teaching
CMSC 101
The Craft of Computing
overview | logistics | schedule | resourcesTentative Schedule (changes frequently)
| week | date | topic | reading | presentation | work assigned |
| 1 | 9/04/2013 | CS: Bard and beyond |
What is CS? by Newell, Perlis & Simon Pianos Not Stereos: Creating Computational Construction Kits by Resnick, Bruckman and Martin | ||
| 2 | 9/11/2013 | SHELL: navigating (bash, ssh, wget, common tools) | "The Life and Afterlife of Aaron Swartz" by Yang; "The free Web program that got Bradley Manning convicted of computer fraud" by Fisher | Keith | |
| 3 | 9/18/2013 | Computer Programming as an Art by Donald Knuth | |||
| 4 | 9/25/2013 | README: Editing (textfiles, emacs, markdown, filesystem) | Becky | ||
| 5 | 10/02/2013 | The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert Simon | 6 | 10/09/2013 | GIT: Collaborating (version control, github) | Getting Started with GIT | Keith |
| 7 | 10/16/2013 | HTML: Publishing (HTML; rsync; permissions; data viz.) | Bob | ||
| 8 | 10/23/2013 | MAKE: Automating (more unix, make, autoconf, scripting) | Sven | ||
| 9 | 10/30/2013 | "Doing with Images Makes Symbols" by Alan Kay | |||
| 10 | 11/06/2013 | Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert. | |||
| 11 | 11/13/2013 | Mindstorms pt. II | |||
| 12 | 11/20/2013 | MAN: Troubleshooting (debugging, searching) | |||
| 13 | 11/27/2013 | project | |||
| 14 | 12/04/2013 | Advising Day | |||
| 15 | 12/11/2013 | project | |||
| 16 | 12/18/2013 | Final Project Presentations | |||