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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: August 18-22 - Introduction, Background, and Numbering Systems

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Aug 18th	Course Syllabus HW 1 Assigned Test 0 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
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.
Wednesday, Aug 20th	Read Chapter 2 - Personal Robots (LCWR)	keywords vs. identifiers Short History of Computing
Friday, Aug 22nd	Read Chapter 2 - Variables, expressions, and statements (thinkCSpy) HW1 Due 6pm	List of Python Modules (look at the math module) Scribbler Dancing video.

Week 2: August 25-29th - Graphics, Functions & Expressions

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Aug 25th	Read Chapter 3- Building Robot Brains from LCWR	Myro Graphics Objects Interface Myro Graphics Reference.pdf Zelle Graphics Object Reference face.py
Workshop		Decimal to Binary conversion Binary to Decimal conversion 0-255 Conversion Table Conversion Calculator
Wednesday Aug 27th	Read Chapter 3 - Functions (thinkCSpy)	VariablesTypesMath.ppt
Friday Aug 29th	HW2 DUE at 6pm	Functions.ppt Algorithms.ppt

Week 3: September 1st-5th - Review & Exam

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, September 1st	School Holiday!
Workshop	Workshop! Read Chapter 4 - Sensing from Within from LCWR.
Wednesday Sep 3rd	Review Day Read Chapter 5 - Fruitful Functions from thinkCSpy	Keith's Review.ppt
Friday Sep 5th	EXAM 1 Lab 1 due at 6PM

Week 4: September 8th-12th - Control Flow

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Sep 8th	Read Chapter 4 - Conditionals from thinkCSpy	Python-review1.ppt
Workshop	Read Chapter 5 - Sensing the World from LCWR.
Wednesday, Sep 10th	Read Chapter 6 - Iteration from thinkCSpy.	Python-review2.ppt get_int.py
Friday, Sep 12th	Chapter 6 - Insect-like Behaviors from LCWR. HW 3 due at 6pm	VLC player to watch lecture videos Lecture Video: Lists

Week 5: September 15-19th - Advanced Data Types & Robot Sensors

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Sep 15th	Chapter 7 - Strings from ThinkCSpy.	A coin designed using Python - Explanation of how it was designed. RobotSensors.ppt Lecture Video: Sensors
Workshop
Wednesday, Sep 17th	Chapter 9 - Lists from ThinkCSpy. Chapter 11.1 - 11.3 (3 sections about Tuples) from the Recursion and Exceptions chapter of ThinkCSpy	What is Clean Code? Code: AvoidWall.py Lecture Video: Avoid Wall
Friday Sep 19th	Watch this Pair Programming Video Lab 2 due at 6pm	Python Data Types reference Lecture Video: Global and Local Code:funcs.py Lecture Video: Recursion Code:rec1.py

Week 6: September 22-26th - Robot Control & Intro to Files

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Sep 22nd	Chapter 7 - Control Paradigms from LCWR.	behavior.py - subsumption architecture behavior control of the robot. Lecture video: Behaviors
Workshop
Wednesday Sep 24th	Watch Chapter 1 (A Hard Problem) of The Great Robot Race 6min 33sec.	Code: behavior2.py Lecture Video: Behaviors2
Friday Sep 26th	Midterm-Progress Reports Watch Chapter 2 (The Red Army) of The Great Robot Race 7min 41sec Lab 3 Due, at 6pm	web.py - Creates a webpage that includes robots sensor data. Lecture video:writing_files.mpeg

Week 7: September 29th-October 3rd - Files and Exam

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Sep 29th		Robot Color Arena construction guide. (One built in KACB 1120, the TA Helpdesk room.) Python Files & Directories code sample:randPhoto.py Lecture Video:random_photo.mpeg
Wednesday October 1st	Read Sections 1 & 2 (Namespaces, and Namespaces in Python), of this Webpage Read sections 1-4 of chapter 10 (Modules to Namespaces) from ThinkCSpy. EC1 due!	Jeopardy Game.ppt Wednesday TA review session code snippits: review1.py review2.py Thursday TA review session code & session: review2_code.py review2_output.txt
Friday, Oct 3rd	EXAM 2	Exam2 Exam2 w/ Answers

Week 8: October 6-10th - Images, & Computer Vision

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 6th	Chapter 9: Image Processing & Perception from LCWR.	images.ppt picture.py
Workshop
Wednesday, Oct 8th	Read Chapter 8 - Sights and Sounds from LCWR.	Lecture Video: Part1 Part2 Part3 Code: find_wall.py
Friday, Oct 10th	HW4 Due 6pm	Review Lecture Video (1/2) Review1.mpeg Review Lecture Video (2/2) Review2.mpeg

