teaching
CMSC 143
Object-Oriented Programming with Robots (S2012)
overview | logistics | schedule | announcements | assignments | labs | resourcesTentative Schedule (changes frequently)
| week | date | topics | concepts introduced | readings | work assigned |
| 1 | 1/30/2012 | course introduction | syllabus | ||
| 2/1/2012 | computation | What is Computation? by Ian Horswill | |||
| 2/3/2012 | personal robots | statements; comments; functions | LCwR Ch. 1 & Ch. 2 | lab 1 | |
| 2 | 2/6/2012 | robot brains | functions; repetition | LCwR Ch. 3 | Sing and Dance Assignment |
| 2/8/2012 | expressions; variables; types; objects | TP Ch. 2 & TP Ch. 3 | |||
| 2/10/2012 | making music | LCwR Ch. 8 on Sound (pp 169-) | lab 2 | ||
| 3 | 2/13/2012 | making decisions | conditionals | TP Ch. 5.1-5.7 & LCwR Ch. 5 | Performance Assignment |
| 2/15/2012 | loops; recursion | TP Ch. 5.8- & TP Ch. 6 | |||
| 2/17/2012 | robot behavior | TP ch. 7 & LCwR Ch. 6 | lab 3 | ||
| 4 | 2/20/2012 | iteration | for; while; nested loops | TP ch. 7 | |
| 2/22/2012 | interpreters | strings; sequences | TP ch. 8 | ||
| 2/24/2012 | teleoperation | user interface | lab 4 | ||
| 5 | 2/27/2012 | collecting and analyzing data | lists | TP ch.10 | |
| 2/29/2012 | team performance | ||||
| 3/2/2012 | MIDTERM | ||||
| 6 | 3/5/2012 | robot brains | higher-order functions; map/reduce | LCwR Ch. 7; "Introduction to Functional Programming" | |
| 3/7/2012 | sharing data | storage hierarchy; file IO; exceptions | TP Ch. 14 | ||
| 3/9/2012 | robot www | HTML Tutorial | lab 5 | ||
| 7 | 3/12/2012 | graphics | objects; methods | LCwR Ch. 8 | |
| 3/14/2012 | |||||
| 3/16/2012 | scribbler control panel | lab 6 | |||
| 8 | 3/19/2012 | images | pixels; nested loops | LCwR Ch. 9 | SFX Assignment |
| 3/21/2012 | image processing | What Robots See and watch The Great Robot Race -- Chapter 1: A Hard Problem | |||
| 3/23/2012 | photobooth | lab 7 | |||
| 9 | 3/26/2012 | movies | Movie Assignment | ||
| 3/28/2012 | anaglyph images | ||||
| 3/30/2012 | motion detection | background subtraction | lab 8 | ||
| 10 | 4/2/2012 | SPRING BREAK | |||
| 4/4/2012 | |||||
| 4/6/2012 | |||||
| 11 | 4/9/2012 | turtle graphics | classes | TP Ch. 15 | |
| 4/11/2012 | games | ||||
| 4/13/2012 | |||||
| 12 | 4/16/2012 | movie screening | Final Assignment | ||
| 4/18/2012 | simulation | inheritance | TP Ch. 18 | ||
| 4/20/2012 | predator-prey simulation | lab 9 | |||
| 13 | 4/23/2012 | new datatypes | operator overloading | TP Ch. 17 | |
| 4/25/2012 | image arithmetic | ||||
| 4/27/2012 | lab 10 | ||||
| 14 | 4/30/2012 | ADVISING DAY | |||
| 5/2/2012 | randomness | dictionaries | |||
| 5/4/2012 | postfix python | interpreters | lab 11 | ||
| 15 | 5/7/2012 | ||||
| 5/9/2012 | evaluating algorithms | binary search | |||
| 5/11/2012 | cryptograms | lab 12 | |||
| 16 | 5/14/2012 | ||||
| 5/16/2012 | final project presentations | ||||
| 5/18/2012 | |||||
| 17 | 5/21/2012 | FINAL | |||