Prof. Anthony Hornof, Fall 2008
The schedule is designed so that the reading, programming exercises, short-answer homeworks, and in-class activities all complement each other and provide a synergistic learning experience. This schedule will evolve during the term to reflect opportunities that arise for a customized learning experience. The reading refers to textbook chapters that students should read before that class. Qs are take-home questions on the reading. Exs are exercises from the textbook. Previous versions of the schedule: (none yet)
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Discuss in Class |
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Deliverables (due at start of class) |
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Week 1 - Mo, Sep 29 |
Intro to Computer Science |
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Week 1 - We, Oct 1 |
Intro to Alice |
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Chapter 1 Questions |
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Week 2 - Mo, Oct 6 |
Scenarios and Storyboards |
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Week 2 - We, Oct 8 |
Creating an animation |
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Exercises 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 |
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Week 3 - Mo, Oct 13 |
Programming: Putting together the pieces. Built-in functions and expressions. |
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Chapter 3 Questions. Exercises 2.5 (Tortoise Gets a Cookie) OR 2.6 (Magnet Fun). |
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Week 3 - We, Oct 15 |
Programming: Simple control structures. Conditional execution |
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Week 4 - Mo, Oct 20 |
Classes, objects, & world-level methods. Parameters. | 4 |
Chapter 4 Questions. Exercises 3-1-3 (Hop), 3-1-4 (Volleyball Jump), and 3-2-7 (Snowman to Stool). |
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Week 4 - We, Oct 22 |
Class-level methods and inheritance |
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Week 5 - Mo, Oct 27 |
Interactive programming |
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(to be continued) |
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Week 5 - We, Oct 29 |
Parameters & event handler methods |
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Week 6 - Mo, Nov 3 |
Midterm |
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Week 6 - We, Nov 5 |
Execution control with If/Else & boolean functions |
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Week 7 - Mo, Nov 10 |
Random numbers and random motion |
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Week 7 - We, Nov 12 |
Repetition: definite loops |
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Week 8 - Mo, Nov 17 |
While: The indefinite loop |
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Week 8 - We, Nov 19 |
Recursion |
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Week 9 - Mo, Nov 24 |
More about recursion |
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Week 9 - We, Nov 26 |
Lists |
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Week 10 - Mo, Dec 1 |
List search |
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Week 10 - We, Dec 3 |
Review |
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