Classroom:	MWF: 9:10a-10:00a, R: 8:10a-9:00a, MCRey 315
Web page	www.cburch.com/cs/150/
Instructor:	Dr. Carl Burch
E-mail:
Telephone:	450-1377 (office); 548-0036 (home)
Office:	MCRey 310
Office hours:	M 8:10–9:00, T 8:30–9:30, WR 1:30–2:30, F 10:10–11:00 drop-ins, appointments always welcome
Lab hours:	Sun, 7p-9p: Whitney Maguffee Mon, 7p-9p: Tony Johnson Tue, 7p-9p: Tony Johnson Wed, 7p-9p: Whitney Maguffee

Useful links

Starting Wing 101
Graphics module download
Graphics module reference [alternative link]
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist on-line text
Python library reference (alternate site)
Sauron submission system (instructions)

Schedule

The schedule of topics will change as the class progresses.

Textbook references are on the right, prefaced by a section symbol §.

Wed 20 Jan	First Python (examples) §2.2–2.5 procedural functions §1.6
Thu 21 Jan	defined loops (examples) §2.6 expressions §3.1–3.2
Fri 22 Jan	no class — program review
Mon 25 Jan	Assn 1 lab day
Wed 27 Jan	Assn 1 lab day
Thu 28 Jan	accumulator variables (examples) §3.3 conditional statement §7.2 string values §4.1
Fri 29 Jan	no class — snow day
Mon 1 Feb	Assn 1 due Assn 2 lab day
Wed 3 Feb	string arithmetic (examples) §4.1 string indexing §4.1
Thu 4 Feb	Assn 3 lab day
Fri 5 Feb	string slices (examples) §4.1 lists §4.3
Mon 8 Feb	Assn 2 due Quiz 1 [Review] changing lists (examples)
Wed 10 Feb	assignments & references (examples) using methods
Thu 11 Feb	Assn 3 due Assn 4 lab day
Fri 12 Feb	graphics §5.3–5.4 (examples) objects §5.2
Mon 15 Feb	Assn 5 lab day
Wed 17 Feb	while statements (examples) §8.2 more with graphics
Thu 18 Feb	Assn 4 due Assn 6 lab day
Fri 19 Feb	binary representation (reading §1–2.1)
Mon 22 Feb	Assn 5 due Exam 1 [Review A, Review B]
Wed 24 Feb	exam postmortem two's-complement representation (reading §2.2–2.4)
Thu 25 Feb	Assn 6 due Assn 7 lab day
Fri 26 Feb	more two's-complement DeMorgan's law §8.4.2
Mon 1 Mar	Assn 8 lab day
Wed 3 Mar	functions & parameters §6.2–6.4 return values §6.5.1 namespaces §6.5.2
Thu 4 Mar	Assn 7 due Assn 9 lab day
Fri 5 Mar	more with functions
Mon 8 Mar	Assn 8 due Quiz 2 [Review] more with functions
Wed 10 Mar	quiz postmortem files §4.6
Thu 11 Mar	Assn 9 due Assn 10 lab day
Fri 12 Mar	context-free grammars (reading)
13–21 Mar	Spring break — no classes
Mon 22 Mar	context-free grammars (reading)
Wed 24 Mar	context-free grammars (reading) dictionaries (examples) §11.6
Thu 25 Mar	Assn 10 due Assn 11 lab day
Fri 26 Mar	Internet communication HTTP basics
Mon 29 Mar	Exam 2 [Review A. Review B]
Wed 31 Mar	exam postmortem more with Internet (examples)
Thu 1 Apr	Assn 11 due Assn 12 lab day
Fri 2 Apr	recursion (examples)
Mon 5 Apr	Assn 13 lab day
Wed 7 Apr	more recursion (examples)
Thu 8 Apr	Assn 12 due Assn 14 lab day
Fri 9 Apr	more recursion (examples)
Mon 12 Apr	Assn 13 due Quiz 3 [Review] regular expressions
Wed 14 Apr	regular expressions
Thu 15 Apr	Assn 14 due Assn 15 lab day
Fri 16 Apr	the re module classes (example)
Mon 19 Apr	Assn 16 lab day
Wed 21 Apr	classes, continued (example)
Thu 22 Apr	Assn 15 due Assn 17 lab day
Fri 23 Apr	quadratic sorting algorithms (code)
Mon 26 Apr	Assn 16 due Quiz 4 [Review A, Review B] merge sort (code)
Wed 28 Apr	merge sort analysis
Thu 29 Apr	Assn 17 due Assn 18 lab day
Fri 30 Apr	linked lists (code)
Mon 3 May	game playing (code)
Thu 6 May	Assn 18 due
Tue 11 May	Final, 9am [Review]
13 May–23 Aug	Summer break - no classes