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Office hours

Office hours are not held in the first week, during reading week, or on the day of the midterm. For office hours help on assignment due dates (Fridays), please attend tutorials.

WeekdayTimeCourse staff memberLocation
TBD

Course schedule

THIS SCHEDULE IS PRELIMINARY

WeekModule coverageAssessments
Jan 5–Jan 11Module 1: BasicsNo tutorial
Jan 12–Jan 18Module 2: Making decision Assignment 0: Friday, January 16th, 17:30
(Note: Assignment 0 does not contribute to your course grade.)
Normal tutorials start this week
Jan 19–Jan 25Module 3: RepetitionTutorial problem 1: Friday, January 23rd
Jan 26–Feb 1Module 4: Strings and listsAssignment 1: Friday, January 30th, 17:30
Feb 2–Feb 8Module 4, Module 5Tutorial problem 2: Friday, February 6th
Feb 9–Feb 13Module 5: Sorting and dictionariesAssignment 2: Friday, February 13th, 17:30
Feb 14–Feb 22(Reading week)
Feb 23–Mar 1In-class exercises and examples
Mar 2–Mar 8Module 6: Files and plotting Midterm exam: Monday, March 2nd, 19:00
Assignment 3: Friday, March 6th, 17:30
Mar 9–Mar 15Module 6, Module 8Tutorial problem 3: Friday, March 13th
Mar 16–Mar 22Module 7: AIAssignment 4: Friday, March 20th, 17:30
Mar 23–Mar 29Module 8: ClassesTutorial problem 4: Friday, March 27th
Mar 30–Apr 5Module 9: EfficiencyAssignment 5: Thursday, April 2nd, 17:30
Apr 6 Tutorials on Monday, April 6th
(Friday schedule)
Tutorial problem 5: Monday, April 6th
(Final exam to be announced)

Configuring Jupyter

We will be using Jupyter extensively in this course. We will discuss how to get started in Jupyter in class, and you can refer to the course textbook.

Once you are running Jupyter, copy and paste the following incantation into Jupyter, and run it. (Include everything, even the exclamation mark.)

!wget https://student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs114/src/Assignment-00.ipynb

This will download a file called Assignment-00.ipynb. Open this file, and run it by clicking the ⏩ button. This will set up type checking that we will use throughout the term.