Summer 2009 CS1301 Calendar

References

Learning Computing With Robots
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist @ Open Book Project
Python.org's Python Tutorial
Building Skills in Python
python.org
Robot Specific Software:
- Myro Installation Instructions
- Myro Reference Manual

Week 1: May 12-14th 2009: Introduction, Background, Myro & Python

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday May 12th	Order your robot: How To Order Robots Read the Course Syllabus HW 1 Assigned Read Chapter 1 - The way of the program from How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (thinkCSpy)	Excellent Usenix article GIMP for windows GIMP for MacOSX CS1301 - How it fits.ppt Spring 2009 class website 2009 FIRST Robotics Challenge animation overview Line Following Scribbler
Workshop	Read Chapter 1 - The World of Robots from Learning Computing With Robots (LCWR).	Installation Guide Myro Robot Reference Manual Functions and Commands used by Myro.
Thursday May 14th	Read Chapter 2 - Variables, expressions, and statements from thinkCSpy Read Chapter 8 - Sights and Sounds up to page 200 from LCWR.	Video: Fun with Pair Programming VariablesTypesMath.ppt keywords vs. identifiers Douglas Engelbart - NLS demo video List of Python Modules (look at the math module) Scribbler Dancing video.
Friday, May 15th	HW1 Due before 6pm	Myro Graphics Reference.pdf Myro Graphics Objects Interface Zelle Graphics Object Reference face.py

Week 2: May 18th - 22nd - Expressions, Functions & Recursion

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday May 18th	Read Chapter 3 - Functions from thinkCSpy Read Chapter 5 - Fruitful Functions from thinkCSpy	Functions.ppt Code Sample: simpleFunctionDemo.py Code Sample: factorial.py
Workshop	Read Chapter 2 - Personal Robots (LCWR)
Thursday May 21st	Read Chapter 3- Building Robot Brains from LCWR	Code Sample:yoyo.py
Friday May 22nd	HW2 DUE before 6pm Lab 1 due before 6PM

Week 3: May 25th - 29th - Control Flow & History

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, May 25th	School Holiday! No Class on Monday!
Tuesday may 26th	Read Chapter 4 - Conditionals from thinkCSpy	Decimal to Binary conversion Binary to Decimal conversion 0-255 Conversion Table Conversion Calculator
Workshop	Read Chapter 4 - Sensing from Within from LCWR.	Quickstart Guide.pdf
Thursday May 28th	Read Chapter 6 - Iteration from thinkCSpy.	Code:ifTest.py Code:followLight.py KACB_walkway_04-03-09.jpg Pair programming. What researches say on the costs and benefits of the practice. VLC player to watch lecture videos Lecture Video: Recursion Code:rec1.py Code:turn5while.py turn5for.py turn5rec.py
Friday May 29th	HW 3 due before 6pm Lab 2 Due, before 6pm

Week 4: June 1st-5th: Strings & Review

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday, June 2nd	Chapter 7 - Strings from ThinkCSpy. Read Chapter 5 - Sensing the World from LCWR.	stringPrograms.py Algorithms.ppt Short History of Computing Code Samples:stringStuff.py
Workshop
Thursday, June 4th	Exam Review Read everything in the Readings column again!	Summer 2007 Exam 1 Summer 2007 Exam 1 answers Fall 08 exam1.pdf Python-review1.ppt get_int.py VLC player to watch lecture videos Lecture Video: Global and Local Code:funcs.py
Friday June 5th	HW4 Due before 6pm Lab 3 - Website due before 6pm

Week 5: June 8th - 12th: Your Robot and Compound Data Types

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, June 8th	TA led Review Session 4-5pm	The review session today is in the College of Computing commons from 4-5pm. Enter the building from the entrance across from Howey and then go through the left hallway. The commons area has a lot of benches and tables, as well as a room enclosed in glass.
Tuesday, June 9th	EXAM1	Exam1.pdf Exam1-Answers.pdf Exam1-Distribution.pdf
Workshop	Chapter 6 - Insect-like Behaviors from LCWR.	Avoid Walls demos Meet new teams
Thursday, June 11th	Chapter 9 - Lists from ThinkCSpy.	RobotSensors.ppt Lecture Video: Sensors Code: AvoidWall.py Lecture Video: Avoid Wall Lecture Video: Lists bouncingBall.py A coin designed using Python - Explanation of how it was designed. code sample:obamicon.py

Week 6: June 15th - 19th - Pixels / Pictures & Behaviors

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday June 15th	HW5 due before 6pm
Tuesday June 16th	Chapter 9: Image Processing & Perception from LCWR. Chapter 11.1 - 11.3 (3 sections about Tuples) from the Recursion and Exceptions chapter of ThinkCSpy	images.ppt picture.py Sample "robot" photos of the robot color arena: rca1.gif - Green Wall rca2.gif - Blue Wall rca3.gif - Yellow Wall
Workshop	RA: [Colorswap] [Source Image]	Pair 1 Evaluations
Thursday June 18th	Chapter 7 - Control Paradigms from LCWR.	Source code: sample_behaviors.py Lecture video: Behaviors behavior.py - subsumption architecture behavior control of the robot. Lecture Video: Behaviors2 Code: behavior2.py
Friday June 19th		NOTICE: Last day to drop individual courses with a grade of "W" and change grade mode for courses, for the Full Summer Session.

