Textbook: For the first part of the course, we will be roughly following the early chapters of Programming and Programming Languages (PAPL), by Brown CS Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi. We will not be doing the entire book (the second half is designed for a more advanced course than ours). We will cover some early chapters out of order, as befits the goals and structure of this course.

We will switch to different materials for the last two weeks of the course. Details on those will appear later. You do not need to purchase any textbooks for this course.

Assignments: Students will complete several programming assignments, design exercises, and quizzes (some in-class, some on-line). There will be 1-2 assignments due each calendar week. There will be no exams. In the "Exercises and Assignments" column, graded work is prefixed with "HWK" or "QUIZ". Items labeled "PRACTICE" are not graded (or submitted), and are simply provided to help students practice smaller parts of lecture material outside the context of graded work.

End of the Course: The course does NOT have a final exam during the exam period. However, each student will need to schedule a brief (roughly 20 minute) individual meeting with Professor Fisler to review their work on the final assignment/project. Most of those meetings will occur during the exam period, at a mutally-agreeable time. If you have travel plans that warrant leaving Providence before the exam period, let Professor Fisler know and she will attempt to schedule your review for the day after classes end.

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Date	Topics	Readings and Handouts	Exercises and Assignments
June 25	What are Computer Science and Programming? Expressions Numbers, Strings, and Images	PAPL Chapter 1 (for high-level context) PAPL Chapter 2 (sections 2.1-2.4, 2.7) SUMMARY: course overview SUMMARY: basic data and expressions	Background survey Register for the Piazza discussion board (see link on the menu above) PRACTICE: expression errors HWK #1: Creating Flags (due Jun 27 9am)
June 27	Structuring Code Evaluating Programs Introduction to Functions	SUMMARY: code structure SUMMARY: intro to functions	PRACTICE: Evaluating Programs
June 28	More on Functions Conditionals (if/else expressions)	PAPL Chapter 2 (sections 2.5-2.6) SUMMARY: working with functions	PRACTICE: if-statements PRACTICE: reading code HWK #2: Functions and Cleaning up Code (due Monday, July 1 9am): Starter File via Pyret or Same file to download and copy into Pyret
July 2	Introduction to Tables	Three versions of flag-cost STARTER FILE: tables SUMMARY: Intro to Tables	No hwk out over July 4 PRACTICE: weather table PRACTICE: Working with if/conditionals
July 5	Working with Tables	SUMMARY: Working with Tables	HWK #3: Working with Tables (due Jul 10 (Tuesday) 6pm)
July 9	Dictionaries Errors in Tables	SUMMARY: Code from class	In-class Quiz
July 11	Table Extraction and Statistics Introduction to Lists	PAPL Chapter 5 (sections 5.1-5.3)	HWK #4: Tables with Real Data (due Jul 16, 6pm)
July 12	Processing Lists Data Design with Lists and Tables	PAPL Chapter 6 (sections 6.1-6.4.2) SUMMARY: Processing Lists	PRACTICE: functions that process lists TODO: Midterm course feedback survey
July 16	Practice with Lists Defining your own DataTypes	PAPL Chapter 7 SUMMARY: code/notes from practice problems on lists SUMMARY: notes on data design and creating datatypes EXTRA: Using metadata to find Paul Revere	HWK #5: Working with Lists and Data (due Jul 20, 6pm)
July 18	Lists of Data/Structures	Still Chapter 7 SUMMARY: Code/notes from class	PRACTICE: problems with lists of data
July 19	Trees	SUMMARY: trees	PRACTICE: more trees exercises CHALLENGE: finding flights
July 23	Intro to Python	NOTES: Pyret to Python--docs and hints CODE: Examples from class (with notes) The testlight.py file	HW #6: Python Practice (Ungraded)
July 25	How Python Programs Evaluate Loops Creating Data	NOTES: the program dictionary NOTES: loops.py NOTES: ToDo Lists
July 26	Updating Data Testing Mutation	Starter file for tracing NOTES: tracing count_char Starter file for testing NOTES: testing mutation NOTES: Updating ToDo Lists	HWK #7: Data and Variables (due Jul 30, 6pm)
July 30	Searching Running Time Hashtables	HANDOUT: options for organizing numbers NOTES: Running Times and Hashtables	Final Hwk: Modifying Data (due Aug 6, ** 1pm **)
Aug 1	Mutation and Sharing	Starter file for hashtables NOTES on BusInfo hashtables	In-class Quiz
Aug 2	Contrasting Solutions Reading User Input Course Wrap-up	Starter file for shopping	Course-specific evaluation questions