4. Planning

Week 4 (September 18)

Due: 1.5 Typeface problem set

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.

Notes

• Logistics
  • Email updates
  • Submitting work
  • Study group meetings
• Typeface problemset
  • Debugging strategies
• Drawing project
• Unit 2 is coming

• The Pedagogy of Programming
• Assignments
• Department-Wide Policies
• Schedule
• 1. Imperative programming
• 2. Variables and functions
• 3. Control structures
• 4. Planning
• 5. Functional programming
• 6. Processing data
• 7. Distributed computing
• 8. Data science tools
• 9. Debugging and testing
• 10. Object-oriented programming
• 11. Strategy
• 12. Frameworks
• 13. Simulation
• 14. Wrap-up
• Syllabus