Bryn Mawr College
CS
110-002: Introduction to Computing
Fall
2006
Course
Materials
For
Prof. Deepak Kumar's Section ->Click here
General
Information
Instructor:
Dianna
Xu,
E-Mail: dxu at cs brynmawr dot edu
WWW: http://cs.brynmawr.edu/~dxu
Lecture
Hours: Tuesdays
& Thursdays, 2:30 p.m. to 4:00.m.
Room: Park 336
Lab: Thursdays 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in Room 231 (additional lab hours
also available, see below)
Office
hours: Tuesdays 1-2:30 and by appointment
Course
Blog Site: Click here
Laboratories:
- Computer Science Lab Room 231 (
- You will also be able to use your own computer
to do the labs for this course.
Lab
Assistants:
The following
Lab assitants will be available during the week for assistance on lab
assignments.
1. Julia Ferraioli:
Mondays 9:00a to 11:00a and Tuesdays 4:00p to 6:00p
2. Anne Miller: Tuesdays
12:30p to 2:30p and Wednesdays 4:00p to 6:00p
3. Marwa Muhammad:
Thursdays 10:30a to 12:30p and Fridays 10:00a to noon
4. Bhumika Patel: Mondays
4:00p to 6:00p and Thursdays 4:00p to 6:00p
5. Shikha Prashad:
Tuesdays and Thursdays 7:00p to 9:00p
Texts &
Software
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Important
Dates
September 5: First lecture
October 12: Exam 1
December 14: Last lecture/Exam 2
Lab
Assignments
-
(By September 7): Go to the course blog
site (click here) and create an account for yourself
(same username as your e-mail username).
-
Assignment#1 (Due on
September 14 before class): Click here
for details.
-
Assignment#2 (Due on
September 21 before class): Click here for
details.
- Assignment#3 (Due on
September 28 before class): Click here for
details.
- Assignment#4 (Due on
October 10 before class): Click here for
details.
- Assignment#5 (Due on October 31 before class): Click here for details.
- Assignment#6 (Due on November 16 before class): Click here for details.
- Assignment#7 (Due on November 30 before class): Click here for details.
- Assignment#8 (Due on December 14 before class): Click here for details.
Lectures
- Week 1 (September 5, 7)
September 5: What is a computer? What is a program? Universal machines, software & hardware. What is computer science? Programming languages.
Do (By September 7): Go to the course blog site (click here) and create an account for yourself (same username as your e-mail username).
September 7: Introduction to Python and algorithms
Do (Due on September 14 before class): Lab Assignment#1 is posted. Click here for details.
Read: Chapter 1 from Zelle.
- Week 2 (September 12, 14)
September 12: program design, temperature converter, program elements
Read: Chapter 2 from Zelle, throughl 2.5.2.
September 14: Simultaneous assignment, definite loops. Problems that use definite loops.
Read: Chapter 2 from Zelle.
Do Assignment#2 (Due on September 21): Click here for details.
- Week 3 (September 19, 21)
September 19: Computing with numbers: integer and float types in Python. The Python math module. The accumulator
Read: Sections 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 from Zelle.
September 21: Large integers. Implicit and explicit type conversions, and rounding.
Read: Chapter 3 from Zelle.
Do Assignment#3 (Due on Thursday, September 28): Click here for details.
- Week 4 (September 26, 28)
September 26: Computing with strings: the make up of strings as a sequence of letters, indexing, slicing, concatenation, repetition, ASCII encoding of letters. More on lists.
Read: Sections 4.1 to 4.4 from Zelle.
September 28: More on strings, the string module in Python, formatting output.
Read: 4.1 through 4.5 from Zelle
Do: Assignment#4 (by Tuesday, october 10): Click here for details.
- Week 5 (October 3, 5)
October 3 : Strings, contd. Special characters, File I/O.
Read: Chapter 4 from Zelle.
October 5 : Introduction to object-oriented programming; Properties and methods/operations. Simple graphics in Python. (see links at the bottom of this page for the graphics module, documentation, and a database of color names).
Read: Chapter 5 from Zelle.
- Week 6 (October 10, 12)
October 10 : Review for exam. Fun with graphics objects: using random numbers;
Read: Chapter 5 from Zelle.
October 12: Exam 1 is today.
- Week 7 (October 17, 19)
No class. Fall Break!!
- Week 8 (October 24, 26)
October 24: Midterm review. Including an image in your graphics window.
Read: Chapters 1-5 from Zelle. Midterm Solutions
Do: Assignment#5 (by Tuesday, October 31): Click here for details.
October 26: SetCoords command to set up a custom coordinate system. Interactive mouse and keyboard input.
- Week 9 (October 31, November 2)
September 26: Functions, parameters and scope, return values.
Read: Chapter 6 from Zelle.
November 28: Simple conditionals, decision making
Read: Chapter 7 from ZelleDo: Assignment#6 (by Thursday, November 16): Click here for details.
- Week 10 (November 7, 9)
November 7: Examples using if-statements and functions.
November 9: Professor Kumar will cover this class
- Week 11 (November 14, 16)
November 14: Conditional loops, interactive loops, sentinel loops, file loops and intro to nested loops.
November 16: More on nested loops.
Do: Assignment#7 (by Thursday, November 30): Click here for details.
- Week 12 (November 21, 23)
November 21: More on booleans and conditionals.
November 23: No class, Thanksgiving
- Week 13 (November 28, 30)
November 28: Data structures, python lists, statistics with lists
November 30:
Do: Assignment#8 (by Thursday, December 14): Click here for details.
- Week 14 (December 5, 7)
December 5:
December 7:
- Week 15 (December 12, 14)
December 12:
December 14: Exam 2 is today.
Grading
All graded
work will receive a grade, 4.0, 3.7, 3.3, 3.0, 2.7, 2.3, 2.0, 1.7, 1.3, 1.0, or
0.0. At the end of the semester, final grades will be calculated as a weighted
average of all grades according to the following weights:
Exam 1: 20%
Exam 2: 25%
Labs & Written Work: 55%
Total: 100%
Links
3. graphics.py
4. HTML
documentation of graphics.py
Created on
August 2, 2006.