Week 9: October 13-17th - Searching, Sorting and Computational Complexity

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Oct 13th	Fall Break - NO CLASS!
Workshop	Fall Break - No Class on Tuesday!
Wednesday, Oct 15th	Read abut a Linear Search "algorithm" Read about the Binary Search Algorithm Play with the insertion sort Animator Read about the Insertion Sort Algorithm Then see an insertion sort implemented in python	bubbleSort.py Sorting algorithm animation applet.
Friday, October 17th	Watch an animated merge sort Read about Merge Sort. Then look at this implementation of MergeSort in Python. Lab 4 - Excel Due at 6pm	sorts.py

Week 10: October 20-24th - Dictionaries, nGrams and Barcodes

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 20th	Chapter 12 - Dictionaries from ThinkCSpy.	Code: ngrams.py Text file: msnd.txt Lecture Videos: ngram1.mpeg ngram2.mpeg
Workshop	Workshop: ra1.txt	Robotic planter finds the best light
Wednesday, Oct 22nd	Read Code 39 Specification from the barcodeman.com website.	Free Barcode Generator code39dict.py barcode_1_9.gif
Friday, Oct 24th		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

Week 11: October 27th-31st - Files, Modules, and Functional Programming.

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Oct 27th	Read Chapter 10 - Modules & Files from ThinkCSpy HW5 - Finding the red wall- Due at 6pm	Code: filter_comments.py Video Lecture: files_modules.mpeg
Workshop	RA: Colorswap Source_Image.jpg	Code Sample:random_beep.py Robot playing as one of the random instruments on WREK radio.
Wednesday, October 29th	Read This webpage on Functional Programming.	Example Movies from previous classes: Packman Mad Cow RoboMovie The Scribbling
Friday, October 31st	HW6 - Special Effects due by 6pm	Test Practice Problems PDF Test Practice Problems - ANSWERS PDF 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 12: November 3-7th - Object Serialization & Artificial Intelligence

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Nov 3rd	Read about the Pickle module	Lecture Video: fade_to_black.mpeg Source Code: fade_to_black.py Sample output:fade_to_black.gif Input file: class1.jpg
Workshop
Wednesday, Nov 5th	Read Chapter 10 - Artificial Intelligence from Learning Computing With Robots. Read this story about the annual Loebner Prize contest	Code Sample: pickle_example.py Data files: savedTagsEasy.txt savedTagsHard.txt
Friday, Nov 7th	HW7 - Movies due by 6pm	Eliza in Python Lecture Video:ttt1.mpeg ttt2.mpeg Code sample: ttt.py

Week 13: November 10-14th: Recursion (again!)

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Nov 10th	Read Chapter 11 -- Recursion and exceptions from ThinkCSpy.	Introduction to the Fibonacci sequece by Tool (Lateralus) More information about the Fibonacci series on Wikipedia Code Sample:fibonacci.py Lecture Video: fib1.mpeg fib2.mpeg
Workshop	Movie Presentations!	Sample Videos: Evel Knivel Robot Predator Scribbler Standoff The Lonly Robot Cops Wall-E Cow Death
Wednesday, Nov 12th	Exam Review	Test Practice Problems 2 Test Practice Problems 2 - WITH ANSWERS TA Led Exam Review: Boggs B6A - 6pm
Thursday, Nov 13th		TA Led Exam Review: Boggs B6A - 7pm
Friday, Nov 14th	EXAM3	Exam3 Exam3 - Answers.pdf

Week 14: November 17-21st - JavaScript & Objects

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Nov 17th		Javascript for Python Programmers.PPT Learn More about JavaScript alert box for loop
Workshop
Wednesday, Nov 19th	Read: Chapter 13 - Objects and Classes from ThinkCSpy	Study abroad!
Friday, Nov 21st	HW8 - Your Own Program due by 6pm	animals_eating.py

Week 15: November 24th-28th

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Nov 24th
Workshop	Robot Performances! (KACB Atrium)
Wednesday, Nov 26th		Hacking Democracy: Part 1 Net Neutrality
Friday, Nov 28th	School Holiday - No Class! HW9 - Performance code due by 6pm

Week 16: December 1st - 5th

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Dec 1st	Lab 5 - Powerpoint due by 6pm	Final Study Guide.pdf Review_Lecture.mp3
Workshop	Powerpoint Presentation (Describe your HW8 program)
Wednesday, Dec 3rd
Friday, Dec 5th		What's new in Python 3.0 AI for Games Douglas Engelbart - NLS demo video

EC2 - Due by 6pm on Monday Dec 8th

Final Exam times:
MWF 11am - Friday Dec 12th 2:50pm-5:40pm
MWF 12am - Wednesday Dec 10th 8am-10:50am