CSC121H Winter 2018: Lectures

Lectures

Lecture slides and content for each week can be found on this page.

NOTE: All of the worksheets used in class, as well as the R programs demonstrated, will be uploaded here after class each week.

Week of	Topics/Worksheets	Lecture Material (MWF @ 12pm)
Jan. 4 (Week 0)	Introduction	M
		W
		F	Welcome to CSC121! First lecture on Jan. 5th.
Jan. 8 (Week 1)	Introduction to R   Expressions and Variables    Using functions	M	Announcements/Reminders (PDF) Intro to R Slides (PDF) R Console (txt)
		W	Variables Slides (PDF) R Console (txt) RStudio screenshots (PDF)
		F	Some Review and Terminology (Number literals and their types) (PDF) Functions Slides (PDF) R Console (txt)
Jan. 15 (Week 2)	R Scripts    Function Definitions	M	Intro to R Programs/Scripts (R) Function Definitions Intro Slides (PDF) sin_degrees_function_with_comments.R (R)
		W	Writing Function Definitions Slides (PDF) sin_degrees_function.R (R) run_sin_function.R (R) triangle_area_function.R (R)
		F	Vectors Slides (PDF) R Console (txt) distance_functions.R (R)
Jan. 22 (Week 3)	Vector Manipulation    Logical Values    If statements	M	Vector Manipulation and Logical Values: R Console (txt)
		W	R Console (txt) If-Statments Slides (PDF) if_statement_functions.R (R)
		F	R Console (txt) Tips For Writing Good Code (PDF)
Jan. 29 (Week 4)	Strings    Loops    Using the Debugger	M	Announcements/Reminders (PDF) R Console (txt) parrot.R (R)
		W	For Loops Slides (pdf) for_loop_functions.R (R)
		F	count_values_three_attempts.R (R) Note: We used the RStudio debugger to step through these functions and see the what happens to each variable as the code runs. multiple_return_statements.R (R) While Loops Slides (pdf)
Feb. 5 (Week 5)	More While Loops    Lists	M	while_loop_functions.R (R) logical_values_functions.R (R) while_with_logical_function.R (R)
		W	R Console (txt) for_loop_list.R (R) printing_to_console.R (R)
		F	R Console (txt)
Feb. 12 (Week 6)	List Manipulation   Dictionaries (named lists)    Reading files line-by-line	M	Quiz 1
		W	R Console (txt) list_functions.R (R)
		F	reading_files.R (R) names.txt (file to read with above script) (txt)
Feb. 19	Reading Week: No Lectures or Labs
Feb. 26 (Week 7)	Matrices	M	R Console (txt)
		W	No lecture notes.
		F	R Console (txt) matrix_functions.R (R)
Mar. 5 (Week 8)	Plotting Graphs   Data Sets	M	Plotting Slides (PDF) R Console (txt) spiral.R (R)
		W	R Console (txt)
		F	Data Frames Intro Slides (PDF) R Console (txt) Students data file - students.txt (txt)
Mar. 12 (Week 9)	Random Numbers   Classes   Factors	M	Random Numbers Slides (PDF) R Console (txt) random_walk.R (R)
		W	R Console (txt) student_print.R (R)
		F	R Console (txt) classes.R (R)
Mar. 19 (Week 10)	Classes   Tables   More plotting in R	M	Quiz 2
		W	Review of Classes, same code as last Friday: classes.R (R)
		F	R Console (txt) word_frequencies.R (R) pride-and-prejudice.txt (txt) Linear Modelling Slides (PDF)
Mar. 26 (Week 11)	More graphing   Recursion	M	graph_parameters.R (R)
		W	recursion.R (txt)
		F	Good Friday - no lecture
Apr. 2 (Week 12)	Runtime complexity   Sorting Algorithms	M	runtime.R (R)
		W	runtime.R (R) Website on sorting algorithms
		F