CS 5:

Homework Assignments and Labs

Lecture Slides

(Before class, the previous term's slides might be here; shortly after, the current slides will replace them.    For an approximate overview, here are all of 2025's materials.)

	Gold
Week -1!
1/19/26	Spring starts tomorrow...
1/21/26	Lecture 0: Welcome!
Week 0
1/26/26	Universal Lab Day   No class:   Lab!
1/28/26	Lecture 1: Pico-fun!
Week 1
2/2/26	Lecture 2: Data
2/4/26	Lecture 3: Functions and Recursion!
Week 2
2/9/26	Lecture 4: Monte Carlo and Turtle
2/11/26	Lecture 5: Comprehensive Python!
Week 3
2/16/26	Lecture 6:   Algorithms!, the ❤️ of CS
2/18/26	Special meeting   Remote logins + files, aka...      Author your own webapp,   with AI as possible co-author...
Week 4
2/23/26	Lecture 8: Base Conversions
2/25/26	Lecture 9: Bits, Images, and Compression
Week 5
3/2/26	Lecture 10: Circuits!
3/4/26	Lecture 11: Transistors + Memory
Week 6
3/9/26	Lecture 12: Intro to Hmmm
3/11/26	Lecture 13: Hmmm... Functions!
Week 7
3/16/26	"spring" break
3/18/26	spring "break"
Week 8
3/23/26	Lecture 15: Big-picture, computers are for looping
3/25/26	Lecture 16: Designing with loops: definitely and indefinitely
Week 9
3/30/26	Lecture 17: 2d Data, Alive!
4/1/26	Midterm exam
Week 10
4/6/26	Lecture 18: Intro to Objects
4/8/26	Lecture 19: Dictionaries and Language Models!

Acknowledgments and thanks

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

           

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