Fall 2015 CS1301 Team Based Learning Calendar

References

Module 0: Wednesday August 19th - Introduction to TBL & Python (and numbering systems)

Readings/Assignments	Resources
Read the Course Syllabus Read: WhatIsAllowed.pdf	Why Python is cool. Team Based Learning at UT GIMP download CamelCase CS1301 - How it fits.ppt Spring 2015 class webpage Class Video: Introduction to Class [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Read Chapter 1 - The way of the program from How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (thinkCSpy) Read Chapter 1 - The World of Robots from Learning Computing With Robots (LCWR). Read Chapter 8 - Sights and Sounds (pgs 157-168) (LCWR)	List of Python 3 Modules (look at the math module) keywords vs. identifiers Douglas Englebart 1968 NLS demo video ( On YouTube ) Class Video: Variables, Expressions & Graphics [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Decimal to Binary conversion Binary to Decimal conversion	Class Video: Functions & Base 10 [Download .MOV] [webcast] Class Video: Base 2,8,16 [Download .MOV] [webcast] 0-255 Conversion Table Conversion Calculator Conversion Worksheet - Practice Problems KACB Walkway
	VIDEO: How to install Calico on a Mac Myro Robot Reference Manual Functions and Commands used by Myro. Scribbler Dancing video.

Module 1: Monday August 24th - Variables, Expressions & Functions (and Myro Graphics Objects)

Readings/Assignments	Resources
HW0 due Monday August 24th HW1 due Thursday August 27th
Read Chapter 2 - Variables, expressions, and statements (thinkCSpy) Read Chapter 2 - Personal Robots (LCWR) Read Chapter 4 - Functions (thinkCSpy) Read Chapter 6 - Fruitful Functions from thinkCSpy Watch Video:Print vs Return	VariablesTypesMath.ppt Algorithms.ppt Functions.ppt Class Video: Variables, Expressions & Graphics [Download .MOV] [webcast] Class Video: Functions/Review [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Watch Video:Fun with Pair Programming RA_Circles.pdf	Calico Graphics Objects Interface Calico Graphics Reference.pdf Code:face.py Class Video: Graphics & User Input [Download .MOV] [webcast]

Module 2: Monday August 31st - Conditionals & Basic Recursion

Readings/Assignments	Resources
Lab 1 due Monday Aug 31st HW2 due Friday September 4th You need a robot by Wed Sep 9th!
Read Chapter 5 - Conditionals from thinkCSpy Watch Video:Explanation and example of Simple Recursion Read Chapter 3- Building Robot Brains from LCWR	Code:if_statement_example.py Code:simpleFlee.py Code:recursiveFlee.py Class Video: Conditionals [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code:rec1.py Code:rec_factorial.py Chapter 18 - Recursion from ThinkCSpy.
Pair Programming: HW2

Module 3: Wednesday September 9th - Iteration, Strings & Exceptions

Readings/Assignments	Resources
TA Led Review Session, Sunday Sep 13th, CULC 152 - 4:30pm. HW 3 due Monday September 14th Lab 2 Due Friday September 18th	Dream Spark (a.k.a.) MSDN Academic Alliance Class Video: Strings / Try & Except [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Read Chapter 7 - Iteration from thinkCSpy. Read Chapter 8 - Strings from ThinkCSpy. Read Chapter 19 (Exceptions) from ThinkCSpy	Class Video: Iteration [Download .MOV] [webcast] Class Video: Looping [Download .MOV] [webcast] Class Video: Strings [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code Samples:stringStuff.py code:flee.py code:rot13.py Code:fact_2_ways.py Code:get_int_calico.py Code:turn5while.py turn5for.py turn5rec.py
Bring your Robots to recitation!	Quickstart Guide.pdf Windows - Bluetooth Setup [VIDEO] Macintosh - Bluetooth Setup Scribbler Setup Fluke Setup
	Short History of Computing.ppt Class Video: History [Download .MOV] [webcast] Video: Programming the PDP11
Sunday (9/13)	TA Led Review Session: 4:30pm - CULC 152.
Exam 1 Review Material:	Python-review1.ppt Exam 1 Vocabulary List Sample Problems Code:funcs.py cs1301-fall09-exam1.pdf cs1301-fall09-exam1-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2010.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2010-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2011.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2011-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2011.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2011-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2012.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2012-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2013.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2013-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2013.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2013-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2014.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2014-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2014.pdf cs1301-exam1-fall2014-answers.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2015.pdf cs1301-exam1-spring2015-answers.pdf
EXAM 1: Wed Sep 16th!

Module 4: Friday September 18th - Myro Functions & Robot Sensors

Readings/Assignments	Resources
Lab 2 due Friday September 18th HW 4 due Thursday September 24th
Read Chapter 4 - Sensing from Within from LCWR. Read Chapter 5 - Sensing the World from LCWR.	Class Video: Robot Sensors & Motors [Download .MOV] [webcast] RobotSensors.ppt
Recitation: Mini Homework: Avoid Walls	Chapter 6 - Insect-like Behaviors from LCWR. Watch: Robot Funkytown
What is Clean Code?

