This is an abbreviated schedule of course meetings.
Like everything else in this course, it is likely to change.
Weeks:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
break,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14.
| |
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Lab |
Work Due |
| Week 1 |
| 01 | Monday, 25 January 2010 | An Introduction to Algorithms | | | |
| 02 | Tuesday, 26 January 2010 | An Introduction to CSC151 | The Linux Environment | Getting Started with Linux | Assignment 1: Class Basics |
| 03 | Wednesday, 27 January 2010 | An Introduction to the GIMP | The GNU Image Manipulation Program | Getting Started with the GIMP | |
| 04 | Friday, 29 January 2010 | An Introduction to Scheme | The MediaScript Program-Development Environment & Beginning Scheme & How Scheme Evaluates Expressions (version 1) | Starting Scheme | |
| Week 2 |
| 05 | Monday, 1 February 2010 | Programing the GIMP Tools | Programming the GIMP Tools | Scripting the GIMP Tools | |
| 06 | Tuesday, 2 February 2010 | Computing with Symbols and Numbers | Numeric Values & Symbolic Values | Numeric Computation | |
| 07 | Wednesday, 3 February 2010 | Drawings as Values | Drawings as Values | Drawings as Values | Assignment 2: Algorithms for Drawing |
| 08 | Friday, 5 February 2010 | Writing Your Own Procedures | Writing Your Own Procedures & How Scheme Evaluates Expressions (version 2) | | |
| Week 3 |
| 09 | Monday, 8 February 2010 | Laboratory: Writing Your Own Procedures | Writing Your Own Procedures & How Scheme Evaluates Expressions (version 2) | Writing Your Own Procedures | |
| 10 | Tuesday, 9 February 2010 | Raster Graphics and RGB Colors | Raster Graphics: Images from Pixels and Colors and RGB Colors | Raster Graphics and RGB Colors | |
| 11 | Wednesday, 10 February 2010 | Transforming Colors | Transforming RGB Colors | Transforming RGB Colors | Assignment 3: Drawing Generally and Concisely |
| 12 | Friday, 12 February 2010 | A Design Perspective | | | |
| Week 4 |
| 13 | Monday, 15 February 2010 | Transforming Images | Transforming Images | Transforming Images | |
| 14 | Tuesday, 16 February 2010 | Documenting Programs and Procedures | Documenting Your Procedures | | |
| 15 | Wednesday, 17 February 2010 | Homogeneous Lists: Making and Manipulating Groups of Drawings | Making and Manipulating Homogeneous Lists | Making and Manipulating Lists of Drawings | Exam 1: Scheme and Image Basics |
| 16 | Friday, 19 February 2010 | Anonymous Procedures | Anonymous Procedures | Anonymous Procedures | |
| Week 5 |
| 17 | Monday, 22 February 2010 | Exam 1 Discussion | | | |
| 18 | Tuesday, 23 February 2010 | | | | |
| 19 | Wednesday, 24 February 2010 | Turtle Graphics | Turtle Graphics | Turtle Graphics | Assignment 4: Exploring Colors |
| 20 | Friday, 26 February 2010 | Iteration | Iteration | Iteration | |
| Week 6 |
| 21 | Monday, 1 March 2010 | Naming Local Values | Local Bindings | Local Bindings | |
| 22 | Tuesday, 2 March 2010 | Boolean Values and Predicate Procedures | Boolean Values and Predicate Procedures | Boolean Values and Predicate Procedures | |
| 23 | Wednesday, 3 March 2010 | Conditionals | Conditionals | Conditionals | Assignment 5: Producing Polygons |
| 24 | Friday, 5 March 2010 | Revisiting Lists | Building Data Structures with Heterogeneous Lists | Exploring Lists | |
| Week 7 |
| 25 | Monday, 8 March 2010 | Recursion Basics | Recursion Basics | Recursion Basics | |
| 26 | Tuesday, 9 March 2010 | Recursion with Helper Procedures | Recursion with Helper Procedures | Recursion with Helper Procedures | |
| 27 | Wednesday, 10 March 2010 | Testing Your Procedures | Testing Your Procedures | Testing Your Procedures | Assignment 6: Conditionals and Colors |
| 28 | Friday, 12 March 2010 | Another Image Model: Iterating Over Positions | Building Images by Iterating Over Positions | Building Images by Iterating Over Positions | |
| Week 8 |
| 29 | Monday, 15 March 2010 | Other Forms of List Recursion | List Recursion, Revisited | List Recursion, Revisited | |
| 30 | Tuesday, 16 March 2010 | Preconditions, Revisited | Verifying Preconditions | Verifying Preconditions | |
| 31 | Wednesday, 17 March 2010 | Naming Local Procedures | Local Procedure Bindings | Local Procedure Bindings | |
| 32 | Friday, 19 March 2010 | Randomized (Unpredictable) Drawing | Randomized Drawing | Randomized Drawing | Exam 2: Image Models and Control Structures |
| Spring Break! |
| Week 9 |
| 33 | Monday, 5 April 2010 | Numeric Recursion | Numeric Recursion | Numeric Recursion | |
| 34 | Tuesday, 6 April 2010 | Geometric Art Through Numeric Recursion | Geometric Art | Geometric Art | |
| 35 | Wednesday, 7 April 2010 | Characters and Strings | Characters and Strings | Characters and Strings | |
| 36 | Friday, 9 April 2010 | Vectors | Vectors | Vectors | |
| Week 10 |
| 37 | Monday, 12 April 2010 | Pairs and Pair Structures | Pairs and Pair Structures | Pairs and Pair Structures | |
| 38 | Tuesday, 13 April 2010 | Trees | Trees | Trees | |
| 39 | Wednesday, 14 April 2010 | Project Ideas | Project Ideas | Playing with Project Ideas | Assignment 7: Fractals |
| 40 | Friday, 16 April 2010 | On Design | | | |
| Week 11 |
| 41 | Monday, 19 April 2010 | Analyzing Procedures | Analyzing Procedures | Analyzing Procedures | |
| 42 | Tuesday, 20 April 2010 | Analyzing Procedures, Continued | Analyzing Procedures | Analyzing Procedures | |
| 43 | Wednesday, 21 April 2010 | Association Lists | Association Lists | Association Lists | Project Proposal |
| 44 | Friday, 23 April 2010 | Time to Work on Projects | | | |
| Week 12 |
| 45 | Monday, 26 April 2010 | Higher-Order Procedures, Revisited | Design Patterns and Higher-Order Procedures | Design Patterns and Higher-Order Procedures | |
| 46 | Tuesday, 27 April 2010 | Binary Search | Search Algorithms | Binary Search | |
| 47 | Wednesday, 28 April 2010 | Introduction to Sorting | | | |
| 48 | Friday, 30 April 2010 | Insertion Sort | Sorting | Insertion Sort | Project |
| Week 13 |
| 49 | Monday, 3 May 2010 | Merge Sort | Merge Sort | Merge Sort | |
| 50 | Tuesday, 4 May 2010 | Project Assessment: Images | | | |
| 51 | Wednesday, 5 May 2010 | Project Assessment: Algorithms | | | Exam 3: Sophisticated Scheming |
| 52 | Friday, 7 May 2010 | Pause for Breath | | | |
| Week 14 |
| 53 | Monday, 10 May 2010 | Objects in Scheme | Building Objects in Scheme | Building Objects in Scheme | |
| 54 | Tuesday, 11 May 2010 | What is Computer Science? Revisited | | | |
| 55 | Wednesday, 12 May 2010 | About Exam 3 | | | |
| 56 | Friday, 14 May 2010 | Wrapup | | | Course Assessment |