CSCI 1100 Gateway to Computer Science

Fall 2022

Robert Muller — Boston College

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Administration

• Meets: Monday thru Thursday 2PM - 2:50PM, Stokes Hall North Rm 215.

• Instructor: Robert Muller

• Office Hours: Tuesdays 3PM - 5PM, Wednesdays 4PM - 5PM and by appointment, 245 Beacon St. Rm 508.

Teaching Assistants:

Calista Agmata

• Office Hours Friday 5PM - 6PM, Saturday 11AM - 12PM, 245 Beacon St. Rm 122.

Andy Zheng

• Office Hours Tuesday and Thursday 12PM - 1PM, 245 Beacon St. Rm 122.

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Schedule

At a Glance

Month by Month

1. Learning to code, writing functions;
2. Bits, bytes & machines
3. Applications

Week by Week

1. Overview and System Setup
2. Working with the Command Line Interface
3. Python: Basic types & Expressions, Libraries & Functions
4. Working with Graphics
5. Repetition & Lists
6. Animation; Model-View-Update
7. More Animation
8. Numeral Systems & Digital Representations
9. Machines
10. Machines
11. Storage & Storage Diagrams
12. Working with Arrays
13. Working with 2-dimensional Arrays
14. Applications of Strings, Text & Files
15. Catching Up

Details

Week	Mtng		Topic
1		M 08/29/22	First Meeting; Course Overview
		T 08/30/22	System Setup
		W 08/31/22	Meeting Cancelled - COVID issues
		R 09/01/22	System Setup: git Repositories
2		M 09/05/22	Labor Day No Meeting
		T 09/06/22	Setup Walk Through
		W 09/07/22	Working with the Unix Command Line
		R 09/08/22	Individual Setup Meetings
3		M 09/12/22	Python: Basic Types & Expressions
		T 09/13/22	Workshop: Defining Functions
		W 09/14/22	Python: Branching & Repetition
		R 09/15/22	Workshop: Defining Functions
4		M 09/19/22	Working with Graphics
		T 09/20/22	Workshop: Graphics
		W 09/21/22	More on Graphics
		R 09/22/22	Workshop: More Graphics
5		M 09/26/22	Repetition and Lists
		T 09/27/22	Working with Lists
		W 09/28/22	Computing Distances between Points
		R 09/29/22	Repetitive Algorithms on Numbers -- prime numbers
6		M 10/03/22	Best Practices for Model-View-Update in Python - the touchSquares App
		T 10/04/22	Using Enumerations & Classes to Introduce Meaningful Symbolic Names
		W 10/05/22	Workshop on PS3
		R 10/06/22	Workshop on PS3
7		M 10/10/22	No Meeting
		T 10/11/22	More Animation
		W 10/12/22
		R 10/13/22
8		M 10/17/22	A Statistical Model of English Text
		T 10/18/22	More on Models of Text
		W 10/19/22	Some Useful functions for PS4
		R 10/20/22	No Meeting
9		M 10/24/22	Numeral Systems
		T 10/25/22
		W 10/26/22
		R 10/27/22
10		M 10/31/22	Machines
		T 11/01/22
		W 11/02/22
		R 11/03/22
11		M 11/07/22	Storage & Storage Diagrams
		T 11/08/22
		W 11/09/22
		R 11/10/22
12		M 11/14/22	Working with Arrays
		T 11/15/22
		W 11/16/22
		R 11/17/22
13		M 11/21/22	Working with 2-dimensional Arrays
		T 11/22/22
		W 11/23/22
		R 11/24/22	No Meeting
14		M 11/28/22	Working with Strings, Text & Files
		T 11/29/22
		W 11/30/22
		R 12/1/22
15		M 12/2/22	Catching Up
		T 12/3/22
		W 12/07/22
		R 12/08/22	Last Meeting