Weekly Course Schedule – Summer 2020

IS 452 - AO, AOU - Foundations of Information Processing

Meets Wednesday Evenings Online

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Week 2 (May 25 – May 31)



Schedule Note
Due to the accelerated schedule of a 12-week Summer semester, this week covers material that would be covered over 2 weeks of a normal-length semester. I recommend that you make an early start on these assignments!


Wednesday, May 27   (6:30 P.M. – 9:00 P.M., Zoom)
Class Session 2
Session Link
You may join the session using this link. Use 228134 as the session password. Please use a headset.
Topics
  • Computers and Programs (Zelle 3e - Chapter 1)
  • Writing Simple Programs (Zelle 3e - Chapter 2)
Required Readings
  • Zelle 3e - Chapter 1 (Computers and Programs)
  • Zelle 3e - Chapter 2 (Writing Simple Programs)
Optional Readings
  • Severance Chapter 1 (Why Should You Learn to Write Programs?). Note that I have marked readings in the Severance text as optional. Zelle and Severance provide complementary approaches to learning Python. So, especially for new programmers, I believe that it is worth the extra effort to do these optional readings in the Severance book.
  • Severance Chapter 2, Sections 2.1 through 2.6 ("Values and Types" through "Expressions")
  • Severance Chapter 5, Sections 5.6 through 5.7 ("Definite Loops Using for" through "Loop Patterns")
Required Recordings
Other Resources


Sunday, May 31   (11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M., Zoom)
Optional Session
Session Link
You may join the session using this link. Use 941408 as the session password. Please use a headset.
Online Lab
On Sunday mornings from 11:00 AM till 12:00 PM, I will be holding an optional Online Lab Session using Zoom. Please drop by to ask a question, to discuss solutions to previous assignments, to get help with the current assignment, to discuss the final project, or just to say hello.


Sunday, May 31, @  11:55 P.M.
Weekly Assignments Deadline
Coding Assignments Due