Ford SEI - ALVA

Syllabus

Week of June 29, July 1

        DAY 1

• Introduction

• Name cards

• How the network works

• Exploring the AFS space

• Email options

• SMALL GROUP - send an email, form an email group using directory.umich.edu

• Writing a program

• Input/output

• SMALL GROUP - "Hello world" program

        DAY 2

• Variable types and declarations

• Math - mathematical operators - Squaring a number, power of a number

• SMALL GROUP - flinging a ball

• ASSIGNMENT - escape velocity

Week of July 6, 8

        DAY 3

• Integer math

• SMALL GROUP - manipulating time

• Selection, if, logical conditions

• Functions

        DAY 4

• Loops - while loop, for loop --initialization, condition, iteration, loop body

• SMALL GROUP - factors of a number

• Functions

• ASSIGNMENT - circle games

Week of July 13, 15

        DAY 5

• Variable scope, global scope

• SMALL GROUP - my scope is wrong!

• nested loops

• SMALL GROUP - all the triples

        DAY 6

• Random numbers

• SMALL GROUP - coin flip function

• Random numbers

• ASSIGNMENT - estimation of pi

Week of July 20, 22

        DAY 7

• Vectors

• Using vectors in a function

• SMALL GROUP - coin flipping down the path

• Using loops to print output

        DAY 8

• vectors in functions

• SMALL GROUP - map that ship

• ASSIGNMENT -  Mastermind!

Week of July 27, 29

        DAY 9

• iteration

• SMALL GROUP - under pressure

        DAY 10

• vectors of vectors

• SMALL GROUP - map that ship

• ASSIGNMENT -  Mastermind!

Week of August 3, 5

        DAY 11

• start of arrays

• Assignment: Battleship

        DAY 12

• passing arrays in a function

• SMALL GROUP - input a group of numbers sort and rewrite

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Week of August 10, 12

        DAY 13

• Blaah

• Blahe

        DAY 14

• One

• ASSIGNMENT - temperature profile