Related: Course Overview

Spring 2023

Note: dates and assignments more than a week out may be adjusted as the semester goes on. Please consider this page to be a living document subject to changes througout the semester. 

Week

Date

Subject

Assignments -- see Brightspace (D2L)

1

 

W Jan 18

F Jan 20

 

Overview and syllabus

Data Types 

Set up for Python:
 https://www.python.org/

(Download, install)

2

M Jan 23

W Jan 25

F  Jan 27

Turtle Graphics

Turtle Graphics Events 

Modules 

Lab 1

3

M Jan 30

W Feb 1

F Feb 3

Functions 

Selection 

Strings 

Program 1,  Lab 2

 

4

M Feb 6

W Feb 8

F Feb 10

Iteration

Recursion 

Review

Lab 3

5

M Feb 13

W Feb 15

F Sep 17

Practicum 1

Practicum Solution

Lists

Practicum 1 (in class), Lab 4

6

M Feb 20

W Feb 22

F Feb 24

PRESIDENTS DAY - no classes

Lists 

Lists 

Program 2, Lab 5

7

M Feb 27

W Mar 1

F Mar 3

Files

Files 

Files

Lab 6

8

M Mar 6

W Mar 8

F Mar 10

Dictionaries 

Dictionaries 

Dictionaries

Program 3, Lab 7

 

9

Mar 13 -
Mar 17

SPRING BREAK - no classes

 

10

M Mar 20

W Mar 22

F Mar 24

Object Oriented Basics 

Object Oriented Basics 

Object Oriented Basics

Lab 8

11

M Mar 27

W Mar 29

F Mar 31

More OOP 

Review

Practicum 2 

Lab 9

 

Practicum 2 (in class)
12

M April 3

W April 5

F April 7

Practicum Solution, More OOP

More OOP

UNIVERSITY DAY - no classes

Program 4, Lab 10

 

13

M April 10

W April 12

F April 14

NumPy Module 

NumPy Module

NumPy Module 

Lab 11

14

M April 17

W April 19

F April 21

matplotlib Module 

matplotlib Module

matplotlib Module 

Program 5, Lab 12

 

15

M April 24

W April 26

F April 28

pandas Module 

pandas Module

pandas Module 

Lab 13 (optional: score replaces lowest previous lab score)

16

M May 1

W May 3

F May 5

scikit-learn Module 

Review OOP, Data Modules

Python vs. C vs. Java

 

 

17

M May 8

FINAL EXAM  (Exam 3) (in class with laptop)

8:00 am - 9:50 am
NAH 165

Lectures

Instructor: Mr. Daniel DeFrance

Lectures take place on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 9:00 - 9:50 am in Norm Asbhornson Hall (NAH) Room 165 -- the big round classroom. It's recommended you bring your laptop to follow along with in-class coding examples. 

The main text we will use for this course free and online. 

Labs

Labs meet in Roberts Hall Room 111 on Thursdays. There is no lab scheduled for the first week of classes.  The time of your meeting will depend on the section in which you are enrolled. To find out about more, you can use the Schedule of Classes to filter for CSCI 127, which provides a list of all the sections, and at what the times they meet. It should take you an hour or two if you are well prepared (labs generally open at  8 pm the evening before the lab day so you can get a sneak preview), but you will have until midnight on the day of the lab to submit your work to D2L for grading.

A Teaching Assistant (TA) will be in the room to answer questions, provide guidence, and grade the assigments. Each section will have a different TA, so get to know yours early, and take note of their office hours to visit them outside of lab time.

Teaching Assistants (TAs)

Section     From  To    Day   Email
1   Ben Heinze          8:00 AM 9:50 AM   Thursday   ben.c.heinze@gmail.com
2   Asad Noor  10:00 AM 11:50 AM   Thursday   asad.cse.10@gmail.com
3   Asad Noor  12:15 PM 2:05 PM   Thursday   asad.cse.10@gmail.com
4   Shama Maganur  2:15 PM 4:05 PM   Thursday   shama.maganur@gmail.com
5   Shama Maganur  4:15 PM 6:05 PM   Thursday   shama.maganur@gmail.com

Programming Assignments

Programs are take-home assignments that are meant to take a bit more effort than the labs. Subsequently there are fewer of them you will have more time to finish. Programs are generally assigned every other week, and opening Monday morning, and closing Sunday night. It is strongly recommended you make every effort to finish the programs before the deadline, early in the week if possible. A tip: zeros are a lot worse than a plain old bad grade. If you get your program together enough that you think it would be worth some points, go ahead and submit it early with D2L -- you can always improve it and resubmit right up until the deadline.

Your TA will be familiar with the program and will grading it when your are finished, so they're a great resource to ask for help, but during lab times they will be focused on the lab. To get help with the programs, it's better visit the Student Success Center inBarnard Hall Room 259. Your TA will hold office hours there, but really anyone working there at the time you drop in should be able to sit down with you and help you with your program, even if they are a TA for a completely different class.

Exams

There are three exams over the course of the semester, including the final exam during finals week. The exams take place in the NAH class room during regular class hours (except for the final exam, which has its own schedule at the end of the semester.) These exams are all weighted evenly -- the final exam is not worth any more points than the other two.

Grading

Note: Practicums must be taken at the regularly scheduled time at the designated place and will not be given early or late.

  • Weekly Labs - 40% (evenly weighted)
  • Programs - 30% (evenly weighted)
  • Practicums - 30 % (evenly weighted)

Grades will be determined (after any curving takes place) based on your class average as follows:

  • 93+: A
  • 90+: A-
  • 87+: B+
  • 83+: B
  • 80+: B-
  • 77+: C+
  • 73+: C
  • 70+: C-
  • 67+: D+
  • 63: D
  • 60: D-