https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-16T13:58:49+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 2021-04-13T19:38:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2021-03-24T17:13:51+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 2021-05-15T06:01:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2021-02-08T06:11:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2021-02-25T01:05:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2021-03-05T05:40:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2021-05-12T18:14:38+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 2021-05-24T16:15:37+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 2021-03-08T05:51:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2021-03-29T20:16:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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) 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) 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) 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