Week 2

Numeric, String Operations

Input

HtTLaCS, Chapters 2--4

Pre Lab 1 Assignment in interactive textbook, under "Assignments"; Basically the first 3 chapters -- reading and problems; due Tuesday, before class.

Broader Issue - Algorithm accountability: What happens when an algorithm is sexist? New guidelines seek accountability Read the article. Check out the articles linked in the text about the questionable algorithms to get the idea of what the articles are about, and choose one article to read. Write one summary of 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 3

Week 4

Using Modules, Calling functions

Defining our own Functions

HtTLaCS, Chapters 5, 6

Lab 3 Preparation Assignment, due before lab on Tuesday.

Broader Issue: This isn't a news article, but it's really important to know how Google search works. (Optional: find out how other search engines work.) Make sure you access all the info, like clicking on the various headings/interactive pieces. Also read How Do You Solve A Google Problem Like Rick Santorum's? Summarize both in one summary.

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
• Giving algorithms a sense of uncertainty could make them more ethical - and a very new one

Lab 5--Conditionals

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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:

• The Current State of Facebook's NewsFeed algorithm
• Go to "The Reading List" On the beginning of Facebook's NewsFeed

Final Exam Preparation

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