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Spring 2026 Courses
Course Title / Link to Course Page Faculty CMPU-100-51 Programming with Datatext/html2022-10-27T19:58:04+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)06
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Assignment 4: Famous People
Assigned: Thursday, 22 September
Due: Wednesday, 28 September, 11:59 p.m.
Introduction
The Pantheon 1.0 data set contains information about 11,340 famous individuals, based on articles in international versions of Wikipedia.
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<p><strong>Due:</strong> Thursday September 23, 2021 at 11:59PM ET.</p>
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Problem-Solving and Abstraction
CMPU-101 Section 02
Vassar College, Fall 2021
Syllabus / Course Wiki
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Problem-Solving and Abstraction
CMPU-101 Sections 04-05
Vassar College, Fall 2021
Syllabus / Course Wiki
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CS1: Problem-Solving and Abstraction
CMPU-101 Sections 56-57
Vassar College, Spring 2021
Syllabus / Course Wiki
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Week 3
Welcome back!!
Querying the CAP Database on our postgres server:
* with thanks to Alan Labouseur for permission to use his materials! :-)
* CAP database creation [script]
* [CAP snapshot]
Class exercise:
Use CAP to answer all of these query questions. Write only one query per question.
Be certain to end each query with a semi-colon. Your final script should execute all
of the queries in sequence from one command. Remember that CAP is one snapshot in time
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Relational Databases
* Software
* PostgreSQL (RDBMS)
* DBeaver Community (native IDE)
* Here's a screenshot of how to configure DBeaver from a CS linux workstation:
* And here's a screenshot of how to configure DBeaver with an SSH Tunnel from your laptop:
* pgAdmin (browser-based IDE)text/html2021-06-08T13:33:44+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)resources
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Relational Databases
* Software
* PostgreSQL (RDBMS)
* DBeaver Community (native IDE)
* Here's a screenshot of how to configure DBeaver from a CS linux workstation:
* And here's a screenshot of how to configure DBeaver with an SSH Tunnel from your laptop:
* pgAdmin (browser-based IDE)text/html2019-10-27T01:55:18+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)resources
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Relational Databases
* Software
* PostgreSQL (RDBMS)
* DBeaver Community (native IDE)
* Here's a screenshot of how to configure DBeaver to access our Postgres server:
* pgAdmin (browser-based IDE)
* Lectures / Tutorials
* Learn SQL with Socratica: a YouTube lecture series
* PostgreSQL Tutorial
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C.S. Dept. Course Galleries
Semester Course Faculty Class Gallery Spring 2020 CMPU-195-51 Reiser Introduction to Digital Designtext/html2017-08-25T16:28:54+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)sidebar
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CS Wiki Home
Courses
Calendars
Events
History
People
Students
Resources
FAQs
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Python Data Visualization
Monday
* On the schedule page
Wednesday
* Today's completed notebook
Friday
* tbd
Miscellaneous
* A potential csv to use in your mini project
* more to come...
* Mentioned in class on Monday
* Not to turn this into an existentialism course, but...
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Week 6
Data Normalization
From the 5 Rules of Data Normalization [poster]:
* Unnormalized data
* redundant and repetitive data (jagged length rows)
* 1st Normal Form (1NF) -- eliminate repeating groups
* 2NF -- eliminate redundant data
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Week 5
More Tables / Midterm 1
Ch. 8: Processing Tables with Nested Functions
TUESDAY
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* Coaching Hours posted!
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Relational Databases and SQL
CMPU-381
Vassar College, Fall 2020
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Relational Databases and SQL
CMPU-381
Vassar College, Fall 2019
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CS1: Problem-Solving and Abstraction
CMPU-101 Section 02
Vassar College, Fall 2022
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Final project
The full description of the final project is here.
The final project is the main assignment of the second half of the course. Final projects can be done individually or in groups of 2 people. Group projects are expected to be more substantial than individual ones. All projects are required to be related in a substantive way to at least one of the central topics of the course. The main components are as follows:text/html2010-02-21T16:55:52+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)top
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CMPU-325:Microcomputers/Digital Electronics
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Spring 2023 Schedule
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CMPU-101-04 Computer Science I and Lab. (Fall 2018)
Overview
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Database Systems
CMPU-311
Vassar College, Fall 2021
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Contact Information
Professor:text/html2023-01-15T22:58:06+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)top
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CS1: Problem-Solving and Abstraction
CMPU-101 Section 02
Vassar College, Spring 2023
Syllabus / Course Wiki
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Analysis of Algorithms (CMPU-241-51, Spring 2023)
CMPU-241-51: Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2023)
Instructor: Prairie Rose Goodwin Location: Sanders Physics (SP) 105 Hours: Tue/Thu - 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM Notes: You can not enroll yourself in this course.text/html2011-01-11T06:09:39+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)top
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CMPU-224: Computer Organization
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CMPU-224: Computer Organization
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CMPU-203: CS III: Software Design and Implementation
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Computer Animation: Art Science and Criticism
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Week end
Tuesday
* the meeting id for tues/thurs lectures
* <https://vassar.zoom.us/j/5845469406>
* The final exam:
* May 19
* 2 hours in length via moodle
* open book/web
* not open people!
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Computer Science II:
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<h1>Computer Science I </h1>
<h2>Problem Solving and Abstraction - Fall, 2022 </h2>
<h3>Your Professor</h3>
<p>Peter lemieszewski</p>
<p>Email: pelemieszewski @ vassar dot edu </p>
<p>Office: Sanders Physics 104</p>
<p>Office hours: Mondays and Fridays, 1-3PM. Other times by appointment.
I recommend coming to office hours!
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Foundations of Computer Science
CMPU-145 Section 51
Vassar College, Spring 2019
Syllabus / Course Wiki
Welcome to our course wiki. It is the main page from which our course materials will be accessed.
Contact Information
Professor: