MCS-177: Introduction to Computer Science I (Spring 2014)

Note: This web site will be modified as the semester progresses. You are responsible for all the updates made here, so please check this page often.

- January 20th, 2014: the course page is up and running.

• The lecture notes and corresponding examples will be posted a few hours before the lecture.
• Each Project will be posted 2 days before its start dates (the day we start working on it in lab)
• Test1/Test2/Final exam preparation notes (which include a list of topics covered and some sample exam questions) will be posted two weeks before the tests/exam

• Course Information
• Syllabus/Schedule/Archive
• Instructor Information/Availability
• Useful Links
• Projects
  • Project 1: Candy temperatures
  • Project 2: Twelve days of Christmas
  • Project 3: Pig Latin
  • Extra Credit 1: Integers and Strings
  • Project 4: Pig Latin Revisited
  • Project 5: Your IMDb
  • Project 6: Plotting Earthquakes
  • Project 7: Image Processing
  • Project 8: L-Systems
  • Project 9: Music Library
  • Project 10: Facebook
• Lecture Notes (will be available on Moodle)
  • Introduction
  • lecture 1
  • lecture 2
  • Lecture 3 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 4 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 5 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 6 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 7 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 8 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 9 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 10 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 11 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 12 available on Moodle
  • The slides for test 1 review lecture is available on Moodle
  • Lecture 13 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 14 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 15 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 16 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 17 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 18 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 19 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 20 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 21 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 22 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 23 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 24 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 25 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 26 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 27 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 28 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 29 available on Moodle
  • Lecture 30 available on Moodle
• Examples covered in class
  • Turtle graphics
  • Archimedes's method, in the book's style
  • Archimedes's actual method (more or less)
  • Accumulator pattern for summing the first 5 positive integers - step 1
  • Accumulator pattern for summing the first 5 positive integers - step 2
  • Accumulator pattern for summing the first 5 positive integers - step 3
  • The leibniz procedure - version 1
  • The leibniz procedure - version 2
  • The Wallis Formula - step 1
  • The Wallis Formula - step 2
  • Factorial - function to compute the product of the first N numbers
  • Example - if else
  • Example - nested if
  • Example - if elif
  • Computing pi using the Monte Carlo simulation
  • Adding graphics to the Monte Carlo simulation
  • Adding graphics to the Monte Carlo simulation
  • Transposition cipher - encryption and decryption
  • Substitution cipher
  • Key generation for substitution cipher
  • Exercise: find money
  • Exercise: find symbols
  • Function for removing duplicate letters from a string
  • Function for removing characters in one string from another
  • Function for generating keys from users' passwords
  • Functions for computing the maximum value, mean, and range of a list
  • Functions for computing the mode of a list
  • Function for reading from a text file (of a web graph)
  • Function to count the number of lines in head and body of an html code
  • Function for reading from a text file (of a web graph)
  • Function that takes a file name that contains temperature data, and return the list of al the average temperatures
  • Function for manipulating an image from file (negative and grey)
  • General function for manipulating an image from file (negative and grey)
  • Function for enlarging and flipping an image
  • Function that checks if the given phrase is a palindrome or not
  • Class implementing a bank account
  • Class implementing a raccoon
• Test and Exam Preparations
  • Test 1 preparation notes is now available on Moodle
  • Test 2 preparation notes is now available on Moodle
  • Final exam preparation notes is now available on Moodle