Course Designers:
Course Instructors:
COURSE STRUCTURE:
Each week we have:
No late assignment will be accepted.
Submission is open at least 2 weeks before the due date.
You should work on programming assignment well ahead of the due dates.
Working on assignments the day they are due will increase the chance you will miss the deadline.
Help: Peer-Mentor Tutoring. Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs) are available to help:
| Week: | Topics: | Handouts: | Quiz & Code Review: | Reading: | |
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| #1 | Lecture: August 29 |
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 & Code Review: | Getting started with Python & IDLE; Using modules and definite loops | Lab 1 |
Academic Integrity + Introductory survey | ||
| Monday, September 04 | Labor Day. College Closed -- No Tutoring/Quizzes/Code Reviews available. | ||||
| #2 | Lecture: September 5 |
Strings & Lists: looping through strings, console I/O, ASCII representation |
for-loop examples, input() example, Lecture Notes |
Think CS: Chapter 2 & Chapter 3 | |
| Lab, Quiz & Code Review: | String methods; Problem solving and the design process (simple parsing and translating) | Lab 2 |
Turtles & Loops | ||
| #3 | Lecture: September 12 |
Arithmetic; Indexing & Slicing; Colors, Hexadecimal notation; |
Slicing Challenges, Color Challenges, Lecture Notes |
Think CS: Section 8.11 &
Chapter 11, Numpy tutorial (DataCamp) |
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| Lab, Quiz & Code Review: | Arrays and images in numpy, hexadecimal representation of colors (image processing) | Lab 3 |
Strings, Loops and Unix | ||
| Friday, September 15 |
Rosh Hashanah. College Closed -- No Tutoring/Quizzes/Code Reviews available. | ||||
| #4 | Lecture: September 19 |
More on Lists & Arrays; Images; Decisions; |
Lecture Notes | Think CS: Chapter 7 & Chapter 11 | |
| Lab, Quiz & Code Review: | Programming with decisions & files (flood maps) | Lab 4 |
Colors, Hex, and Unix | ||
| Monday, September 25 | Yom Kippur. College Closed -- No Tutoring/Quizzes/Code Reviews available. | ||||
| #5 | Lecture: September 26 |
Logical Expressions, Circuits, Binary Numbers; |
Basic Gates, Circuit Challenge1, Circuit Challenge2, Lecture Notes |
Think CS: Chapter 7, Burch's Logic & Circuits, Explain Logic Gates |
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| Lab, Quiz & Code Review: | More on Decisions (snow pack); Circuits & Logical Expressions |
Lab 5 |
Images and Decisions | ||
| #6 | Lecture: October 03 |
Cropping images; Accessing formatted data; |
Stars data example, 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: | CSV files via pandas (population change); Shell Scripts, GitHub |
Lab 6 |
Circuits & Logical Expressions | ||
| Monday, October 09 |
Columbus Day. College Closed -- No Tutoring/Quizzes/Code Reviews available. | ||||
| Tuesday, October 10 |
Classes follow a Monday schedule. No Lecture -- Lab open normal hours. | ||||
| #7 | Lecture: October 17 |
Functions; NYC OpenData; |
Jam (Python Tutor), Lecture slip examples, Lecture Notes |
Chapter 6, 10-minutes to Pandas Tutorial, DataCamp Pandas Tutorial |
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| Lab, Quiz & Code Review: | OpenData NYC (shelter data);
Using main() functions; Python from the command line |
Lab 7 |
Using the pandas library | ||
| #8 | Lecture: October 24 |
More Functions & Parameters; |
Lecture 8 programs, List Example 1 (Python Tutor) List Example 2 (Python Tutor), Lecture Notes |
Think CS: Chapter 6 | |
| Lab, Quiz & Code Review: | Binning data (parking tickets);
Top-down design (herd of turtles);
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Lab 8 |
Review of Labs 1-7 | ||
| #9 | Lecture: October 31 |
Programming with Functions, Top-down Design; Mapping GIS Data (Folium); Random Number Generation; Indefinite Loops |
Sisters Example, num2string example, Lecture Notes |
Think CS: Chapter 6, Folium tutorial |
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| Lab, Quiz & Code Review: | Folium/leaflet.js (mapping CUNY locations);
Finding errors; Regular expressions (command line) |
Lab 9 |
Top-down design, value_counts | ||
| #10 | Lecture: November 7 |
Indefinite Loops; Simulations; Design Patterns: Max; |
cunyLocations.csv, CUNY Campuses Map, Swap if smaller (Python Tutor), Random Search (turtles), Lecture Notes |
Think CS: Chapter 8 | |
| Lab, Quiz & Code Review: | Indefinite loops; random; More on command line scripts; |
Lab 10 |
Folium & regular expressions | ||
| #11 | Lecture: November 14 |
Python Recap; Simplified Machine Language; Design Patterns: Searching; |
WeMIPS Emulator, Lecture slip example, Lecture Notes |
U Idaho reference sheet, MIPS Wikibooks | |
| Lab, Quiz & Code Review: | WeMIPS | Lab 11 |
Random numbers & while-loops | ||
| #12 | Lecture: November 21 |
Introduction to C++: program structure, data representation and I/O. Final Exam Overview |
cin/cout example, kg/lbs example, loops example, nested loops, Lecture Notes |
Cplusplus Tutorial, C++ Tutorials Point, The Rook's Guide to C++ |
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| Lab, Quiz & Code Review: | C++ Intro | Lab 12 |
WeMIPS (Machine Language) | ||
| Wednesday, November 22 | Thanksgiving Break -- No Tutoring/Quizzes/Code Reviews available. | ||||
| Thursday, November 23 | Thanksgiving Break -- No Tutoring/Quizzes/Code Reviews available. | ||||
| Friday, November 24 |
Thanksgiving Break -- No Tutoring/Quizzes/Code Reviews available. | ||||
| #13 | Lecture: November 28 |
C++ |
Lecture 13 programs, Lecture Notes |
Cplusplus Tutorial, C++ Tutorials Point, The Rook's Guide to C++ |
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| Lab, Quiz & Code Review: | C++ | Lab 13 |
C++ | ||
| #14 | Lecture: December 05 |
MOCK EXAM |
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| LAST DAY OF CLASS | |||||
| Tuesday, December 12 |
Reading Day -- No Tutoring available. | ||||
| Wednesday, December 13 | Reading Day -- No Tutoring available. | ||||
| MONDAY DEC 18 | 9 AM TO 11 AM | FINAL EXAM |
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| Assembly Hall (118 HN) | FINAL EXAM INFORMATION | ||||