This is a rough schedule of topics for each day and the release and due dates for each homework assignment.

Class topics and homework information may change over the course of the term. Please treat this schedule as a rough guide for seeing what we’ll be focusing on, and expect that there will be shifts as the term progresses.

Readings should be completed before the class day that they are listed. Class is structured expecting that you have completed the reading. You also will need to respond to a reading prompt on Slack before class.

“Zelle” refers to our textbook, Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science, 3rd edition, by John Zelle.

Date Homework/Reading Due In Class Homework Out
Week 1 Algorithmic Thinking    
W 1/5 Reading: Syllabus, this schedule,
collaboration policies; Fill out Background Survey;
Recurse Environment Rules		   Paper Flower Algorithm
F 1/7 Zelle 1.1-1.5; Paper Flower Algorithm   HW1
Week 2 Variables, Numbers, and Conditionals    
M 1/10 Zelle 1.6-1.7; Unix Tutorial up through section 4    
W 1/12 Zelle 2.1-2.5; HW1   HW2
F 1/14 Zelle 3.1-3.2 & 7.1-7.3    
Week 3 Strings, Bits, and Loops    
M 1/17 Zelle 2.6, 3.4-3.5 & 5.1    
W 1/19 Zelle 3.3, 5.2, 5.4, 5.5; HW2   HW3
F 1/21 Zelle 5.3, 5.6, 8.1-8.2    
Week 4 Files and Functions    
M 1/24 Study! Exam 1  
W 1/26 Zelle 5.9, 8.3, 8.4; HW3   HW4
F 1/28 Zelle 6.1-6.2, 6.4    
Week 5 Bringing it All Together    
M 1/31 Zelle 6.5-6.6    
W 2/2 Guide to Debugging; HW4    
F 2/4 Zelle 8.5 & 11.2.2    
Week 6 Objects and Classes    
M 2/7   Mid-term Break!  
W 2/9 Zelle 4.1-4.4, 10.1; Exam corrections   HW5
F 2/11 Zelle 10.2-10.3    
Week 7 Data Analysis    
M 2/14 Zelle 10.4-10.5    
W 2/16 Zelle 11.1-11.3, 11.7; HW5
Optional: New Yorker article Game Master (pg 95-96 in particular)
and this article if you want to know the problems with the game Spore		   HW6
F 2/18 Study! Exam 2  
Week 8 Software Design & Recursion    
M 2/21 Runestone 17.8, 18    
W 2/23 Runestone 19; HW6   HW7
F 2/25 Runestone 16    
Week 9 Searching & Sorting    
M 2/28 Runestone DS 3.2, 3.3 & 6.3; Final Project Proposal due    
W 3/2 Zelle 13.2.6-13.2.7; HW7; Optional: Zelle 7.4   Final Project
F 3/4 Zelle 13.3.1    
Week 10 Merge Sort & Hard Problems    
M 3/7 Zelle 13.3.2-13.3.3; Animations and videos of sorting on Moodle    
W 3/9 Study! Exam 3  
F 3/11 Zelle 13.4    
Exam Period      
  Final Project