Classroom:	MTWF: 11:10a-12:00p, MCRey 315
Web page	www.cburch.com/cs/150/
Instructor:	Dr. Carl Burch
E-mail:
Telephone:	450–1377 (office); 499–9892 (home)
Office:	MCRey 310
Office hours:	T 8:30–9:30, W 10:00–11:00, RF 1:30–2:30 drop-ins, appointments always welcome

Useful links

Hydra exercises
Tutorial links

Schedule

The schedule of topics will be updated throughout the semester.

Wed 22 Jan	defining computer science, algorithms, Python overview
Fri 24 Jan	error types integer variables [Notes]
Mon 27 Jan	functions & strings [Notes]
Tue 28 Jan	types & I/O [Notes]
Wed 29 Jan	for loops [Notes]
Fri 31 Jan	lists [Notes]
Mon 3 Feb	if statements [Notes]
Tue 4 Feb	optional review session (due to weather)
Wed 5 Feb	Test 1 [Review A, Review B, Solutions]
Fri 7 Feb	methods [Notes]
Mon 10 Feb	no class (business trip)
Tue 11 Feb	no class (business trip)
Wed 12 Feb	while statements [Notes]
Fri 14 Feb	regular expressions [Notes]
Mon 17 Feb	nested loops [Notes]
Tue 18 Feb	string formatting [Notes]
Wed 19 Feb	modules [Notes]
Fri 21 Feb	more on ifs [Notes]
Mon 24 Feb	break statement [Notes]
Tue 25 Feb	optional review session
Wed 26 Feb	Test 2 [Review A, Review B, Solutions]
Fri 28 Feb	list methods [Notes]
Mon 3 Mar	no class — snow day
Tue 4 Mar	binary & ASCII [Notes]
Wed 5 Mar	creating functions [Notes]
Fri 7 Mar	scope & fruitless functions [Notes]
Mon 10 Mar	references & parameters [Notes]
Tue 11 Mar	passwords [Notes]
Wed 12 Mar	decomposition & clustering [Notes]
Fri 14 Mar	dictionaries [Notes]
Mon 17 Mar	more with dictionaries [Notes]
Tue 18 Mar	optional review session
Wed 19 Mar	Test 3 [Review A, Review B, Solutions]
Fri 21 Mar	how dictionaries work [Notes]
22–30 Mar	Spring Break
Mon 31 Mar	text files [Notes]
Tue 1 Apr	binary search
Wed 2 Apr	text files & regular expressions [Notes]
Fri 4 Apr	no class
Mon 7 Apr	no class
Tue 8 Apr	selection sort [§1]
Wed 9 Apr	recursion on sequences [Notes]
Fri 11 Apr	recursion on integers [Notes]
Mon 14 Apr	recursion with loops [Notes]
Tue 15 Apr	optional review session
Wed 16 Apr	Test 4 [Review A, Review B, Solutions]
Fri 18 Apr	test postmortem tuples [Notes]
Mon 21 Apr	string constants and comments Bonus Quiz [Solutions]
Tue 22 Apr	insertion and merge sort [§2–4]
Wed 23 Apr	classes [Notes]
Fri 25 Apr	class constructors
Mon 28 Apr	linked lists [Code]
Tue 29 Apr	games [Code]
Wed 30 Apr	modifying linked lists [Code]
Thu 1 May	Project 1 due
Fri 2 May	exceptions
Mon 5 May	Project 2 due Internet [Examples]
Mon 12 May	Final, 9:00am [Review A, Review B, Solutions]
15 May–25 Aug	Summer Break