Schedule for MCS-177: Intro to CSI, Spring 2004

Date Reading Topic Due
2/9 1.1-1.2 Introduction; simple expressions
2/10 Project 0: Getting started (ungraded)
2/11 1.2-1.3 Compound procedures; conditionals
2/12 Project 1: Quilting
2/13 2.1 Recursion

2/16 2.2 Induction Homework #1
2/17 Project 1 (continued)
2/18 2.3-2.4 Further examples & custom-sized quilts
2/19 Project 1 (continued)
2/20 3.1 Iteration

2/23 3.2 Using invariants Homework #2
2/24 Project 1 (concludes)
2/25 3.3 Perfect numbers, internal definitions, & let Project #1
2/26 Project 2: Sum of divisors
2/27 3.4 Iterative improvement

3/1 3.5 The Josephus Problem
3/2 Special project: Card sorting (ungraded)
3/3 Review/catch-up
3/4 Test 1, 7:00-8:30 PM, OHS 320 (no lab)
3/5 4.1 Orders of growth

3/8 More on orders of growth
3/9 Project 2 (continued)
3/10 4.2 Tree recursion and digital signatures Homework #3
3/11 Project 2 (continued)
3/12 More on tree recursion and digital signatures

3/15 5.1 Procedural parameters Homework #4
3/16 Project 2 (last work day)
3/17 5.2 Uncomputability
3/18 Project 2 peer review Project #2 first draft
3/19 5.3 Procedures that return procedures

3/22 5.4 Application of higher-order programming
3/23 Project 3: Fractal curves Project #2
3/24 6.1-6.2 Data abstraction
3/25 Project 3 (continued)
3/26 6.3 Representations and implementations Homework #5

3/29 6.5 Strategy procedures; Overview of other CS courses
3/30 Project 3 (concludes)
3/31 Review/catch-up Project #3
4/1 Test 2, 7:00-8:30 PM, OHS 103 (no lab)
4/2 6.4 Three-pile Nim

4/13 Project 4: Nim with strategies
4/14 7.1-7.2 Lists
4/15 Project 4 (continued)
4/16 7.3 Basic list processing

4/19 7.4 Iterative list processing
4/20 Project 4 (continued)
4/21 7.5 Tree recursion and lists Homework #6
4/22 Project 4 (concludes)
4/23 7.5 Tree recursion and lists (continued)

4/26 7.6 Movie query system Project #4
4/27 Project 5: Movie queries
4/28 8.1 Binary search trees
4/29 Project 5 (continued)
4/30 8.2 Efficiency issues with binary search trees

5/3 8.3 Expression trees
5/4 Project 5 (continued)
5/5 9.1-9.2 Generic operations: multiple representations Homework #7
5/6 Project 5 (concludes)
5/7 9.2 & 9.4 More on multiple representations; computer graphics

5/10 More on computer graphics Project #5
5/11 Project 6: Implementing graphics
5/12 9.3 Exploiting commonality
5/13 Project 6 (continued)
5/14 More on exploiting commonality Homework #8

5/17 Project 6 (continued) in lab but at class time
5/18 Project 6 (concludes)
5/19 Review/evaluation Project #6

5/21 Final exam, 10:30-12:30, OHS 321


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