CS 111: Introduction to Computer Science

Winter 2025

Instructors:

Sections 1 (online) & 2 (MW 12:30pm) - Tom Stephens (email: tstephen@cs.byu.edu)
- Office Hours: Schedule a time: https://calendly.com/byu-cs-tstephen/office-hours
Sections 3 (MW 9:30am) & 4 (MW 11:00am) - Steve Richardson (email: srichardson@byu.edu)
- Office Hours: 2:00pm-4:00pm Tuesdays and Thursdays in 3372 TMCB, or by appointment (send me an email)
Section 5 (MW 2:00pm) - Nancy Fulda (email: nfulda@cs.byu.edu)
Section 16 (TTh 4:00pm) - Bruce Hansen (email: Bruce.Hansen@byu.edu)
Section 17 (MW 5:30pm) - Andrew Cluff (email: Andrew_Cluff@byu.edu)
Section 19 (T 5:15pm SLC) - Bryce Perkins (email: brycej.perkins+byu@gmail.com)
Section 20 (MWF 8:00am) - Steven Giles (email: Steven.Giles@byu.edu)

Due Dates may not reflect your Section
This schedule is approximate and dates may shift slightly as the semester goes on.
Additionally, it is schedule for the MW lectures and TTh lab sessions. If your lab or lecture section is a different day, some of the deadlines will be different.
Refer to Canvas for your exact dates.

