CMSC 210

Advanced Computing: Fall 2023

Meeting Times:

Tuesday & Thursday 5:30pm - 6:45pm

Location:

ITE 241

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Useful Links

• Course Calendar
• Python Coding Standards
• Course Syllabus
• Blackboard: Course Home

Course Staff

Richard Zak

Role:

Professor

Email:

richard.zak@umbc.edu

Office Hours:

By appointment

TBD

Role:

Teaching Assistant

Email:

TBD

Office Hours:

TBD

Lecture Topics

1. Course overview & python review — February 1
2. Fancy python — February 3
3. Installfest — February 8
4. Local development & Git (and addendum) — February 10
5. Types, Classes, & objects — February 15
6. Object-Oriented Programming — February 17
7. Object-oriented Programming Design Lab — February 22
8. Python Packaging - February 24
9. Data formats & plotting + Name data exploration — March 1
10. Exploratory Data Analysis slides and notebook — March 3.
11. Design Lab: Data Viz Project — March 8
12. HTML — March 10
13. CSS — March 15
14. Web Scraping + Simple web scraper — March 17
15. Web scraping: Design Lab + Recipe Scraper — March 29
16. List Comprehensions, Generators, Variadic Arguments, & Decorators — March 31
17. Web development with Django: Intro — April 5
18. Web development with Django: Views — April 12
19. Web development with Django: Templates — April 14
20. Web development with Django: Models — April 19
21. Web development with Django: Admin & Forms — April 21
22. Web development with Django: Deployment — April 26 + Final version of in-class project
23. Machine Learning: Intro — April 28
24. Machine Learning: Univariate and Multivariate Regression — May 3
25. Machine Learning: Classification — May 5. With notebooks:
    • Polynomial Regression Review
    • Naive Bayes Classifier
26. Machine Learning: Classification Continued — May 10. With notebooks:
    • Decision Tree Classifier
27. Machine Learning: Clustering and K-Means Clustering notebook — May 12.

Assignments

Instructions for opening an assignment in PyCharm are here.

Assignment	Skills	Due Date
0. Intro Survey		February 4, 2022
1. Python Review	Python review, using Git & Github	February 16, 2022
2. Grittify	Object-oriented programming	March 2, 2022
3. Ramen Time	Data exploration and visualization	March 16, 2022
4. Getting to know some butterflies	Web scraping	April 1, 2022
5. Django Tutorial	Web application development	April 13, 2022
6. Modifying Django	Web application development	April 27, 2022
7. Regression and Classification	Machine learning	May 18, 2022