CPSC 203: Spring 2010

Index

• Lecture information

• Tutorial & Lab information

• Course topics and notes for the lecture

• Assignments and exams

Lecture Information (L20)

Tutorial and lab Information (Labs and tutorials don't start until after the first lecture)

Tutorials:

• Are mandatory and time will be split between TA's teaching new skills, discussion of assignment requirements, completion of practice exercises, and if possible some question and answer time.
• Schedule of activities for the tutorials: [Link to schedule]

Tutorial	Date/Time	Location	Instructor	Email
T20	Tuesday & Thursday: 15:00 - 16:50	MS236	Wadhah Almansoori	wsalmans@ucalgary.ca
T22	Wednesday & Friday: 11:00 - 12:50	MS236	Wadhah Almansoori	wsalmans@ucalgary.ca

Lab (Continuous tutorials):

• In addition to my office hours and your time in lab there will be time set aside for you to ask questions. These sessions will be staffed by the lab instructor and they are not mandatory and are provided so that you can get help while you are in the computer lab.
• Times/Days: [schedule]

   

 

Course topics and notes for lectures

Number	Topic	Related reading
1	Introduction to the course: [Acrobat] [PowerPoint]	Not applicable
2	Computer hardware: [Acrobat] [PowerPoint]	Section 1.2, 5.1
3	Introduction to problem solving: [Acrobat] [PowerPoint]	Chapter 1
4	Spreadsheets: [Acrobat] [PowerPoint]	Not Applicable
5	Set theory: [Acrobat] [PowerPoint]	Section 2.4 & 2.5
6	Graphs: [Acrobat] [PowerPoint]	Section 4.1 - 4.3 (you can skip the examples of program code)
7	Trees: [Acrobat] [PowerPoint]	Section 4.5 - 4.6 (you can skip the examples of program code)
8	Logic: [Acrobat] [PowerPoint]	Sections 2.1 & 2.3
9	Databases: [Acrobat] [PowerPoint]	Sections 6.1 - 6.5
10	Finite state machines (if there is time): [Acrobat] [PowerPoint]	Section 4.7
11	Introduction to computer programming: [Acrobat] [PowerPoint] Sample Alice programs covered in lecture Alice programs used in the exercises	Chapter 3 supplements (Section 3.1 - 3.6)
12	Computer networking and security: Networking [Acrobat] [PowerPoint] The Internet [Acrobat] [PowerPoint] Computer security: [Acrobat] [PowerPoint]	Chapter 7 (you can skip the examples of program code)
13	Introduction to Computer Science (if there is time): [Acrobat] [PowerPoint]	Section 1.3

Assignments and exams