CS 5 Gold & Black

Administration	Course Syllabus	Exams	Pairs Policy	Submission Info
Using Python	On your machine	In your browser	CS5 text	HTTLACS text
Useful	New submission site	Grutoring!	CS5 Piazza	Picobot
Related courses	CS 5 Green	Pomona cs51	CMC's cs51	CGU's 380e
Midterm Week	CS 5 Black Review	CS 5 Gold Review	Gold Review Solutions	old submission site
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
9/2/14	Lecture 0: Introduction	Lecture 0: Introduction
9/4/14	Lecture 1: Pico-fun!	Lecture 1: Introduction to Recursion
Week 1
9/9/14	Lecture 2: Data	Lecture 2: Recursion, Part Deux
9/11/14	Lecture 3: Functions	Lecture 3: Use-It-Or-Lose-It
Week 2
9/16/14	Lecture 4: Comprehensive Python!	Lecture 4: Turtles and Recursion
9/18/14	Lecture 5: Monte Carlo and Turtle	Lecture 5: Efficiency of Algorithms
Week 3
9/23/14	Lecture 6: Data-based Design	Lecture 6: NP-completeness, Dictionaries, and Memoization
9/24/14	Lecture 7: Algorithm Design UIOLI!	Lecture 7: RNA Folding and Maybe Some Cryptography
Week 4
9/30/14	Lecture 8: Base Conversions	Lecture 8: Binary, Two's Complement, and Russian Peasants!
10/2/14	Lecture 9: Images and Circuits!	Lecture 9: Symbols, Data, and Logic
Week 5
10/7/14	Lecture 10: Logisim circuits	Lecture 10: Arithmetic and Memory
10/9/14	Lecture 11: Memory	Lecture 11: A Whole Computer
Week 6
10/14/14	Lecture 12: Intro to Hmmm	Lecture 12: Hmmm: Function Calls!
10/16/14	Lecture 13: Hmmm... Functions!	Lecture 13: Hmmm: Recursion
Week 7
10/21/14	Fall break	Fall break
10/23/14	Lecture 14: Loops! and imperative programming	Lecture 14: Introduction to Imperative Programming
Week 8
10/28/14	Lecture 15: Designing programs: definite vs. indefinite loops	Lecture 15: Mastermind and Nim
10/30/14	Lecture 16: User input and loopy applications!	Lecture 16: Lagrange polynomials and Huffman Compression!
Week 9
11/4/14	Lecture 17: Data, Alive! (2013's slides)	Lecture 17: Fixing Failures (w/ Gold)
11/6/14	Midterm exam	Midterm exam
Week 10
11/11/14	Lecture 18: Intro to Objects	Lecture 18: Intro to OOPS
11/13/14	Lecture 19: Dictionaries!	Lecture 19: OOPS Part Deux: Inheritance and 2D Graphics
Week 11
11/18/14	Lecture 20: Libraries, APIs, and VPython	Lecture 20: AIs and UIs
11/20/14	Lecture 21: Connect Four AI	Lecture 21: Security
Week 12
11/25/14	Lecture 22: Final project overviews	Lecture 22: Final project overviews
11/27/14	Thanksgiving Break	Thanksgiving Break
Week 13
12/2/14	Lecture 23: Finite-state machines	Lecture 23: Finite-state machines
12/4/14	Lecture 24: Turing machines!	Lecture 24: Turing machines!
Final Week
12/9/14	Lecture 25: Two uncomputables!	Lecture 25: Two uncomputables!
12/11/14	Lecture 26: Finale	Lecture 26: Wrapup

Acknowledgments and thanks...

... to the many groups supporting the development and evolution of the course to date:

grade locker SummerLinks SIRobotLab CircuitLab2014 Previous CS5 offerings for grutors