Cohort 24

Foundational Concepts of Computer Science

Summer 2024

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Date Lesson Materials Office Hours
Unit 1: Bits and Bytes and Gates (Oh, my)
June 10 Course and Program Kickoff (T0)  
June 11 Logic Gates (T1a)  
June 12 Binary and Hexadecimal Integers (T1b) Office Hours - 10:00 - noon
June 13 Binary Fractions (T1c) Office Hours - noon - 2:00
June 14 Floating Point Representation (T1d) Office Hours - 10:00 - noon
June 15-16 CD #1a [Outcomes and Objectives Guide]  
June 17 Numerical Errors (T1e)  
June 18 Storage of things beyond numbers (T1f)  
June 19 Compression Methods (T1g) Office Hours - 10:00 - noon
June 20 Communication Errors (T1h) Office Hours - noon - 2:00
June 21 Unit 1 Social and Ethical Issues [Prep for the CoP on Monday] Office Hours - 10:00 - noon
June 22-23 CD #1b [Outcomes and Objectives Guide]  
Unit 2: Computer Hardware, Data Manipulation, and Operating Systems
June 24 CoP #1  
June 25 Computer Architecture & Secondary Memory (T2a)  
June 26 Vole Machine Language Instructions (T2b) Office Hours - 10:00 - noon
June 27 Vole Machine Language Programs (T2c) Office Hours - noon - 2:00
June 28 Ports and Controllers (T2d) Office Hours - 10:00 - noon
June 29-30 CD #2 [Outcomes and Objectives Guide]  
July 1 Operating Systems Fundamentals (T3a)  
July 2 Coordinating Activities and Shared Resources (T3b)  
July 3 Operating System Security (T3c) Office Hours - 10:00 - noon
July 4 Holiday  
July 5 Unit 2 Social and Ethical Issues [Prep for the CoP on Monday] Office Hours - 10:00 - noon
July 6-7 CD #3 [Outcomes and Objectives Guide]  
Unit 3: Networks and Databases
July 8 CoP #2  
July 9 Networking Fundamentals (T4a)  
July 10 The Internet and the World Wide Web (T4b) Office Hours - 10:00 - noon
July 11 Internet Protocols and Client-Server Interaction (T4c) Office Hours - noon - 2:00
July 12 Cybersecurity (T4d) Office Hours - 10:00 - noon
July 13-14 CD #4 [Outcomes and Objectives Guide]  
July 15 Database Fundamentals (T9a)  
July 16 Writing Database Queries (T9b)  
July 17 Data Mining (T9c) Office Hours - 10:00 - noon
July 18 Unit 3 Social and Ethical Issues [Prep for the CoP on Monday] Office Hours - noon - 2:00
July 19   Office Hours - 10:00 - noon
July 20-21 CD #9 [Outcomes and Objectives Guide]  
Unit 4: Artificial Intelligence
July 22 CoP #3 Exceptions:
Mississippi Bend, Friday, July 19th
Green Hills, Wednesday, July 24
July 23 What is AI? (T11a)  
July 24 Reasoning/Search Problems (T11b) Office Hours - 10:00 - noon
July 25 Learning Approaches (T11c) Office Hours - noon - 2:00
July 26 Uninformed Search (Reinforcement Learning) (T11d) Office Hours - 10:00 - noon
July 27-28 Retakes for CD 1-4, and 9 must be done by 7/28  
July 29 Artificial Neural Networks (Supervised Learning) (T11e)  
July 30 Considering the Consequences (T11f)  
July 31 ChatGPT (T11g) Office Hours - 10:00 - noon
August 1 Unit 4 Social and Ethical Issues Office Hours - noon - 2:00
August 2 CD #11 MUST be taken by 8/2 [Outcomes and Objectives Guide]  
     
August 6 Retakes for CD #11 must be taken by 8/6