CS 139 - Programming Fundamentals (4 CR)

Tentative Schedule

Links to all assignments, labs and graded out of class activities will be found in Canvas for this class.

**CS 139 Important Deadline Snapshot**
Item	Date Due (Note: for PAs this will be the final version; steps will be due in the interims)
PA0 - Scratch	September 10 at 11:59pm
PA1 - Conversion	September 24 at 11:59pm
PA2 - Methods	October 15 at 11:59pm
PA3 - Decisions	October 29 at 11:59pm
PA4 - Loops	November 12 at 11:59pm
PA5 - Arrays	November 21 at 5:00pm (bonus for early submission)
PA6 - Objects	December 5 at 5:00pm (no late submissions will be accepted)
Midterm 1	October 2 (Thursday)
Midterm 2	November 6 (Thursday)
Final Exam	Part 1 - December 4 (during lab Thursday) Part 2 - December 12 (Friday in classroom 10:30am - 12:30pm)

CS 139 Activity Schedule
Note: for each prep assignment in the gray column, there will be an associated assignment in Canvas. Not all such assignments are graded.
All reading is from the Gaddis book unless otherwise specified.
Wk	Topic	Tuesday prep	Tuesday	Wednesday Prep	Wednesday	Thursday prep	Thursday		Friday prep	Friday
1 8/25	Orientation and getting started. Focus on problem solving.	survey code.org	Team formation. Intro to course materials. What is an algorithm? What are basic "program" structures/features?	Read syllabus Be prepared for a syllabus quiz.	Orientation to class practices-the logistics. Syllabus quiz. Why POGIL	Explore Scratch (scratch.mit.edu) What programming features can you find? Consider how you might represent you in a Scratch artwork. Read 1.6, 1.7	Introduction to Scratch. Picture day!		.	Questions from reading. Survey What are the features of an algorithm? Averages
2 91	Programming fundamentals	Weekly quiz 1 - Coverage - algorithms, parts of a program.	Scratch 2	Read 1.3 Watch video Bring an example of an algorithm to class.	Hardware quiz What makes a good algorithm?	Read 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5	Be the Computer!		Read 2.1, 2,2	Introducing Java. Parts of a program POGIL.
3 9/8	Introduction to Java	Weekly quiz 2 Focus on algorithms	Hello, World! Pair programming	Read 2.3, 2.4, 2.8	Exploring Data types ______________ PA0 due midnight tonight.	Read 2.7, 2.13	Data and data types		Read 2.5	Relearning division
4 9/15	Operations	Weekly quiz 3 - focus on operations Read 2.9, 2.10, 2.11 See Seconds to Hours assignment	Seconds to hours. Introducing Webcat	Print your program from Lab 4a and bring to class.	Why Style Matters!	Rework your program from lab4a and subit to wewbcat. Read 3.11	Formatting output		Prepare for a quiz on operations, input, formatting	Quiz on operations input formatting. Solving a problem. Putting first things first.
5 9/22	Methods and problem solving	Weekly quiz 4 Focus on operations and writing programs	Practice wtih operations and formatting. Putting it all together.	Introducing methods video. Read 5.1 (skim as an overview)	Methods activity, breaking down a problem and looking for patterns. PA1 due midnight tonight.	Read 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, Skim to get an overview	Intro to methods		Read 5.5	Problem solving with methods
6 9/29	Exam 1	Weekly quiz 5 Focus on method terminology	More methods	Prep for exam 1: Post questions to Canvas. Do the practice problems. Coverage - see Canvas	Methods questions and clarification Exam 1 practice	Prep for Exam1	Exam 1 in lab.		Relax and get ready for something new!	Return exams?
7 10/6		No quiz today	printf lab		Guest speaker: Memory models	Watch linux video. See assignment.	Linux command line lab			Guest speaker
8 10/13	Decisions	Weekly quiz 6 Decisions video Chapter 3.1, 3.2	Intro to decisions. Input validation	Practice with relational expressions	Decision POGIL activitiy	Chapter 3.3-3.5	CS Credit		Chapter 3.9	Switches and terms
9 10/20	Finish decisions start loop	Weekly quiz 7 - Focus on relational expressions and switches Read Chapter 4.10	Magic 8 Ball	Introducing loops Video Chapter 4. 2, 4.3	Loop POGIL activity		Loopy 8 Ball		Chapter 4.4 - 4.7, 4.9, 4.1 (optional)	Loop POGIL activity
10 10/27	Finish loops	Weekly quiz 8 - Focus on loops	Bottles of Pop		Nested loop activity Common loop problems	Chapter 4.7 (revisit), 4.9	Stars, I See Stars.		Supplemental reading	Testing
11 11/3	Arrays	Weekly quiz 9 - Focus on testing	JUnit lab	Post questions to Canvas Review for Exam 2 - See Canvas for coverage items	Testing - exam prep		Exam 2		Chapter 7.5, 7.6	Intro to arrays
12 11/10	Exam 2	No quiz today Chapter 6.1, 6.2, 6.3	Array lab (array Play)		Arrays POGIL		Std Deviation		Review object video	Object video
13 11/17	Objects	Weekly quiz 10	How to build an object Cars	Chapter 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7	Object features		Cars 2			Why objects
14 11/24	Thanksgiving break
15 12/1	Arrays of objects Wrap up	Weekly quiz 11 - jump start your brains	Aliens		Review for exam, practical portion		Final Exam Practical Portion during lab		Develop questions for the review session. post to Canvas. Weekly quiz 12	How far we have come! Celebration!
Finals Week 12/8	Final Exam				Review session TBD (most likely 6:30pm)					Final Exam Friday, 12/12 10:30-12:30

Last updated: 08/21/2013