Dave Kauchak
e-mail: David.last_name@pomona.edu
office hours: Edmunds 224
Mon 9:30-10:30am
Wed 9:30-10:30am
Thu 10-11am
and by appointment
Zilong Ye
e-mail: Zilong.last_name@pomona.edu
office hours: Edmunds 115 - Thu 3-4:30pm
Assignment submission:
Web page: http://www.cs.pomona.edu/classes/cs51a/
Textbook: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition. Brad Miller and David Ranum, based on original work by Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey, and Chris Meyers. It is available online for free.
Final exam: Monday, May 12, 2-5pm (Section 1) and Wednesday, May 14 2-5pm (Section 2)
Other information:
| Date | Topic | Reading | Assignment | Misc |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/21 | introduction | Ch 1-2 | ||
| 1/23 | functions | Ch 1-2 | Assignment 0 | |
| 1/28 | modules | Ch 4-5 | practice 1 (solutions) | |
| 1/30 | random, booleans | Assignment 1 | practice 2 (solutions) | |
| 2/4 | conditionals | Ch 7-8 | practice 3 (solutions) | |
| 2/6 | while loops and lists | Ch 9 | Assignment 2 | practice 4 (solutions) |
| 2/11 | sequences | Ch 10 | practice 5 (solutions) | |
| 2/13 | boolean variables, aliasing, parameter passing | Ch 6 | Assignment 3 | practice 6 (solutions) |
| 2/18 | scope and debugging | Appendix (Debugging) | ||
| 2/20 | reading files | Ch 11 | Assignment 4 | |
| 2/25 | dictionaries | Ch 12 | practice 7 (solutions) | |
| 2/27 | recursion | Ch 16 | Assignment 5 | practice 8 (solutions) |
| 3/4 | more recursion | practice 9 (solutions) | ||
| 3/6 | Midterm 1 | Assignment 6 | sample problems (solutions) | |
| 3/11 | intro to AI, neural nets (ppt) | NN lab | ||
| 3/13 | machine learning/naive bayes (ppt) | |||
| 3/18 | Spring break | |||
| 3/20 | Spring break | |||
| 3/25 | ethics presentations | Assignment 7 | ||
| 3/27 | classes | Ch 17 | ||
| 4/1 | more classes | Ch 18 | Assignment 8 | |
| 4/3 | search | |||
| 4/8 | problem solving via search | Assignment 9 | ||
| 4/10 | informed search | |||
| 4/15 | adversarial search | Assignment 10 | ||
| 4/17 | more adversarial search | |||
| 4/22 | web pages | Assignment 11 | ||
| 4/24 | Midterm 2 | |||
| 4/29 | exceptions and sets | Ch 3, 13 | Assignment 12 | |
| 5/1 | higher order functions | |||
| 5/6 | big O |