Computer Science | Vassar College https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-12T11:38:14+00:00 Computer Science | Vassar College https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2021-12-14T22:08:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) schedule https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/schedule?rev=1639519723&do=diff Fall 2021 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 text/html 2021-11-04T18:38:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/top?rev=1636051084&do=diff Problem-Solving and Abstraction CMPU-101 Section 02 Vassar College, Fall 2021 Syllabus / Course Wiki Welcome to our course wiki and syllabus. It will be updated throughout the semester with important course information, so check here regularly. text/html 2021-10-29T03:08:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week9 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/week9?rev=1635476897&do=diff Week 9 Data Types * Ch 11 Introduction to Structured Data * Ch 13 Recursive Data * Ch 14 Trees Tuesday Structured and Conditional Data Recursive Data * Welcome back! * CPO notes: lecture15 code * lecture slides Thursday * Reminder: Assignment 5 due this Thursday (tomorrow), 11:59pm * Reminder: not too late to turn in any outstanding labs/assignments for which solutions haven't been posted (no late penalty) text/html 2021-09-10T11:26:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) lab2 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/lab2?rev=1631273208&do=diff Lab 2: Conditionals and Reading Code 10 September 2021 Today's lab The purpose of this lab is to give you practice: * using Boolean expressions * reading and writing if expressions * writing functions that use if expressions * writing examples/tests for the functions you write$ \geq $$ \leq $ text/html 2021-09-17T15:43:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) asmt2 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/asmt2?rev=1631893419&do=diff <html> <h1 id=“assignment-2-ads-take-aim”>Assignment 2: Ads Take Aim</h1> <p><strong>Due:</strong> Thursday September 23, 2021 at 11:59PM ET.</p> <p><img src=“<https://www.cs.vassar.edu/~cs101/images/targeted-ad.jpeg>” alt=“Targeted Advertising”></p> <h2 id=“setup-and-handin”>Setup and Handin</h2> <h3 id= text/html 2021-11-10T14:38:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week11 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/week11?rev=1636555091&do=diff Week 11 Python * Ch 24: Modifying Variables Reminders: * This Fri, Nov 12: Midterm 2 * Review session Thursday, Nov 11 Tuesday Destructive Programming * Colab notes: week-11.ipynb * Configure Colab: * Turn on the “show indentation guides” option in Colab and set the indentation width to 4 spaces. text/html 2021-10-29T03:47:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) lab7 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/lab7?rev=1635479228&do=diff <html> <h1 id=“lab-7-call-the-plumber-_a-k-a-_-a-tree-by-any-other-name-”>Lab 7: Call the Plumber (<em>a.k.a.</em> A Tree By Any Other Name)</h1> <h2 id=“learning-objectives”>Learning objectives</h2> <p>The purpose of this lab is to:</p> <ul> <li>give you practice modeling phenomena in our world using Trees</li> <li>give you practice working with structurally recursive data definitions </li> <li>give you practice writing functions using a template for structurally recursive data definitions</li>… text/html 2021-09-03T16:49:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) lab1 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/lab1?rev=1630687750&do=diff Lab 1: Getting Started 3 September 2021 Linux accounts The instructor will provide instructions to log into your Linux accounts on the classroom workstations and set your passwords. Today's lab The purpose of this initial lab. exercise is to acquaint you with text/html 2021-10-09T14:55:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week6 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/week6?rev=1633791321&do=diff Week 6 Lists Ch. 9: Introduction to Lists * Midterm grades * will be released soon! (Wednesday night or Thurs at the latest) Tues * DCIC Ch. 9: Lists * CPO notes: see lecture code, as usual * We covered the beginning of these Lecture 11 slides and will continue on Thursday text/html 2021-09-30T01:21:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week5 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/week5?rev=1632964891&do=diff Week 5 More Tables / Midterm 1 Ch. 8: Processing Tables with Nested Functions TUESDAY * Announcement: * Coaching Hours posted! * I'm grading assignment 2 (available soon in Gradescope) * Reminders: * Check Campuswire regularly for important and timely class announcements, like coaching hours text/html 2021-09-17T02:57:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) lab3.html https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/lab3.html?rev=1631847436&do=diff <html> <h1 id=“lab-3-tables”>Lab 3: Tables</h1> <p>In this lab you’re going to be working with tables! The goal of this lab is to give you practice with:</p> <ul> <li>Extracting rows and columns from a table</li> <li>Writing and testing helper functions</li> <li>Filtering data with text/html 2021-09-25T22:09:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) coaching https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/coaching?rev=1632607780&do=diff Coaching Hours <html> <iframe src=“<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?height=600&wkst=1&bgcolor=%23ffffff&ctz=America%2FNew_York&showCalendars=0&showTz=0&mode=WEEK&showTabs=0&showTitle=0&showNav=1&showDate=0&showPrint=0&src=Y19vczVvYzJvZGYxYXZhOTdtaHVjN2NhMjZvOEBncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t&color=%23A79B8E>” style=“border:solid 1px #777” width=“800” height=“600” frameborder=“0” scrolling=“no”></iframe> </html> text/html 2021-10-15T00:17:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week7 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/week7?rev=1634257022&do=diff Week 7 Lists as Structural Data and Recursive Functions Ch. 10: Processing Lists (recursion) Tues * lecture 13 slides (with thanks to Prof. Gordon) * contains review from last time (through slide 46) * Designing list functions (begins on slide 47) * text/html 2021-09-24T03:31:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) asmt3 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/asmt3?rev=1632454280&do=diff <html> <h1 id=“assignment-3-sunny-days”>Assignment 3: Sunny Days</h1> <p>Due: Thursday, 30 September 2021 at 11:59 p.m.