CS 111: Introduction to Computer Science

Summer 2026

Instructors:

Section 1 (MTWTh 12:30pm) - Steven Giles (email: Steven.Giles@byu.edu)

Students from Fall 2025 or Earlier
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Week's Lecture Topics & Slides	Date	Readings	Lab Links	Homework & Project Due Dates / Test Dates
Week 1
Lecture 0 - Course Introduction	Mon Jun 22	How to Navigate Canvas / Gradescope Syllabus Reading Quiz Disabling AI Tools	Getting Started and Python Setup Lab	First Day of Classes
Lecture 1 - Computational Thinking & Writing Quality Code	Tue Jun 23	Code Quality Guidelines Python Basics Reading Quiz Console I/O Reading Quiz Booleans and Conditionals Reading Quiz While Loops Reading Quiz Functions Reading Quiz	Booleans and Conditionals Lab While Loops Lab Functions Lab Slicing Lab
Lecture 2 - Errors & Introduction to Testing (why, TDD)	Wed Jun 24	Errors Reading Quiz Testing Intro Reading Quiz File I/O Reading Quiz List Basics Reading Quiz Slicing Reading Quiz Strings Reading Quiz For Loops Reading Quiz	File I/O Lab List Basics Lab Strings Lab For Loops Lab Errors Lab	Homework 00 - Pizza!
Lecture 3 - Environments and Debugging	Thu Jun 25	Debugging Reading Quiz Free Coding Project - Overview	Debugging Lab
	Fri Jun 26
Week 2
Lecture 4 - Testing and Writing Tests	Mon Jun 29	pytest Reading Quiz doctest Reading Quiz	pytest Lab	University Add/Drop Deadline Homework 01 - College Admissions Algorithms
Lecture 5 - Strings, Lists, Dictionaries & Tuples, Slicing & Comprehensions	Tue Jun 30	Tuples Reading Quiz Dictionaries Reading Quiz Comprehensions Reading Quiz	doctest Lab Dictionaries Lab Tuples Lab Comprehensions Lab
Lecture 6 - Images	Wed Jul 1	Images Reading Quiz	Images Lab Progress Check 1
Lecture 7 - Abstraction & Command Line Arguments	Thu Jul 2	Abstraction Reading Quiz Command Line Arguments Reading Quiz	Command Line Arguments Lab	Homework 02 - Image Manipulation
	Fri Jul 3	Independence Day Holiday
Week 3
Lecture 8 - Big O, Algorithm Analysis, Data Structures	Mon Jul 6	Big O Reading Quiz		Project 01 - Image Processing Skill Assessment 1
Lecture 9 - Object Oriented Programming & Class Design	Tue Jul 7	OOP Reading Quiz Classes Reading Quiz	Classes Lab	Free Coding Project - Proposal Skill Assessment 1
Lecture 10 - Inheritance & Interfaces	Wed Jul 8	Inheritance Reading Quiz Interfaces Reading Quiz	Inheritance Lab Interfaces Lab
Lecture 11 - Dunder Functions & Polymorphism	Thu Jul 9	Dunder Functions Reading Quiz Polymorphism Reading Quiz	Dunder Functions Lab Polymorphism Lab	Homework 03 - The Grid Class
	Fri Jul 10
Week 4
Lecture 12 - Modularity, Modular Design & Random Numbers	Mon Jul 13	Random Numbers Reading Quiz	Random Numbers Lab	Project 02 - Falling Sand Simulation
Lecture 13 - Lambda Expressions & Higher Order Functions	Tue Jul 14	Lambda Functions Reading Quiz Higher Order Functions Reading Quiz	Lambda Functions Lab Higher Order Functions Lab Progress Check 2
Lecture 14 - Composition, Decorators, & Mutability	Wed Jul 15
Lecture 15 - Recursion	Thu Jul 16	Recursion Reading Quiz Review Syllabus Reading Quiz	Recursion Lab	Skill Assessment 2
	Fri Jul 17			Skill Assessment 2
Week 5
Lecture 16 - Linked Lists	Mon Jul 20	Linked Lists Reading Quiz	Linked Lists Lab
Lecture 17 - Tree Recursion	Tue Jul 21	Tree Recursion Reading Quiz Merge Sort Reading Quiz	Tree Recursion Lab
Lecture 18 - Trees	Wed Jul 22	Trees Reading Quiz	Trees Lab	Homework 04 - Merge Sort
Lecture 19 - Backtracking	Thu Jul 23	Backtracking Reading Quiz	Backtracking Lab Progress Check 3
	Fri Jul 24	Pioneer Day Holiday
Week 6
Lecture 20 - Programming Languages & Regular Expressions	Mon Jul 27	Regex Reading Quiz	Regex Lab	Project 03 - Recursive Backtrace Mazes
Lecture 21 - HTML, Requests, and Beautiful Soup	Tue Jul 28	Intro to WWW Reading Quiz HTML Tags and Attributes Reading Quiz	HTML Tags and Attributes Lab	Free Coding Project - Implementation Skill Assessment 3
Lecture 22 - Hyperlinks and robots.txt	Wed Jul 29	Hyperlinks Reading Quiz robots.txt Reading Quiz	Hyperlinks Lab	Skill Assessment 3
	Thu Jul 30			Homework 05 - Robots
	Fri Jul 31
Week 7
Lecture 23 - Web Scraping	Mon Aug 3	Web Scraping Reading Quiz	Web Scraping Lab
Lecture 24 - Data Visualization	Tue Aug 4	Data Visualization Reading Quiz	Data Visualization Lab Progress Check 4
Lecture 25 - Conclusion	Wed Aug 5
	Thu Aug 6			Project 04 - Webcrawler Skill Assessment 4
	Fri Aug 7			Skill Assessment 4
Week 8
	Mon Aug 10	Last Day of Classes
	Tue Aug 11	Exam Prep Day / Reading Day
	Wed Aug 12	Finals Week - Check your schedule for specific exam times
	Thu Aug 13	Finals Week - Check your schedule for specific exam times
	Fri Aug 14