teaching
CMSC 101
The Craft of Computing (F2015)
overview | logistics | schedule | resourcesTentative Schedule (changes frequently)
| week | date | topic | reading |
| 1 | 09/01/2015 | CS: Bard and beyond |
What is CS? by Newell, Perlis & Simon |
| 2 | 09/08/2015 | CODE | What is Code? by Ford; Learning the Shell by Shotts; Put Yourself in Command: Introduction |
| 3 | 09/15/2015 | Art & Unix; Art of Unix | Computer Programming as an Art by Knuth; Program Design in the UNIX environment by Pike & Kernighan; Basics of the Unix Philosophy by ESR; Put Yourself in Control: Advanced |
| 4 | 09/22/2015 | Speaker TBD | |
| 5 | 09/29/2015 | MAN: Troubleshooting (debugging, searching, asking) | How To Ask Questions The Smart Way by ESR; explainshell.com |
| 6 | 10/06/2015 | README: Editing (text, sublime, vim, emacs, markdown) | Put Yourself in Control: Text Editors; GNU Manifesto | 7 | 10/13/2015 | Fall Break |
| 8 | 10/20/2015 | Mindstorms | Mindstorms by Papert 1--4 |
| 9 | 10/27/2015 | Speaker TBD | |
| 10 | 11/03/2015 | GIT: Collaborating (version control, github) | Getting Started with GIT; Linus's Famous Email |
| 11 | 11/10/2015 | Mindstorms Ch. 5--8 | |
| 12 | 11/17/2015 | WWW: Web (HTML, CSS) | As We May Think by Bush |
| 13 | 11/24/2015 | Speaker TBD | |
| 14 | 12/01/2015 | WWW: Dynamic Web (Javascript) | Mother of All Demos by Engelbart |
| 15 | 12/08/2015 | "Top Secret Rosies" | |
| 16 | 12/15/2015 | SCRIPT: Automating (bash scripting, make) | Put Yourself in Control: Scripting; Writing Shell Scripts |