CS 5 Gold and Black

Administration	Course Syllabus	Switching sections	Work/Pairs Policy	Submission Info
Using Python	On your machine	In your browser	CS 5 Green	CS5 Piazza
Useful	Submission site	Instructors	Grutors and hours	CS 5 textbook
Resources	Picobot	Hmmm docs		Python for Mac 10.6.x
Midterm Week	CS 5 Black Review	CS 5 Gold Review	Gold Review Solutions
Final Exam	Practice: CS 5 Gold		Practice: CS 5 Black	Final Projects

Homework Assignments and Labs

Lecture Slides

(Before class, the previous year's slides might be posted;
shortly after class the current slides will replace them.)

	GOLD	BLACK
Week 0
9/3/13	Lecture 0: Introduction	Lecture 0: Introduction
9/5/13	Lecture 1: Pico-fun!	Lecture 1: Introduction to Recursion
Week 1
9/10/13	Lecture 2: Data	Lecture 2: Recursion, Part Deux
9/12/13	Lecture 3: Functions	Lecture 3: Use-It-Or-Lose-It
Week 2
9/17/13	Lecture 4: Comprehensive Python!	Lecture 4: Turtles and Recursion
9/19/13	Lecture 5: Monte Carlo and Turtle	Lecture 5: Efficiency of Algorithms
Week 3
9/24/13	Lecture 6: Program Design	Lecture 6: NP-completeness, Dictionaries, and Memoization
9/26/13	Lecture 7: Algorithm Design	Lecture 7: RNA Folding and Maybe Some Cryptography
Week 4
10/1/13	Lecture 8: Base Conversions	Lecture 8: Binary, Two's Complement, and Russian Peasants!
10/3/13	Lecture 9: Images and Circuits!	Lecture 9: Images and Circuits!
Week 5
10/8/13	Lecture 10: Logisim circuits	Lecture 10: Arithmetic and Memory
10/10/13	Lecture 11: Memory	Lecture 11: A Whole Computer
Week 6
10/15/13	Lecture 12: Intro to HMMM	Lecture 12: Hmmm: Function Calls!
10/17/13	Lecture 13: Hmmm... Functions!	Lecture 13: Hmmm: Recursion
Week 7
10/22/13	Fall break	Fall break
10/24/13	Lecture 14: Loops! and imperative programming	Lecture 14: Introduction to Imperative Programming
Week 8
10/29/13	Lecture 15: Designing programs: definite vs. indefinite loops	Lecture 15: Mastermind and Nim
10/31/13	Lecture 16: User input and loopy applications!	Lecture 16: Lagrange polynomials and Huffman Compression!
Week 9
11/5/13	Lecture 17: Data, Alive!	Lecture 17: Fixing Failures
11/7/13	Midterm exam	Midterm exam
Week 10
11/12/13	Lecture 18: Intro to Objects	Lecture 18: Intro to OOPS
11/14/13	Lecture 19: Dictionaries!	Lecture 19: OOPS Part Deux: Inheritance and 2D Graphics
Week 11
11/19/13	Lecture 20: Libraries, APIs, and VPython	Lecture 20: AIs and UIs
11/21/13	Lecture 21: Connect Four AI	Lecture 21: Security
Week 12
11/26/13	Lecture 22: Final project overviews	Lecture 22: Final project overviews
11/28/13	Thanksgiving Break	Thanksgiving Break
Week 13
11/28/13	Lecture 23: Finite-state machines	Lecture 23: Finite-state machines
12/3/13	Lecture 24: Turing machines!	Lecture 24: Turing machines!
Final Week
12/10/13	Lecture 25: Two uncomputables!	Lecture 25: Two uncomputables!
12/12/13	Lecture 26: Finale	Lecture 26: Wrapup

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