Keith J. O'Hara

teaching

CMSC 143

Object-Oriented Programming with Robots (F2011)

overview | logistics | schedule | announcements | assignments | labs | resources

Tentative Schedule (changes frequently)

week	date	topics	concepts introduced	readings	work assigned
1	8/29/2011	course introduction		syllabus
	8/31/2011	computation		What is Computation? by Ian Horswill
	9/2/2011	personal robots	statements; comments	LCwR Ch. 1 & Ch. 2	lab 1
2	9/5/2011	robot brains	functions; repetition	LCwR Ch. 3	Sing and Dance Assignment
	9/7/2011		variables; types; expressions	TP Ch. 2
	9/9/2011	making music		LCwR Ch. 4 & LCwR Ch. 8 on Sound (pp 201-)	lab 2
3	9/12/2011	sensing	conditionals	TP Ch. 3 and TP Ch. 5.1-5.7	Performance Assignment
	9/14/2011	repetition	recursion; iteration	TP Ch. 5.8- & TP Ch. 6
	9/16/2011	robot behavior		TP ch. 7 & LCwR Ch. 6	lab 3
4	9/19/2011	images	pixels; nested loops	LCwR Ch. 9
	9/21/2011	image processing	What Robots See and watch The Great Robot Race -- Chapter 1: A Hard Problem		SFX Assignment
	9/23/2011	photobooth			lab 4
5	9/26/2011	movies	lists; mutability	TP ch.10	Movie Assignment
	9/28/2011	team performance
	9/30/2011	robot demonstration
6	10/3/2011	anaglyphs
	10/5/2011	analyzing data
	10/7/2011	MIDTERM
7	10/10/2009	FALL BREAK
	10/12/2011	graphics	objects; methods	LCwR Ch. 8
	10/14/2011	scribbler control panel			lab 6
8	10/17/2011	turtle graphics	classes	TP Ch. 15
	10/19/2011	interactive turtles
	10/21/2011	code review			lab 7
9	10/24/2011	games
	10/26/2011	movie screening
	10/28/2011				lab 8
10	10/31/2011
	11/2/2011	new datatypes	operator overloading	TP Ch. 17
	11/4/2011				lab 9
11	11/7/2011	image expressions
	11/9/2011	simulation	inheritance	TP Ch. 18	Final Assignment
	11/11/2011	predator-prey simulation			lab 9
12	11/14/2011	sharing data	storage hierarchy; file IO; exceptions; strings; interpreters	TP ch. 8; TP Ch. 14
	11/16/2011	ADVISING DAY
	11/18/2011	robot webpages		HTML Tutorial (Basic)	lab 11
13	11/21/2011	randomness	dictionaries	LCwR Ch. 8 & TP Ch. 11
	11/23/2011	processing
	11/25/2011	THANKSGIVING BREAK
14	11/28/2011	cryptograms			TP Ch. 11 & Ch. 13
	11/30/2011	functional programming	higher order functions; map/reduce	LCwR Ch. 7 and TP Ch. 12 ; "Introduction to Functional Programming"
	12/2/2011	interpreters			lab 12
15	12/5/2011	evaluating algorithms	binary search
	12/7/2011	defensive programming	pre-/post-conditions; assertions
	12/9/2011	review
16	12/12/2011	project presentations I
	12/14/2011	project presentations II
	12/16/2011	FINAL