20-26 September |
Programming with decisions & files (flood maps) | Lab 3 | Loops & Unix | ||
| 30 September- 1 October | Labs closed | ||||
| #5 | Lecture: 24 September |
Logical Expressions, Circuits; CS Survey: Bernard Desert & Elise Harris (CUNY2X@Hunter) |
Types & Decisions Challenges, Logical Operators Challenges, Basic Gates, Circuit Challenges, Lecture notes |
Think CS: Chapter 7, Burch's Logic & Circuits, Explain Logic Gates |
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| Lab, Quiz, & Code Review: 27 September, 2-7, 10 October |
More on Decisions (snow pack); Circuits & Logical Expressions |
Lab 4 | Decisions & Color | ||
| 8-9 October | Labs closed | ||||
| #6 | Lecture: 15 October |
Accessing formatted data;
Functions
CS Survey: Prof. Katherine St. John (computational biology) |
Arithmetic Challenges, List/String Challenges, Lecture notes |
Think CS: Chapter 6, 10-minutes to Pandas Tutorial, DataCamp Pandas Tutorial, Ubuntu Terminal Reference Sheet |
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| Lab, Quiz, & Code Review: October |
CSV files via pandas (population change); Shell Scripts, github |
Lab 5 | Circuits, Truth Tables, & Logical Expressions | ||
| 14 October | Lab closed | ||||
| #7 | Lecture: 22 October |
More on Functions; NYC OpenData CS Survey: Brian Campbell `19, Grubhub |
Motto Challenge, quarterImage.py, Hello with main(), Prep #1.2, Total & Tax Challenge, Greet Example, Happy Example, Jam Example, Month String Example, NYC OpenData Lecture notes |
Think CS: Chapter 6, 10-minutes to Pandas Tutorial, DataCamp Pandas Tutorial |
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| Lab, Quiz, & Code Review: 18-24 October |
OpenData NYC (shelter data); Using main() functions; Python from the command line |
Lab 6 | Formatted Data & Shell Commands | ||
| #8 | Lecture: 29 October |
Parameters & Functions;
CS Survey: Keith Okrosy, (Career Development Services @ Hunter) Guest Lecturers: Katherine Howitt, Owen Kunhardt (senior UTA) |
Decisions & Functions Example, Dessert Exam Questions, Foo example, Koalas, Spring 18, Version 1, #4b, Spring 18, Version 1, #4b Lecture notes |
Think CS: Chapter 6 | |
| Lab, Quiz, & Code Review: 25-31 October |
Binning data (parking tickets); Top-down design (herd of turtles); Command line git |
Lab 7 | Functions & More Pandas | ||
| #9 | Lecture: 5 November |
Programming with Functions, Top-down Design; Mapping GIS Data (Folium); Random Number Generation; Preview: Indefinite Loops CS Survey: Prof. Anita Raja (artifical intellegence) |
Sisters Example, numsConvert.py num2string example, Distance Check, Random Walk, Lecture notes |
Think CS: Chapter 6, folium tutorial |
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| Lab, Quiz, & Code Review: 1-7 November |
Folium/leaflet.js (mapping CUNY locations);
Finding errors; Regular expressions (command line) |
Lab 8 | Parameters & Functions | ||
| #10 | Lecture: 12 November |
Indefinite Loops; Simulations; Design Patterns: Max; Unix Recap Guest Lecturer: Ralph Vente (senior UTA) CS Survey: Prof. Susan Epstein (machine learning) |
Nums & While, Max Num, Random Search (turtles), Lecture notes |
Think CS: Chapter 8 | |
| Lab, Quiz, & Code Review: 8-14 November |
More on Indefinite loops; Writing functions; unit testing | Lab 9 | More on Functions & Top-down Design | ||
| #11 | Lecture: 19 November |
Python Recap; Simplified Machine Language; Design: Searching; Final Exam Overview, Part 1 |
Search, WeMIPS Emulator, Lecture notes |
U Idaho reference sheet, MIPS Wikibooks | |
| Lab, Quiz, & Code Review: 15-21 November |
Simplified machine language | Lab 10 | Indefinite Loops & Simulations | ||
| #12 | Lecture: 26 November |
Introduction to C++: program structure, data representation and I/O. Design: Sorting Final Exam Overview, Part 2 |
cin/cout example, convert example, loops example, growth example, nested loops, Lecture notes |
Cplusplus Tutorial, C++ Tutorials Point, The Rook's Guide to C++ |
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| Lab, Quiz, & Code Review: 22-27 November |
Using gcc | Lab 11 | Simplified Machine Language & More Unix | ||
| 28-29 November | Thanksgiving Break: Lab Closed | ||||
| #13 | Lecture: 3 December |
C++ control structures CS Survey: Adrienne Posner, Google Mountain View |
Decision example (C++), Logical Expressions (C++), Input Checking (C++), Input Checking, II (C++), Growth Example (C++), Lecture notes |
Cplusplus Tutorial, C++ Tutorials Point, The Rook's Guide to C++ |
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| Lab, Quiz, & Code Review: 2-5 December |
Control Structures in C++ | Lab 12 | Introduction to C++ | ||
| #14 | Lecture: 10 December |
Review | Final Exam Information | ||
| Lab & Quiz: 6-12 December |
Review | End-of-semester Survey | |||
| Monday, 16 December, 9am-11am | Final Exam | ||||