Howard CSCI 100 Fall 2023

Intro to Computer Science

About the Class

CSCI100 is an introductory class designed for students with no formal exposure to computer science or programming. The goal is to provide a gentle but thorough introduction to computer science that will prepare students to either take further computer science courses, or use computer science in their field of study.

See the Syllabus page for more details on course policies.

Course Materials

Week 1

Aug 21

Intro, Logistics, Computers: slides

Aug 23

Languages, Hello World: slides

Aug 24

Lab Printing

Week 2

Aug 28: Memory, Variables, and Input
Aug 30: Data Types and Operators
Aug 31: Lab Variables and Expressions

Week 3

Sep 4: No lecture meeting - Labor Day
Sep 6: Intro to Logic, Conditionals and String Functions
Sep 7: Lab Conditionals

Week 4

Sep 11: Style, Conditionals, String Functions
Sep 13: For loops, Range, While
Sep 14: LabLab 4: Loops

Week 5

Sep 18: Functions
Sep 20: Exam 1
Sep 21: LabLab 5: Functions

Week 6

Sep 25: Functions Pt. 2, Scope
Sep 27: Lists, Mutable/Immutable
Sep 28: LabLab 6: List Functions

Week 7

Oct 2: Input/Output
Oct 4: Dictionaries
Oct 5: LabLab 7: Book Analysis

Week 8

Oct 9: Watch lecture on YT: 2-Dimensional Lists, Nested For Loops, Images
Oct 11: Image I/O, Docstrings
Oct 12: Project Details Coming Soon

Week 9

Oct 16: Destructive vs Non-Destructive Functions
Oct 18: Testing Code: Assert, Edge Cases
Oct 19: LabLab 8

Week 10

Oct 23: Pass-by-Reference vs Pass-by-Value
Oct 25: Intro to Algorithms, Runtime

Week 11

Oct 30: Tuples, Sets (Guest Lecture by Josh Vermette)
Nov 1: Time/Space Complexity, Big O
Nov 2: LabLab 9: Sets

Week 12

Nov 6: Exam 2
Nov 8: Runtime and Algorithms
Nov 9: LabLab 10: Wordle Game

Week 13

Nov 13: Tech Interviews and Career Paths
Nov 15: Syntactic Sugar: Comprehensions, Unpacking, Ternary Operator
Nov 16: Lab Lab 11: Syntactic Sugar

Week 14

Nov 20: Software Engineer Toolkit: Linux, Git, VSCode, StackOverflow, LinkedIn
Nov 22: No Class - Happy Thanksgiving
Nov 23: No Class - Happy Thanksgiving

Week 15

Nov 27: Syntactic Sugar: Comprehensions, Unpacking, Ternary Operator; Review for Final Exam; Keeping in touch
Nov 29: Review part II, How to Use Generative AI
Nov 30: Final Exam

Week 16

Exam week: Please reach out if your grade on Canvas needs to be updated: