Keith J. O'Hara

teaching

CMSC 143

Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Robots (S2011)

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Tentative Schedule (changes frequently)

week	date	topics	concepts introduced	readings	work assigned
1	1/24/2011	course introduction		syllabus
	1/26/2011	computation		What is Computation? by Ian Horswill
	1/28/2011	personal robots	statements; comments; functions	LCwR Ch. 1 & Ch. 2	lab 1
2	1/31/2011	robot brains	functions; repetition	LCwR Ch. 3	Sing and Dance Assignment
	2/2/2011		expressions; variables; types; objects	TP Ch. 2 & TP Ch. 3
	2/4/2011	making music		LCwR Ch. 4 & LCwR Ch. 8 on Sound (pp 201-)	lab 2
3	2/7/2011	making decisions	conditionals	TP Ch. 5.1-5.7 & LCwR Ch. 5	Performance Assignment
	2/9/2011		loops; recursion	TP Ch. 5.8- & TP Ch. 6
	2/11/2011	robot behavior		TP ch. 7 & LCwR Ch. 6	lab 3
4	2/14/2011	iteration	for; while; nested loops	TP ch. 7
	2/16/2011	interpreters	strings; sequences	TP ch. 8
	2/18/2011	teleoperation	user interface		lab 4
5	2/21/2011	sharing data	storage hierarchy; file IO; exceptions	TP Ch. 14
	2/23/2011	team performance; collecting and analyzing data	lists	TP ch.10
	2/25/2011	web pages			lab 5
6	2/28/2011	collecting and analyzing data	lists	TP ch.10
	3/2/2011	graphics	objects; methods	LCwR Ch. 8	Scribbler Status Assignment
	3/4/2011	etch-a-sketch			lab 6
7	3/7/2011	randomness	dictionaries
	3/9/2011	cryptograms
	3/11/2011	MIDTERM
8	3/14/2011	images	pixels; nested loops	LCwR Ch. 9	SFX Assignment
	3/16/2011	image processing	What Robots See and watch The Great Robot Race -- Chapter 1: A Hard Problem
	3/18/2011	photobooth			lab 7
9	3/21/2011	SPRING BREAK
	3/23/2011
	3/25/2011
10	3/28/2011	movies			Movie Assignment
	3/30/2011	anaglyph images
	4/1/2011	motion detection	background subtraction		lab 8
11	4/4/2011	turtle graphics	classes	TP Ch. 15
	3/6/2011	games
	4/8/2011				lab 9
12	4/11/2011	movie screening
	4/13/2011	simulation	inheritance	TP Ch. 18	Final Assignment
	4/15/2011	predator-prey simulation			lab 10
13	4/18/2011	new datatypes	operator overloading	TP Ch. 17
	4/20/2011	image arithmetic
	4/22/2011				lab 11
14	4/25/2011	ADVISING DAY
	4/27/2011	robot brains	higher-order functions	LCwR Ch. 7
	4/29/2011	robot cockroach		LCwR Ch. 7	lab 12
15	5/2/2011	robot-to-robot communication		Robot Communication
	5/4/2011	map-reduce; evaluating algorithms	binary search	"Introduction to Functional Programming"
	5/6/2011	postfix python	interpreters		lab 13
16	5/9/2011	review	code breaking; cryptograms
	5/11/2011	beyond python and myro		Python & Java: A Side-by-Side Comparison; Java for Python Programmers; MediaComp; Jython
	5/13/2011	final project presentations
17	5/17/2011	FINAL