CSSE120 – Introduction to Software Development (Robotics sections)

Winter 2011-2012 (a.k.a. 201220)

Schedule Overview

Due dates	Programming problems at one session are due at the beginning of the next session. Exception: Programming problems assigned Thursday may be turned in any time before Monday at 8 a.m.
Due dates	All other work assigned at one session is due at the beginning of the next session.

Schedule last updated Fri Jan 13.

Week	Session	Topics	HW Due	HW Assigned	Resources
1	1 Tue Nov 29 Details	What it means to do: Software Engineering Software development What a program is Some key programming primitives Calling functions Assigning values to variables Loops Defining your own functions Input and output Documentation Introductions to: Eclipse, our IDE (Interactive Developement Environment) Python, our programming language How to use Eclipse to: Execute statements in a Python shell Get a program from a repository Run a program and view its output Edit a program to make it behave differently		HW 1	An annotated Input-Compute-Ouput program Today's handouts for Getting Started in Eclipse and Python Today's slides Today's in-class quiz The official Python documentation This is for the most current version of Python 3. The Library Reference link on that page (subtitled keep this under your pillow) takes you to the Python Standard Library, which is a huge collection of Python modules, classes and functions.
1	2 Thu Dec 1 Details	Expressions Evaluating expressions involving arithmetic Precedence of operators for arithmetic Parentheses in expressions Types: ints, floats and strings Assigning values to variables Input and output Input-compute-output programs Calling functions and capturing returned values Using Eclipse to correct error messages	HW 1 due	HW 2 assigned	An annotated Input-Compute-Ouput program Today's handout on Concepts: Objects, Types, Values and Variables Today's handout on Concept: Calling Functions Today's slides Today's in-class quiz
1	3 Fri Dec 2 Details	Classes and Objects Constructing objects Calling methods Using instance variables zellegraphics as an application of using objects Counted loops and range expressions	HW 2 due	HW 3 assigned	Today's handout on Concept: Using Objects Today's slides Today's in-class quiz Mr. Zelle's own description of zellegraphics Warning: This document is out of date and has some errors. (But it's mostly correct.) A list and pictures of zellegraphics colors Actually, the colors of Python's Tk module, upon which zellegraphics is based. The Python Standard Library, a huge collection of Python modules, classes and functions
2	4 Tue Dec 6 Details	Defining your own functions with: parameters returned values Why to do so. How to do so.	HW 3 due	HW 4 assigned	Today's handout on Concept: Functions with Parameters, and Namespaces Today's in-class quiz
2	5 Thu Dec 8 Details	Conditionals (if and if-else) The Accumulator Pattern applied to: Summing Counting Graphics applications Robot navigation applications Coding to a specification, design by contract, functions for testing The Create robots as an application of using objects Practice at everything so far	HW 4 due	HW 5 assigned	How to Install the Create Simulator (but it is probably already installed on your laptop) Today's in-class quiz
2	6 Fri Dec 9 Details	Conditionals Accumulator patterns: Summing, counting	HW 5 due	HW 6 assigned
3	7 Tue Dec 13 Details	Sequences (iterators): Lists and Strings Accumulator patterns with sequences	HW 6 due	HW 7 assigned
3	8 Thu Dec 15 Details	Mutators What does it mean to mutate an object? What are references (pointers)? What really happens when a function is called Tuples Exam 1 (in-class, date may change)	HW 7 due	HW 8 assigned
3	9 Fri Dec 16 Details	WHILE loops The wait-for-event pattern And robot applications thereof	HW 8 due	HW 9 assigned
4	10 Tue Dec 20 Details	String processing File processing	HW 9 due	HW 10 assigned
4	11 Thu Jan 5 Details	Top-down design	HW 10 due	HW 11 assigned
4	12 Fri Jan 6 Details	Divide and conquer for coding Coding independently of teammates	HW 11 due	HW 12 assigned
5	13 Tue Jan 10 Details	Project Kickoff Teaming Integrating your code with teammates' code Software development processes	HW 12 due	HW 13 assigned
5	14 Thu Jan 12 Details	Event-driven programming GUI (graphical user interface) programming Defining your own class to bundle data	HW 13 due	HW 14 assigned
5	15 Fri Jan 13 Details	Teaming, revisited	HW 14 due	HW 15 assigned
6	16 Tue Jan 17 Details	Sprint 1 ends More GUI programming	HW 15 due	HW 16 assigned
6	17 Thu Jan 19 Details	Nested loops Sequences of sequences	HW 16 due	HW 17 assigned
6	18 Fri Jan 20 Details	Project time	HW 17 due	HW 18 assigned
7	19 Tue Jan 24 Details	Sprint 2 ends	HW 18 due	HW 19 assigned
7	20 Thu Jan 26 Details	Project time	HW 19 due	HW 20 assigned
7	21 Fri Jan 27 Details	Exam 3 (evening exam)	HW 20 due	HW 21 assigned
8	22 Tue Jan 31 Details	Sprint 3 ends	HW 21 due	HW 22 assigned
8	23 Thu Feb 2 Details	Introduction to the C programming language input and output arithmetic expressions loops (FOR and WHILE) types functions: calling and defining	HW 22 due	HW 23 assigned
8	24 Fri Feb 3 Details	C: Structures	HW 23 due	HW 24 assigned
9	25 Tue Feb 7 Details	C: Pointers	HW 24 due	HW 25 assigned
9	26 Thu Feb 9 Details	C: Arrays and their relationship to pointers	HW 25 due	HW 26 assigned
9	27 Fri Feb 10 Details	C: Two-dimensional arrays Ascii Art project kickoff	HW 26 due	HW 27 assigned
10	28 Tue Feb 14 Details	C: File input and output C: Strings	HW 27 due	HW 28 assigned
10	29 Thu Feb 16 Details	C: Dynamic memory allocation	HW 28 due	HW 29 assigned
10	30 Fri Feb 17 Details	Ascii Art project is due	HW 29	None.