Topics Coverage Summary: propositional logic, prepositional logic, argument forms, direct proof, proof by contradiction, induction, diagonalization, cardinality, basic number theory
Number of Questions/Slides Available: 100
Materials Author: Cynthia Lee, Stanford University; Shachar Lovett, University of California, San Diego
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Topics Coverage Summary: C++ basics, stack, queue, map, recursion, backtracking recursion, Big O, sorting, pointers and addresses, dynamic memory, classes, heaps, hashing, graphs, brief P vs NP.
Materials Author: Cynthia Lee, Stanford University
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Topics Coverage Summary: variables, types, assignment, order of operations, lists, dictionaries, functions, scope, conditional statements, logical expressions, while loops, for loops
There are two separate editions of PI materials for CS1 in Python. One was developed by Daniel Zingaro of University of Toronto. The other was developed by Cynthia Taylor of Oberlin College.
Number of Questions/Slides Available: 100+
Materials Author: Daniel Zingaro, University of Toronto
Materials Author: Cynthia Taylor, Oberlin College
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Topics Coverage Summary: Use and implementation of basic data structures including linked lists, stacks, and queues. Use of advanced structures such as binary trees and hash tables. Object-oriented design including interfaces, polymorphism, encapsulation, abstract data types, pre-/post-conditions. Recursion. Uses Java and Java Collections.
Number of Questions/Slides Available: Coming soon!
Materials Author: Cynthia Lee, Stanford University, adapted from slides by Paul Kube, UCSD
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Topics Coverage Summary: This is an introductory course on the principles of operating systems. Topics include processes, scheduling, synchronization, memory management, virtual memory, file systems, I/O, protection, security, networking, and distributed systems. There is a significant systems programming component to the course, where students are required to design and implement some basic kernel functions (context switching, scheduling, synchronization) and a user-level thread package.
Number of Questions/Slides Available: 35
Materials Author: Kevin Webb, UCSD, and Cynthia Taylor, Oberlin College
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Topics Coverage Summary: Alice: methods (class and world level), parameters, events, functions, if statements, counted and while loops, lists. Excel: functions and formulas, relative and absolute addressing, linking Excel functions to Alice concepts (e.g. vlookup, average, etc.)
Materials Author: Beth Simon, University of California, San Diego
A Short Article on How to Implement A Peer Instruction CS Principles Course: A pre-print from ACM Inroads June 2012
More detail on the UCSD pilot of CS Principles also in ACM Inroads
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Topics Coverage Summary: ISAs, performance evaluation, computer arithmetic, single-cycle processor, multi-cycle processor, pipelining, caches, virtual memory, modern superscalars, and multithreading
Number of Questions/Slides Available: 107
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Topics Coverage Summary: Deterministic Finite Auotmata (DFA), Nondeterministic Finite Auomata (NFA), Regular Expressions, Pushdown Auomata (PDA), Context-Free Grammars, Turing Machines, Decidability, Halting Problem, Undecidability, Diagonalization, Reductions, P vs NP.
Number of Questions/Slides Available:
– Regular languages: 25 questions
– Context-free languages: 21 questions
– Turing machines: 10 questions
– Decidability, undecidability, cardinality, halting problem, diagonalization: 34 questions
– Reductions, polynomial-time reductions, P vs NP: 14 questions
Materials Author: Cynthia Lee, Stanford University
Additional Contributors:
– Alex Tsiatas, UCSD
– Thérèse Smith, UConn
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Topics Coverage Summary: Simple execution/multiple objects with turtles, Pictures and Sound, Pictures: loops (for each, for, while), if statements, 1-D and 2-D arrays. Sounds: repeat of loops, if statements, and 1-D arrays. Basic introduction to class design, getters/setters, constructors.
Materials Author: Beth Simon, University of California, San Diego
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Topics Coverage Summary: This course focuses on three different paradigms – functional, object-oriented and logic programming, as embodied in OCaml, Scala and Prolog.
Number of Questions/Slides Available: 18 lectures of slides with about 5 PI questions each (lectures also include standard explanatory slides).
Materials Author: Ranjit Jhala, UCSD
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