Lectures

There is no official textbook for SPIS, but the following free online textbook (co-authored by Niema) is a great resource: https://stepik.org/course/56730/promo

Another free online textbook, that includes both Picobot and an intro to Python: https://www.cs.hmc.edu/twiki/bin/view/CSforAll/

Week 1

Sunday (7/31) — SPIS Orientation Session
Monday (8/1)
- Introduction and overview: pdf
- Discord, Repl.it, GitHub (Lecture Notes)
- Picobot: pdf
Tuesday (8/2)
- APS: Divide and Conquer: slides
- Learning Programming with Python (Lecture Notes) (pytest tutorial)
- Facets
Wednesday (8/3)
- Python Identifiers, Variables, Assignments, Expressions, Scope, If - part 1 (Lecture Notes)
- Python Identifiers, Variables, Assignments, Expressions, Scope, If - part 2 (Lecture Notes)
Thursday (8/4)
- APS Discussion
- Python while and for (each) loops (Lecture Notes)
- Facets
Friday (8/5)
- Python parameters, lists, tuples (Lecture Notes)
- Breadth/Depth
  - Breadth - Overview of Bioinformatics: slides
  - Depth - Python (Lecture Notes) (pytest tutorial)

Week 2

Monday (8/8)
- Turtle, references: pdf
- Begin Recursion (slides)
Tuesday (8/9)
- APS: Greedy Method: slides
- More Recursion (slides) (additional slides)
Wednesday (8/10)
- More recursion: pdf; circles example repl
- Intro to images: pdf
Thursday (8/11)
- APS Discussion
- References and mutability (part 1)
Friday (8/12)
- References and mutability (part 2)
- Breadth/Depth
  - Breadth - TBD
  - Depth - More recursion and references, plus 'Ask me Anything' about FOCS lectures from weeks 1-2 (notes)

Week 3

Monday (8/15)
- Binary numbers: pdf
- Logic gates and computer architecture: pdf
Tuesday (8/16)
- APS: Sorting: slides
- Intro to Pygame 1: pdf, main.py, assets
Wednesday (8/17)
- Intro to Pygame 2: pdf, main.py
- Intro to Web Apps (notes)
- Resume Workshop
Thursday (8/18)
- APS Discussion
- Markov Chains, Dictionaries, and Files: slides
Friday (8/19)
- Probability and Naive Bayes classification: slides
- Breadth/Depth
  - Breadth - Music/Sound in Python (notes)
  - Depth - TBD

Week 4

Monday (8/22)
- Clustering: slides
- Web apps, Part 2 (sessions): notes
Tuesday (8/23)
- APS: Dynamic Programming: slides
- Event Handling: pdf
Wednesday (8/24) - Introduction to the Project Areas
- Webapps: notes Zoom recording is linked in the Discord in the projects-web channel
- Machine Learning: Zoom recording (the password was sent on Discord in the "projects-ml" channel)
- Games: slides (game suggestions), slides (pygame part 3), slides (OO design), main.py (pygame ), main.py (OO intro), main.py (pygame OO v01), main.py (pygame OO v02), zoom recording of the lecture (the password was sent on the Discord)
Thursday (8/25)
- Work on Final Projects
Friday (8/26) - Work on Final Projects

Week 5

Monday (8/29) — Work on Final Projects
Tuesday (8/30) — Work on Final Projects
Wednesday (8/31) — Work on Final Projects
Thursday (9/1) — Work on Final Projects
Friday (9/2) — Work on Final Projects