CS110: Introduction to Computing, Bryn Mawr College

Douglas Blank
Spring 2010

General Information

Instructor:
Douglas Blank, 248 Park Science Building, 526-6501
Email: dblank (at) cs (dot) brynmawr (dot) edu
Web: cs.brynmawr.edu/~dblank
Office hours: Monday 10am - 11am, Wednesday 10am - 11am, and by appointment.
Lectures: Tues and Thursdays, 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Lab: Park Science Building, room 231
Gradebook: edventure
Teaching Assistants: TA Schedule
Lab Instructor: Julia Kelly

Texts

	Learning Computing with Robots, Edited by Deepak Kumar.
	Using Myro to do Image Processing, example image
	Using Myro to do 3D imaging

Hardware

Every student will be issued a robot which will be returned at the end of the semester.

The software we will use can be used on most any computer, including Linux, Windows, and Apple. The Laboratory computers in Park Science 231 will be available for your use, so you do not need your own computer.

Software

We will use the program Python, a freely available language. We will also use a Python library, called Myro. These are all available on the Computer Science computers. You can also install Python and Myro on your own computer.

Schedule

Week	Topic	Assignment
Week 1: Jan 19, Jan 21	What is computing!? Introduction to Python	Lab #1
Week 2: Jan 26, Jan 28	What is Computing? and Robotics, Python, Myro, and Meet your Robot	Lab #2
Week 3: Feb 2, Feb 4	Variables, Building Brains, Functions Advanced Brains	Lab #3
Week 4: Feb 9, Feb 11	Building Brains 3	Lab #4
Week 5: Feb 16, Feb 18	Hellweek, Behaviors, and Boolean Logic	Lab #5
Week 6: Feb 23, Feb 25	Vision, Images, and Pixels; Guest speaker: Judith Bishop, Microsoft	Lab #6
Week 7: Mar 2, Mar 4	Advanced Functions and Image Processing and Review, Midterm	Demonstrate Lab #6
Week 8: Mar 9, Mar 11	Spring Break!	No classes
Week 9: Mar 16, Mar 18	Photoshop	Lab #8
Week 10: Mar 23, Mar 25	Game video and making games	Lab #9
Week 11: Mar 30, Apr 1	Maze game, and making music	Lab #10
Week 12: Apr 6, Apr 8	Computational Thinking	Lab #11
Week 13: Apr 13, Apr 15	First Annual National Robotics Week; Artificial Intelligence. Thursday is a bonus demonstration day. Sample code from class on Tuesday, Sample code from Thursday	Work on Project
Week 14: Apr 20, Apr 22	Topics in Computer Science: Bryn Mawr Hospital Experiment, AI, The Internet and the Web; Myro's MyWeb	Work on Project
Week 15: Apr 27, Apr 29	Final Exam	Project Presentations

Other dates of interest:

January 19: First lecture
February 5: Last day to drop a class without penalty
March 4: Midterm Exam
April 29: Final Exam distributed
May 8: Final Exam due by 5pm

Grading

Exam 1: 20%
Exam 2: 25%
Labs & Written Work: 55%