UCSD CSE SPIS: Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 2017

Week 1

• Sun 08/06 — SPIS Orientation Session—Meet the staff, get your stuff, including first homework assignment.
• Mon 08/07 — First looks—Projects, Python, ACMS Unix, git/github. Also, Guttag Ch. 1
• Tue 08/08 — Number representation and Picobot —Binary, hexadecimal, state machines, picobot
• Wed 08/09 — Guttag Chapter 3—Problem solving strategies: Guess and check, exhaustive enumeration, bisection search
• Thu 08/10 — Guttag Chapter 4—functions, scope, stack, modules, recursion, more turtle
• Fri 08/11 — Breadth/Depth—Two options for lecture
• Week 1: Breadth —Steganography
• Week 1: Depth —Guttag Chapters 1-4
• Week 1 Closing Circle —Reflect on Awesome moments, meet the mentors, appreciations