COMP 203 Schedule, Fall 2009


Syllabus | Homework and Assignments | Grading Rubric | Midterm
Homework is available through the links below and will be turned in through Blackboard's Assignment Manager. Also below is a tentative schedule indicating what text will be covered on what dates. Quizzes and in-class assignments may also be linked to this schedule.
This page may be revised as the semester progresses.
Date Material Covered
1/21 Logo Ch. 1:  Simple commands and procedures
Lecture 1
1/26-1/28 Logo Ch. 2:  Procedures, lists, evaluation
Assignment 1 due 1/28
Practice with procedures.
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
2/2-2/4 Logo Ch. 3:  Variables, scope
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
A quiz program with scope.
2/9-2/11 Logo Ch. 3: output, make
Lecture 6
Lecture 7
Secret answer to madlibs exercise
Assignment 2 due 2/11
2/16-2/18 Logo Ch. 4
Lecture 8
Lecture 9
Secret answer to connectives exercise
Secret answer to conditional exercise
Some Logo code that might help in Chapters 4 and 5.
2/23-2/25 Lecture 10
Lecture 11
Secret Answer to Lecture 11 problems
Assignment 3 due 2/23
Logo Ch. 5: Iteration: for, while, map
Some Logo code to use with for and map
Logo Ch. 6:  Describing a program
Flowcharts
Choose midterm project.
3/2-3/4 Logo Ch. 6: Program Organization
Lecture 12
Lecture 13
Logo Ch. 7, 8, 11:  Recursion
Logo code related to planning and recursion.
Assignment 4 due 3/4
3/9-3/11 Spring Break
3/16-3/18 Lecture 14
More code for use with recursion.
Midterm, 3/18
Assignment 5 due 3/16
3/23-3/25 Midterm project due 3/23
Maple:  Basic calculations and constants, solving, graphing.
3/30-4/1 Assignment 7 due 3/30
Maple: Sequences, Sets and Lists
Introduction to Maple programming
4/6-4/8 Assignment 8 due 4/6
Maple: Loops
4/13-4/15 Assignment 9 due 4/13
Maple: Conditionals
4/20-4/22 Maple:  Simulations
Groups turn in list of 15 math topics for final presentation.
4/27-4/29 Assignment 10 due 4/27
Course Evaluations
Review for final
Maple Exam 4/29
5/11 Final Project presentations 2:00-4:00, MKC 224

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