Howard CSCI 100 Fall 2021

Intro to Computer Science

About the Class

CSCI100 is an introductory class designed for students with no formal exposure to computer science or programming. The goal is to provide a gentle but thorough introduction to computer science that will prepare students to either take further computer science courses, or use computer science in their field of study.

See the Syllabus page for more details on course policies.

Course Materials

Week 1

Aug 23

Intro, Logistics, Computers: [videos] [slides]

HWReleased: HW1: Tell us about you

Aug 25

Languages, Mimir Overview, Hello World: [videos] [slides]

Aug 26

LabLab 1: Greeting and Water Flasks

Week 2

Aug 30

Memory, Variables, and Input: [videos] [slides]

Sep 1

Data Types and Operators: [videos] [slides]

Sep 2

LabLab 2: Variables and Expressions

Week 3

Sep 6

No lecture meeting - Labor Day

Sep 8

All campus classes cancelled: [Replit Video Tutorial]

Sep 9

LabLab 3: Conditionals

Week 4

Sep 13

Style, Conditionals, String Functions: [videos] [slides]

Sep 15

For loops, Range, While: [videos] [slides]

Sep 16

LabLab 4: Loops: [partial walkthrough/hint video] [slides]

Week 5

Sep 20

Functions: [videos] [slides]

Sep 22

Exam 1: [practice exam]

Sep 23

LabLab 5: Functions: [slides]

Week 6

Sep 27

Functions Pt. 2, Scope: [videos] [slides]

Sep 29

Lists, Mutable/Immutable: [videos] [slides]

Sep 30

LabLab 6: List Functions: [slides]

Week 7

Oct 4

Input/Output: [videos] [slides]

Oct 6

Dictionaries: [videos] [slides]

Oct 7

LabLab 7: Book Analysis: [slides]

Week 8

Oct 11

2-Dimensional Lists, Nested For Loops, Images: [videos] [slides]

Oct 13

Image I/O, Docstrings: [videos] [slides]

Oct 14

ProjectProj 1: Image Filters Project: [slides] [submission instruction video] [Blur Filter hints video]

Week 9

Oct 18

Destructive vs Non-Destructive Functions: [videos] [slides]

Oct 20

Testing Code: Assert, Edge Cases: [videos] [slides]

Oct 21

LabLab 8: Cancelled

Week 10

Oct 25

Pass-by-Reference vs Pass-by-Value: [videos] [slides]

Oct 27

Intro to Algorithms, Runtime: [videos] [slides]

Oct 28

LabLab 9: Potpourri Practice

Week 11

Nov 1

Exam 2: [practice exam]

Nov 3

Time/Space Complexity, Big O: [videos] [slides]

Nov 4

LabLab 10: Big O, Complexity

Week 12

Nov 8

Tuples, Sets (Guest Lecture by Sonam Benakatti): [videos] [slides]

Nov 10

Computer Science Ethics: [videos] [slides]

Nov 11

No Class, Veterans Day

Week 13

Nov 15

Tech Interviews and Career Paths (Guest Lecture by Marc Cohen): [videos] [slides]

Nov 17

Syntactic Sugar: Comprehensions, Unpacking, Ternary Operator: [videos] [slides]

Nov 18

Lab Lab 11: Syntactic Sugar

Week 14

Nov 22

Software Engineer Toolkit: Linux, Git, VSCode, StackOverflow, LinkedIn: [videos] [slides]

Nov 24

No Class - Happy Thanksgiving

Nov 25

No Class - Happy Thanksgiving

Week 15

Nov 29

Classes, Attributes, Object-Oriented Programming: [videos] [slides]

Dec 1

Class Methods, In Closing, What’s Next: [videos] [slides]

Dec 2

Final Review (No lab assignment this week)

Week 16

Dec 7

Final Exam: 7pm-9pm: [practice exam]