Week No.

Days

Topics to be covered

1

• No tutorials this week

2

• Lab tours
• Introduction to Computer Science accounts
• UNIX orientation
• Assignment 1  

3

• Working from home using SSH
• Computer hardware calculations
• Binary conversions and representations

4

• Discussion of Assignment 2
• Negative number representations
• The process of creating and running computer programs
• Displaying output
• Variables and constants
• Mathematical operators
• Common programming errors

5

• Techniques for formatting output
• Getting input
• Branching and logic
• Techniques for debugging your programs

6

• Pre vs. post test loops
• For vs. while loops
• Sentinel controlled loops
• Logical operators and loops
• Design issues
• Nested loops
• Debugging programs that employ loops

• QuickDraw commands
• Introduction to functions

• More on functions
• Scope
• Program design and testing functions

• Finishing up material that couldn't be covered in the first tutorial
• The remainder of the time will be spent as an open tutorial (TA's will be available for help and to answer questions but no new material will be covered).

• Introduction to lists
• Parameter passing mechanisms: pass by reference, pass by value
• Review: random number generators

• Problem solving exercises

• Strings
• Lists

• Classes
• Tuples
• Dictionaries
• Composite types that contain other composite types

• File input and output

• Recursion