CS 107: Pictures and Sounds: Programming with Multimedia

Reading Assignments, Problem Sets, Lab Entrance Assignments, and Programming Projects will be listed here in chronological order by due date, i.e., with the most recent ones at the bottom of the list.

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This document was last modified on May 28, 2008.

CS 107 Home Homework Labs Key People Syllabus Bibliography

Week 1: Wednesday

• Reading Assignment:
  • Read Chapter 1 and the beginning of Chapter 2 (up to section 2.4.3 on p. 28) of the textbook.

    Bring your textbook to class, as we will be doing a mini-lab. You may also wish to bring a USB thumb drive to class, or be prepared to transfer files to and from your own computer in your room if you have one.

• Problem Set:
  • The first problem set is available online.

Week 1: Thursday

• Lab Entrance Assignment for Lab 1:
  • Make sure you know, or be sure to bring, your username (for example, k00ab05) and your KNET password. You may also want to consider buying a USB thumb drive for storing backups.

Week 1: Friday

• Reading Assignment:
  • Read the rest of Chapter 2 (starting with section 2.5 on p. 28) of the textbook.

    Bring your textbook to class, as we will be doing a mini-lab.

Looking Ahead:

• The Problem Set due Monday is to finish the Exploring Functions Mini-Lab, if you have not already done so.

Week 2: Monday

• Reading Assignment:
  • Follow-up from Friday's mini-lab - read the Common Bug on page 80.
  • Read the beginning of Chapter 3, through the Common Bug note on p. 48. For now we will skip the part of section 3.2 from p. 48 to p. 53.
  • Read Section 5.4.1 on pp. 124 - 125. We will use some of these function in a mini-lab in class.

    Bring your textbook to class, as we will be doing a mini-lab in class.

Week 2: Wednesday

• Reading Assignment:
  • Read the beginning of Chapter 3, through the Common Bug note on continuing through the end of p. 56. (If you want to read a description of how the recipe on p. 56 works, you can read the section on tracing the program on pp. 57 - 60, but you may find it easier to wait until after we have typed in and run this program in class.)

  Bring your textbook to class, as we will be doing a mini-lab in class

Week 2: Thursday

• Lab Entrance Assignment for Lab 2:
  • Answer the Analysis Questions from the Manipulating Pixels mini-lab in a couple of sentences, and bring them to class.
  • Be sure to have finished the Manipulating Pixels mini-lab.
  • Type in recipes 15, 16, and 17 from pages 68-70 of your text.
• Reading Assignment:
  • Read the rest of Section 3.3, including tracing the program on pp. 57 - 60 if you didn't read that for Wednesday, and read the rest of the chapter following that. We will come back to the skipped part of section 3.2 next week.

Week 2: Friday

• Reading Assignment:
  • Read Sections 4.1 and 4.2 (pp. 74 - 82).

Week 3: Monday

• Reading Assignment:
  • Be sure to have read Sections 4.1 and 4.2.

• Reading Assignment:
  • Read the beginning of Section 4.3 through 4.3.1 (pp. 82 - 88). Skip section 4.3.2, which has the kind of big, monolithic code that we're trying to avoid, but read Sections 4.3.3, and 4.3.4 (pp. 93 - 100).
• Problem Set:
  • Write a function, called duplicate, that takes a picture as a parameter, and makes a new picture which is an exact copy of the original picture. Your function should return the new picture. To do this, think about what the dimensions of the new picture should be, and where in the new picture you wish to copy pixels from the original picture. You should not use the duplicatePicture in JES to do this. Rather, you should be using nested for loops. The point of this exercise is to understand how the duplicatePicture function works.

Week 3: Thursday

• Lab Entrance Assignment for Lab 3:
  • Read Section 4.3.4 to get the ideas. You do not need to concentrate on the details.
  • Read through the lab.

Week 3: Friday

• Reading Assignment:
  • No new reading. Be sure you have read the sections from earlier in the week.

Week 4: Monday

• Reading Assignment:
  • No new reading.
• We will be meeting in the lobby of the library today, and breaking into small group activities.

Week 4: Wednesday

• Reading Assignment:
  • Read Sections 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 (pp. 115 - 122).

• Problem Set:
  • (On paper) Rewrite the increaseRed function so that it uses an if-statement to cap the new value of red at 255.

Week 4: Thursday

• Lab Entrance Assignment for Lab 4:
  • Type in recipes 42 (swapbg) and 43 (chromakey) from your textbook. Save them in a file called Lab4.py.

Week 4: Friday

• Reading Assignment:
  • In Chapter 9, read Section 9.2 on debugging techniques (pp. 205 - 208).

• Problem Set:
  • Do the exercises on if statements and for loops. Remember, you may work with others on the problem sets - the point of these is to understand them!

Looking Ahead:

• The Reading Assignment for Monday will be to read Section 9.1 in Chapter 9 (pp. 201 - 204), and to finish any assigned reading you have not done yet from Chapter 5, including all of section 5.4.
• There is also a problem set for Monday.
• Programming Project #2 is due Monday of Week 6.
• Programming Project #1 is due Wednesday of Week 4.

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