Spring 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: January 5-9th - Introduction, Background, and Numbering Systems

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Jan 5th	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 Fall 2008 class website 2009 FIRST Robotics Challenge animation overview
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, Jan 7th	Read Chapter 2 - Personal Robots (LCWR)	keywords vs. identifiers Douglas Engelbart - NLS demo video
Friday, Jan 9th	Read Chapter 2 - Variables, expressions, and statements (thinkCSpy) HW1 Due before 6pm	List of Python Modules (look at the math module) Scribbler Dancing video. AI for Games How To Order Robots

Week 2: January 12-16th - Graphics, Functions & Expressions

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Jan 12th	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 Jan 14th	Read Chapter 3 - Functions (thinkCSpy)	VariablesTypesMath.ppt
Friday Jan 16th	Read Chapter 5 - Fruitful Functions from thinkCSpy HW2 DUE before 6pm	Functions.ppt

Week 3: January 19th-23rd - Control Flow & History

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Jan 19th	School Holiday! No Class on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Workshop	Read Chapter 4 - Sensing from Within from LCWR.	Quickstart Guide.pdf
Wednesday Jan 21st	Read Chapter 4 - Conditionals from thinkCSpy	Algorithms.ppt code sample:obamicon.py
Friday Jan 23rd	Lab 1 due before 6PM	Short History of Computing

Week 4: January 26th-30th - Review & Exam

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Jan 26th	Read Chapter 5 - Sensing the World from LCWR.
Workshop		TA Review Session: Wednesday Jan 28th 4:30-6:30pm BOGGS B6
Wednesday, Jan 28th	Read everything in the Readings column above today again! HW 3 due before 6pm	Python-review1.ppt Past semester exam1.pdf get_int.py
Friday, Jan 30th	EXAM1	VLC player to watch lecture videos Lecture Video: Global and Local Code:funcs.py Exam1.pdf

Week 5: February 2-6th - Robot Sensors, Iteration

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Feb 2nd	Watch this Pair Programming Video	RobotSensors.ppt A coin designed using Python - Explanation of how it was designed. Lecture Video: Sensors
Workshop	Chapter 6 - Insect-like Behaviors from LCWR.
Wednesday, Feb 4th	Read Chapter 6 - Iteration from thinkCSpy. Watch: Robot Funkytown	What is Clean Code? Code:turn5while.py turn5for.py turn5rec.py Lecture Video: Avoid Wall
Friday Feb 6th	Chapter 7 - Strings from ThinkCSpy. Lab 2 Due, before 6pm	Code Samples:stringStuff.py Python Data Types reference Lecture Video: Recursion Code:rec1.py

Week 6: February 9th-13th - Advanced Data Types

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Feb 9th	Chapter 9 - Lists from ThinkCSpy. Chapter 11.1 - 11.3 (3 sections about Tuples) from the Recursion and Exceptions chapter of ThinkCSpy	Lecture Video: Lists
Workshop
Wednesday Feb 11th	Chapter 7 - Control Paradigms from LCWR.	Lecture video: Behaviors behavior.py - subsumption architecture behavior control of the robot. Lecture Video: Behaviors2 Code: behavior2.py
Friday Feb 13th	Midterm-Progress Reports Due HW4 Due before 6pm	Note: On Fri Feb 13th 18:31:30 2009 (EST) the currentTime() call will return 1234567890 seconds.

Week 7: February 16-20th - Intro to Files and Exam

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Feb 16th	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	bouncingBall.py web.py - Creates a webpage that includes robots sensor data. Lecture video:writing_files.mpeg Python Files & Directories code sample:randPhoto.py Lecture Video:random_photo.mpeg
Workshop
Wednesday Feb 18th	Read Sections 1 & 2 (Namespaces, and Namespaces in Python), of this Webpage Read sections 1-6 of chapter 10 (Modules to String & List Methods) from ThinkCSpy. Lab 3 - Webpage Due before 6pm!	Jeopardy Game.ppt
Thursday Feb 18th - Review Session!	TA Led Review Session: College of Computing Building room 52 Starts at 5pm Room 52 is in the basement of the CCB
Friday, Feb 20th	EXAM2	Python-review2.ppt Review Lecture Video (1/2) Review1.mpeg Review Lecture Video (2/2) Review2.mpeg Exam 2.pdf Exam2-answers.pdf

