Keith J. O'Hara

teaching

CMSC 143

Object-Oriented Programming with Robots (F2016)

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

Tentative Schedule (changes frequently)

week	date	topics	concepts introduced	readings	work assigned
1	8/29/2016	course introduction	algorithms	syllabus; "What is CS?" by Newell, Perlis & Simon
	8/31/2016	computation	abstraction; meta-programs; universality	What is Computation? by Ian Horswill
	8/4/2016	personal robots	statements; comments; functions	LCwR Ch. 1 & Ch. 2; TP Ch. 2	lab 1
2	9/5/2016	robot brains	functions	LCwR Ch. 3; TP Ch. 3	Sing and Dance Assignment
	9/7/2016	randomness	expressions; variables; types	TP Ch. 2; TP Ch. 6.1-6.3; LCwR Ch. 4
	9/9/2016	making music		LCwR Ch. 8 on Sound (pp 169-)	lab 2
3	9/12/2016	making decisions	conditionals	TP Ch. 5.1-5.7 & LCwR Ch. 5
	9/14/2016	repetition	recursion	TP Ch. 5.8-5.13;TP Ch. 6.4--6.9
	9/16/2016	teleoperation			lab 3
4	9/19/2016	iteration	for; while	TP Ch. 7
	9/21/2016	interpreters	strings; sequences	TP Ch. 8
	9/23/2016	robot behavior		LCwR Ch. 6	lab 4
5	9/26/2016	EXAM 1
	9/28/2016	importing data	storage hierarchy; file IO	TP Ch. 14
	9/30/2016	word play		TP Ch. 9	lab 5
6	10/3/2016	exporting data	file IO; CSV; format strings	TP Ch. 14
	10/5/2016	software design	debugging; testing; design-by-contract	defensive programming
	10/7/2016	HTML lab		HTML tutorial	lab 6
7	10/10/2016	FALL BREAK
	10/12/2016	images	pixels; nested loops	LCwR Ch. 9	Movie Assignment
	10/14/2016	sfx lab			lab 7
8	10/17/2016	analyzing images	rgb segmentation	READING ON VISION
	10/19/2016	anaglyph images	parallel loops
	10/21/2016	motion detection	background subtraction		lab 8
9	10/24/2016	movies	lists	TP ch.10
	10/26/2016	collecting and analyzing data	accumulator idiom; modules	Accumulator Pattern
	10/28/2016	film strips			lab 9
10	10/31/2016	EXAM 2
	11/2/2016	graphics	objects; methods	LCwR Ch. 8
	11/4/2016	scribbler control panel			lab 10
11	11/7/2016	turtle graphics	classes; attributes; interfaces	TP Ch. 15	Final Assignment
	11/9/2016	games		TP Ch. 16
	11/11/2016	turtle power		UML	lab 11
12	11/14/2016	new datatypes	operator overloading	TP Ch. 17
	12/16/2016	simulation	inheritance; polymorphism	TP Ch. 18
	11/18/2016	predator-prey simulation			lab 12
13	11/21/2016	movie screening
	11/23/2016	movie screening II
	11/25/2016	THANKSGIVING BREAK
14	11/28/2016	randomness; cryptograms	dictionaries	TP Ch. 11 & TP Ch. 13
	11/30/2016	evaluating algorithms	binary search; memoization	TP Appendix B
	12/2/2016	postfix-python			lab 13
15	12/5/2016	functional programming	tuples; sets	TP Ch. 12; python data structures; functional programming
	12/7/2016	ADVISING DAY
	12/9/2016	project workshop
16	12/12/2016	review & presentations
	12/14/2016	EXAM 3
	12/16/2016	PROJECT PRESENTATIONS