Fall 2023
Howard CSCI 100
Intro to Computer Science — a gentle but thorough introduction designed for students with no prior programming experience.
Course Materials
Weekly modules with lecture topics, slides, and lab assignments.
Week 1
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
- Lab Lab 4: Loops
Week 5
- Sep 18
- Functions
- Sep 20
- Exam 1
- Sep 21
- Lab Lab 5: Functions
Week 6
- Sep 25
- Functions Pt. 2, Scope
- Sep 27
- Lists, Mutable/Immutable
- Sep 28
- Lab Lab 6: List Functions
Week 7
- Oct 2
- Input/Output
- Oct 4
- Dictionaries
- Oct 5
- Lab Lab 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
- Lab Lab 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
- Lab Lab 9: Sets
Week 12
- Nov 6
- Exam 2
- Nov 8
- Runtime and Algorithms
- Nov 9
- Lab Lab 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
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