Schedule for MCS-177: Intro to CS I (Spring 2008)

Date Reading Topic Due
2/11 1.1-1.2 Introduction; simple expressions
2/12
Project 0: Getting started (ungraded)
2/13 1.2-1.3 Compound procedures; conditionals
2/14
Project 1: Quilting
2/15 2.1 Recursion

2/19 2.2 Induction Homework 1
2/20
Project 1 (continued)
2/21 2.3-2.4 Further examples & custom-sized quilts
2/22
Project 1 (continued)
2/23
Catch up


2/25 3.1 Iteration Homework 2
2/26
Project 1 (continued)
2/27 3.2 Invariants

2/28
Project 1 (concludes)
2/29 3.3 Perfect numbers, internal definitions, & let

3/3
TBA
Project 1
3/4
TBA

3/5 4.2 Digital signatures
Homework 3
3/6
Special project: Card sorting (ungraded)
3/7 4.1
Orders of growth

3/10 4.2
Orders of growth and digital signatures

3/11
Project 2: Fractal curves
3/12
Review/catch up
Homework 4
3/13
Test #1 (no lab)

3/14 5.1
Procedural parameters

3/17 5.3 Procedures that return procedures
3/18
Project 2 (continued)
3/19 5.4 Application of higher-order programming
3/20
Project 2 concludes Project 2
3/21
Spring break starts

Spring Break

3/31
6.1-6.2 Data abstraction
4/1

Project 3: Nim with strategies
4/2
6.3 Representations and implementations Homework 5
4/3

Project 3 (continues)
4/4 6.3/6.4 Three pile Nim


4/7
6.5
Strategies in Nim

4/8

Project 3 (continues)
4/9

Overview of computer science major
Homework 6
4/10

Project 3 (continues)
4/11
7.1-7.2 Lists


4/14
7.3 List processing

4/15
Project 3 (concludes)
4/16
Review

4/17
Test 2

4/18
7.4
Iterative list processing

4/21 7.6 Movie query project, overview
Project 3
4/22
Project 4: Movie queries
4/23 7.5 Tree recursion and lists
4/24
Project 4 (continues)
4/25
 no class
Homework 7

4/28 8.1/8.2
Binary trees

4/29
Project 4 (continues)
4/30
Mayday, no class

5/1
Project 4 (continues)
5/2 8.2 Efficiency issues in binary trees

5/5 8.3 Expression trees
5/6
Project 4 (concludes)
5/7 9.1-9.2 Generic operations: multiple representations Homework 8
5/8 9.2
Multiple representations (meet in class)

5/9 9.3 More on multiple representations Project 4

5/12 9.4
Project 5: Implementing graphics
meet in lab

5/13
Project 5 (continues)
5/14 9.3 Exploiting commonality
5/15
Project 5 (continues)
5/16 9.3
More on exploiting commonality Homework 9

5/19
Project 5 (continued) in lab but at class time
5/20
Project 5 (concludes)
5/21
Review/evaluation

5/27
Test 3: 1pm to 3pm (Tuesday)