Advent of Code  Dec 1st - 25th
 SECOND Fall 2024 LASA UIL Practice Contest (until Dec 31)  leaderboard
lasacs.com/uilpractice (also in right side menu)
16 problems (get a LASA{CS} shirt* if you finish 6 problems)
*if you don't already have one
LASA is hosting NACLO - North American Computational Linguistics Open
January 23rd, 2025
Solve linguistic puzzles while exercising logic skills. No prior knowledge of linguistics, programming, or second languages is required (example problem - solution)
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Advanced Computer Science
syllabus  resources
Date Notes  Activities

Senior Info

Reading List

(To be used throughout the year!)

Asymptotic notation
Looking For The Logic Behind Logarithms
https://medium.com/basecs/looking-for-the-logic-behind-logarithms-9e79d7666dda

What’s a Linked List, Anyway? [Part 1]
https://medium.com/basecs/whats-a-linked-list-anyway-part-1-d8b7e6508b9d

What’s a Linked List, Anyway? [Part 2]
https://medium.com/basecs/whats-a-linked-list-anyway-part-2-131d96f71996

Stacks and Overflows
https://medium.com/basecs/stacks-and-overflows-dbcf7854dc67

To Queue Or Not To Queue
https://medium.com/basecs/to-queue-or-not-to-queue-2653bcde5b04

How To Not Be Stumped By Trees
https://medium.com/basecs/how-to-not-be-stumped-by-trees-5f36208f68a7

Leaf It Up To Binary Trees
https://medium.com/basecs/leaf-it-up-to-binary-trees-11001aaf746d

The Little AVL Tree That Could
https://medium.com/basecs/the-little-avl-tree-that-could-86a3cae410c7

Painting Nodes Black With Red-Black Trees
https://medium.com/basecs/painting-nodes-black-with-red-black-trees-60eacb2be9a5

Busying Oneself With B-Trees
https://medium.com/basecs/busying-oneself-with-b-trees-78bbf10522e7

A Gentle Introduction To Graph Theory
https://medium.com/basecs/a-gentle-introduction-to-graph-theory-77969829ead8

From Theory To Practice: Representing Graphs
https://medium.com/basecs/from-theory-to-practice-representing-graphs-cfd782c5be38

Spinning Around In Cycles With Directed Acyclic Graphs
https://medium.com/basecs/spinning-around-in-cycles-with-directed-acyclic-graphs-a233496d4688

Deep Dive Through A Graph: DFS Traversal
https://medium.com/basecs/deep-dive-through-a-graph-dfs-traversal-8177df5d0f13

Going Broad In A Graph: BFS Traversal
https://medium.com/basecs/going-broad-in-a-graph-bfs-traversal-959bd1a09255

Finding The Shortest Path, With A Little Help From Dijkstra
https://medium.com/basecs/finding-the-shortest-path-with-a-little-help-from-dijkstra-613149fbdc8e

Taking Hash Tables Off The Shelf
https://medium.com/basecs/taking-hash-tables-off-the-shelf-139cbf4752f0

Hashing Out Hash Functions
https://medium.com/basecs/hashing-out-hash-functions-ea5dd8beb4dd

Less Repetition, More Dynamic Programming
https://medium.com/basecs/less-repetition-more-dynamic-programming-43d29830a630

Speeding Up The Traveling Salesman Using Dynamic Programming
https://medium.com/basecs/speeding-up-the-traveling-salesman-using-dynamic-programming-b76d7552e8dd

Learning to Love Heaps
https://medium.com/basecs/learning-to-love-heaps-cef2b273a238

Deeper Heaps

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15GqO9Bo16vxaeG2mCG5Gt-BSEEFytwUzHK5bMkp4yPk/edit?usp=sharing
Office Hours:
Resources:
eBook:  A Complete Guide to Programming in C++
eBook: Open Data Structures
eBook:  Think OS: A Brief Introduction to Operating Systems by Allen B. Downey
videos: YouTube selections
11/25-29

Fall Break
11/13

Topic: SDLC Overveiw – Edpuzzle (2024)

Worksheet: Code Review
11/11
  • Fall Team Affinity Form
  • Topic: 100.OS Introduction (EdPuzzle)
  • Worksheet: FAT File Systems
 11/04 Topic: Crash Course Operating Systems (EdPuzzle)
Lab Day – LASA Air Logistics
Worksheet: C++ Header Guidelines
 10/30

Supplemental: U.S. cybersecurity officials warn of foreign efforts to sow doubt and chaos around election (edPuzzle)

Topic: 50. Linked List (EdPuzzle – BLEND)

Lab: LASA – Air Logistics (LASAlle)
10/28 Lab Day – Finish Operator Overload
 10/23
  • GP2 Class Administration (2024)
  • Topic: 13.2.Operator Overloading (EdPuzzle)
  • Lab: Operator Overload
  • Reference: C++ Operator Overloading
10/21

Software Engineering theme

Reading: (The contents of these articles will be included on quiz)
10/18 Lab Day
10/16

Topic: Friends and Inheritance (EdPuzzle)

Lab: 14.Inheritance And Friends
10/11 GP1 Exam
10/07 Lab Day
10/02
  • Topic: 11. Dynamic Memory (EdPuzzle)
  • Lab: Dynamic Memory Lab (Submit on Blend)
09/30
  • SoloLearn: C++: Set 3
  • SoloLearn: C++ Set 4
09/27 Lab Day
09/25

Topic: Intro to C++ Classes (EdPuzzle)

Lab: Sales Data – II  (Submit on Blend)
09/23 Worksheet: Pointers II– blend_small in BLEND
09/18 Lab Day
 09/16

Topic: C++ File I/O (videoquiz) – blend_small in BLEND

Lab:   C++ File I/O: World Data
09/13 Lab Day
09/11

Topic: 12.Structs  (videoquiz) – blend_small in BLEND

Lab: Sales Data I
09/09 Worksheet: pointers – blend_small in BLEND
 09/04 Lab: Lexical Analyzer (see blend_small Blend )
08/30 Topics

  • 07.Functions (videoquiz) – blend_small in BLEND
  • 08.Arrays (videoquiz) – blend_small in BLEND
  • 10. Pointers (videoquiz) – blend_small in BLEND

Tasks:

sololearn: Basic Concept, Conditionals & Loops, Data Types Arrays, & Pointers.  (Sections through 32)
08/28  Topic – Playposit:

  • 03.Strings (videoquiz) – blend_small in BLEND
  • 04.Operators (videoquiz) – blend_small in BLEND
  • 05.BasicI/O (videoquiz) – blend_small in BLEND

Worksheet: Finish – Data Representation

Sololearn Beginner – C++: Basics Concepts – blend_small in BLEND
08/26

 Topic:  02.DataTypes (videoquiz) – blend_small in BLEND

Worksheet: Data Representation – blend_small BLEND

Reference:
 08/22

Topic: 01.Introduction  (narrated 🕪)

Controlling the Computer with the Command Prompt

Hello C++
08/20

WELCOME HOME!  :)

The goal today is to get reacquainted and to get a general idea about the course.