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6.0001  Intro to CS and Programming in Python

Fall 2016

Instructors: Ana Bell, Eric Grimson, John V Guttag

TAs: Helen Abadiotakis, Davis Blalock, Orhan Tunc Celiker, Laura N Gustafson, Carlos A Henriquez, Ronnachai Jaroensri, Kathleen N Johnson, Bethany A LaPenta, Harlin Lee, Kaitlin E Mahar, Daniel Sanchez, Zachary M Sather, Alisha Saxena, Tanya Talkar, Ada V Taylor, 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

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Announcements

Final Letter Grades

Hi everyone,

The 6.0001 final letter grades that we submitted to the registrar are available on Your Grades. We gave out 39% A's, 42% B's and 11% C's.

Note that if you get a grade lower than a C, you can't use this course as a prerequisite, including to take 6.0002. However, D's count towards credit for graduation. Please email 6.0001-staff@mit.edu with any questions.

Have a great rest of semester!

Announced on 04 November 2016  7:31  p.m. by Ana Bell

Please Submit a Course Evaluation

Hi everyone,

As this is a half-term course, subject evaluations for it close tomorrow! http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/

If you have not already, please take a couple of moments to fill them in to help the instructors and TAs improve our own teaching and the course. Thank you!

Announced on 03 November 2016  8:19  p.m. by Ana Bell

Final Exam Grades

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Exam Score
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The exam grades are now on the "Your Grades" page.
Mean: 75.7
Median: 80
Standard deviation: 15.4

* The solutions have been posted under Stellar -> Materials.
* You can pick up the paper part of the quiz in class on Wednesday. Anyone who would like us to consider changing your quiz grade should:

- submit a request by 11:59pm on Wednesday, Nov 2
- if you want a regrade on the paper part, you must have picked it up
- all requests must be submitted by email to 6.0001-staff@mit.edu
- in your email include the question number (and if needed, a scan/photo of your written part) and an explanation of why you think that you should have gotten more credit.

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Final Grades
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* We will be submitting final letter grades to the registrar on Sunday and they will show up on Websis at some point after that (but it might take a couple of weeks).
* Check to make sure you have at least one problem set grade, right now. If there is nothing on the "Your Grades" page page then we have not been grading your psets (maybe you did a late add/switch etc). We are still working on grading a few final PS4 and 5's and will send an email when everything is done.
* We do not post final percentages or grade cutoffs.
* Please email 6.0001-staff@mit.edu with any questions. Thanks!

Announced on 01 November 2016  7:40  a.m. by Ana Bell

Review session slides posted

Hi all,

The slides from last night's review session have just been posted, in addition to the code from the live coding example at the end, so feel free to look those over as an extra resource to help study for the upcoming exam.

Best of luck!

Announced on 25 October 2016  2:03  a.m. by Daniel Sanchez

Change in "roll over" Policy

There has been a delay in getting psets graded. This should not have happened, and we apologize for it. As a result, we will not be using the roll-over forms--since it is unfair to ask students to make decisions in the absence of needed information. Instead, we will make the decision for you as to which psets, if any, to roll over into the exam. We will do this in a way that maximizes your final score.

Announced on 24 October 2016  11:58  a.m. by Ana Bell

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