Week's Lecture Topics & Slides	Date	Related Readings	Lab Links	Homework & Project Due Dates / Test Dates
Week 1
	Mon Jan 6
	Tue Jan 7
Instructor introductions: Dr. Tom Stephens Introduction Dr. Steve Richardson Introduction Dr. Nancy Fulda Introduction Prof. Bruce Hansen Introduction Prof. Andrew Cluff Introduction Prof. Bryce Perkins Introduction Prof. Steven Giles Introduction Course Introduction	Wed Jan 8	First day of classes.
	Thur Jan 9	Getting Started Python Environments	Lab 00: Getting Started & Python Setup
	Fri Jan 10	Things As They Really Are 2.0		Canvas Quiz: CS 111 or CS 110? Readiness Self-Assessment
Week 2
I/O, Conditionals, Booleans, & Libraries Functions, Names, Loops, & Lists	Mon Jan 13	Introduction Standard Types Operators Input Print Files Formatting Text
	Tue Jan 14		Lab 01: Basic Python, Booleans, Conditionals, & Console I/O
	Wed Jan 15	Defining Functions Built-in Functions More on Lists Loops	University Add/Drop Deadline	Homework 0: Pizza!
	Thur Jan 16		Lab 02: Functions, While loops, & File I/O
	Fri Jan 17
Week 3
Strings, Slicing, Ranges, & Comphrehensions	Mon Jan 20	Martin Luther King Holiday
	Tue Jan 21		Programming Environment Passoff
	Wed Jan 22	Strings and Slicing Ranges List Comprehensions		Programming Environment Passoff
	Thur Jan 23		Lab 03: For loops, Strings, & Comprehensions
	Fri Jan 24
Week 4
Environments & Debugging Debugging & Testing	Mon Jan 27	Scopes Python Tutor VS Code Debugging PyCharm Debugging
	Tue Jan 28		Lab 04: Debugging
	Wed Jan 29	Pytest Doctests		Homework 1: College Admissions Algorithms
	Thur Jan 30		Lab 05: Computational Thinking
	Fri Jan 31
Week 5
Testing, Tuples, Dictionaries, & Exceptions Iterators & Generators	Mon Feb 3	Tuples Dictionaries Overview Dictionary Methods Exceptions
	Tue Feb 4		Lab 06: Testing
	Wed Feb 5	Iterators Generators More on Generators		Project 0: Grade Calculator
	Thur Feb 6		Lab 07: Exceptions
	Fri Feb 7
Week 6
Images & Abstraction Command Line Arguments, Object Oriented Programming, & Classes	Mon Feb 10		Practice Midterm 1 Practice Midterm 1 Solution	Take Midterm 1 in the Testing Center
	Tue Feb 11		Lab 08: Picture Puzzles & Filters	Take Midterm 1 in the Testing Center
	Wed Feb 12	Command Line Arguments Explanation of Classes Classes Overview		Homework 2: Image Manipulation Take Midterm 1 in the Testing Center
	Thur Feb 13		Lab 09: Command Line Arguments	Take Midterm 1 in the Testing Center - $5 late fee
	Fri Feb 14			Free Coding Project Proposal Due
Week 7
Inheritance & Dunder Functions Polymorphism, Random Numbers, & Modularity	Mon Feb 17	President's Day Holiday
	Tue Feb 18	Monday Instruction Day - Go to Monday classes!
	Wed Feb 19	Modules Dunder Methods Inheritance		Project 1: Image Processor
	Thur Feb 20		Lab 10: Classes
	Fri Feb 21
Week 8
Modular Design, Functional Programming, & Higher Order Functions Lambda Functions & Mutability	Mon Feb 24	Higher Order Functions
	Tue Feb 25		Lab 11: Starting the Grid class
	Wed Feb 26	Lambda Functions		Homework 3: The Grid Class
	Thur Feb 27		Lab 12: Functional Programming
	Fri Feb 28
Week 9
Mutable Functions Recursion	Mon Mar 3	Mutability
	Tue Mar 4		Lab 13: Higher Order Functions
	Wed Mar 5	Intro To Recursion Khanacademy Recursion Python Tutor Comparing Iteration with Recursion		Homework 4: The Sand Class
	Thur Mar 6		Lab 14: Recursion
	Fri Mar 7
Week 10
Recursion & Linked Lists Tree Recursion, Mergesort, & Trees	Mon Mar 10	Linked Lists
	Tue Mar 11		Lab 15: Linked List
	Wed Mar 12	Visualizing Mergesort Mergesort		Project 2: Sand
	Thur Mar 13		Lab 16: Trees
	Fri Mar 14
Week 11
Trees & Language The Calculator Language	Mon Mar 17	Intro to Trees
	Tue Mar 18		Midterm Review
	Wed Mar 19			Homework 5: Merge sort
	Thur Mar 20		Lab 17: Parsing
	Fri Mar 21	Spring Break Day
Week 12
Regular Expressions Big-O & Machine Learning	Mon Mar 24	RegExr Regex101 W3Schools Regex Regex Python Docs	Practice Midterm 2 Practice Midterm 2 Solution	Take Midterm 2 in the Testing Center
	Tue Mar 25		Lab 18: Regular Expressions	Take Midterm 2 in the Testing Center
	Wed Mar 26	Big O Notation Big O Guide		Homework 6: Parsing Take Midterm 2 in the Testing Center
	Thur Mar 27		Project 3 Work Lab	Take Midterm 2 in the Testing Center - $5 late fee
	Fri Mar 28			Free Coding Project Pass-off Deadline
Week 13
Machine Learning & Intro to the WWW Requests & Beautiful Soup	Mon Mar 31	How the web works HTML
	Tue Apr 1		Lab 19: HTML & Web Fundamentals
	Wed Apr 2	Requests Beautiful Soup Docs		Project 3: Calculator Interpreter
	Thur Apr 3		Lab 20: Using Beautiful Soup	University Withdrawal Deadline
	Fri Apr 4
Week 14
Hyperlinks & Robots Data Scraping	Mon Apr 7	Urllib Robots.txt Files
	Tue Apr 8		Lab 21: URLlib
	Wed Apr 9			Homework 7: Robots
	Thur Apr 10		Lab 22: Web crawl Scavenger hunt
	Fri Apr 11
Week 15
Data Visualization Cryptography & Conclusion	Mon Apr 14	Matplotlib Matplotlib Quick Start Docs	Practice Final Practice Final Solution
	Tue Apr 15		Lab 23: Plotting
	Wed Apr 16	Last day of classes. Deadline for all late assignments.		Project 4: Web Crawler Free Coding Extra Credit
	Thur Apr 17	Exam Preparation Day
	Fri Apr 18	Final exam in Testing Center
	Sat Apr 14	Final exam in Testing Center
Week 16
	Mon Apr 21	Final exam in Testing Center
	Tue Apr 22
	Wed Apr 23
	Thur Apr 24	School's out - Go home for the Summer!!