CPSC 231: Fall 2014

Index

• Lecture and important assignment information

• Tutorial & Lab information

• Course topics and notes for the lecture

Lecture and important assignment information

Tutorial and lab Information

Tutorials (commence the week of September 14 - 20):  rafaelsimonmaia@gmail.com

• 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)

Lecture #1 Tutorials	Date/Time	Location	Instructor	Email
T01	MW 10:00 - 10:50	MS 160	Yao Zhao	yaozhao@ucalgary.ca
T02	MW 17:00 - 17:50	MS 160	Mahshid Marbouti	mahshid.marbouti@gmail.com
T03	TR 12:00 - 12:50	MS 160	Mohammad Reza Zakerinasab	mrzakeri@ucalgary.ca
T04	TR 16:00 - 16:50	MS 176	Justin Kelly	kellyjj@ucalgary.ca
Lecture #3 Tutorials	Date/Time	Location	Instructor	Email
T09	MW 09:00 - 09:50	MS 176	Justin Kelly	kellyjj@ucalgary.ca
T10	MW 13:00 - 13:50	MS 176	Yao Zhao	yaozhao@ucalgary.ca
T11	TR 10:00 - 10:50	MS 176	Mohammad Reza Zakerinasab	mrzakeri@ucalgary.ca
T12	MW 16:00 - 16:50	MS 160	Mahshid Marbouti	mahshid.marbouti@gmail.com

Lab (Continuous tutorials or CT for short): CT will start the week of September 14 - 20

• 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 231 fall 2014 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]	Graded component occurring during the week
	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 7 - 13	Introduction to the course [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes]   Introduction to computer programming [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Introduction to programming: Chapter 1 & 2, Appendix A (if you want to install Python on your own computer - not the recommended approach to take for this course)
Sept 14 - 20	Introduction to computer programming (continued)
Sept 21 - 27	Introduction to computer programming (continued)		Mini assignment 1: Due Monday Sept 22 Full assignment 1: Due Friday Sept 26
Sept 28 - Oct 4	Branching/decisions [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Branching: Chapter 3	Mini assignment 2: Due Friday Oct 3
Oct 5 - 11	Looping/repetition [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Loops: Chapter 4	Mini assignment 3: Due Friday Oct 10 TA deadline for marking A1, Oct 10
Oct 12 - 18	Looping/repetition (continued)   Functions/decomposition [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Functions: Chapter 5 (don't worry about the material in Section 5.9, 5.10 yet)
Oct 19 - 25	Functions/decomposition (continued)   Midterm review [Link with info for the exam]		Full assignment 2: Due Monday Oct 20 Out of class midterm: Thursday Oct 23 at 7PM - 8:15 PM (All three lectures will write at this time/day) L01 & L03 (James Tam's lectures) will write in ST 140
Oct 26 - Nov 1	Functions/decomposition (continued)   Composites [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Composites, Lists & Tuples: Chapter 7 Composites, Strings: Chapter 8	Mini assignment 4: Due Monday Oct 27 TA deadline for marking A2, Oct 31
Nov 2 - 8	Composites (continued)		Full assignment 3: Due Friday Nov 7
Nov 9 - 15 (No lecture on Tuesday Nov 11)	Composites (continued)   Files and exceptions [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Files: Chapter 6
Nov 16 - 22	Introduction to problem solving [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]   Classes and objects [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Object-Oriented programming: Chapter 10	Full assignment 4: Due Friday Nov 21 TA deadline for marking A3, Nov 17
Nov 23 - 29	Classes and objects (continued) Recursion [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Recursion: Chapter 12	Mini assignment 5: Due Wednesday Nov 26
Nov 30 - Dec 6	Computer history [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes]   Introduction to Computer Science [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes]   Final exam review [Info link]	Not applicable	Mini assignment 6: Due Monday Dec 1 Full assignment 5: Due Friday Dec 5   TA deadline for marking A4, Dec 3 TA deadline for mini-assignments is 2 weeks after the due date. Final TA marking deadline for remaining graded components at the end of the term (e.g., A5) is the date of the CPSC 231 final exam.
	The final exam will to be scheduled by university admin staff and not your course instructor: [See the exam schedule in PeopleSoft when the Office of the Registrar has scheduled it].