CS5: Introduction to Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
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Course Syllabus Exams Pairs Policy Submission Info
Python Tips On your machine In your browser The httlacs text
GradeScope CS5 Gold Piazza Grutoring! Picobot JSFLAP All Hmmm Instructions Extra Credit Labs
Gold Midterm Review Black Midterm Review Final Projects Final Review (Gold) Final Review (Black)
POM CS 51p CS 5 Green CGU IST 341


Homework Assignments and Labs

Week 0
Lab Gold HW Black HW
Week 1
Lab Gold HW Black HW
Week 2
Lab Gold HW Black HW
Week 3
Lab Gold HW Black HW
Week 4
Lab Gold HW Black HW
Week 5
Lab Gold HW Black HW
Week 6/7
Lab Gold HW Black HW
Week 8
Lab Gold HW Black HW
Week 9
Lab Gold HW Black HW
Week 10
Lab Gold HW Black HW
Week 11
Lab Gold HW Black HW
Week 12
Lab Gold HW Black HW


Lecture Slides

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

  Gold Black
Week 0
8/25/20 Lecture 0: Introduction Lecture 0: Introduction
8/27/20 Lecture 1: Pico-fun! Lecture 1: Map and Reduce
Week 1
9/1/20 Lecture 2: Data Lecture 2: Recursion
9/3/20 Lecture 3: Functions Lecture 3: Use-it-or-lose-it
Week 2
9/8/20 Lecture 4: Monte Carlo and Turtle Lecture 4: Turtles and Fractals
9/10/20 Lecture 5: Comprehensive Python! Lecture 5: Efficiency of Algorithms
9/12/20 No Gold lecture Lecture 6: Edit Distance, NP, and Memoization
Week 3
9/15/20 Lecture 6: Data-based Design Lecture 7: Secrets and Cryptography
9/17/20 Lecture 7: Algorithm Design UIOLI! Lecture 8: Binary, Two's Complement, and Russian Peasants
Week 4
9/22/20 Lecture 8: Base Conversions Lecture 9: Symbols, Data, and Logic
9/24/20 Lecture 9: Bits, Images, and Compression Lecture 10: Logisim Circuits
Week 5
9/29/20Lecture 10: Circuits! Lecture 11: From Memory to a Whole Computer
10/1/20 Lecture 11: Memory Lecture 12: Intro to Hmmm
Week 6
10/6/20 Lecture 12: Intro to Hmmm Lecture 13: Hmmm: Functions and Recursion
10/8/20 Lecture 13: Hmmm... Functions! Lecture 14: Loops! and Imperative Programming
Week 7
10/13/20 "fall" break fall "break"
10/15/20 Lecture 14: Loops! and imperative programming Lecture 15: Read It and Weep
Week 8
10/20/20Lecture 15: Designing with loops: definitely and indefinitely Lecture 16: Trees and I/O
10/22/20Midterm exam Midterm exam
Week 9
10/27/20Lecture 17: Data, Alive! Lecture 17: Life and RAID
10/29/20here are the marked-up slides   and then   Lecture 16: User input and other loopy applications... (original, unmarked slides) Lecture 18: Intro to OOPS
Week 10
11/3/20 Lecture 18: Intro to Objects Lecture 19: Huffman Compression and Inheritance
11/5/20 Lecture 19: Dictionaries ~ the (t)ablest objects! Lecture 20: Connect 4 and User Interfaces
Week 11
11/10/20 Lecture 20: Libraries, APIs, and VPython Lecture 20: Connect 4 and User Interfaces
11/12/20 Lecture 22: Final-Project Possibilities Lecture 22: Final-Project Possibilities
Week 12
11/17/20 Lecture 23: Finite state machines Lecture 23: Finite state machines
11/19/20 Lecture 24: Turing Machines and Undebuggable functions! Lecture 24: Turing machines
Final Week
11/24/20 Lecture Finale Lecture 25: Two uncomputables!
11/26/20 Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving!


Acknowledgments and thanks

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

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Creative Commons License

The slides, labs, homeworks, and other CS5 classroom material other than the text is licensed under
the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Creative Commons license.
Briefly, this means you're welcome to share and adapt these materials, with attribution, non-commercially. Even Picobot!