BITL-CS2

Introduction to Computer Science II

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Introduction

What is Computer Science?

• From Wikipedia:

Computer Science is the study of processes that interact with data and that can be represented as data in the form of programs. It enables the use of algorithms to manipulate, store, and communicate digital information.

• A video version from Udacity

Administrative information

Course Syllabus tba

Communication:

• via slack: workspace name: bitl-cs2-2019
• via email: use instructor's email address for personal communication
• office hours: by appt.

Calendar

Date	Topic	Assignments, tests, deliverables
06.01.20	Course Introduction Introduction to the course. Syllabus.
08.01.20	IDE Setup. Scala Introduction Slides
10.01.20	Scala Types and Reading Files Slides Objective: Write a program that can read the lines of a file in a strongly typed language (Scala) and store values in a data structure Reading/Reference: Scala: String Scala: String.split - And many other String methods you may find useful Scala: For loop Scala: Reading Files Scala: Array - A sequential data structure Scala: List - A sequential data structure. You can use either Array or List as you prefer in most cases. We will explore the differences later in the course Scala: Map - A key-value store
13.01.20	Unit Testing Slides	Lab Activity 1
15.01.20	Practice Unit Testing
17.01.20	Classes and Objects Slides
20.01.20	Model of Execution 1 Slides	Lab Activity 2
22.01.20	Model of Execution 2 Slides
24.01.20	Physics Engine Quiz	HW1: Physics Engine
27.01.20	Inheritance Slides	Lab Activity 3
29.01.20	Level 1 Quiz	Level 1 Quiz
31.01.20	Polymorphism and JSON Slides
03.02.20	Design Pattern: State Pattern 1	Project Demo 1
05.02.20	Design Pattern: State Pattern 2
07.02.20	Design Pattern: State Pattern 3
10.02.20	GUI	Lab Activity 4
12.02.20	Design Architecture: MVC
14.02.20	Calculator Quiz	HW2: Calculator
17.02.20	Actors Introduction	Lab Activity 5
19.02.20	Level 2 Quiz	Level 2 Quiz
21.02.20	Testing Actors and Database Connections
24.02.20	Web Sockets 1	Project Demo 2
26.02.20	Web Sockets 2
28.02.20	Actors Application with Web Sockets
02.03.20	MMO Architecture 1	Lab Activity 6
04.03.20	MMO Architecture 2
06.03.20	Clicker Quiz	HW3: Clicker
09.03.20	Custom Sorting with First-Order Functions	Lab Activity 7
11.03.20	Level 3 Quiz	Level 3 Quiz
13.03.20	Merge Sort and Recursion
16.03.20	Linked List	Lab Activity 8
18.03.20	Linked List Algorithms
20.03.20	Stack and Queue
23.03.20	Binary Tree and Traversals	Lab Activity 9
25.03.20	Binary Search Tree
27.03.20	Genetic Algorithm Quiz	HW4: Genetic Algorithm
30.03.20	Graph Representations and Breath-First Search	Project Demo 3
01.04.20	Level 4 Quiz	Level 4 Quiz
03.04.20	Pathfinding with Breath-First Search
06.04.20	Review and Examples	Project Demo 3 (alt)
08.04.20	MMO Quiz	HW5: MMO
10.04.20	Holiday
13.04.20	Holiday
15.04.20	Consultation week
17.04.20	Consultation week	HWb: Bonus Homework
20.04.20	(Exam week)
22.04.20	Exam week - Final Exam	Final Exam
24.04.20	(Exam week)

Assignments

TBD

Resources

GitHub

• Tutorial about GitHub Desktop

Scala

• Scala Basics - (Except for classes, cases classes, and traits which will be covered later in the semester)
• Scala Conditionals
• Scala: Basic Types - We'll primarily use Int, Double, Char, String, Boolean, and Unit

IDE

• Get started with Scala in IntelliJ

Algorithms

• Visualisations of different sorting algorithms

Misc

• Slido for Q&A sessions