Shannon Bradshaw, Ph.D.
302 Hall of Sciences
973.408.3198
sbradsha at drew dot edu
http://users.drew.edu/sbradsha

Week 1

• Reading assignment: DC&P Ch. 1, Appendix A
• Lecture slides: Introduction to CSCI 1 and Alice
• Alice setup
• Homework 1
• In-class exercise 1

Week 2

• Week 1 review questions
• Reading assignment: DC&P Ch. 2
• Lecture slides: Top Down Design and Modular Development
• Lecture slides: Creating New Methods in Alice
• Homework 2
• In-class Exercise 2
• In-class Exercise 3

Week 3

• Week 2 review questions
• Homework 3
• Reading assignment: DC&P Ch. 4 and Ch. 5
• Lecture slides: Introduction to Event-Driven Programming
• Lecture slides: Exploring Events in Alice

Week 4

• Reading assignment: DC&P Ch. 3 and Ch. 7
• Homework 4
• Lecture slides: The Logical Structure of Algorithms
• Lecture slides: Boolean Logic in Programming

Week 5

• Week 4 review questions; Solutions (MS Word)
• Reading assignment: None
• Homework 5
• Lecture slides: Branching and Looping Examples
• Lecture slides: Branching with Random Numbers

Week 6

• Reading assignment: Review DC&P pp. 13-16, 85-92
• Homework 6
• Lab Exercises
• Lecture slides: Text in Alice Worlds
• Lecture slides: Pictures and Sound in Alice Worlds

Week 7

• More object-oriented programming and event handling
• Functions and If/Else (DC&P Ch. 6)

Week 8

• Midterm Exam

Week 9

• Homework 7
• Lecture slides: Writing our own functions(DC&P Sec. 6.1)
• Lecture slides: Inheritence(DC&P Ch. 10)
• Lecture slides: Data structures, lists, and arrays (DC&P Ch. 9)

Week 10

• Week 9 study questions
• Working with data structures, our own functions, and inheritence
• Team project (Cinderella)

Week 11

Week 12

• Lecture slides: Introduction to 3D Graphics A, B
• Introduction to Human Information Interaction

Week 13

• Introduction to Modern Search Engines

Week 14

Week 15

• Reading Week

Week 16

• Final Exam