MCS-177: Introduction to Computer Science I (Spring 2010)

Note: This web site will be modified as the semester progresses.

• Course information and syllabus
• Projects
  • Project 1: Candy temperatures
  • Project 2: Twelve days of Christmas
  • Project 3: Pig Latin
  • Project 4: Pig Latin Revisited
  • Project 5: Storing Scores
  • Project 6: Analyzing Election Data
  • Project 7: Image Processing
  • Project 8: L-Systems
  • Project 9: Solar system animation
  • Project 10: A Simulated Ecology
• Test topics
  • Test 1
  • Test 2
  • Final Exam
• Examples worked in class
  • Turtle graphics
  • Inscribed and circumscribed semiperimeters, in the book's style
  • Archimedes's actual method (more or less)
  • Liu Hui's method
  • Caesar cypher
  • List examples
  • Input/Output examples (with some wrong turns edited out)
    • As preparation, we downloaded into Documents NST_EST2009_ALLDATA.csv from the U.S. Census Bureau.
    • We generated populations.txt.
  • stock correlation (refactored and with progress printouts)
  • table processing using golf roster
  • Examples from last day before spring break:
    • Listings 6.1 and 6.2: negative of an image
    • Using a while loop to find leftmost digit
    • Zune leap-year bug (nonterminating while loop)
  • generalized image processing with usage example based on sample image
  • a naming puzzle and another one
  • green screen compositing; we tried this out using a scooter and Barbara Liskov
  • scaling down an image
  • a while loop for which termination is unknown
  • Recursion: downUp and tree
  • treeLines: slow version and fast version
  • kinky Koch curves: code and example usage
  • L-systems: code and example usage
  • A simplified Person class: code and example usage
  • Sentence class: version 1, version 2, and example usage
  • Storage class and example usage
  • SolarSystem class extended with getMassOfSun and example usage
  • ecosystem example with inheritance and non-random selection
  • getPopulation versions using list comprehension, while, and recursion
• Python documentation
• Corrections to the textbook

Instructor: Max Hailperin

Tutoring:

• Sundays 6pm-7pm: Cory
• Tuesdays 6pm-7pm: Sam
• Tuesdays 7pm-8pm: Cory
• Thursdays 6pm-8pm: Cory