CS 60: Principles of Computer Science

Fall 2025

Instructors

Prof Sophie Engle

Prof Beth Trushkowsky

Administrative	Class Resources	Software	Quiz/Exam Practice
Syllabus Gradescope Piazza Canvas	CS60 Grutoring Schedule Racket Reference Card Racket Guide CS60 Style Guide From Python to Java	CS 60 Software Setup (Guide to getting Dr Racket, Java, and VS Code)	Quiz 1 Practice Quiz 2 Practice Final Practice

Week	Tuesday Lecture	HW due Weds. 9pm	Thursday Lecture	HW out Thursday
01	Lec 01: Intro to Racket		Lec 02: Racket Recursion and Let, Java Vars and Conditionals	HW 1: Racket Recursion
02	Lec 03: Java Loops, Big-O, Series	HW 1	Lec 04: Loop counting, recurrence relations	HW 2: Big O and Recurrences
03	Lec 05: Java Arrays and Racket Lists	HW 2	Lec 06: More Java Arrays and Racket Lists	HW 3: Lists and Arrays
04	Lec 07: Racket HOFs	HW 3	Lec 08: Racket HOFs, lambda, Java Strings	HW 4: HOFs in Racket
05	Lec 09: Intro to Java OOP	HW 4	Lec 10: Quiz 1 Review	HW 5: OOP in Java
06	Lec 11: Quiz 1	HW 5	Lec 12: Java Object-Oriented Programming
07	Lec 13: Java List		Lec 14: Java Lists and MergeSort
08	No lecture: Fall Break		Lec 15: Inheritance Example Java classes	HW 6: Lists in Java
09	Lec 16: Interfaces	HW 6	Lec 17: Intro to Binary Search Trees	HW 7: Inheritance
10	Lec 18: BSTs Implementation	HW 7	Lec 19: Quiz 2 Review
11	Lec 20: Quiz 2		Lec 21: ADTs (Sequences and Collections)	HW 8: Binary Search Trees
12	Lec 22: Stacks, Queues, and Search	HW 8	Lec 23: Graphs, Priority Queues, Heaps	HW 9: ADTs and RPN Calc
13	Lec 24: Heaps, Graphs, Intro to Spampede	HW 9	Lec 25: Spampede	Homework 10: Spampede
14	No lecture. Office hour with Sophie @ 3:30pm	HW 10	No Lecture: Thanksgiving Break
15	Lec 26: Advanced Topics		Lec 27: Final Review