Course Schedule

Tue: No Class (Sep 02)

Thu: Reproducibility 1 (Sep 04)

• Course Overview
• Hardware, OS, Interpreters

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
Slides: PDF
Assigned:

• Survey 1 (5:00 pm)

Tue: Reproducibility 2 (Sep 09)

• versioning
• git commands
• branching and merging
• conflict resolution

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: : Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
Slides: PDF
Assigned:

• Lab 1 (8:00 am)
• Project 1 (5:00 pm)

Due:

Survey 1 (11:59:00 pm)

Thu: Performance 1 (Sep 11)

• check_output
• time
• identifying steps
• counting executed steps
• complexity analysis

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
VM Setup: Video
Git Workflow: Video
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML1 (NB1), HTML2 (NB2)
Slides: PDF
Assigned:

• Quiz 1 (5:00 pm)

Tue: Performance 2 (Sep 16)

• big O notation
• worksheet practice
• large data
• generators

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML (NB)
Worksheet: Question, Answer
Assigned:

• Lab 2 (8:00 am)
• Project 2 (5:00 pm)

Due:

• Quiz 1 (11:59:00 pm)
• Project 1 (11:59:00 pm)

Thu: OOP 1 (Sep 18)

Classes

• attributes
• methods
• constructors

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
GitLab: Video
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML (NB)
Slides: PDF
Optional Reading: Think Python 15, 16, and 17.1 - 17.5
Assigned:

• Quiz 2 (5:00 pm)

Tue: OOP 2 (Sep 23)

Special Methods

• __str__, __repr__, _repr_html_
• __eq__, __lt__
• __len__, __getitem__
• __enter__, __exit__

Inheritance

• method resolution order
• overriding methods
• calling overridden methods

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML1 (NB1), HTML2 (NB2)
Slides: PDF
Optional Reading: Python Data Model
Optional Reading: Think Python 18
Assigned:

• Lab 3 (8:00 am)
• Project 3 (5:00 pm)

Due:

• Quiz 2 (11:59:00 pm)
• Project 2 (11:59:00 pm)

Thu: Recursion and Graphs (Sep 25)

Recursion

• functions that return something
• functions that do something

Graphs

• graphviz
• types of graph

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML1 (NB1), HTML2 (NB2)
Worksheet: Question, Answer
Interactive Exercises
Assigned:

• Quiz 3 (5:00 pm)

Grade Released: Project 1 (10:00 pm)

Tue: Trees (Sep 30)

• trees
• binary trees
• binary search trees (BSTs)
• BSTs: height, for sets+dicts

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML (NB)
Slides: PDF
Assigned:

• Lab 4 (8:00 am)

Due:

• Quiz 3 (11:59:00 pm)

Thu: Graph Search 1 (Oct 02)

• depth-first search

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML (NB)
Slides: PDF
Honorlock: Practice with Honorlock
Assigned:

• Quiz 4 (5:00 pm)

Grade Released: Project 2 (10:00 pm)

Tue: Graph Search 2 (Oct 07)

• breadth-first search
• stacks, queues, priority queues
• deque (for queues)
• heapq (for priority queues)

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML1 (NB1), HTML2 (NB2)
Slides: PDF
Assigned:

• Lab 5 (8:00 am)

Due:

• Quiz 4 (11:59:00 pm)

Thu: Web 1 (Oct 09)

Selenium

• web intro
• finding elements, text
• polling
• screenshots
• clicking, typing

Recursive Crawl

• more tricky pages
• BFS for webpages

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
Tricky Pages, Crawl Practice
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML1 (NB1), HTML2 (NB2)
Slides: PDF
Assigned:

• Quiz 5 (5:00 pm)

Tue: Web 2 (Oct 14)

Flask

• Internet overview
• flask
• headers, rate limiting (HTTP 429)
• robots.txt

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML (NB)
Slides: PDF
Assigned:

• Lab 6 (8:00 am)
• Project 4 (5:00 pm)

Due:

• Quiz 5 (11:59:00 pm)
• Project 3 (11:59:00 pm)

Thu: Exam 1 (Honorlock) (Oct 16)

• Regular exam: during class time
• McBurney exam (with 1.5 x time): during class time
• McBurney exam (with > 1.5 x time): 5:45 pm to 7:15 pm

Assigned:

• Exam 1

Answers Released: Exam 1 (10:00 pm)

Tue: Web 3 (Oct 21)

Flask

• query strings
• decorators

A/B testing

• data collection
• significance

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML (NB), TechCrunch article
Slides: PDF
Assigned:

• Lab 7 (8:00 am)
• Project 5 (5:00 pm)

Due:

• Project 4 (11:59:00 pm)

Thu: Web 4 (Oct 23)

