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Programming with Multimedia Objects CS 177 Lukasz Ziarek BASICS Course Mechanics Expectations 1 Class Meets Lecture: Mon, Wed 3:30 ─ 4:20pm Labs: many! Recitation sessions: many! TAs: check course website Email:  lziarek@ Web page:  /177/ 2 Office Hours MW 12:00pm – 3:00pm HAAS 142 Additional hours will be scheduled closer to midterms and finals Text Book Mark Guzdial Barbara Ericson INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTINGAND PROGRAMMING INPYTHON(SECOND EDITION) Pearson We will use other material from the web 4 Grading 5 Projects 25% Weekly Lab 25% 2 midterm exams 25% Final exam 20% Class Participation 5% Borderline cases are a judgment call 5 Projects Due in class at the beginning of course Late policy: Up to 24h: –20% Up to 48h: –50% More than 48h late: no credit You may discuss the projects, but you must do it separately Cheating cases sent to Dean of Students office 6 Exams No extra materials No cell phones, calculators, PDAs, etc Cheating referred to Dean of Students Office Week 6 and Week 11 exact times TBA 7 Policies Please read and familiarize yourself with: /cpolicy.html Software JES Python Development Environment Python Vanilla Python (2nd half of course) Note: JES will be introduced in your first lab iClicker Will be used for in class quizzes (attendance) Goals for CS177 Teach fundamentals of programming Python Show the scientific and interdisciplinary nature of computer science Demonstrate the breadth of the field of computer science Tentative Syllabus Week 1 Programs, Algorithms, Programming Languages, Binary, Python Week 2 Variables and Functions Week 3 Arguments, Comments, Loops Tentative Syllabus Week 4 Conditionals, Strings, Arrays Week 5 Slicing, Ragged Arrays Week 6 Midterm!  What is computer science? 14 What is computer science? The study of process or computation expressed as algorithms. “Computers are to computer science what telescopes are to astronomy.” – E. Dijkstra 15 Algorithms Algorithms are the main focus Algorithms formally describe comput