CS010
-- Introduction to Computer Science I
Spring, 2006
(last updated 3/7/2006)
Updates:
[3/6/2006] The first phase of the project
specifications has been posted. See the schedule
or go here.
[12/21/2005] If you'll be using your own laptop or
if you want to use DrScheme on your desktop, you will want to download and install it.
(We will use the current stable version: 300.)
Professor:
Office hours: see my main page
Textbook:
Time and place: Tues. & Thurs., 1:15-3:05, Voskuyl Library
106.
Syllabus.
Tentative class schedule
This course introduces students to solving problems by writing computer
programs in the language Scheme.
Students are not expected to have had
any prior programming experience. My goal is for everyone to have
fun learning this material. However, my only guarantee is that if
you want to do well in the course, you will do so if you invest the
necessary time.
Scheme is a wonderfully simple yet powerful language that is ideal for
students new to Computer Science. There are only
a hand-full of language elements and we will learn them early in the
semester. The simplicity of the language lets us quickly reach a
stage where we can write programs that do interesting and fun
things. We will be writing network applications and simple
animated games well before the end of the semester.
By the end of the semester,
you will be reasonably fluent in Scheme. We will model the course
after learning a foreign language by immersion. Each class
meeting, we will introduce some new material, and then begin writing
programs
-- sometimes together, sometimes individually -- using the material
just presented.
Eureka Course Link
Other
Information: Working together, submitting assignments
and other advice.
Misc Resources:
Code bits to save you some typing or lecture or review notes.
Acknowledgements: I may
be using examples and problems from the textbook authors and the
TeachScheme! workshops they organize.