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Lecture Slides

(Before class, the previous term's slides might be posted;
shortly after class the current slides will replace them.)

	1:!5-2:30	2:45-4:00
Week 0
1/17/17	Lecture 0: Introduction	Lecture 0: Introduction
1/19/17	Lecture 1: Pico-fun!	Lecture 1: Pico-fun!
Week 1
9/6/16	Lecture 2: Data	Lecture 2: Recursion
9/8/16	Lecture 3: Functions	Lecture 3: Use-It-Or-Lose-It
Week 2
9/13/16	Lecture 4: Monte Carlo and Turtle	Lecture 4: Turtles and Recursion
9/15/16	Lecture 5: Comprehensive Python!	Lecture 5: Efficiency of Algorithms
Week 3
9/20/16	Lecture 6: Data-based Design	Lecture 6: NP-completeness, Dictionaries, and Memoization
9/22/16	Lecture 7: Algorithm Design UIOLI!	Lecture 7: RNA Folding and Maybe Some Cryptography
Week 4
9/27/16	Lecture 8: Base Conversions	Lecture 8: Binary, Two's Complement, and Russian Peasants!
9/29/16	Lecture 9: Bits, Images, and Compression	Lecture 9: Symbols, Data, and Logic
Week 5
10/4/16	Lecture 10: Logisim circuits	Lecture 10: Logisim circuits
10/6/16	Lecture 11: Memory	Lecture 11: From Memory to a Whole Computer
Week 6
10/11/16	Lecture 12: Intro to Hmmm	Lecture 12: Hmmm: Function Calls!
10/13/16	Lecture 13: Hmmm... Functions!	Lecture 13: Hmmm: Recursion
Week 7
10/17/16	Fall break	Fall break
10/19/16	Lecture 14: Loops! and imperative programming	Lecture 14: Introduction to Imperative Programming
Week 8
10/24/16	Lecture 15: Designing with loops: definitely and indefinitely	Lecture 15: Mastermind and Nim
10/26/16	Lecture 16: User input and loopy applications...	Lecture 16: Lagrange polynomials and Huffman Compression!
Week 9
11/1/16	Lecture 17: Data, Alive!	Midterm exam
11/3/16	Midterm exam	No class: work on Huffman!
Week 10
11/8/16	Lecture 18: Intro to Objects	Lecture 18: Intro to OOPS
11/10/16	Lecture 19: Dictionaries!	Lecture 19: OOPS Part Deux: Inheritance and 2D Graphics
Week 11
11/15/16	Lecture 20: Libraries, APIs, and VPython	Lecture 20: AIs and UIs
11/17/16	Lecture 21: Connect Four AI	Lecture 21: Security
Week 12
11/22/16	Lecture 22: Final project overviews	Lecture 22: Final project overviews
11/24/16	Thanksgiving Break	Thanksgiving Break
Week 13
11/29/16	Lecture 23: Finite-state machines	Lecture 23: Finite-state machines
12/1/16	Lecture 24: Turing machines!	Lecture 24: Turing machines!
Final Week
12/6/16	Lecture 25: Two uncomputables!	Lecture 25: Two uncomputables!
12/8/16	Lecture 26: Finale	Lecture 26: Wrapup

Acknowledgments and thanks...

... to the many groups supporting the development and evolution of the course to date:

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