Schedule
| Dates | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 8/25 – 8/31 |
1. Imperative programming.
Due: |
| Week 2 9/1 – 9/7 |
2. Variables and functions.
Discussion on set up experience. Turtle lab recap. Introduction to functions in two metaphors: decomposing tasks and learning new words. Getting comfortable with the Terminal. Reminders. Due: |
| Week 3 9/8 – 9/15 |
3. Control structures.
Writing more complex programs using control structures. Program tracing and debugging. Using external libraries, reading documentation. Introduction to Superturtle. Assigned:
Due: |
| Week 4 9/15 – 9/21 |
4. Planning.
Planning with drawings, pseudocode, and other diagrams. Decomposition and code reuse. Types as contract between functions. Discuss statically- and dynamically-typed languages. Drawing project proposal due. Due: |
| Week 5 9/22 – 9/28 |
5. Functional programming.
Recap of Unit 1 Drawing, onto Unit 2 Data Science. Due: |
| Week 6 9/29 – 10/5 |
6. Processing data.
Updated schedule. Updates on Drawing Project. Walkthrough of Scatter Lab. Due: |
| Week 7 10/6 – 10/12 |
7. Distributed computing.
Dictionaries. Interaction with remote APIs. Due: |
| Week 8 10/13 – 10/19 |
8. Data science tools.
Introduction to Pandas and Jupyter notebooks. Argument Project proposal (Due October 10/20). Assigned:
Due: |
| Week 9 10/20 – 10/27 |
9. Continue Argument Project.
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| Week 10 10/27 – 11/2 |
10. Wrap up Data Science.
Complete Argument Project. Due: |
| Week 11 11/3 – 11/9 |
11. Object Oriented Programming.
End of Data Science. Start of Games! Introduction to object-oriented programming. Due: |
| Week 12 11/10 – 11/16 |
12. Frameworks.
Designing Games. Due: |
| Week 13 11/17 – 11/23 |
13. Games project.
Start on game projects. Assigned:
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| Week 14 11/24 – 11/30 |
14. Games Project Progress.
Working on our game projects. A livecoding example. |
| Week 15 12/1 – 12/7 |
15. Wrap up on Games.
Leading student discussions in the Game unit. Due: |
| Week 16 12/8 – 12/14 |
16. Wrap up Course.
Course reflections. Next steps in computer science. |