Welcome to CSCI 128 — Winter 2023

NOTE: All posted/mentioned times mentioned related to this course are in Atlantic Time.

An introduction to computers, algorithms, and programming. No previous knowledge of algorithms or programming is required.

This course is devoted to learning proper problem solving techniques and basic programming skills. Topics include problem analysis, algorithm development, data representation, control structures, lists, functions, and file manipulation.

Professors

Dr. Jean-Alexis Delamer

• jdelamer at stfx.ca

Class Times

Dr. Delamer

• Tue 12:45 - 14:00, MULH 4024

• Thu 11:15 - 12:30, MULH 4024

Office Hours

Office Hours Etiquette — Don’t Do This

• Dr. Jean-Alexis Delamer Annex 9C

  • Monday, 13:15 – 15:15

  • Tuesday, 09:00 – 11:00

  • Thursday, 9:00 – 11:00

Learning Centre

• https://www2.mystfx.ca/mscs/learning-centre

MSCS Tutorial Nights

The Math, Stats, and CS Society now has a time and location for our free tutorial sessions.

• Mondays, 17:00 – 19:00, MULH 4024

Cool Things

• kattis

• LeetCode

Getting started

• Getting set up for CSCI 128

Course Notes

• 1. Intro, print
• 2. Values, Types, Variables, Print, Input
• 3. Functions
• 4. Logic, if/else
• 5. Logic, Booleans, More Functions
• 6. Loops
• 7. Strings
• 8. Lists
• 9. List Trivia
• 10. Mutidimentionnal Lists and Numpy Arrays
• 11. File IO
• 12. Images
• 13. Machine Learning

Labs

• 1. Print, Operations and Types
• 2. Functions
• 3. Functions and turtles
• 4. Conditions
• 5. Car rental
• 6. Loops
• 7. String
• 8. Lists
• 9. 2D Lists
• 10. List and Reference

Assignments

• 1. Fractals and L-Systems
• 2. Wordle
• 3. Connect 4

Course Outline

• Computer Science 128 – Coding for Problem Solving