CPSC 231: Winter 2018

Index (shortcut to major sections of the webpage)

• Lecture and important assignment information
• Tutorial & Lab information
• Course topics/notes for the lecture, assignment and examination information

Lecture and important assignment information

Tutorial and lab Information

Tutorials (commence the week of January 14 - 20):

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

Tutorial	Date/Time	Location	Instructor	Email
T01	MW: 9:00 - 9:50	MS 160	Gouri Deshpande	gouri.deshpande@ucalgary.ca
T02	MW: 12:00 - 12:50	MS 160	Gouri Deshpande	gouri.deshpande@ucalgary.ca
T03	MW: 10:00 - 10:50	MS 176	Qing Chen	chen.qing@ucalgary.ca

Lab (Continuous tutorials or CT for short): commence the week of January 21 - 27: (but they are not scheduled to run every week, see the PDF schedule below for the specific weeks that CT will run).

• 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: [231_CT.pdf]

Course topics/notes for the lecture, assignment and examination 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 4 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
Jan 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)
Jan 14 - 20	Introduction to computer programming (continued)		A0  (submitting files using D2L and checking submissions, not graded) closes due Friday Jan 19 at 4 PM
Jan 21 - 27	Introduction to computer programming (continued)		Full A1 due Friday Jan 26 (there is no mini-A1) at 4 PM
Jan 28 - Feb 3	Branching/decisions [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Branching: Chapter 3
Feb 4 - 10	Looping/repetition [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Loops: Chapter 4	Mini A2 due Tuesday Feb 6 at 4 PM
Feb 11 - 17	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)	Full A2 due Friday Feb 16 at 4 PM
Feb 18 - 24	READING WEEK: No lectures, tutorials or CT
Feb 25 - Mar 3	Functions/decomposition (continued)   Midterm review [Link with info for the exam]		Mini-A3 due Tuesday Feb 27 at 4 PM In lecture: MIDTERM on Friday March 2 at 4 PM during normal class time.
Mar 4 - 10	Functions/decomposition (continued)   Composites [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Composites, Lists & Tuples: Chapter 7 Composites, Strings: Chapter 8	Full A3 due Friday March 9 at 4 PM
Mar 11 - 17	Composites (continued)		Mini A4 due Tuesday March 13 Thursday March 15 at 4 PM
Mar 18 - 24	Composites (continued)   Extra notes: Introduction to problem solving [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs] Files and exceptions [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Files: Chapter 6
Mar 25 - 31 Friday March 30 is Good Friday	Classes and objects [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Object-Oriented programming: Chapter 10	Full A4 Friday Mar 30 at 4 PM
April 1 - 7	Classes and objects (continued) Recursion [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes] [Example programs]	Recursion: Chapter 12	Mini A5 Due Tuesday April 3 at 4 PM
April 8 - 14	Computer history [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes]   Introduction to Computer Science [Acrobat notes] [PowerPoint notes]   Final exam review [Link with info for the exam]	Not applicable	Full A5 due Friday April 13 at 4 PM
	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].