INFO 201 A Wi 20: Technical Foundations

Course Schedule

INFO 201 A Technical Foundations of Informatics

Winter 2020 | T/Th 1:30p-3:20p (GWN 301 Links to an external site.) | Lab (by section)

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Instructor & TA Information

Joel Ross Photo

Joel Ross Links to an external site. (Instructor)
joelross@uw.edu
Office: MGH 330C Links to an external site.
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 Links to an external site. for details

Section TAs

Section AA Phuong Vu
Tue 3:30p-4:20p (MGH 082 Links to an external site.)

Section AB Yunwei Liang
Tue 4:30p-5:20p (MGH 082 Links to an external site.)

Section AC Yubing Tian
Tue 5:30p-6:20p (MGH 082 Links to an external site.)

Section AD Gavin Sreesangkom
Tue 7:30p-8:20p (MGH 082 Links to an external site.)

Section AE Coco Li
Wed 3:30p-4:20p (MGH 082 Links to an external site.)

Section AF George Zhang
Wed 4:30p-5:20p (MGH 082 Links to an external site.)

Section AG Saurav Sawansukha
Wed 5:30p-6:20p (MGH 082 Links to an external site.)

Section AH YuYu Madigan
Wed 6:30p-7:20p (MGH 082 Links to an external site.)

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

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