Dashboards

• dashboards
• POST
• CDFs

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML (NB)
Assigned:

• Quiz 6 (5:00 pm)

Grade Released: Project 3 (10:00 pm)

Tue: Regex (Oct 28)

• character classes
• repetition
• anchoring
• practice

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML (NB), DS100 Ch 13
Slides: PDF
Assigned:

• Lab 8 (8:00 am)

Due:

• Quiz 6 (11:59:00 pm)

Thu: Visualization 1 (Oct 30)

• matplotlib coordinate systems
• drawing custom lines/polygons
• coordinate reference systems

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML (NB)
Assigned:

• Quiz 7 (5:00 pm)

Grade Released: Project 4 (10:00 pm)

Tue: Visualization 2 (Nov 04)

• geographic maps
• shapely
• shapefiles, GeoJSON
• DPI (dots per inch)
• geocoding

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML (NB)
Assigned:

• Lab 9 (8:00 am)
• Project 6 (5:00 pm)

Due:

• Quiz 7 (11:59:00 pm)
• Project 5 (11:59:00 pm)

Thu: Regression 1 (Nov 06)

• Machine Learning (ML) overview
  • regression, classification
  • clustering, decomposition

• sklearn LinearRegression

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Watch Prerecorded: Recording
Lecture notes: Code
Assigned:

• Quiz 8 (5:00 pm)

Tue: Regression 2 (Nov 11)

• explained variance
• train/test split
• PolynomialFeatures
• OneHot Encoding
• Pipelines

Watch Fall 2025: Lecture
Watch Spring 2025: Lecture
Lecture notes: Code
Slides: PDF
Assigned:

• Lab 10 (8:00 am)
• Survey 2 (5:00 pm)

Due:

• Quiz 8 (11:59:00 pm)

Thu: Exam 2 (Honorlock) (Nov 13)

• Regular exam: during class time
• McBurney exam (with 1.5 x time): during class time
• McBurney exam (with > 1.5 x time): 5:45 pm to 7:15 pm

Assigned:

• Exam 2

Answers Released: Exam 2 (10:00 pm)
Grade Released: Project 5 (10:00 pm)

Tue: Linear Algebra (Nov 18)

• numpy arrays
• numpy images
• multiplication
• fit with np.linalg.solve
• predict with np.dot
• column perspective
• column spaces
• projection matrices

Watch: Lecture
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML1 (NB1), HTML2 (NB2), HTML3 (NB3)
Assigned:

• Lab 11 (8:00 am)
• Project 7 (11:59:00 pm)

Due:

• Project 6 (11:59:00 pm)

Thu: Classification 1 (Nov 20)

• LogisticRegression
• multiclass, proba
• decision boundaries

Watch: Lecture
Lecture notes: Code
Slides: PDF
Assigned:

• Quiz 9 (5:00 pm)

Tue: Classification 2 (Nov 25)

• standardization
• confusion matrices
• accuracy, precision, recall

Watch: Lecture
Lecture notes: Code
Slides: PDF
Due:

• Quiz 9 (11:59:00 pm)

Thu: No Class (Nov 27)

Thanksgiving recess

Tue: Clustering (Dec 02)

• KMeans
• AgglomerativeClustering
• fit, transform, predict
• AgglomerativeClustering

Watch: Lecture
Lecture notes: Code
Slides: PDF
Assigned:

• Lab 12 (8:00 am)
• Project 8 (11:59:00 pm)

Due:

• Project 7 (11:59:00 pm)

Thu: Decomposition (Dec 04)

• Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
• Feature Dimensionality Reduction
• Compressing Data

Watch: Lecture
Lecture notes: Code
Read: HTML (NB)
Assigned:

• Quiz 10 (5:00 pm)

Grade Released: Project 6 (10:00 pm)

Tue: Unsupervised ML Recap (Dec 09)

• linkage
• wrapup Dendrograms
• when to use the following:
  • KMeans
  • AgglomerativeClustering
  • PCA

Watch: Lecture
Lecture notes: Code
Slides: PDF
Assigned:

• Lab 13 (8:00 am)

Due:

• Quiz 10 (11:59:00 pm)

Thu: No Class (Dec 11)

Due:

• Survey 2 (11:59:00 pm)
• Project 8 (hard deadline: no project will be accepted after Thursday, December 11 at 11:59:00 pm)

Grade Released: Project 7 (10:00 pm)
Grade Released: Project 8 (10:00 pm) on December 12

Monday: Final Exam (Online Exam with Honorlock) (Dec 15)

• Regular exam: 10:05 pm - 12:05 pm
• McBurney exam: 10:05 pm - 1:05 pm
• Alternate exam: 11:05 pm - 1:05 pm

Assigned:

• Final Exam (10:05 pm - 12:05 pm)

Answers Released: Final exam (10:00 pm)