The course has lectures on Tuesday mornings and recitation sections offered throughout the week (you must register both for the lecture and a recitation section).
Course Coordinator:
Lab Hours: There is a dedicated computer laboratory, North 1001E for this course:
| Week: | Topics: | Handouts: | Quiz Topics: | Reading: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Lecture: 29 January |
Syllabus & Class Policies, Introductions, Introduction to Python: definite loops, simple output, primitive data types, overview of objects & modules; What is an algorithm? Amanda Bell & Justin Tojeira, CS Advisors |
Syllabus, Programming Assignments, Hello, World, Hexagon example, Fancier hexagon, Lecture Notes |
Think CS: Chapter 1 & Chapter 4 | |
| Recitations: 25,28-31 January; 1 February |
Getting started with Python & IDLE; Using modules and definite loops | Lab 1 | Academic Integrity | ||
| #2 | Lecture: 5 February |
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 | |
| Recitations: 4-8 February |
String methods; Problem solving and the design process (simple parsing and translating) | Lab 2 | Loops & Turtles | ||
| 12 February | No Classes: Lincoln's Birthday | ||||
| #3 | Lecture: 19 February |
Files & 2D Arrays, Hexadecimal notation 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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| Recitations: 11,13-15,19 February |
Arrays and images in numpy, hexadecimal representation of colors (image processing) | Lab 3 | Strings & Loops | ||
| 18 February | No Classes: Presidents' Day | ||||
| #4 | Lecture: 26 February |
More on Lists & Arrays; Decisions; CS Survey: Prof. William Sakas (computational linguistics) |
Loop & Slice Challenges, Decision Challenges, turtleString.py, Lecture notes |
Think CS: Chapter 7 & Chapter 11 | |
| Recitations: 20-22,25-26 February |
Programming with decisions & files (flood maps) | Lab 4 | Loops & Unix | ||
| #5 | Lecture: 5 March |
Logical Expressions, Circuits; CS Survey: Bernard Desert & Elise Harris (CUNY2X@Hunter) Guest Lecturer: Dr. Tiziana Ligorio |
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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| Recitations: 27-28 February, 1,4-5 March |
More on Decisions (snow pack); Circuits & Logical Expressions |
Lab 5 | Decisions & Color | ||
| #6 | Lecture: 12 March |
Accessing formatted data;
Functions
CS Survey: Prof. Katherine St. John (computational biology) Guest Lecturer: Katherine Howitt |
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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| Recitations: 6-8,11-12 March |
CSV files via pandas (population change); Shell Scripts, github |
Lab 6 | Circuits, Truth Tables, & Logical Expressions | ||
| #7 | Lecture: 19 March |
More on Functions; NYC OpenData Guest Lecturer: Dr. Tiziana Ligorio |
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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| Recitations: 13-15,18-19 March |
OpenData NYC (shelter data); Using main() functions; Python from the command line |
Lab 7 | Formatted Data & Shell Commands | ||
| #8 | Lecture: 26 March |
Parameters & Functions;
CS Survey: Keith Okrosy, (Career Development Services @ Hunter) |
Decisions & Functions Example, Dessert Exam Questions, Foo example, Koalas, Lecture notes |
Think CS: Chapter 6 | |
| Recitations: 21-23,25-26 March |
Binning data (parking tickets); Top-down design (herd of turtles); Command line git |
Lab 8 | Functions & More Pandas | ||
| #9 | Lecture: 2 April |
Programming with Functions, Top-down Design; Mapping GIS Data (Folium); Random Number Generation; Preview: Indefinite Loops CS Survey: Prof. Susan Epstein (machine learning) |
Sisters Example, numsConvert.py num2string example, Distance Check, Random Walk, Lecture notes |
Think CS: Chapter 6, folium tutorial |
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| Recitations: 27-29 March, 1-2 April |
Folium/leaflet.js (mapping CUNY locations);
Finding errors; Regular expressions (command line) |
Lab 9 | Parameters & Functions | ||
| #10 | Lecture: 9 April |
Indefinite Loops; Simulations; Design Patterns: Max; Final Exam Overview, Part 1 |
Nums & While, Max Num, Random Search (turtles), Lecture notes |
Think CS: Chapter 8 | |
| Recitations: 3-5,8-9 April |
More on Indefinite loops; Writing functions; unit testing | Lab 10 | More on Functions & Top-down Design | ||
| #11 | Lecture: 16 April |
Python Recap; Simplified Machine Language; Design Patterns: Searching; CS Survey: Anna Whitney, Storage Infrastructure Team, Google NYC |
Search, WeMIPS Emulator, Lecture notes |
U Idaho reference sheet, MIPS Wikibooks | |
| Recitations: 10-12,15-16 April |
Simplified machine language | Lab 11 | Indefinite Loops & Simulations | ||
| 19-28 April | Spring Break: No Classes | ||||
| #12 | Lecture: 30 April |
Introduction to C++: program structure, data representation and I/O. 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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| Recitations: 17-18,29-30 April, 3 May |
Using gcc | Lab 12 | Simplified Machine Language & More Unix | ||
| #13 | Lecture: 7 May |
C++ control structures CS Survey: Citi Bike's Bike Angels Team |
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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| Recitations: 1-2,6-7,10 May |
Control Structures in C++ | Lab 13 | Introduction to C++ | ||
| #14 | Lecture: 14 May |
Review | Final Exam Information | ||
| Recitations: 8-10,13-14 May |
Review | End-of-semester Survey | |||
| Tuesday, 21 May 2019 9:00 - 11:00 am | Final Exam | ||||