| 6.00: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming | Fall 2009 |
About: This subject is aimed at students with little or no programming experience. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the role computation can play in solving problems. It also aims to help students, regardless of their major, to feel justifiably confident of their ability to write small programs that allow them to accomplish useful goals. The class will use the Python programming language.
More Information... | Email us: 6.00-staff at mit.edu
Below is the Announcements Blog. Announcements are also emailed out to the 6.00-students mailing list, which all enrolled students are subscribed to.
Hi all,
These are the topics that will be covered on the exam:
Binary search
Selection and merge sort
Divide and conquer algorithms
Amortized complexity analysis
Hashing
Exceptions
Abstract data types
Encapsulation
Data hiding
Classes
Inheritance
Polymorphism
Iterators
Debugging and defensive programming
Formulation of optimization problems
Graphs
Breadth and depth-first traversals
The optional Quiz 2 review session will be held on Tuesday, November 10 from 7-9pm in 34-101.
Quiz 2 will be held on Thursday, November 12, from 7:30-9:00pm in 10-250. There will be a quiz review earlier that week (location and time to be announced soon), and the list of topics and sample questions will be posted sometime soon. The solutions to the questions will not be posted, but feel free to discuss the questions with other students or the TAs.
If you need special accommodations or cannot take the quiz at this scheduled time, please email the staff.
Problem Set 7 has been posted on the Handout section. It's due in a week on Tuesday, Nov. 10.
There was an error in the ps6.py skeleton code, because it did not handle the case where a Yahoo news story did not have a summary tag. This has hopefully been fixed. Please make sure that your process(url) code has been updated to the version currently on the website. Apologies for the inconvenience.
6.00 Office Hours will be from 4-8PM instead of 5-9PM today (5th floor Athena cluster in the Student Center).
Problem set 6 has now been posted under Handouts. It is due in one week, on Tuesday, November 3rd.
The example output for problems 1 and 2 of Problem Set 5 had incorrect score calculations. They have been fixed. him should earn 2.32 points after 6.47 seconds, and cam should earn 4.62 points after 3.25 seconds.
Quiz 1 solutions are now posted under Handouts.
Hi all,Problem Set 5 has been posted on the Handouts section. It is a continuation of the word game from Problem Set 3. It is due on 11:59 pm on next Tuesday, Oct. 27.Problem #4 is challenging! Please don't leave it up to the last minute.Good luck!-- 6.00 staff
Hi all,
For some reason, the 6.00 staff mailing list was not working over the long weekend. It seems to be working now. If you sent us an email during that time and we haven't responded and you still need a reply, please email us again. We're not ignoring you, honest!
The problem was at the MIT level, so your other courses may have had the same problem.
Sample questions for Quiz 1 have been posted on the website under Handouts.
In my previous announcement about Problem Set 4, I mistakenly said that the last function should be compute_poly(phi_0). It should be compute_phi(phi_0). Sorry for the confusion.
Jessica Yuan
Hello students,
Here are the topics that will be covered on the quiz next Thursday at 7:30PM in Room 10-250.
Imperative and definitional knowledge
Stored program computers
Syntax, static semantics, semantics
Straightline, branching, and looping programs
Python-related
Values
Types
Int, float, Boolean, string, tuple, dictionary, list
Expressions
Statements
Print, assignment, conditionals, loops, assert
Functions
Object model and mutation
Scope
Recursive definitions, problem solving, and functions
Structuring programs using decomposition and abstraction
Specifications
Parameters
Defensive programming
Guess and check
Bisection search
Successive approximation
Newton-Raphson
Binary representation of numbers
Order of growth
Linear search
Binary search
Problem sets 1-4
Reminder there is no recitation the Friday after the quiz! You get a break! :)
Problem Set 4 was put out on the website Tuesday night. However, some last-minute changes were made to Problem 4, so please make sure that you have downloaded the right ps4.py and ps4test.py files. The last function should be compute_poly(phi_0), with only one argument.
Jessica Yuan
Hello 6.00 students,
Quick reminder that there is a quiz on Thursday, October 15 evening from 7:30pm-9pm in Room 10-250.
The quiz will cover material through this Thursday's lecture. A list of topics will be released later this week. The quiz is open book/open note and you can bring a calculator (but will not be needed). There are NO communication devices allowed (laptops or cell phones).
There is also an optional quiz review session on Tuesday, October 13 from 7pm-9pm in Room 34-101. Recitations on Friday will also be focused on quiz review, and office hours will be held as normal (see course calendar).
PS4 will be released today as well and due 1 week from today on Tuesday, October 13, so please plan accordingly!
Best of luck,
6.00 Staff
Hello 6.00 students,
We have 3 new lab assistants (LAs) who will be holding office hours during the week to help you with problem sets and other questions. They will be starting this Sunday, and all this information can be found on the 6.00 Google Calendar: http://web.mit.edu/6.00/www/schedule.shtml
Sundays 5PM-9PM: Steven (Student Center, 5th Floor Athena Cluster)
Mondays 6-10PM: Kelly (32-044)
Tuesdays 5-9PM: Burkay (32-044)
The TA office hours will be the same as before.
Fridays 3-4PM: Yunus (32-044)
Mondays 6-8PM: Jessica (32-044)
Mondays 8-10PM: Eunsuk (32-044)
Tuesdays 5-6PM: Yunus (32-044)
Tuesdays 6-8PM: Katherine (32-044)
Good luck on problem set 3!
--6.00 Staff
Hi all,
Problem Set 2 has now been posted in the Handouts section.
Hello 6.00 students,
Starting with today, office hours will be held in 32-044. This is not an Athena computer lab, so please try to bring your laptops to office hours. Sorry for the late notice.
Best,
Yunus
Hello All,