</p> <p><img src=“<https://www.cs.vassar.edu/~cs101/images/DSCF5442.jpeg>” alt=“Sunrise/Sunset”></p> <h2 id=“introduction”>Introduction</h2> <p>We love sunny summer days, but the equinox is already behind us, and we know the hours of daylight are beginning to dwindle. In this assignment, we&#39;ll use our experience working with tables (in class and in lab) to process a table of… text/html 2021-09-24T11:35:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) lab4 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/lab4?rev=1632483342&do=diff <html> <h1 id=“lab-4-cleaning-table-data”>Lab 4: Cleaning Table Data</h1> <h2 id=“learning-objective”>Learning Objective</h2> <p>The objective of this lab is to gain familiarity with sanitizing, visualizing, and gaining insights from data.</p> <p>Up until now, the data that you worked with had been sanitized for you (i.e. you could expect Pyret to process the data without any extra work). The data in this lab, however, is being ported directly from Google Forms submissions, so there exists data … text/html 2021-09-23T20:53:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week4 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/week4?rev=1632430418&do=diff Week 4 Tables Ch. 8: Processing Tables Tues * Lab recap * if you're still finishing up / need to be checked off, please see me during office hours (or see one of our coaches) * no late penalty, but please finish ASAP (no later than this Thursday) text/html 2021-09-15T21:14:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) lec5 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/lec5?rev=1631740480&do=diff text/html 2021-10-06T22:55:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) lecture11-slides https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/lecture11-slides?rev=1633560902&do=diff text/html 2021-10-14T23:46:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) lab6 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/lab6?rev=1634255186&do=diff Lab 6: Recursion Again and Again 15 October 2021 Learning Objectives The purpose of this lab is to give you practice reading, understanding, and writing functions involving lists and recursion. Setup Create the file lab06.arr and copy/paste the following into it: text/html 2021-11-05T03:30:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week10 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/week10?rev=1636083038&do=diff Week 10 Python * Ch 23: From Pyret to Python Reminder: * Next Fri, Nov 12: Midterm 2 * Review session next week: Tues Nov 9 or Thurs, Nov 11 Tuesday From Pyret to Python * Google Colab will be our programming environment for the Python portion of the course text/html 2021-11-23T17:11:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week12 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/week12?rev=1637687490&do=diff Week 12 Memory * Ch 25: Modifying Structured Data * Ch 26: Revisiting Lists and Variables Tuesday Ch. 25: Memory, mutation, shared data, copying, and testing * Midterm 2 : * no discussion of exam contents permitted yet * exams are being graded * Colab notebook: week12-tues.ipynb Thurs * Colab notes: week12-thurs.ipynb * text/html 2021-09-23T20:55:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2021-09-22.pdf https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/2021-09-22.pdf?rev=1632430554&do=diff text/html 2021-12-02T02:23:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week14 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/week14?rev=1638411827&do=diff Week 14 Tables in Python Tues Nov 30 * colab notebook * Office hours today will be on zoom from 2:30 to 3:30: <https://vassar.zoom.us/j/2477993620> Thurs Dec 2 * Exams have been returned via Gradescope * (It's OK to talk about the exam now) * Solutions posted on Campuswire in #section 2 room text/html 2021-09-17T01:20:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week3 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/week3?rev=1631841641&do=diff Week 3 Tables Ch. 7: Introduction to Tabular Data Tuesday * Tables and Helper Functions * DCIC Ch. 7 * Note that this was recently revised. 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Lecture 2 slides text/html 2021-09-30T20:40:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) sidebar https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/sidebar?rev=1633034409&do=diff CMPU-101 * General * Schedule * Coaching Hours * Remote Access Resources * DCIC (Text) * CPO (Pyret) * Pyret Table Documentation * Code samples from lectures * Week 5 summary including midterm review * sample problems text/html 2021-12-12T22:04:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) final-exam-email https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-02/final-exam-email?rev=1639346690&do=diff e-mail sent to you on Sunday 12/12: Dear students, This email contains important updates and information about the final exam. Please read it carefully. What has not changed is the exam time. It is still as originally scheduled: this Thursday, December 16, between 9–11am.