CPSC 217: Fall 2013

Index

• Lecture information

• Tutorial & Lab information

• Course topics and notes for the lecture

• Assignments, quizzes and exams

Lecture Information

Tutorial and lab Information

Tutorials (commence the week of September 15 - 21):

• Tutorials are a mandatory component of the courses. Time will be spent on the following: TA's teaching new skills, discussion of assignment requirements, completion of graded quizzes, and if possible some question and answer time.
• Schedule of activities for the tutorials: [Teaching teaching schedule] (Example programs that I provide the TA's can be found on this link)

Tutorials	Date/Time	Location	Instructor	Email
T01	TR 13:00 - 13:50	MS160	Padma Paul	pppaul@ucalgary.ca
T02	MW 14:00 - 14:50	MS160	Narges Zirakchianzadeh	narges.ziragchian@gmail.com
T03	MW 10:00 - 10:50	MS176	Narges Zirakchianzadeh	narges.ziragchian@gmail.com
T04	TR 11:00 - 11:50	MS176	Padma Paul	pppaul@ucalgary.ca
T05	MW 14:00 - 14:50	MS176	Jing Zhou	gnijuohz@gmail.com
T06	TR 10:00 - 10:50	MS160	Andrew Owens	arowens@ucalgary.ca
T07	TR 15:00 - 15:50	MS160	Omar Zaarour	oyzarour@ucalgary.ca
T08	MW 11:00 - 11:50	MS176	Jing Zhou	gnijuohz@gmail.com
T09	MW 11:00 - 11:50	MS160	Sultana Madeena	msdeena@ucalgary.ca
T10	MW 12:00 - 12:50	MS176	Sultana Madeena	msdeena@ucalgary.ca
T11	TR 9:00 - 9:50	MS176	Andrew Owens	arowens@ucalgary.ca
T12	TR 16:00 - 16:50	MS160	Omar Zaarour	oyzarour@ucalgary.ca

Lab (Continuous tutorials or CT for short): CT will start the third week of the semester (week of Sept 22 - 28)

• In addition to my office hours and your time in lab there will be time set aside for you to ask questions. These sessions will typically be staffed by the tutorial instructors but they are not mandatory for students and are provided so that you can get help while you are in the computer lab.
• The CT is located in the first floor Math Sciences computer lab (there will be signs near the cubical desks).
• Continuous tutorial schedule: [CPSC 217 fall 2013 CT]

Course topics and notes for lectures

Approximate time each topic will be covered in lecture	Topic list (links to programs that I cover in lecture can be found in this table "Example programs",  examples for tutorials can be found on the link for the [Tutorial teaching schedule]).	Relevant textbook chapters: "Starting Out with Python" (Gaddis T) Addison-Wesley. Note: Other sources of help includes the (free) online library website: [Safari]
	Getting started in Computer Science (computer labs, sources of help, working from home etc.). A portion will be covered in tutorial during the second week of term, other resources are available for your reference: [Orientation link]	Not applicable
Sept 8 – 14	Introduction to the course [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes]	Not applicable
Sept 8 – 14,   Sept 15 – 21	Introduction to computers [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes]	Section 1.2, 1.4
Sept 15 – 21, Sept 22 – 28, Sept 29 - Oct 5	Introduction to computer programming [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Chapter 2, Appendix A (Getting Python fully installed), Appendix C (ASCII tables)
Sept 29 - Oct 5, Oct 6 – 12	Branching/Decisions [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Chapter 4 (Ignore for now the parts where he starts talking about functions "def")
Oct 13 – 19,    Oct 20 – 26	Loops/Repetition [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Chapter 5 (Ignore for now the parts where he starts talking about functions "def")
Oct 20 – 26,     Oct 27 - Nov 2, Nov 3 – 9	Introduction to functions and problem decomposition [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Chapter 3, 6 (You should now paying attention when he starts talking about functions)
Nov 3 – 9,      Nov 10 – 16,  Nov 17 – 23	Introduction to composite types [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Chapter 8, 9
Nov 24 - 30	File input and output, exceptions [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Chapter 7
Dec 1 - 7	Introduction to Computer Science [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes]	Not applicable
Dec 1 - 7	Computer history [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes]	Not applicable
	Problem solving strategies (will be covered sometime during the semester ~around when composites are covered) [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Examples]	Not applicable
	Introduction to graphical programs (may be covered in tutorial instead) [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Chapter 14
	Recursion (if there is time, it's only an optional part of 217) [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Chapter 13

Assignments, quizzes and exams