Course Calendar

Week 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • Finals

Video Screencasts are available approximately two hours after each lecture. Links to lecture slides are available on the same day as lecture. Links to labs become available on the Sunday of the week the lab is scheduled.

Holidays and Events

Week 1—Getting Started
Unit I: Connections: People, Technology, Information
Date Day Lecture Topic
 Readings Due
 Labs Homework
Mar 29 Mon Introduction
[slides] [handouts] 		  Lab 1 UW Network Resources
[Instructions] 		HW 1 assigned
Mar 30 Tue        
Mar 31 Wed Terminology
[slides] [handouts]

Pair It
[play game]

Fluency, ch1 Lab 2 Directories
[Instructions]
*NIX (optional) [Instructions]		 Clicker Registration Survey assigned
[WebQ]
Apr 01 Thu        
Apr 02 Fri Human-Computer Interaction
[slides] [handouts]		 Fluency, ch 2   HW2: assigned
[Instructions]
[Fetch on the Mac]

Due by Noon:
Weekly GoPost discussion (see link in menu)

Due by 5pm:
HW1

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Week 2
Date Day Lecture Topic
 Readings Due
 Labs Homework
Apr 05 Mon Networking
[slides] ] [handouts]

[Warriors of the Net]
[HIstory of the Internet]

 Fluency, ch 3 Lab 3 Image Manipulation
[Instructions]
[Mt. St. Helens] [Red Square]

Due by 5 pm:
Labs 2
Clicker Registration [WebQ]

Apr 06 Tue       Due by 5 pm:
HW 2
Apr 07 Wed XHTML 1.0
[slides] [handouts] 		Fluency, ch 4 Lab 4 HTML Practice
[Instructions]
 
Apr 08 Thu        
Apr 09 Fri More XHTML & CSS
[slides] [handouts]

Video: Getting Started with CSS

 Review Fluency ch. 4   HTML Project 1A Assigned
[Instructions]
[Blank XHTML 1.0 file]

Due by Noon:
Weekly GoPost Discussion,

Due by 5pm:
Lab 3

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Week 3
Date Day Lecture Topic
 Readings Due
 Labs Homework
Apr 12 Mon To Err Is Human
[slides] [handouts]		 Fluency, ch 7 HTML Project 1A
[Instructions]
[Blank XHTML 1.0 file]		 Due by 5pm:
Lab 4
Apr 13 Tue        
Apr 14 Wed

Web Search & Search Engines
[slides] [handouts]

Broken HTML file
[exercise]
[key]

Search Engines (6 min.)
Truth Assessment on the We

 Fluency, ch 5 HTML Project 1A  
Apr 15 Thu        
Apr 16 Fri

Bits & Bytes of Digital Information
[slides] [handouts]

 Fluency, ch 8   HTML Project 1B Assigned
[Instructions]

Due by Noon:
Weekly GoPost Discussion

Due by 5 pm:
Project 1A

Due by 5 pm Saturday:
Project 1A
[1-1-1 Rule]

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Week 4—Programming
Unit II: Telling the Computer Exactly What To Do
Date Day Lecture Topic
 Readings Due
 Labs Homework
Apr 19 Mon How Computers Work
[slides] [handouts] 		Fluency, ch 9 HTML Project 1B
[Instructions]		  
Apr 20 Tue        
Apr 21 Wed Multimedia
[slides] [handouts]		 Fluency, ch 11 HTML Project 1B  
Apr 22 Thu        
Apr 23 Fri

First JavaScript
[slides] [handouts]

 Fluency, ch. 18   Due by Noon:
Weekly GoPost Discussion

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Week 5
Date Day Lecture Topic
 Readings Due
 Labs Homework
Apr 26 Mon JavaScript Conditionals
[slides] [handouts]		 Fluency, ch 18 Lab 5
[Instructions]		 Due by Noon:
Project 1B
Apr 27 Tue       Due by Noon:
Project 1B
[1-1-1 Rule]
Apr 28 Wed

Forms and Events
[slides] [handouts]

Examples:
Click a button
Emoticons
Calculator

Fluency, ch 19

 Lab 6
[Instructions] 		 
Apr 29 Thu        
Apr 30 Fri Programming Functions
[slides] [handouts]

Examples:
Weight in Gold 		Fluency, ch 20  

Due by Noon:
Weekly GoPost Discussion

Due by 5pm:
Lab 5

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Week 6
Date Day Lecture Topic
 Readings Due
 Labs Homework
May 03 Mon Arrays & Iteration [slides] [handouts]

Examples:

Fluency, ch 21 Lab 7
[Instructions] 		Due by 5pm:
Lab 6
May 04 Tue      
[Instructions]
May 05 Wed

Arrays and Algorithms
[slides] [handouts]

Array Examples

[CD Sort Animation]

 

Fluency, ch. 10

[Practice WebQ]

 Lab 8
[Instructions]

JavaScript Project 2A Assigned
[Instructions]