Module 5 - Friday September 25th - Compound Data Types - Lists, Tuples

Readings/Assignments	Resources
Chapter 9 -Tuples from ThinkCSpy Chapter 11 - Lists from ThinkCSpy.	Code:list_examples_calico.py Class Video: Lists [Download .MOV] [webcast] Class Video: Lists2 & Tuples [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Chapter 7 - Behavior Control from LCWR.	Code:behavior.py - subsumption architecture behavior control of the robot.
Recitation: Sep 23/24th: RA-Avoid Walls demos
Recitation: Sep 29/Oct 1st: RA_robot_lists.pdf
Progress Report Grades next week Lab 3 due before 11:55pm on Friday October 2nd	Code:(Python3/Calico) bouncingBall.py Code: (Python3/Calico) BouncingBallsCalico.py Code: (Python3/Calico)keyBallsCalico.py Class Video: BouncingBall [Download .MOV] [webcast]

Module 6 - Monday October 5th - Modules, File Input/Output (FileIO) & Dictionaries

Readings/Assignments	Resources
Read Chapter 12- Modules from ThinkCSpy Read Chapter 13 - Files from ThinkCSpy Read: Chapter 20 - Dictionaries from ThinkCSpy.	Class Video: Reading Files [Download .MOV] [webcast] Class Video: Dictionaries [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Read Sections 1 & 2 (Namespaces, and Namespaces in Python), of this Webpage	Code:web.py - Creates a webpage that includes robots sensor data. Code: filter_comments.py Code: fileCopy.py Code: robotScript.py Required data file: robotCommands.txt
Recitation Oct 7/8th Pair work on HW5	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
HW 5 Due before 11:55pm on Thursday October 8th	Code: dictionarySpanish.py Code: letterFreq.py Code: craps.py Read about the Pickle Module

Module 7 - Friday October 9th - Pixels & Images

Readings/Assignments	Resources
Read Chapter 8 - Sights and Sounds from LCWR. Read: Chapter 9: Image Processing & Perception from LCWR.	Class Video: Computer Vision [Download .MOV] [webcast] Class Video: Computer Vision 2 [Download .MOV] [webcast] images.ppt Code:picture.py Code:obamicon.py
	Code (Python3/Calico): findGreenWall.py Sample "robot" photos of the robot color arena: rca1.gif - Green Wall rca2.gif - Blue Wall rca3.gif - Yellow Wall rca4.gif - Red Wall High Res Fluke2 photos: [green] [yellow] [red] [blue]

Friday October 16th: EXAM 2

Recitaiton October 14/15th	Exam review
Exam Review Material:	Class Video: Review-2 [Download .MOV] [webcast] Python-review2.ppt VLC video player for mpeg files Review Lecture Video (1/2) Review1.mpeg Review Lecture Video (2/2) Review2.mpeg Exam2-vocab-list.txt Jeopardy Game.ppt
Past exams:	cs1301-exam2-fall09.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall09-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring10.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring10-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2010.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2010-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2011.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2011-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2011.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2011-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2012.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2012-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2012.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2012-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2013.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2013-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2013-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2014.pdf cs1301-exam2-spring2014-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2014.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2014-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2b-spring2015.pdf cs1301-exam2b-spring2015-answers.pdf
EXAM 2	cs1301-exam2-fall2015A.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2015A-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2015B.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2015B-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2015C.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2015C-answers.pdf

Week 10: JavaScript & Images resources

Readings/Assignments	Resources
HW6 due Thursday October 22nd before 11:55pm	Class Video: Javascript for Python Programmers [Download .MOV] [webcast] Javascript for Python Programmers.PPT Kissing Trail Tower of Hanoi Fancy JavaScript Games Javascript game examples with source code Learn More about JavaScript alert box for loop
Read Code 39 Specification from the barcodeman.com website.	Lecture Slides:barcodes.ppt Free Barcode Generator Code:code39dict.py barcode_1_9.gif Class Video: Barcodes 1 [Download .MOV] [webcast]
	Class Video: Barcodes 2 [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code Calico/Python3: scan_barcode_calico.py Needed example barcode picture: barcode_color.gif Print your own: A-Ebarcodes.doc Video Lectures: barcodes1.mpeg barcodes2.mpeg barcodes3.mpeg

Module 8 - Friday October 30th - Searching & Sorting

Readings/Assignments	Resources
Lab 4 due Thursday October 29th before 11:55pm HW 7 (Special FX) due Thursday November 5th before 11:55pm. 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	Class Video: Searching [Download .MOV] [webcast] Sorting Algorithms animated side-by-side Code:bubbleSort.py Sorting algorithm animation applet.
Watch an animated merge sort Read about Merge Sort. Then look at this implementation of MergeSort in Python.	Class Video: Sorting [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code:sorts.py
RA-colorswap.txt RA_colorswap_source.jpg RA_colorswap_source.gif
	Example Code: listDict_speed.py

