CSC 160: Computer Programming for Non-Majors

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science     Prof. A. Wittenstein

Post Hall 103         Wittenstein@adelphi.edu

Fall 2013 Office Hours
MW 5:30-6:00pm, in SWL 100.
Other days/times by appointment, in PSH 103.

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CSC 160 Calendar

Note: Please complete all reading assignments before the dates indicated. Be sure to ask about anything that you do not understand about a reading assignment at the start of the class covering it.
Note: Please check the calendar frequently as dates may shift. For example, this could happen if a topic which is planned for 1 day actually takes 2 days, or vice-versa.

Last Updated: Mon. 12/9/13

Week Date Assignments Reading Topic
1 W 8/28 HW1 0 Introduction
M 9/2
No Classes - Labor Day
W 9/4 - 1.1-1.4,1.6; Joys&Woes Drawing Pictures; Saving Your Work
2 M 9/9 - 1.5 More Complex Manipulations
T 9/10
Last Day to Add Classes
W 9/11 HW1 due; HW2 1.7-1.10 Syntax and Box Diagrams
3 M 9/16 HW2 due; HW3 2; WantToLearn Variables: Shorthand for Values
W 9/18 QUIZ 1 (on Ch.1 & 2) 3.1-3.4 Data Types; Creating Shapes; Contracts and Comments
4 M 9/23 HW3 due; HW4 3.5-4.1 Building more interesting pictures; Introduce defining functions
W 9/25 - 4.1,4.2,4.5; DefOfProgram Defining and testing your own functions
W 9/25
Last Day to Drop Classes
5 M 9/30 HW4 due; HW5 4.3-4.4 Parameters and arguments; CW1 (exercises on parameters and arguments)
W 10/2 QUIZ 2 (on Ch.3 & 4) 4.6-4.10 More on defining functions
6 M 10/7 HW5 due; HW6 5.1-5.5 Design Recipe: Contract/Purpose, Examples, Introduce Skeletons
W 10/9 - 5.5-5.16; PairProg Design Recipe: Skeleton, Inventory, The Function Body, Testing and Using
7 M 10/14 HW6 due; HW7 - CW2 (bullseye exercise)
W 10/16 QUIZ 3 (on Ch.5 & PairProg) 7.1-7.2 Numeric expressions
8 M 10/21 HW7 due 7.3-7.6 More on Numeric expressions; Review for Midterm Exam
W 10/23
Midterm Exam: 4:15-5:30pm
9 M 10/28 HW8 7.7 Numeric functions; CW3 (Exercise 7.7.4)
W 10/30 - 9 String expressions and functions; CW4 (Exercise 9.2.3)
W 10/30
Last Day to Withdraw from Classes
10 M 11/4 HW8 due; HW9 11.1-11.4 Reusing and composing functions
W 11/6 QUIZ 4 (on Sec.7.7, Ch.9, & Sec.11.1-11.4) 11.5 Multi-function programs: a case study
11 M 11/11 HW9 due; HW10 11.6-11.7
12
13.1-13.3		 Review of Multi-function programs
Overview of defining new data types
Booleans
W 11/13 - 13.3-13.6 More on booleans; CW5 (Exercise 13.4.0)
12 M 11/18 HW10 due; HW11 13.7-13.10 Boolean operators; CW6 (Exercise 13.7.3)
W 11/20 QUIZ 5 (on Ch.13) 15.1-15.3 Conditional expressions and functions
13 M 11/25 HW11 due; HW12 15.4-15.6 More on conditional functions
W 11/27
No Classes - Thanksgiving Recess
M 12/2 HW12 due; HW13 15.7-15.10; 19.1-19.2 Decisions among data types; Nested conditionals; Handling Errors
14 W 12/4 - 19.2-19.3 Preview of Mathemagician; More on Handling Errors; Course Evaluation
M 12/9 HW13 due; HW14 20.1-20.4 Working with posns; CW7 (on-top-left?)
15 W 12/11 - - Optional Review Session for Final Exam
M 12/16 HW14 due - No Classes - Finals Week
W 12/18
Final Exam: 3:30pm-5:30pm - SWL 100