CS5: Introduction to Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
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Homework Assignments and Labs

Week 6/7
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12


Lecture Slides

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

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Week 0
8/25/20 Lecture 0: Introduction Lecture 0: Introduction
8/27/20 Lecture 1: Pico-fun! Lecture 1: Map and Reduce
Week 1
9/1/20 Lecture 2: Data Lecture 2: Recursion
9/3/20 Lecture 3: Functions Lecture 3: Use-it-or-lose-it
Week 2
9/8/20 Lecture 4: Monte Carlo and Turtle Lecture 4: Turtles and Fractals
9/10/20 Lecture 5: Comprehensive Python! Lecture 5: Efficiency of Algorithms
9/12/20 No Gold lecture Lecture 6: Edit Distance, NP, and Memoization
Week 3
9/15/20 Lecture 6: Data-based Design Lecture 7: Secrets and Cryptography
9/17/20 Lecture 7: Algorithm Design UIOLI! Lecture 8: Binary, Two's Complement, and Russian Peasants
Week 4
9/22/20 Lecture 8: Base Conversions Lecture 9: Symbols, Data, and Logic
9/24/20 Lecture 9: Bits, Images, and Compression Lecture 10: Logisim Circuits
Week 5
9/29/20Lecture 10: Circuits! Lecture 11: From Memory to a Whole Computer
10/1/20 Lecture 11: Memory Lecture 12: Intro to Hmmm
Week 6
10/6/20 Lecture 12: Intro to Hmmm Lecture 13: Hmmm: Functions and Recursion
10/8/20 Lecture 13: Hmmm... Functions! Lecture 14: Loops! and Imperative Programming
Week 7
10/13/20 "fall" break fall "break"
10/15/20 Lecture 14: Loops! and imperative programming Lecture 15: Read It and Weep
Week 8
10/20/20Lecture 15: Designing with loops: definitely and indefinitely Lecture 16: Trees and I/O
10/22/20Midterm exam Midterm exam
Week 9
10/27/20Lecture 17: Data, Alive! Lecture 17: Life and RAID
10/29/20here are the marked-up slides   and then   Lecture 16: User input and other loopy applications... (original, unmarked slides) Lecture 18: Intro to OOPS
Week 10
11/3/20 Lecture 18: Intro to Objects Lecture 19: Huffman Compression and Inheritance
11/5/20 Lecture 19: Dictionaries ~ the (t)ablest objects! Lecture 20: Connect 4 and User Interfaces
Week 11
11/10/20 Lecture 20: Libraries, APIs, and VPython Lecture 20: Connect 4 and User Interfaces
11/12/20 Lecture 22: Final-Project Possibilities Lecture 22: Final-Project Possibilities
Week 12
11/17/20 Lecture 23: Finite state machines Lecture 23: Finite state machines
11/19/20 Lecture 24: Turing Machines and Undebuggable functions! Lecture 24: Turing machines
Final Week
11/24/20 Lecture Finale Lecture 25: Two uncomputables!
11/26/20 Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving!


Acknowledgments and thanks

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

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