https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-16T16:39:07+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2021-02-22T21:15:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/top?rev=1614028549&do=diff CS1: Problem-Solving and Abstraction CMPU-101 Sections 56-57 Vassar College, Spring 2021 Syllabus / Course Wiki Welcome to our course wiki. It will be updated throughout the semester with important course information, so check here regularly. text/html 2021-02-17T07:17:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/week1?rev=1613546223&do=diff Week 1 How to Program Monday No class Wednesday * Introductions * Syllabus * Coaches for this semester * to be announced * Introductions: this Friday * Coaching hours will be posted---see the link in the sidebar * How to read HtDP/2e: text/html 2021-03-24T17:13:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/week6?rev=1616606031&do=diff Week 6 Lists / Midterm I (and Review) Monday * Midterm Exam this Friday * Gradescope: <https://www.gradescope.com/> * use your email address to login * Review this Wednesday (sample exam and solutions already posted) * Assignment 2: * Happy Cat * due: next Monday, March 29 text/html 2021-05-12T18:14:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/week13?rev=1620843278&do=diff Week 13 Higher Order Functions / Midterm II (and Review) Monday * Midterm Exam II this Friday * Gradescope: <https://www.gradescope.com/> * use your email address to login (same as for Midterm I) * this will be the last exam of the semester! * Review this Wednesday text/html 2021-04-05T15:53:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/programmer-poet?rev=1617638030&do=diff The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself... O… text/html 2021-02-08T06:12:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/style?rev=1612764779&do=diff The Style Basics In addition to following the design recipe, all code must adhere to the following basic style guidelines: * Organize your program top-down, regardless of how you actual work through your wish list. The phrase “top down” means that project files consist of a general purpose statement, a data definition and a constant definition section, a main function, followed by sections for handler functions, and wrapped up by general utility functions. text/html 2021-03-17T16:35:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/week5?rev=1615998922&do=diff Week 5 Data with Varieties Monday * Attendance * Notes: * there are still a few students who haven't been checked off for lab 3 (Mar 5th) * check Campuswire channels outside of class for communications: * #office-hours, #assignments, and the Class feed text/html 2021-05-24T16:15:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/week15?rev=1621872937&do=diff Week 14 Wrap-up / CEQs Monday * Last class! =) :-( * Midterm II graded! * Login to Gradescope to see your grades * Stats (remember: grades are out of 75 total points (not 100)! * Minimum: 58 * Median: 70.0 * Maximum: 75 text/html 2021-04-28T16:20:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/assigns/assign4?rev=1619626822&do=diff Assignment 4 - Spring 2021 Permutations Assigned: Wed, Apr 21 Due: Wed, May 5 For this assignment you will: * Follow the Design Recipe to design a series of functions that computes all the permutations of a list of numbers * Be sure to write tests for each function as you go, before you move on to the function of your wish list text/html 2021-02-18T07:08:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/labs/lab1?rev=1613632136&do=diff Lab 1 - Spring 2021 Introducing the Command Line, DrRacket, and GitHub The main purpose of this initial laboratory exercise is to acquaint you with * GitHub, * the DrRacket IDE, and * the procedure for submitting your work using GitHub. text/html 2021-05-07T17:05:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/labs/lab8?rev=1620407137&do=diff Lab 8 - Spring 2021 Abstraction (or, if you copy/paste, you'll be toast!) Today's lab will give you practice with abstraction, local definitions, passing functions as arguments to other functions, and generally with the satisfaction that comes from avoiding duplicate code.