Year-2024. Time: Tue, 15:30-19:30h, Location: Library Room 166

Week	Date	Activity	Lecture topic	Worksheets + Notes	Important Dates
1	9/10/24	In-class	Welcome, goals, Introduction to algorithms.
		Lab	Install Jypyter notebooks, use Jupyter to complete webscraper and BG Survey	Background_survey webscraper
		Outside	Make presentation for Week 2.
2	9/17/24	In-class	Student presentations Part 1. Intro to Sci. Languages: Data types, indexing, bools, loops.	Intro_Python+R.ipynb
		Lab	Investigate and present coding structures in class.
		Outside	For Python Read: Enthought_numpy slides on arrays, Numpy docs, and Matplotlib.pyplot docs	For R, Read: Base R arrays and matrices. Plotting arrays
3	9/24/24	In-class	Student presentations Part 2.	Arrays
		Lab	Arrays and Indexing. Data visualization.map making.	Data vis
		Outside	Finish worksheets on data vis. and map making.	Map making
4	10/1/24	In-class	Mapping, modules, more on loops.		Quiz on indexing, data types, loops
		Lab	Exercise on mapping and exercise on recursion. Create a basic_stats.ipynb module. Individual term project discussions with Brice	More on loops, modules + recursion
		Outside	Read Ch.2 on Circuits in Realworld Computing (Brightspace only for copyright). Prepare term project proposal.	Basic_stats.ipynb
5	10/8/24	In-class	Presentation on I/O Wire up LED and thermistor. Analyze an LED circuit.
		Lab	LED circuit programmed to activate at interval and at keystroke. Prepare term project proposal.
		Outside	Finish LED lab with polled LED functionality
6	10/15/24	In-class	No class		Submit your term project proposal.
	(Columbus Day Makeup)	Lab	No class		Quiz on circuits
		Outside	No class
7	10/22/24	In-class	Reading and collecting serial data, connect Arduino to R or Python to measure temperature.	Thermistor_Lab_part1, Therm_Lab.ino
		Lab	Build and analyze thermistor circuit, Use timekeeping and dataframes to collect data and timestamp it.	Timekeeping.ipynb
		Outside	Collect overnight temperature data, plot.	Thermistor_Lab_part2, Therm_plotter in R, Therm_plotter in Python
8	10/29/24	In-class	Statistics for sequential data: Regression, auto/cross correlation.
		Lab	Calibrate thermistors.	Calibration
		Outside	Exercise on heat flow and cross-correlation.
9	11/6/24	In-class	Intro to Dataframes in Pandas and in R.	Intro to Pandas Intro to Dataframes in R
		Lab		Temperature Analysis
		Outside
10	11/12/24	In-class	Intro to Unix.	Intro to Unix
		Lab	Intro to High Performance Computing environment.	Intro to High Performance Computing
		Outside	Term project work session.
11	11/19/24	In-class	Introduction to Raspberry Pi	Intro to Raspberry Pi	Quiz on dataframes and Unix shell commands.
		Lab	Raspberry Pi connection to Arduino thermistor
		Outside	Deploy RasPi Camera traps	Raspberry Pi Camera Trap
12	11/26/24	In-class	High-performance computing exercise on LANDSAT data
		Lab	Large array processing.	Parallel Processing on HPC	Thanksgiving week (Nov 23-26)
		Outside	Exercise on HPC.
13	12/3/24	In-class	Benchmarking and efficient code in Pandas/Numpy	Benchmarking
		Lab	Exercise on Benchmarking
		Outside	Term project work session.
14	12/10/24	In-class	No class, term project work session		No class
		Lab
		Outside	Term project work session.
15	12/19/24	In-class	Term project presentations		Exam date
		Lab	Term project presentations
		Outside	Term project presentations

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