Calendar – CS101 FA24

All materials we use in class are accessible via this page.

This is a temporary schedule for what we will do, subject to change!

Course Submission Guidelines & Deadlines

Reading Quizzes: Complete quizzes before their associated lectures, as marked on the course calendar.
Labs: Weekly labs have a standard deadline of Sunday at 11:59 pm.

Special Deadlines Due to Add/Drop:

In recognition of students who may join the course after it begins due to the add/drop period, we’ve pushed back some deadlines:

Reading Quizzes 2-6: extended to 9/12 at 11:59 pm
Lab 1-2: extended to 9/15 at 11:59 pm.

All other deliverables should be submitted by their specified deadlines.

Fall 2024 Course Calendar

Week	Date	Day	Type	Topics/Activity	Readings	Assignment/APT
1	8/27	Tue	Lecture	Lecture 1: First Day • Slides • Recording	No Readings No Reading Quiz	Assignment 1: Blockly Released
	8/29	Thu	Lecture	Lecture 2: Intro to Python • Slides • Recording	Textbook: • 1.1-1.5 • 2.1-2.11 (exercises are optional) Reading Quiz
	8/30	Fri	Lab	Lab 1

2	9/3	Tue	Lecture	Lecture 3: Functions, Order of Execution • Slides • Recording	Textbook: • 6.1 (up to paragraph with "black-box diagram" text) • 6.2 • 6.4 • 6.10 Reading Quiz
	9/5	Thu	Lecture	Lecture 4: 7-Steps, APTs, Laundry APT • Slides • Recording	Textbook: • 5.4 • 6.6, 6.7 • 7.1-7.8 (7.8.1 not required) Reading Quiz	APT 1 Released
	9/6 Drop/Add ends (11:59 PM)	Fri	Lab	Lab 2

3	9/10	Tue	Lecture	Lecture 5: Python Tutor, selection (if, elif, else), random numbers • Slides • Recording	Textbook: • 6.9 • 9.1-9.4 • 9.6-9.8 • 9.13 • 10.1-10.7 Reading Quiz	Assignment 2: Faces Released
	9/12	Thu	Lecture	Lecture 6: Faces, Debugging, lists, mutation, objects • Slides • Recording	Textbook: • 1.6-1.10 • 3 (entire chapter) • 10.6 • 10.10-10.13 Reading Quiz	Assignment 1: Blockly Due
	9/13	Fri	Lab	Lab 3

4	9/17	Tue	Lecture	Lecture 7: Debugging, lists, for loop • Slides • Recording	Textbook: • 4.4 • 4.5 • 6.5 • 9.5 • 9.10 • 10.14 • 10.16 • 10.24 Reading Quiz
	9/19	Thu	Lecture	Lecture 8: Accumulator, Range, Bagels • Slides • Recording	Textbook: • 4.7 • 9.11 • 10.17 Reading Quiz	APT 2 Released APT 1 Due
	9/20	Fri	Lab	Lab 4

5	9/24	Tue	Lecture	Lecture 9: Pancake APT, Gen-AI • Slides • Recording	Read the Pancake APT No Reading Quiz
	9/26	Thu	Lecture	Lecture 10: Turtle, Files, Data • Slides • Code • Recording	Textbook: • 4.1-4.3 • 4.6 • 4.8 • 4.9 • 11.1-11.6 Reading Quiz	Assignment 3: Turtles Released Assignment 2: Faces Due
	9/27	Fri	Lab	Lab 5

6	10/1	Tue	Lecture	Midterm 1
	10/3	Thu	Lecture	Lecture 11: While loops, Parallel lists • Slides • Code • Recording	Textbook: • 8.1 - 8.8 Reading Quiz	APT3 Released APT2 Due
	10/4	Fri	Lab	Lab 6

7	10/8	Tue	Lecture	Lecture 12: Short-circuiting, List comprehensions • Slides • Code • Recording	Short-Circuiting Textbook: • 10.23 Reading Quiz
	10/10	Thu	Lecture	Lecture 13: Transform, Images, Tuples • Slides • Recording	Textbook: • 8.11 (but we will use the Pillow library, get the gist from textbook, functions from the library documentation) • 10.27-10.29 • Follow these instructions for how to install the Pillow Library Reading Quiz	Assignment 4: Transform Released Assignment 3: Turtles Due
	10/11	Fri	Lab	No lab. Enjoy an early Fall Break.

