Fall 2004 Semester
Course Schedule: CSCI120A
Introduction to Computer
Science
and Programming
This
document is current at: Wednesday 1st December 2004, 7:22 PT
Schedule subject to change (please check this schedule regularly)
Mondays
and Wednesdays, 10:05 - 11:35 pm, Room 1
Instructor: Dr Anne H. Dawson: adawson@coquitlamcollege.com
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Date
Lectures / Labs
Assignments
Reading
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AP
= Assignment Presentation HW = Homework Assignments Required
Textbook
SR
= Status Report All example programs Reference Textbook #1
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Week 1
Monday 6th September - Labour Day -
College closed Ref Textbook Lessons 1 and 7
Sep 6 - Sep 10 Course Details Intro
to Computer Science, Programming and Python Ref History
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Week 2 Intro to
Programming Intro to Python Programming HW1 Chaps
1 & 2
Sep 13 - Sep 17 Lab
1 Programming
Languages
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Week 3
AP Data Types and
Processing Python Help Debugging
Chapter
2
Sep 20 - Sep 24 Lab 2
Debugging Chapter 2
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Week 4 AP Selection
HW2 issued Debugging Sections 4.1 - 4.8
Sep 27 - Oct 1 Lab 3
Debugging Sections 4.1 - 4.8
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Week 5 AP Repetition
and String Formatting
Debugging Sections
6.1 - 6.4
Oct 4 - Oct 8 Lab 4 Quiz
1 (on topics of week 1 - 5)
Debugging Sections 6.1 - 6.4
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Week 6 Monday
11th October - Thanksgiving - College closed
Oct 11 - Oct 15 AP Functions Reference
Textbook #2 HW2 due Chapter 3
Sections 6.5 - 6.9
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Week 7 Lab
5 Chapter 3
Sections 6.5 - 6.9
Oct 18 - Oct 22 The
Midterm Exam
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Week 8
AP Lists Exam Results
SR
HW3 issued Chapter 8
Oct 25 - Oct 29 Lab
6
Chapter 8
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Week 9 AP Strings
HW3 due Chapter 7
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Week 10 AP Files Final Assignment issued Chapter
11
Nov 8 - Nov 12 Lab 8 11am - Two
minutes' silence Chapter 11
Thursday 11th November - Remembrance Day
- College closed
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Week 11 AP Searching HW4 Quiz
2 (on topics of week 8 -10)
Nov 15 - Nov 19 Lab 9
Quiz 2 Results SR
Debugging
Friday 19th November 2004 -
Course Drop Deadline
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Week 12 AP
Sorting
and Complexity
Computational
Complexity
Nov 22 - Nov 26 Lab 10
Computational
Complexity
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Week 13 AP
Recursion
Sections 4.9 - 4.11 Sections 5.5 - 5.6
Nov 29 - Dec 3 Final Assignment due:
Final Assignment Presentations (10%)
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Week 14
The
Final Exam (40% - on all of
the above topics)
Dec 6 - Dec 10 Date of Final Exam: Monday 6th December, 8:30 - 11:30 pm, Room 203
Check Administration Office notice board for any
updates.
Report exam conflicts (within this college) ASAP.
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(Final 40%, Mid-term 30%
Quizzes 10%, Labs and Homeworks 10%, Final Assignment 10%)
Thursday
16th December 2004 - Marks mailed
out to students
Monday 3rd January 2005 -
Spring 2005 Semester Classes Begin
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