Numeric, String Operations

Input

HtTLaCS, Chapter 1

Introduction Assignment in interactive textbook due Tuesday, before class.

Lab 1

Broader Issue - Algorithm accountability: What happens when an algorithm is sexist? New guidelines seek accountability Read the article. Check out the linked articles about the questionable algorithms to get the idea of what the questions are about, and choose one article to read. Write one summary on the two articles.

Optional: Algorithmic accountability: Algorithms are designed to make our lives easier. The problem is, they're designed by us. This article is a little long and perhaps a bit alarmist, but thought-provoking.

Week 4

Using Modules, Calling functions

Defining our own Functions

HtTLaCS, Chapters 5, 6

Lab 3 Preparation Assignment, due before lab on Tuesday.

Lab 3 - For Loops, Functions, and Animation

Broader Issue: Net Neutrality - "Here's How the End of Net Neutrality Will Change the Internet" plus, for funzies: A story about Burger King's Video on Net Neutrality

Week 6

Control Statements, HtTlaCS - Chapter 7

Indefinite Loops (while), HtTlaCS - Chapter 8

Strings, HtTlaCS - Chapter 9

Lab 5 Preparation assignment in HtTlaCS

Broader Issues: Read both articles and write one summary:

• Autonomous Vehicles Complete DARPA Urban Challenge - an oldie but goodie
• Philosophers are building ethical algorithms to help control self-driving cars - and a very new one

Lab 5--Conditions

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Week 8

Lists, HtTlaCS - Chapter 10

Files, HtTlaCS - Chapter 11

Lab 7 Preparation assignment in HtTlaCS

Read about recent winners of the Turing Award (Computer Science's Nobel Prize) and their work in cryptography: Stanford cryptography pioneers Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman win ACM 2015 A.M. Turing Award

Optional: Read about Turing, a hero of computer science

Lab 7--Strings, ASCII, and lists

Week 10

Defining and designing our own Classes, HtTlaCS - Chapter 16

Lab 9 Preparation in HtTlaCS

Exam Preparation Document

No broader issue

Lab 9: Dictionaries and Defining Classes

Week 12

2D Lists

Python compared with other programming languages

Computer Science Wrapup

Lab 11 Preparation in HtTlaCS -- very short; also review classes if you're struggling with them and with the binary search code, especially with respect to how to modify it to search a list of Person objects by name.

Lab 11

Broader Issue: Read both articles and summarize in one post:

• Opinion: Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
• Your own devices will give the next Cambridge Analytica far more power to influence your vote

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