1 Expectations

Quizzes may be given on paper (in class) or online (at home or in class). A quiz will last roughly 15-20 minutes. Quizzes aren’t designed to trick you—they are designed to assess how you are progressing on the core topics and themes of the class. Trickier problems would be left to homework, when you have time to think about them.

• Quizzes are closed-book, closed notes.

• Questions won’t ask about arcane details or operators. They will stick to the core concepts and operators that you should know from doing exercises in class and on the homework.

• You may be asked to write a little code, but you won’t be asked to write a lot.

• If you are asked to write code, I am looking for your choice and sequence of expressions, NOT whether you got all of the colons and commas in the right place. Use indentation to line up your expressions (so it is clear what you were trying to write), and you won’t lose points for little pieces of punctuation that might be off.

2 Topics by Date

• July 10: Programs over basic data (numbers, strings, images, and tables). You should know how to read and use/write the common operators on these types, and how programs over basic data evaluate.