Week 8: February 23rd-27th - File I/O & Images

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Feb 23rd	Read Chapter 10 - Modules & Files from ThinkCSpy	Code Sample: robotScript.py Required data file: robotCommands.txt Code: filter_comments.py Video Lecture: files_modules.mpeg
Workshop
Wednesday, Feb 25th	Chapter 9: Image Processing & Perception from LCWR.	images.ppt picture.py
Friday, Feb 27th	Read about the Pickle Module HW5 - Strings/Lamp due before 6pm Last day to drop with a W	MSDN Academic Alliance

Week 9: March 2nd - 6th - Computer Vision & Dictionaries

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, March 2nd	Read Chapter 8 - Sights and Sounds from LCWR.	Code: find_wall.py Lecture Video: Part1 Part2 Part3
Workshop	RA: Colorswap Source_Image.jpg
Wednesday, March 4th	Guest Lecture: Monica Sweat Chapter 12 - Dictionaries from ThinkCSpy.	Code: dictionarySpanish.py Code: craps.py
Friday, March 6th	Project Team Work Day (HW 6-Yellow Wall) Lab 4 - Excel Due before 6pm	Robot Color Arena construction guide. (One is built in KACB 1120, the TA Helpdesk room.) Sample "robot" photos of the robot color arena: rca1.gif - Green Wall rca2.gif - Blue Wall rca3.gif - Yellow Wall

Week 10: March 9th-13th - Starmaps & Other Uses of Dictionaries

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday March 9th
Workshop	Workshop: Battleships	Robotic planter finds the best light
Wednesday, March 11th	Read Code 39 Specification from the barcodeman.com website.	plot_stars.py stars.txt Free Barcode Generator code39dict.py barcode_1_9.gif
Friday, March 13th	HW6 - find yellow wall due before 6pm	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 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: March 16-20th: Spring Break!

Week 12: March 23rd-27th - Searching & Sorting

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, March 23rd	Read about a Linear Search "algorithm" Read about the Binary Search Algorithm Play with the insertion sort Animator or here Read about the Insertion Sort Algorithm Then see an insertion sort implemented in python	bubbleSort.py Sorting algorithm animation applet.
Workshop
Wednesday, March 25th	Watch an animated merge sort Read about Merge Sort. Then look at this implementation of MergeSort in Python.	sorts.py
Friday, March 27th	HW7 - Special FX due before 6pm	Example Code: listDict_speed.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 13: March 30th - April 3rd - Functional Programming & Recursion (again!)

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, March 30th		Lecture Video: fade_to_black.mpeg Source Code: fade_to_black.py Sample output:fade_to_black.gif Input file: class1.jpg
Workshop
Wednesday, April 1st	Read this Advertisement Read This webpage on Functional Programming. Read Chapter 11.4 - 11.8 -- Recursion and exceptions from ThinkCSpy.	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
Friday, April 3rd	HW8 - Movies due before 6pm	Sample Code:printComments.py

Week 14: April 6th-10th - Artificial Intelligence & Review

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, April 6th	Read Chapter 10 - Artificial Intelligence from Learning Computing With Robots. Read this story about the annual Loebner Prize contest	Code: ngrams.py Text file: msnd.txt Lecture Videos: ngram1.mpeg ngram2.mpeg Eliza in Python Lecture Video:ttt1.mpeg ttt2.mpeg Code sample: ttt.py
Workshop	Movie Presentations!	Example Movies from previous classes: Packman RoboMovie The Scribbling Evel Knivel Robot Predator Scribbler Standoff The Lonely Robot Cops Wall-E Cow Death
Wednesday, April 8th	Review	Simple examples shown in class
Thursday, April 9th		TA Led Exam Review: 6-7pm Boggs B6 (classroom)
Friday, April 10th	EXAM3	Test Practice Problems PDF Test Practice Problems - ANSWERS PDF Test Practice Problems 2 Test Practice Problems 2 - WITH ANSWERS Exam3.pdf Exam3-answers.pdf

Week 15: April 13th-17th - JavaScript & Objects

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, April 13th		Javascript for Python Programmers.PPT Kissing Trail JavaScript Games Learn More about JavaScript alert box for loop
Workshop	Robot Performances! Tuesday April 14th KACB Atrium 4:30-6:30pm
Wednesday, April 15th	HW10 - Performance code due before 6pm Read: Chapter 13 - Objects and Classes from ThinkCSpy
Friday, April 17st	HW9 - Your Own Program due before 6pm	classExample.py

Week 16: April 20th-24th - Object Oriented Programming & Review

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, April 20th	Lab 5 - Powerpoint due before 6pm
Workshop	Powerpoint Presentation (Describe your HW9 program)
Wednesday, April 22nd		animals_eating.py
Friday, April 24th		Final Study Guide.pdf Review Session MP3 (fall 2008)

Final Exam: Friday May 1st 2:50-5:40pm