6.0001 Intro to CS and Programming in Python
Spring 2017
Instructors: Ana Bell, Eric Grimson, John V Guttag
TAs: Helen Abadiotakis, Orhan Tunc Celiker, Laura N Gustafson, Carlos A Henriquez, Kathleen N Johnson, Victoria C Jones, Mesert Kebed, Bethany A LaPenta, Kaitlin E Mahar, Aasavari S Phanse, Atikha Rizwan, Zachary M Sather, Alisha Saxena, Matthew J Tancik, Austen K Yueh
Lecture: MW3 (26-100)
Information:
Required Textbook
The lectures will closely follow this textbook. MIT Press always offers MIT students a 20% discount on their MIT course books, so the book will cost $36.00, and be tax-free. Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python, Second Edition: With Application to Understanding Data by John V. Guttag
Recitations
Recitations are optional. You do not have to sign up for any and can attend whichever you'd like.
Lecture Review recitations re-cover certain topics from lecture -- these are good if you missed lecture or want another take on the material. Problem Solving recitations will present one or two harder programming questions -- these are good if you need more practice programming and are having trouble with how to approach problem-set-type problems.
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10 AM in 34-304 with Asavari (lecture review)
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11 AM in 34-304 with Atikha (lecture review)
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11 AM in 24-121 with Orhan (problem solving)
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12 PM in 24-121 with Katy (lecture review)
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1 PM in 1-375 with Carlos (lecture review)
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1 PM in 5-217 with Alisha (problem solving)
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2 PM in 1-375 with Matt (lecture review)
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2 PM in 5-217 with Helen (problem solving)
Office Hours
See this
Google Calendar for office hour times and locations. We will
update the locations for the TBD rooms as soon as they are
permanent; in the meantime, check the Piazza forum for
updates.
Announcements
Letter Grade
Your 6.0001 letter grade is now up on Your Grades page.* These letter grades show up on Websis at the end of the
semester.
* If you got an O, it is because we do not have a record of you
taking the final exam. See this.
* We do not post final percentages or grade cutoffs.
* Please email 6.0001-staff@mit.edu with any questions.
Announced on 13 April 2017 11:14 a.m. by Ana Bell
Final Exam Grades
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You will receive an email (if not already) with your exam scores. The exam grades will be up within 30 minutes on the "Your Grades" page.
Mean: 75
Median: 82
Standard deviation: 19
Distribution: http://i.imgur.com/HuDOS2f.png
* The solutions have been posted under Stellar ->
Materials.
* Speaking very roughly, you can think of the following as a very
very rough indicator of how your grade on the exam relates to a
letter grade. Keep in mind, however, that there are other factors
that contribute to you grade in the subject.
> 85: A
65-84: B
50-64: C
40-49: D
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Final Grades
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* We will be submitting final letter grades to the registrar at the
end of next week. We will update the Your Grades page with your
final letter grade then. They show up on Websis at the end of the
semester.
* We do not post final percentages or grade cutoffs.
* Please email 6.0001-staff@mit.edu with any questions.
Announced on 08 April 2017 2:46 p.m. by Ana Bell
!!! [important] Check for Missing Pset Scores !!!
Hi everyone,We will be assigning final grades next week. Please check that you have all your problem set grades by going here and clicking each pset:
https://6.00.scripts.mit.edu:444/psets/grades60001.php
If you believe you are missing a grade (autograder or checkoff),
fill out this form ASAP, by Saturday night at 11:59pm. Any replies
after that will not be considered. Please fill in a different form
for each missing pset.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnx_KLmlAKeNNSZieNn-YFdJkCg7OsYGCObeiwR9kd4PoVsw/viewform
Exam scores will be up later this weekend.
Announced on 07 April 2017 2:54 p.m. by Ana Bell
Important Final Exam Information
Important Exam Information-------------------------
Times:
(neither regular exam room have many outlets -- make sure your laptop is charged or come 20 mins early to sit close to an outlet)
* Tuesday, April 4, regular exam, 7:30pm - 9:30pm (evening), room 26-100 if last name starts with A-M
* Tuesday, April 4, regular exam, 7:30pm - 9:30pm (evening), room 34-101 if last name starts with N-Z
* Wednesday April 5, conflict exam, 8:00am - 10:00am (morning), must fill in form below
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Accommodations:
* Fill out this form (by 5pm on Friday March 31) to let us know if you have conflicts, don't own a working laptop, or will need a power outlet (fill in even if you already contacted us): https://goo.gl/forms/dFJjK5SXm7wiQtCA3
* If you require special accommodations, contact Laura at lgustaf@mit.edu
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Review Session:
* Monday, April 3 exam review, 7:30pm-9:30pm (evening), room 32-123
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Format & Topics:
* The exam will have a paper component and an online component on MITx. It will consist of multiple choice, short answer, and programming questions.
* exam topics have been posted on Stellar -> Materials. Be sure to read the Required Readings.
* exam practice test questions have been posted on Stellar -> Materials.
* exam sample instructions (may change slightly before the exam) have been posted on Stellar -> Materials.
* The exam is open book/notes but NOT open Internet and NOT open computer. Please print whatever you may want to use during the exam.
* Paper part: You may not use a computer. You will have a
set amount of time to finish the questions. You may NOT move on to
the online part before the time is up.
* Online part: You may only have open Spyder/another IDE (to
write/debug code) and MITx (to submit code). You may examine
the docstrings provided by the "help" command in the
shell. It is very important that you familiarize yourself with the
mechanics of submitting code problems on MITx (like finger
exercises) -- you can try the practice test on MITx to view the
test mechanics but the questions are not indicative of the
difficulty of the actual exam. Most importantly, you will only be
able to see a couple test cases via "See full output".
Your code will be automatically graded using additional test
cases.
* If you have any questions, please post on Piazza.
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Announced on 22 March 2017 1:36 p.m. by Ana Bell
Ramifications of MIT's closing on Tuesday
1) There will be no office hours Tuesday
2) Problem set 4 will be due 11:59 Wednesday (but the deadline for it's checkoff wil be unchanged)
Enjoy the snow.
Announced on 13 March 2017 6:43 p.m. by John V Guttag