Week 7: June 22nd - 26th - File I/O & Dictionaries

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday June 23nd	Read Chapter 10 - Modules & Files from ThinkCSpy Read Sections 1 & 2 (Namespaces, and Namespaces in Python), of this Webpage Read about the Pickle Module	Python Files & Directories Code Sample: robotScript.py Required data file: robotCommands.txt Code: filter_comments.py File I/O practice problems File I/O Practice Problem Answers web.py - Creates a webpage that includes robots sensor data. Lecture video:writing_files.mpeg Video Lecture: files_modules.mpeg Lecture Video:random_photo.mpeg code sample:randPhoto.py
Workshop	Read Chapter 8 - Sights and Sounds from LCWR. Watch Chapter 1 (A Hard Problem) of The Great Robot Race 6min 33sec. Watch Chapter 2 (The Red Army) of The Great Robot Race 7min 41sec	Recitation Assignment 2 - Solution
Thursday June 25th	Read: Chapter 12 - Dictionaries from ThinkCSpy. HW 6 - Yellow Wall Due before 6pm	Code: dictionarySpanish.py Introduction to the Fibonacci sequence by Tool (Lateralus) More information about the Fibonacci series on Wikipedia Code Sample:fibonacci.py Lecture Video: fib1.mpeg fib2.mpeg Code: listDict_speed.py Code: craps.py Code Sample: tagcloud.py Lecture Videos: tagcloud1.mpeg tagcloud2.mpeg tagcloud3.mpeg Input file:art_of_war.txt Common words: common.txt Example output:tc_out.html

Week 8: June 29th - July 3rd - Software Engineering & Functional Programming

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday June 30th	Read This webpage on Functional Programming. Read Chapter 11.4 - 11.8 - Recursion and exceptions from ThinkCSpy.	Lecture Video: fade_to_black.mpeg Source Code: fade_to_black.py Sample output:fade_to_black.gif Input file: class1.jpg
Wednesday, July 1st	Find Yellow Wall Demos Group work time for Special FX Help with Lab 4, Excel
Thursday, July 2nd	HW7 - Special FX - Due before 6pm	Sample Code:pincode.py Sample Code:printComments.py MSDN Academic Alliance

Week 9: July 6th - 10th - Review & Exam

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday July 7th	EXAM2 Review	Jeopardy Game.ppt Python-review2.ppt Review Lecture Video (1/2) Review1.mpeg Review Lecture Video (2/2) Review2.mpeg Spring 2009 Exam 2.pdf Spring 2009 Exam2-answers.pdf Test Practice Problems PDF Test Practice Problems - ANSWERS PDF Test Practice Problems 2 Test Practice Problems 2 - WITH ANSWERS Test Practice Problems 3 Spring 2009 - Exam3.pdf Spring 2009 Exam3-answers.pdf
Workshop	Exam Review Help with Lab 4 Lab 4 - Excel Due before 6pm
Thursday July 9th	EXAM 2	EXAM2.pdf EXAM2-answers.pdf EXAM2-distribution.pdf

Week 10: July 13 - 17th - Barcodes, Starmaps, Searching & Sorting

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday July 14th	Read about a Linear Search "algorithm" Read about the Binary Search Algorithm Read Code 39 Specification from the barcodeman.com website.	plot_stars.py stars.txt Free Barcode Generator code39dict.py barcode_1_9.gif Lecture Slides:barcodes.ppt Code: scan_barcode.py Needed example barcode picture: barcode_color.gif Print your own: A-Ebarcodes.doc Video Lectures: barcodes1.mpeg barcodes2.mpeg barcodes3.mpeg
Workshop	Workshop: Battleships	Robotic planter finds the best light
Thursday July 16th	Play with the insertion sort Animator or here Read about the Insertion Sort Algorithm Then see an insertion sort implemented in python Watch an animated merge sort Read about Merge Sort. Then look at this implementation of MergeSort in Python.	bubbleSort.py sorts.py Sorting algorithm animation applet. Code Sample:starmap_constellations.py stars.txt BigDipper_lines.txt Cas_lines.txt Gemini_lines.txt UrsaMajor_lines.txt Bootes_lines.txt Cyg_lines.txt Hydra_lines.txt UrsaMinor_lines.txt
Friday July 17th	HW8 - Movies due before 6pm

Week 11: July 20th - July 24th - Object Oriented Programming, JavaScript & Review

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday, July 21st	Read: Chapter 13 - Objects and Classes from ThinkCSpy Read this story about the annual Loebner Prize contest	animals_eating.py Code: ngrams.py Text file: msnd.txt Lecture Videos: ngram1.mpeg ngram2.mpeg Eliza in Python
Workshop	Movie Presentations! Lab 5 - Powerpoint due before 4pm	Epic Car Race Steve Irwin Time Trial
Thursday, July 23rd	HW9 - My Program due before 6pm	Javascript for Python Programmers.PPT Kissing Trail JavaScript Games Learn More about JavaScript alert box for loop Final Study Guide.pdf Review Session MP3 (fall 2008)

Review Session: Wednesday, July 29th: 6pm - KACB 1120

Final Exam: Thursday, July 30th 8am-10:50am