INFO 201 A Technical Foundations of Informatics

Winter 2020 | T/Th 1:30p-3:20p (GWN 301) | Lab (by section)

Instructor & TA Information

Joel Ross (Instructor)
joelross@uw.edu
Office: MGH 330C
Office Hours: Mon 9a-11a, Wed 1pm-3pm, or by appointment

TA Office Hours
Mon 4:30p-5:30p MGH Commons
Tue 5p-6p MGH Commons
Wed 3p-5:30p MGH Commons

Informatics Tutors
Scarlett Hwang and Nussara Tieanklin
see here for details

Section TAs

Section AA Phuong Vu
Tue 3:30p-4:20p (MGH 082)

Section AB Yunwei Liang
Tue 4:30p-5:20p (MGH 082)

Section AC Yubing Tian
Tue 5:30p-6:20p (MGH 082)

Section AD Gavin Sreesangkom
Tue 7:30p-8:20p (MGH 082)

Section AE Coco Li
Wed 3:30p-4:20p (MGH 082)

Section AF George Zhang
Wed 4:30p-5:20p (MGH 082)

Section AG Saurav Sawansukha
Wed 5:30p-6:20p (MGH 082)

Section AH YuYu Madigan
Wed 6:30p-7:20p (MGH 082)

Quick Links

Course Textbook

Student Resources

Exercise Code

Code on GitHub

Q&A on Teams

Slides

Course Schedule

For assignment listing and deadlines, see the Assignments page.

This course will cover topics following the approximate schedule below (subject to change):

Week	Tue	Lab (T/W)	Thu
1 (Jan 6-10)	Welcome; Command line Read Ch 1-2	Setup and Markdown Read Ch 4	git & GitHub Read Ch 3
2 (Jan 13-17)	Introduction to R Read Ch 5-6	Creating Functions	Vectors & Lists Read Ch 7-8
3 (Jan 20-24)	Debugging; Data Encoding	Debugging	Data Frames I Read Ch 9.1-9.3; Ch 10
4 (Jan 27-31)	Data Frames II Read Ch 9.4-9.5	Data Science	Data Wrangling I Read Ch 11.1-11.4
5 (Feb 3-7)	Data Wrangling II Read Ch 11.4-12	Data Distributions	Web APIs Read Ch 14
6 (Feb 10-14)	R Markdown Read Ch 18	Visual Analysis Read Ch 15	ggplot2 Read Ch 16
7 (Feb 17-21)	Interactive Visualizations and Design Read Ch 17	form project groups Read Conflict and Cohesion	Collaborative git Read Ch 20
8 (Feb 24-28)	TBD	Interactive Exploration	Shiny Read Ch 19
9 (Mar 2-6)	Shiny (cont) Re-Read Ch 19	project work	Special Topic: HTML/CSS
10 (Mar 9-13)	Conclusions	project work time / check-in	Work time (no lecture)

Getting Started

Just joining us? Start by doing the following:

Fill out the intro survey
Read through the course syllabus. THIS IS REQUIRED
Join the class Teams chat (use the code 2p9jb8z to join)! Feel free to say hello :)
Visit and bookmark the course textbook (access for free with your UW NetID)
- Read Chapter 1: Setting Up Your Computer and install all the required development software.
- Be sure to sign up for a GitHub account so you can turn in assignments!