CSCI 150
Introduction to Computer Science

My Office Hours: MWF 1-3, Thursday 10-12, or by appointment. I am around from 9 to 4:30 most days and am available any time I'm not in class or lab.

Syllabus (not that I'll stick to it)

Here is the CS Lab Helper schedule. If you use the labs at these times there should be helpers for the 150 and 151 assignments.

Labs

•                  Lab 1     Postlab 1
• Prelab 2    Lab 2     Postlab 2
• Prelab 3    Lab 3     Postlab 3
• Prelab 4    Lab 4     Postlab 4
• Prelab 5    Lab 5     Postlab 5
• Prelab 6    Lab 6     Postlab 6
• Prelab 7    Lab 7     Postlab 7
• Prelab 8    Lab 8     Postlab 8
• Prelab 9    Lab 9     Postlab 9
• Prelab 10  Lab 10   Postlab 10
•                  Lab 11   Postlab 11 There is no prelab this week, but you should read the lab and think about it prior to the lab sessions.
  

How to Transfer Files From Your Computer to the Lab Machines
This was written years ago by two of our senior majors -- Dan Barella and Eli Rose.

Late Lab Policy: The labs are due on Tuesday at 6.   Late labs are docked 10 points (out of 50) per day.  However, you may hand in 3 labs up to 3 days late – until Friday at 11:59PM.  If you are doing this,, include in the material you hand in a text file (you can build it in Idle) with name LateLabExtension.txt.  In the body of the file say “This is my 1st late lab.”  (Or  2nd, or 3rd). 

Class Notes and Examples

• August
• September
• October
• November
• December
  

Exam 1: Friday, October 6

• About Exam 1
• Exam 1 from Spring 2016
• Solutions to Exam 1 from Spring 2016
• Solutions to this semester's Exam 1

Exam 2: Monday, November 20

• About Exam 2
• Some practice problems
• Exam 2 from Spring 2016
• Solutions to Exam 2 from Spring 2016
• Solutions to this semester's Exam 2

Final Exam: Wednesday, December 13, 2-4 pm

• About the final exam
• Some practice problems
• The final exam from Spring 2016
• Solutions to the Spring 2016 final exam

Practice Problems

• Functions

Python Resources

• My Python Notes
• www.Python.org is the home of the Python Software Foundation and the main site for the Python language. If you go to the Downloads page (there is a menu at the top with Downloads as one of the options) you should get a button for downloading an installer for Python 3.4.2 for either Mac or Windows.
• https://docs.python.org/3/ is the Python Software Foundations documentation page. You can also get to this from the Help menu of Idle
• Python: Visual Quickstart Guide by Toby Donaldson This is a complete textbook on Python available for free reading via Safari. Hurray for the library. You may have to be connected to the campus network for the link to work.

Notes

• Here is an interesting documentary on Grace Hopper, one of the first programmers and the inventor of COBOL, one of the first and most omnipresent programming languages. Some people say that by the year 2000 70% of the world's running code was written in COBOL. COBOL programs printed my paychecks for years so I feel a particular debt to Admiral Hopper (she was an admiral in the Navy and at one time was the oldest active-duty officer in the US military).