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This schedule includes planned topics, exams, and semester breaks. For individual assignment deadlines, please refer to the Canvas site. The semester has two major blocks:

  1. Develop an advanced understanding of object-oriented design, inheritance, event-driven programming, and GUI design. Weeks 1-10
  2. Introduction to efficient algorithms, data structures, sorting, and advanced recursion. Weeks 11-15

Week 1

  • Tue., Aug. 27 Software Setup, Course Overview, CS Basics Review I
    • Reading:
      • Review the resources section and ensure that you have attempted to install all required software and obtained all necessary accounts & licenses
      • start looking through ds Ch 1
  • Fri., Aug. 30 Computer Science Basics Review II
    • Reading:
      • finish reviewing ds Ch 1

Week 2

  • Tue., Sep. 3 Intro Objects I
    • Reading:
      • oop Ch 1
  • Fri., Sep. 6 Intro Objects II
    • Reading:
      • oop Ch 2

Week 3

  • Tue., Sep. 10 Mental Models
    • Reading:
      • oop Ch 3
  • Fri., Sep. 13 Multiple Objects
    • Reading:
      • oop Ch 4

Week 4

  • Tue., Sep. 17 Intro to GUIs
    • Reading:
      • oop Ch 5
  • Fri., Sep. 20 Intro to GUIs II
    • Reading:
      • oop Ch 5

Week 5

  • Tue., Sep. 24 Object-Oriented Pygame I
    • Reading:
      • oop Ch 6
  • Fri., Sep. 27 Midterm I

Week 6

  • Tue., Oct. 1 Object-Oriented Pygame II
    • Reading:
      • oop Ch 6
  • Fri., Oct. 4 GUI Widgets in Pygame
    • Reading:
      • oop Ch 7

Week 7

  • Tue., Oct. 8 Encapsulation
    • Reading:
      • oop Ch 8
  • Fri., Oct. 11 Fall Break (no class)

Week 8

  • Tue., Oct. 15 Polymorphism
    • Reading:
      • oop Ch 9
  • Fri., Oct. 18 Inheritance
    • Reading:
      • oop Ch 10

Week 9

  • Tue., Oct. 22 Inheritance II
    • Reading:
      • oop Ch 10
  • Fri., Oct. 25 Memory Management
    • Reading:
      • oop Ch 11

Week 10

  • Tue., Oct. 29 OOP Principles Review
  • Fri., Nov. 1 Midterm 2

Week 11

  • Tue., Nov. 5 Election Day (no class)
  • Fri., Nov. 8 Algorithm Analysis I
    • Reading:
      • ds Ch 2.1 - 2.3

Week 12

  • Tue., Nov. 12 Algorithm Analysis II
    • Reading:
      • ds Ch 2.4-end of chapter
  • Fri., Nov. 15 Data Structures
    • Reading:
      • ds Ch 3, skip 3.8, 3.9, and 3.14

Week 13

  • Tue., Nov. 19 Recursion I
    • Reading:
      • ds Ch 4.1-4.6
  • Fri., Nov. 22 Recursion II
    • Reading:
      • ds Ch 4.6-end of chapter (skip 4.8, 4.11)

Week 14

  • Tue., Nov. 26 ONLINE Searching and Hashing
    • Reading:
      • ds Ch 5.1-5.5
  • Fri., Nov. 29 Thanksgiving (no class)

Week 15

  • Tue., Dec. 3 Sorting I
    • Reading:
      • ds Ch 5.6-10
  • Fri., Dec. 6 Sorting II + Final Review
    • Reading:
      • ds Ch 5.11 & 5.12

Week 15: Final Exams

  • Day: Tue, Dec 10, 2024
  • Time: 11:20PM-01:50PM