Placement
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Please read the Syllabus and Course Policies. The placement process operates under the same rules and norms as the regular course itself. That means you must operate under Brown’s Academic Code, violations will be reported, and so on. Similarly, I expect you to be professional in your demeanor.
Please read the course’s Anticipated Frequent Questions.
Please also read the Placement AFQ.
All work will be due by 11:00pm US/Eastern time of the indicated day:
Assignment
Out
“Due”
Placement 1
June
20
June
30
Placement 2
June
30
July
7
Placement 3
July
10
July
16
Placement 4
July
20
July
24
Placement 5
July
29
August
4
You can use these Readings to learn the material. You can also use Self-Testing to make sure you’re learning properly.
Most of the reading is from How to Design Programs, second edition.
the Prologue
Part I, Ch. 5 through 5.6
Part II, Ch. 8, 9 through 9.1
Part II, Ch. 10 through 10.1
Part III
These roughly correspond to the first four parts of placement, so you can read each part over a different week.
Section 3, Basic Data
Section 5, Lists
This corresponds to the fifth part of placement.
The first edition has older prose and some different material, but also has many similarities. A relevant, major difference is that it also has solutions to several problems. You are welcome to compare your solutions against those linked to the book.