UCSD CSE SPIS: Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 2016

Week 1

• Sun 07/31 — SPIS Orientation Session—Meet the staff, get your stuff, including first homework assignment.
• Mon 08/01 — First looks—Projects, Python, ACMS Unix, git/github. Also, Guttag Ch. 1
• Tue 08/02 — Picobot and Guttag Chapter 2—Number representation, state machines, numeric types, operators
• Wed 08/03 — Guttag Chapter 3—Problem solving strategies: Guess and check, exhaustive enumeration, bisection search
• Thu 08/04 — Guttag Chapter 4—functions, scope, stack, modules, recursion, more turtle
• Fri 08/05 — Breadth/Depth—Two options for lecture
• Week 1: Breadth —A second look at data mining and intro to list comprehension
• Week 1: Depth —Guttag Chapters 1-4
• Week 1 Closing Circle —Reflect on Awesome moments, meet the mentors, appreciations