https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-14T02:04:51+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico 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 2021-02-22T21:15:49+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 2021-03-24T17:13:51+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 2021-03-08T05:51:01+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 2021-02-18T07:08:56+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 2021-05-12T18:14:38+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 2021-05-07T17:05:37+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. 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 2021-02-26T18:12:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/labs/lab2?rev=1614363151&do=diff Lab 2 - Spring 2021 Designing Functions The main purpose of this lab is to practice * using the Design Recipe to write functions * designing functions that use cond expressions * designing functions that use helper functions How to get started text/html 2021-04-15T05:17:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/labs/lab5?rev=1618463869&do=diff Lab 5 - Spring 2021 Sorting / More Practice with Lists The main purpose of this lab is to have: * More practice with lists: lists of strings and lists of structures (posn's) * More practice with sorting * More practice designing programs with wish lists (helper functions) text/html 2021-04-30T16:58:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2021-05-19T05:09:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2021-05-24T16:15:37+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