Spring 2023 Schedule

The table below is your guide to the entire semester. Each row corresponds to a week of the semester, and the week numbers in the first column are clickable links that connect this page to the lecture notes and other course materials for that week. The last column lists the sections in Data-Centric Introduction to Computing that correspond to the lecture material. The Mon/Wed columns list the lecture dates, and the Fri column lists the lab dates, for each week of the semester. The midterm exam date is highlighted, as is Spring Break when no classes meet.

Week	Topics of the Week	Mon	Wed	Fri	DCIC Readings and Assignments
-1-	Introduction	1/16 Martin Luther King Jr. Day	1/18 Problem-solving and abstraction	1/20 Lab 1: Getting started	Survey Read Syllabus Read How to Succeed 3 Getting Started 4 Naming Values
-2-	Names and evaluation	1/23 Expressions, values, and names	1/25 Evaluating functions and conditionals	1/27 Lab 2: Conditionals and reading code	Read 5 From Repeated Expressions to Functions Read 6 Conditionals and Booleans Read Vassar CS student integrity guide Assignment 1: Fun with flags
-3-	Tabular data	1/30 Tables Code	2/1 Working with tables	2/3 Lab 3: Candy analysis	Read 7 Introduction to Tabular Data Assignment 2: Ads take aim
-4-	Data processing	2/6 Designing programs for tables Code	2/8 Tables and lists Code	2/10 Lab 4: Squirrels	Read 8 Processing Tables Read 9 From Tables to Lists Assignment 3: Sunrise, Sunset
-5-	Recursive data	2/13 Data definitions Code	2/15 Trees Code	2/17 Lab 5: Call the plumber	Read 11 Introduction to Structured Data Read 13 Recursive Data Read 14 Trees Assignment 4: Decision Trees
-6-	Recursive programs	2/20 Further recursion Code (flags and list) Code (more realistic rumor mill)	2/22 Exam 1 review PDF	2/24 Exam 1
-7-	Simulation and interaction	2/27 Generating fractals Code	3/1 Reactive programs shrinking circle code traffic light code fractal tree code	3/3 Lab 6: 99 Luftballons	Read 16 Interactive games as reactive systems
X	Spring Break No class	3/6 No class	3/8 No class	3/10 No class
X	Spring Break No class	3/13 No class	3/15 No class	3/17 No class
-8-	Python	3/20 Python and notebooks Colab	3/22 Slicing and list comprehensions Colab Random Poem Generator Colab	3/24 Lab 7: Python practice	Read 28 From Pyret to Python through Section 28.6.1 Assignment 5: Much Ado About Lists
-9-	Working with real data	3/27 Tables in Python	3/29 Data sanitizing	3/31 Lab 8: Cleaning table data	Assignment 6: Famous People
-10-	Exploration and design	4/3 Visualization PDF Colab Cholera PDF	4/5 Tables and Prediction Colab	4/7 Project work	Mini-project
-11-	Changes	4/10 Iteration and mutation	4/12 Dataclasses	4/14 Lab 9: Abstraction	Read 28 From Pyret to Python from Section 28.7 to Section 28.8.3
-12-	Memory	4/17 Memory	4/19 More memory	4/21 Lab 10: Vote for Python	Read 29 Modifying Structured Data Read 30 Modifying Variables Read 31 Revisiting Lists and Variables Assignment 7: As Memory Serves
-13-	Dictionaries	4/24 Dictionaries	4/26 JSON and Web APIs	4/28 Lab 11: The art of gathering data	Read 32 Hashtables and Dictionaries Assignment 8: Predictive text
-14-	CEQs	5/1 Computer Science I CEQs Exam 2 review will be scheduled during study week	5/3 No class	5/5 No class
Final Exam Wed, 5/10, 1-3pm, SC 006