CS 111: Introduction to Computer Science

Summer 2025

Instructors:

Section 1 (MWF 10:00 AM) - Tyler Burrows (email: burrowtn@byu.edu)
- Office Hours: TO BE DETERMINED

This schedule is approximate and dates may shift slightly as the semester goes on.

Week's Lecture Topics & Slides	Date	Related Readings	Lab Links	Homework & Project Due Dates / Test Dates
Week 1
	Mon Jun 23
Course Introduction I/O, Conditionals, Booleans, & Libraries Functions, Names, Loops, & Lists	Tue Jun 24	Getting Started Python Environments Things As They Really Are 2.0	Lab 00: Getting Started & Python Setup	First day of classes.
	Wed Jun 25	Introduction Standard Types Operators Input Print Files Formatting Text		Canvas Quiz: CS 111 or CS 110? Readiness Self-Assessment
	Thur Jun 26	Defining Functions Built-in Functions More on Lists Loops	Lab 01: Basic Python, Booleans, Conditionals, & Console I/O Lab 02: Functions, While loops, & File I/O
	Fri Jun 27
	Sat Jun 28			Homework 0: Pizza!
Week 2
Strings, Slicing, Ranges, & Comphrehensions Environments & Debugging Debugging & Testing Testing, Tuples, Dictionaries, & Exceptions	Mon Jun 30	Strings and Slicing Ranges List Comprehensions
	Tue Jul 1	Scopes Python Tutor VS Code Debugging PyCharm Debugging	Lab 03: For loops, Strings, & Comprehensions Lab 04: Debugging Lab XX: Programming Environment Passoff	University Add/Drop Deadline
	Wed Jul 2	Pytest Doctests		Homework 1: College Admissions Algorithms
	Thur Jul 3	Tuples Dictionaries Overview Dictionary Methods Exceptions	Lab 05: Computational Thinking Lab 06: Testing
	Fri Jul 4		Midterm 1 Study Guide General Studying Guide
	Sat Jul 5			Project 0: Grade Calculator
Week 3
Iterators & Generators Images & Abstraction Command Line Arguments, Object Oriented Programming, & Classes Inheritance & Dunder Functions	Mon Jul 7	Iterators Generators More on Generators
	Tue Jul 8		Lab 07: Exceptions Lab 08: Picture Puzzles & Filters	Take Midterm 1
	Wed Jul 9	Command Line Arguments Explanation of Classes Classes Overview		Take Midterm 1
	Thur Jul 10	Modules Dunder Methods Inheritance	Lab 09: Command Line Arguments	Take Midterm 1 Free Coding Project Proposal Due
	Fri Jul 11
	Sat Jul 12			Homework 2: Image Manipulation
Week 4
Polymorphism, Random Numbers, & Modularity Modular Design, Functional Programming, & Higher Order Functions Lambda Functions & Mutability Mutable Functions	Mon Jul 14			Project 1: Image Processor
	Tue Jul 15	Higher Order Functions	Lab 10: Classes Lab 11: Starting the Grid class
	Wed Jul 16	Lambda Functions		Homework 3: The Grid Class
	Thur Jul 17	Mutability	Lab 12: Functional Programming Lab 13: Higher Order Functions
	Fri Jul 18
	Sat Jul 19			Homework 4: The Sand Class
Week 5
Recursion Recursion & Linked Lists Tree Recursion, Mergesort, & Trees	Mon Jul 21
	Tue Jul 22	Intro To Recursion Khanacademy Recursion Python Tutor Comparing Iteration with Recursion	Lab 14: Recursion Lab 15: Linked List
	Wed Jul 23	Linked Lists		Project 2: Sand
	Thur Jul 24	Visualizing Mergesort Mergesort	NO LAB: Pioneer Day
	Fri Jul 25		Midterm 2 Study Guide General Studying Guide
	Sat Jul 26			Homework 5: Merge sort
Week 6
Trees & Language The Calculator Language Regular Expressions Big-O & Intro to the World Wide Web	Mon Jul 28	Intro to Trees
	Tue Jul 29	University Withdrawal Deadline	Lab 17: Parsing Lab 16: Trees
	Wed Jul 30	RegExr Regex101 W3Schools Regex Regex Python Docs		Homework 6: Parsing Take Midterm 2
	Thur Jul 31	Big O Notation Big O Guide How the web works HTML	Lab 18: Regular Expressions	Take Midterm 2
	Fri Aug 1			Free Coding Project Pass-off Starts Midterm 2
	Sat Aug 2			Project 3: Calculator Interpreter
Week 7
Requests & Beautiful Soup Hyperlinks & Robots Data Scraping Data Visualization & Machine learning Cryptography & Conclusion	Mon Aug 4	Requests Beautiful Soup Docs
	Tue Aug 5	Urllib Robots.txt Files	Lab 19: HTML & Web Fundamentals Lab 20: Using Beautiful Soup Lab 21: URLlib
	Wed Aug 6			Homework 7: Robots
	Thur Aug 7	Matplotlib Matplotlib Quick Start Docs	Lab 23: Plotting Lab 22: Web crawl Scavenger hunt
	Fri Aug 8		Final Exam Study Guide General Studying Guide
	Sat Aug 9			Project 4 Free Coding Extra Credit
Week 8
Cryptography & Conclusion	Mon Aug 11	Last day of classes. Deadline for all late assignments.
	Tue Aug 12	Exam Preparation Day
	Wed Aug 13	Final exam
	Thur Aug 14	Final exam