Keith J. O'Hara

teaching

CMSC 143

Object-Oriented Programming with Robots (F2015)

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

Tentative Schedule (changes frequently)

week	date	topics	concepts introduced	readings	work assigned
1	8/31/2015	course introduction		syllabus
	9/2/2015	computation		What is Computation? by Ian Horswill
	9/4/2015	personal robots	statements; comments; functions	LCwR Ch. 1 & Ch. 2; TP Ch. 1	lab 1
2	9/7/2015	robot brains	functions	LCwR Ch. 3	Sing and Dance Assignment
	9/9/2015		expressions; variables; types	TP Ch. 2; TP Ch. 3 & TP Ch. 6.1-6.3
	9/11/2015	making music		LCwR Ch. 8 on Sound (pp 169-)	lab 2
3	9/14/2015	making decisions	conditionals	TP Ch. 5.1-5.7 & LCwR Ch. 5
	9/16/2015	repetition	recursion; while	TP Ch. 5.8-5.13 & LCwR Ch. 4
	9/18/2015	teleoperation			lab 3
4	9/21/2015	iteration	for	TP Ch. 7
	9/23/2015	interpreters	strings; sequences	TP Ch. 8	Performance Assignment
	9/25/2015	robot behavior		LCwR Ch. 6	lab 4
5	9/28/2015	files	storage hierarchy; file IO; exceptions	TP Ch. 14
	9/30/2015	word play		TP Ch. 9
	10/2/2015	HTML lab		HTML tutorial	lab 5
6	10/02/2015	randomness	modules
	10/07/2015	review
	10/09/2015	EXAM 1
7	10/12/2015	FALL BREAK
	10/14/2015	collecting and analyzing data	accumulator idiom	TP Ch. 10.1--10.5
	10/16/2015	team performance
8	10/19/2015	images	pixels; nested loops	LCwR Ch. 9	SFX Assignment
	10/21/2015	anaglyph images
	10/23/2015	motion detection	background subtraction		lab 6
9	10/26/2015	image processing		What Robots See watch The Great Robot Race -- Chapter 1: A Hard Problem and "The Era Of Automatic Facial Recognition And Surveillance Is Here" by Schneier
	10/28/2015	movies	lists	TP ch.10	Movie Assignment
	10/30/2015	photobooth			lab 7
10	11/2/2015	robot cockroach	higher-order functions;	LCwR Ch. 7; "Introduction to Functional Programming"
	11/4/2015	graphics	objects; methods	LCwR Ch. 8
	11/6/2015	scribbler control panel			lab 8
11	11/9/2015	EXAM 2
	11/11/2015	turtle graphics	classes	TP Ch. 15	Final Assignment
	11/13/2015	turtle power			lab 9
12	11/16/2015	movie screening
	11/18/2015	games		TP Ch. 16
	11/20/2015			UML	lab 10
13	11/23/2015	evaluating algorithms	binary search; sets;	TP Appendix B
	11/25/2015	randomness; interpreters	dictionaries	TP Ch. 11
	11/27/2015	THANKSGIVING BREAK
14	11/30/2015	simulation	inheritance	TP Ch. 18
	12/2/2015	new datatypes	operator overloading	TP Ch. 17
	12/4/2015	predator-prey simulation			lab 11
15	12/7/2015	review; cryptograms
	12/9/2015	ADVISING DAY
	12/11/2015	project day
16	12/14/2015	final project presentations
	12/16/2015
	12/18/2015	FINAL