CS 111: Introduction to Computer Science

Spring 2025

Instructors:

Section 1 (MTWT 9:30am) - Tom Stephens (email: tstephen@cs.byu.edu)
- Office Hours: Schedule a time: https://calendly.com/byu-cs-tstephen/office-hours

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