MCS-170 The Nature of Computer Science

Fall 2006

• Course Information
• Course description
• Schedule of classes, reading, homework, projects, etc.
• First half of schedule
• Second half of schedule
• Office hours and other useful information
• Homework
• Homework #1 - Due Friday, September 8
• Homework #2 - Due Wednesday, September 13
• Homework #3 - Due Friday, September 22
• Alice Homework #1 - Due Friday, September 28
• Alice Homework #2 - Due Monday, October 9
• Homework #6 - Due Friday, November 3
• Homework #7 - Due Wednesday, November 8
• Homework #8 - Due Wednesday, December 13
• Projects
• Project 0 (Getting Started)
• Project 1 (DIY Web Page) - Due Friday, September 15
• Project 2 (Mad Libs)
• Project 3 (Alice 1)
• Project 4 (Alice 2)
• Mid-Term Project (Alice 3)
• Project 6 - Part I (CPU Datapath I)
• Project 6 - Part II (CPU Datapath II)
• Project 7 - Part I (Logic Circuits I)
• Project 7 - Part II (Logic Circuits II)
• Project 8 - Part I (MySQL I)
• Project 8 - Part II (MySQL II)
• Project 8 - Part III (MySQL III)
• Tests
  
• Test 1: Tuesday, September 26, Chapters 1-5
  
• Test 2: Friday, November 17, Chapters 6, 8, 10, 12, 14.
  Here are the topics
• Final Exam : Tuesday, Dec 19, 10:30am-12:30pm, Olin 320
  Here is the study-guide.
• Example Code & Writeup
• Guidelines for writing reports in MCS 170
• W3C Markuup Validation Service and an example test page.
• random.js (Javascript random functions library)
• AliceFrogger AliceFrogger.a2w
• recursively reversing an array in Alice rev.a2w
• Useful Links
• World Wide Web Consortium
• Alice website
• A Balanced Introduction to Computer Science textbook website