Module 9 - Monday November 9th - Alternate Programming Paradigms: Functional & Object Oriented

Readings/Assignments	Resources
Read This webpage on Functional Programming.	Class Video: BigO practice problems, Special FX Questions, Intro to Functional Programming [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Re-Read Chapter 18 - Recursion from ThinkCSpy.	Class Video: Functional Programming [Download .MOV] [webcast] Sample Code:printComments.py Introduction to the Fibonacci sequence by Tool (Lateralus) More information about the Fibonacci series on Wikipedia Code Sample:fibonacci.py
	Class Video: Functional Programming examples, File I/O, Recursion [Download .MOV] [webcast]
Read: Chapter 15 - Objects and Classes - The Basics from ThinkCSpy Read: Chapter 16 - Classes and Objects - Digging a little deeper	Class Video: Objects and Classes [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code:classExample.py Code:cashRegister.py Code:animalsEating.py
Read Chapter 10 - Artificial Intelligence from Learning Computing With Robots. Read this story about the annual Loebner Prize contest	Eliza in Python
HW8 - Movie Due Thursday November 12th before 11:55pm FileIO-RA.pdf and robo.txt	Example Movies from previous classes: Packman RoboMovie The Scribbling Evel Knivel Robot Predator Scribbler Standoff Cops Indy-Dance Party Cow Death
	Class Video: Tag Cloud 1 [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code Sample: tagcloud.py Input file:art_of_war.txt Common words: common.txt Example output:tc_out.html Class Video: Tag Cloud 2 [Download .MOV] [webcast] Lecture Video:ttt1.mpeg ttt2.mpeg Code sample: ttt.py

Week 14: November 16th-20th - nGrames, OpenSCAD, Exam Review

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Nov 16th		Class Video: nGrams [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code: ngrams.py Text file: msnd.txt What we learned from 5 million books
Wed Nov 18th	OpenSCAD Watch: Project Daniel - Not Impossible's 3D Printing Arms for Children Watch: Using a 3D printer to make a prosthetic hand	OpenSCAD.org website UsingOpenSCAD.pdf OpenSCAD-Example.pdf OpenSCAD User Manual 10 things to know about OpenSCAD The President, in 3D
Recitation	Movies
Friday Nov 20th	Exam Review	Class Video: Exam 3 Review [Download .MOV] [webcast] Exam 3 vocab list.txt exam3-study-guide-cs1301.pdf searching_sorting_bigO_practice.pdf Simple examples shown in class cs1301-exam3-fall09.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall09-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall2010.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall2010-answers.pdf FileIO_FunctionalProgramming.pdf Quick Reference cs1301-exam3-fall2011.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall2011-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3-spring2011.pdf cs1301-exam3-spring2011-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall2012.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall2012-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3-spring2012-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3-spring2013.pdf cs1301-exam3-spring2013-answers.pdf cs1301-exam2-fall2013-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3-spring2014.pdf cs1301-exam3-spring2014-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall2014.pdf cs1301-exam3-fall2014-answers.pdf cs1301-exam3a-spring2015.pdf cs1301-exam3a-spring2015-answers.pdf

TA Led Review Session: Sunday November 22nd 3-5pm CULC Room 152

Week 15: Exam 3 & Thanksgiving break

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday November 23rd	Exam 3	cs1301-exam3-fall2015A.pdf [cs1301-exam3-fall2015A-answers.pdf ] cs1301-exam3-fall2015B.pdf [cs1301-exam3-fall2015B-answers.pdf] cs1301-exam3-fall2015C.pdf [cs1301-exam3-fall2015C-answers.pdf]
Wed Nov 25th - Friday November 27th	Thanksgiving Break

Week 16 - November 30th- Dec 4th

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Nov 30th	Mini HW9 due before 11:55pm - NO LATE TURNIN!	Class Video: Quicksort [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code: parallel_quicksort.py Read: How To Use cx_Freeze and the main cx_Freeze website w/ downloads CX Freeze on the Mac instructions cx_Freeze demo files: Full Zip file with extra software installers and instructions canvasDemo.py hello.py setup.py
Wednesday Dec 2nd		Class Video: Plot Stars [Download .MOV] [webcast] Code (python3/Calico):plot_stars_calico.py stars.txt 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
Recitation
Friday Dec 4th	Review	A TA led Review Session Recording [Download .MOV] [webcast]

Review Material

Part of the Course	Resources
Beginning	Class Video: Final Review 1 [Download .MOV] [webcast] A Final Study Guide.pdf Review Session MP3 (fall 2008)
Middle	Class Video: Final Review 2 [Download .MOV] [webcast]
End	Class Video: Final Review 3 [Download .MOV] [webcast] Day by Day List of Topics covered in CS 1301 in Fall 2009 FinalReviewGuideV6.2-Calico.pdf CS 1301 Study Guide

Final Time

1 pm class (B sections) Final Exam: Monday December 7th, 2:50-5:40pm