8	10/15	Tue	Lecture	No lecture. Fall break.
	10/17	Thu	Lecture	Lecture 14: Images, Tuples, Sets • Slides • Code • Recording	All the sections in Sets at wikibooks, except "frozenset" Reading Quiz	APT 4 Released APT 3 Due
	10/18	Fri	Lab	Lab 7

9	10/22	Tue	Lecture	Lecture 15: Dictionaries • Slides • Recording	Textbook: • 12.1-12.4 Reading Quiz
	10/24	Thu	Lecture	Lecture 16: Dictionaries, Jotto • Slides • Recording	No Reading. Reading Quiz	Assignment 5: GuessWord Released Assignment 4: Transform Due
	10/25	Fri	Lab	Lab 8

10	10/29	Tue	Lecture	Lecture 17: Sorting, CSV, lambda • Slides • Code • Recording	CSV Library DocumentationIntroduction • csv.reader • csv.writer • csvwriter.writerow • csvwriter.writerows First section on Lambdas of this Lambda Tutorial The following sections of Python.org's how-to on sorting: • Introduction • Sorting Basics • First 2 examples in Key Functions • Operator Module Functions: itemgetter • Ascending and Descending Reading Quiz
	10/31	Thu	Lecture	Lecture 18: Stable Sorting • Slides • Code • Recording	Wikipedia: Stable Sorting Python.org's Sorting Mini-HOW TO: Sort Stability and Complex Sorts	APT 5 Released APT 4 Due
	11/1	Fri	Lab	Lab 9

11	11/5	Tue	Lecture	Lecture 19: Clever Guessword and Greedy Algorithms • Slides • Recording	Read the Clever GuessWord Assignment. No reading quiz.	Assignment 6: Clever GuessWord Released
	11/7	Thu	Lecture	Lecture 20: When to use what? • Slides • Recording	Reading Quiz is a survey in Google forms	Assignment 5: GuessWord Due APT 6 Released APT 7 (Extra Credit) Released
	11/8 Last day to withdraw	Fri	Lab	Lab 10 (Exam Review)

12	11/12	Tue	Lecture	Midterm 2
	11/14	Thu	Lecture	Lecture 21: Modules, Exceptions • Slides • Code • Recording	Textbook: •13.1-13.4	APT 5 Due
	11/15	Fri	Lab	Lab 11

13	11/19	Tue	Lecture	Lecture 22: Modules cont. • Slides • Code • Recording	No reading and no reading quiz
	11/21	Thu	Lecture	Lecture 23: Recommender • Slides • Code • Recording	Read the Recommender Assignment. No reading quiz.	Assignment 7: Recommender Released Assignment 8: Create Released Assignment 6: Clever GuessWord Due
	11/22	Fri	Lab		Lab 12

14	11/26	Tue	Lecture	No lecture. Enjoy an early Thanksgiving break.
	11/28	Thu	Lecture	No lecture. Thanksgiving break.
	11/29	Fri	Lab	No lab. Thanksgiving break.

15	12/3	Tue	Lecture	Lecture 24: Recursion • Slides • Recording	No Reading Quiz
	12/5	Thu	Lecture	Lecture 25: Final exam details, beyond CS101 • Slides • Recording	No Reading Quiz	Assignment 7: Recommender Due Assignment 8: Create Due APT6 Due APT 7 (Extra Credit) Due
	12/6	Fri	Lab	Lab 13 (Optional -- will be office hours)

16	12/7 – 12/10	Sat – Tue	Reading Period
16	12/13	Fri	Final Exam: 9am-12pm