Computer Science | Vassar College https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-16T15:41:57+00:00 Computer Science | Vassar College 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) top 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 2021-05-12T18:14:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week13 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 2021-05-17T18:16:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/labs/top?rev=1621275392&do=diff CMPU-101 Labs (Spring 2021) Lab # Date Description Solution Lab 1 2/19 Introducing the Command Line, DrRacket, and GitHub Lab 2 2/26 Making the Grade (Designing Functions Using the Design Recipe) text/html 2021-04-30T04:53:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week11 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/week11?rev=1619758408&do=diff Week 11 Random Functions, Local Expressions / Abstraction Monday * Assignment 4: Permutations * Assigned: Wed, Apr 21 * Due: Wed, May 5 * Whiteboard notes: * Questions? * Lecture 13: Random functions and Local expressions * [PDF] * text/html 2021-03-24T17:13:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week6 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 2021-05-15T06:01:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) schedule https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/schedule?rev=1621058507&do=diff Spring 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 $\lambda$ text/html 2021-03-08T05:51:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) assign1 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/assigns/assign1?rev=1615182661&do=diff Assignment 1 - Spring 2021 Virtual Cat World Assigned: Mon, Mar 8 Due: Mon, Mar 15 ---------- Assignment Setup * Open a browser and copy/paste this URL: <https://classroom.github.com/a/rB8Krlqz> * Login to Github and you will be prompted to accept this assignment * After you click on the [Accept this assignment] button, you will see a new page display in your browser with the message: text/html 2021-05-24T16:15:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week15 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 2021-05-19T05:09:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week14 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/week14?rev=1621400971&do=diff Week 14 Higher Order Functions / Lambda / Wrap-up Monday Announcements * Midterm II: still being graded * CEQs: next Monday (last class) * Lab 9 this Friday: time devoted to working on Assignment 5: Simple Tetris * due: Mon, May 24, 11:59pm (last day of classes) text/html 2021-04-13T19:38:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) coaching https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/coaching?rev=1618342725&do=diff Coaching Hours Here are our coaches for this semester. In addition to working during our labs each week, each coach will work additional hours in the Asprey Lab, as indicated in the table below. I will make every effort to give each of you the attention and feedback you need to be successful in this course. But, there is only one of me, and 24 students in our section of this course. I rely on my coaches this semester to help me help answer your questions. text/html 2021-03-08T05:32:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week4 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/week4?rev=1615181536&do=diff Week 4 Intervals, Itemizations, Enumerations, and Structures (cont'd) Monday * Attendance * Assignment 1 posted * Due: next Mon, Mar 15 * demo / go over the assignment * Questions? * more structures, more animals, representing a zoo (begin slide 18) text/html 2021-03-05T05:40:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week3 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/week3?rev=1614922823&do=diff Week 3 Intervals, Itemizations, Enumerations, and Structures Monday * Attendance * Lab 2 recap: * Great lab Friday! * We covered a lot of ground! practice using: the Design Recipe, cond expressions, helper functions, wow! * But time was an issue text/html 2021-04-23T06:00:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week10 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/week10?rev=1619157653&do=diff Week 10 Trees, Intertwined Data Monday * Assignment 3: Bouncing Balls -- deadline extended: Wed, Apr 21, 11:59pm * Assignment 4: Permutations to come * Lecture 10: The Rumor Mill (cont'd from Pipeline) * [PDF] * [lec10.rkt] * [lec10-pipeline.rkt] * Lecture 11: More Realistic Rumor Mill text/html 2021-04-08T03:23:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week8 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/week8?rev=1617852200&do=diff Week 8 List Abbreviations, Sorting, and Multiple Lists Monday Welcome Back from Spring Recess! * Reading and Reflection: at the midpoint in the semester * from The Mythical Man-MonthWikipedia -- by Fred Brooks (Turing Award Recipient) * "The programmer, like the poet..." * Lecture 8: [PDF] [Code] * More lists text/html 2021-04-14T19:16:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week9 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/week9?rev=1618427792&do=diff Week 9 Sorting, Multiple Lists, Trees, Intertwined Data Monday * Assignment 3: Bouncing Balls * Due: Mon, April 19 * Lecture 9: [PDF] [Code] * Sorting a List (we covered this last week) * Multiple Complex Inputs (lecture recorded and posted in Moodle) text/html 2021-03-29T20:15:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week7 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/week7?rev=1617048917&do=diff Week 7 Midterm back, More Lists Monday * Midterm I: handed back! * results published in Gradescope * Assignment 2: * Happy Cat * due: Tue, Mar 30, 11:59 (before mid-semester recess) * questions? * Lecture 8: [PDF] [Code] * More lists and list functions text/html 2021-03-17T16:35:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week5 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 2021-02-25T01:05:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) week2 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/week2?rev=1614215124&do=diff Week 2 Atomic Data: numbers, strings, images, and Boolean values Monday * Attendance * Office hours poll * Tue/Thu afternoons? * a) 1-3pm * b) 2-4pm * c) 3-5pm * d) 4-6pm * Questions from lab? * we will finish up Lab 1 before we begin Lab 2 text/html 2021-02-08T06:11:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) texts https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/texts?rev=1612764717&do=diff Supplementary Readings On writing: Strunk and White The Elements of Style bartelby.com, 1918 there is no better book on style in writing (anything) On learning to program: Friedman, Felleisen The Little Schemer: Fourth Edition MIT Press, 1996 an alternative introduction to recursive programming text/html 2021-03-29T20:16:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) assign2 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/assigns/assign2?rev=1617048997&do=diff Assignment 2 - Spring 2021 Virtual Cat World Assigned: Wed, Mar 17 Due: Mon, Mar 29 Tue, Mar 30, 11:59pm ---------- Assignment Setup * Open a browser and copy/paste this URL: <https://classroom.github.com/a/C1szqbGi> * Login to Github and you will be prompted to accept this assignment text/html 2021-04-21T05:20:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) assign3 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/assigns/assign3?rev=1618982448&do=diff Assignment 3 - Spring 2021 Bouncing Balls Assigned: Mon, Apr 5 Due: Mon, Apr 19 Wed, Apr 21, 11:59pm (extended) [bouncing balls] For this assignment you will: * Design a world (big-bang) program that displays many bouncing balls, of different sizes, colors, and velocities. text/html 2021-04-28T16:20:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) assign4 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 2021-05-11T04:14:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) assign5 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/assigns/assign5?rev=1620706450&do=diff Assignment 5 - Spring 2021 Simple Tetris Assigned: Tue, May 11 Due: Mon, May 24, 11:59pm For this assignment you will design a world (big-bang) program that implements a simple version of the classic Tetris game, as described in Section 12.6 of text/html 2021-04-30T16:58:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) lab7 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/labs/lab7?rev=1619801897&do=diff Lab 7 - Spring 2021 Intertwined Data 2: Files and Directories The main purpose of this lab is to practice * using the Design Recipe to write functions for intertwined data * we will use the Files and Directories example of intertwined data from text/html 2021-05-07T17:05:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) lab8 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.