Extra Credit 1 Opportunity
[Instructions]
May 06 Thu        
May 07 Fri

Problem Decomposition and Project 2 Introduction
[slides] [handouts]

Skim Fluency, ch 22
[Practice WebQ]

Skim Fluency, ch 21 [Practice WebQ]

  

Due by Noon:
Weekly GoPost Discussion

Due by 5pm:
Lab 7

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Week 7
Date Day Lecture Topic
 Readings Due
 Labs Homework
May 10 Mon Social Uses of Computing
[slides] [handouts]

Fluency, ch 12
[Practice WebQ]

 Project 2A
[Instructions]

Due by 5 pm:
Extra Credit 1

Assigned:
XC Museum tour next week
[Signup]

Free software [Signup]
May 11 Tue        
May 12 Wed

Ian King, History of Computers I
[slides] [handouts]

Required (skim):

[Firing Tables]
[Richards]
[Practice WebQ]

Optional:

[Church's Thesis]
[Universal Turing Machine]
[Whirlwind]

Project 2A
[Instructions]

Due by 5 pm:
Lab 8

May 13 Thu        
May 14 Fri Ian King, History of Computers II
[slides] [handouts]

Required (skim):

[UNIX Time-Sharing]
[Practice Quiz]

Optional:

[PDP-11]

  

JavaScript Project 2B Assigned

Due by Noon:
Weekly GoPost Discussion

Due by 5pm:
Signup for XC Museum Tour,
JavaScript Project 2A

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Week 8—Unit III: Databases
Information Storage, Retrieval, and Privacy
Date Day Lecture Topic
 Readings Due
 Labs Homework
May 17 Mon

Privacy
[slides] [handouts]

Videos:
Pizza Palace - ACLU
Avoid ID Theft - FTC

Fluency, ch. 13 (first half)

[Privacy Practice WebQ]

[JavaScript Practice WebQ]

JavaScript Project 2B
[Instructions]

 
May 18 Tue    

 

  
May 19 Wed Security
[slides] [handouts]

Fluency, ch. 13 (second half)

[Security Practice WebQ]

 JavaScript Project 2B
[WebQ]
May 20 Thu        
May 21 Fri No lecture! Class is released to go to the Undergraduate Research Symposium in Mary Gates Hall Commons (big open space on 1st floor).

Due by Noon:
Weekly GoPost Discussion

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Week 9
Date Day Lecture Topic
 Readings Due
 Labs Homework
May 24 Mon Databases
[slides] [handouts]		 Fluency, ch. 16, first half Lab 11 Databases
[Instructions]
[WebQ]

Assigned (optional):
Second Chance for the Museum Tour:
Indicate when you're available on the
Second Chance Days/Times Survey
May 25 Tue      

Due by Noon (optional):
Second Chance Days/Times Survey

Due by 5pm:
JavaScript Project 2B
May 26 Wed

Introduction to Search XC
[slides] [handouts]

Database Management Systems
[slides] [handouts]

Fluency, ch. 16 Project 3A
[Instructions]

Search XC assigned (15 points) [WebQ]

Database Project 3A assigned

Due by 5pm:
1-1-1-1 rule Project 2B
May 27 Thu       Due by 5pm:
Museum XC paper
May 28 Fri

Database Design
[slides] [handouts]

[Exercise] [Key]

Fluency, ch. 16

[Database practice WebQ]

  

Database Project 3B assigned

Vote for the Best GoPosters
[WebQ]

Due by 5pm:
Lab 11, Weekly GoPost Discussion

Due by 11:45pm (optional): Search XC
[Instructions]

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Week 10
Date Day Lectures
Readings
 Labs Homework
May 31 Mon Memorial Day—No Classes
If your lab section meets on Monday, attend a lab section on Tuesday, a drop-in lab, or CLUE.
Jun 01 Tue     Database Project 3B
[Instructions]

Due by 5 pm:
Project 3A
Jun 02 Wed Databases with XML
[slides] [handouts]
Fluency, ch. 17 Database Project 3B

Due by 5pm:
Best GoPosters. 1-1-1-1 for Project 3A

Assigned: Quiz 9 [WebQ]

Jun 03 Thu        
Jun 04 Fri

Wrap Up[slides] [handouts]

Announce Winners of Best GoPosts

Course Evaluations

 Fluency, ch 24 TA Evaluations

Due by 5pm:
Weekly GoPost Discussion, Project 3B,
Quiz 9

Also due by 5pm:
WebQs 2A-1, 2A-2, 2A-3, 2B-1, 2B-2, 2B-3, 2B-4, 2B-5 (if you missed them)

Due by 5pm Saturday:
1-1-1-1 for Project 3B

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Finals Week: No final!

Date Day No lectures!
 No readings!
 No Drop-In Labs! Homework
Jun 05 Mon        
Jun 06 Tue        
Jun 07 Wed        
Jun 08 Thu        
Jun 09 Fri        

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