CPSC 231: Spring 2017

Index

• Lecture and important assignment information
• Tutorial information
• Course topics/notes, assignment/exam information
  

Lecture and important assignment information

Tutorial information

Teaching tutorials (commence May 17):

• 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 schedule] (Tutorial programs that I provide the TA's can be found on this link)

Tutorials	Date/Time	Location	Instructor	Email
T01	WF 13:00 - 14:50	MS 176	Mojtaba Komeili	mojtaba.komeili@ucalgary.ca
T02	WF 10:00 - 11:50	MS 160	Mojtaba Komeili	mojtaba.komeili@ucalgary.ca
T03	WF 15:00 - 16:50	MS 176	Mojtaba Komeili	mojtaba.komeili@ucalgary.ca

Help/continuous tutorials (CT for short): start date is week of May 21 - 27)

• 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 spring 2017 CT]

Course topics/notes, assignment/exam information

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: Note that all assignments are due at 5 PM
	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
May 14 - 20	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)	A0 submissions close off Friday May 19 (submitting files using D2L and checking submissions, not graded)
May 21 - 27	Introduction to computer programming (continued)   Branching/decisions [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs] Looping/repetition [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Branching: Chapter 3 Loops: Chapter 4	Full A1 due Friday May 26
May 28 - June 3	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)	Mini A2 due Wednesday May 31 Full A2 due Friday June 2
June 4 - 10	Functions/decomposition (continued)   Composites (Strings, lists and a little on tuples) [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Composites, Lists & Tuples: Chapter 7 Composites, Strings: Chapter 8	Mini A3 due Monday June 5 In class midterm Tuesday June 6: [Information link]
June 11 - 17	Composites (continued) Tam's introduction to problem solving [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]		Full A3 due Monday June 12 Mini A4 due Wednesday June 14
June 18 - 24	Files and exceptions [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]   Introduction to classes and objects [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]   Recursion [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs] [Recursion in pop culture]	Files: Chapter 6   Object-Oriented programming: Chapter 10     Recursion: Chapter 12	Full A4 due Wednesday June 21 Mini A5 due Friday June 23
June 25 - 27 (Last day)	Computer history [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes]   Introduction to the areas of Computer Science [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes]   Final exam information link [Information link]	Not applicable   Not applicable	Full A5 due Tuesday June 27
	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].