CS 110X C Term Outline

Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it’s made by one central idea, and the idea sets every details. A building is alive, like a man. Its integrity is to follow its own truth, its one single theme, and to serve its own single purpose.

Howard Roark
The FountainHead

1 Course Outline

1.1 Module 1: Jan 16 2014 - Jan 31 2014

This module introduces the fundamental concepts of imperative programming using Python and covers following topics:

• Programming language syntax

• Python functions, variables, if, definite for loop

• Memory and Variable references

• Python modules

• Pylab graphing capabilities

There will be seven Clicker Assessments during this module.

• Week1 [Jan 16 2014] - day01 day02

• Week2 [Jan 21 2014] - day03 day04 day05

• Week3 [Jan 27 2014] - day06 day07 day08 day09

There are two labs during this module:

• lab01 lab02

There are three homeworks during this module:

• hw01 – Jan 21 2014 Assignment Rubric Template Solution

• hw02 – Jan 28 2014 Assignment Rubric Template Solution

• hw03 – Feb 04 2014 Assignment Rubric Template Solution

Assessed by Exam1 on Feb 03 2014.

1.2 Module 2: Feb 04 2014 - Feb 17 2014

This module introduces students to working with large data as stored on the file system or accessible via data interfaces.

• Control structures

• Iterators

• String manipulations

• Indefinite for loop

• composite data structures (lists, tuples, dictionaries)

• Function Call Stack (move up, down, next, over)

There will be five Clicker Assessments in this module.

• Week4 [Feb 04 2014] - day10 day11 day12

• Week5 [Feb 10 2014] - day13 day14 day15 day16

• Week6 [Feb 17 2014] - day17

There are three lab exercises:

• lab03 lab04 lab05

Assessed by Exam 2 on Feb 18 2014.

There are two homeworks during this module:

• hw04 – Feb 11 2014 Assignment Rubric Template Solution

• hw05 – Feb 18 2014 Assignment Rubric Template SacramentocrimeJanuary2006.csv Sacramentorealestatetransactions.csv sacramentoInverted.jpg smallDataSet.csv Solution

1.3 Module 3: Feb 21 2014 - Mar 05 2014

This module introduces concept of Top Down Design as an approach towards decomposing problems into functional blocks whose composition solves the original problem. Students will learn how to work with control interfaces by completing an Arduion laboratory demonstration.

• Programming Skills

• Hierarchical structures (lists of records)

• Open-ended top-down refinement

• Capstone projects

There will be four Clicker assessments.

• Week6 [Feb 21 2014] - day18

• Week7 [Feb 24 2014] - day19 day20 day21 day22

• Week8 [Mar 03 2014] - day23 day24 day25

There are two lab exercises:

• lab06 lab07

There are two homeworks during this module:

• hw06 – Feb 25 2014 Assignment Rubric Template smallDataSet.csv Solution

• hw07 – Mar 04 2014 Assignment Rubric ZIP file containing all files Solution

Assessed by Exam 3 on Mar 07 2014 and homeworks HW6 (due Feb 25 2014) and HW7 (due Mar 04 2014).

1.4 Full Study Guide

I am making all materials from last year available online so you can best study for the exams and prepare for the homeworks.

1.5 Version : 2014/03/03

(c) 2014, George Heineman