6.0001  Intro to CS and Programming in Python

Letter Grades

Dear students,
We put the final letter grades for 6.0001 on the website here. We will submit these to the registrar in about a week but they won't appear on Websis until the end of the semster. We do not release information about grade cutoffs. If you have any questions, please post on Piazza. Take care and have a good rest of semester.

Announced on 02 November 2020  4:32  p.m. by Ana Bell

Final lecture on Tuesday

Hi all,

In case you missed today's lecture, we just added a lecture for next week Tuesday (which follows a Monday schedule due to the holiday on Monday). The lecture is on hashing and plotting -- it's not necessary for 6.0001, but will be very useful for 6.0002 and the 6.0002 CSE variant. Updated class schedule here: https://sicp-s1.mit.edu/fall20

Finally, please take a moment to add your thoughts to the course evaluation by Friday at 9am Boston time. TAs and instructors read them thoroughly to improve our own teaching and the course (this is especially true during the pandemic!). Click here to tell us what you think. Thank you!

Announced on 07 October 2020  4:26  p.m. by Ana Bell

Microquiz 4 Results

The Microquiz 4 results are now available on the Microquiz 4 page.

Mean: 8.2
Median: 9.3
Standard Deviation: 2.6

We've made available the answers on that same page. Please make sure you understand where you went wrong and and bring any questions to office hours.

Announced on 07 October 2020  12:49  p.m. by Ana Bell

Microquiz 4 Information

Dear students, here are details regarding Microquiz 4 on Monday. The most notable change from Microquiz 3 is that this quiz is 45 minutes long.
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General Notes:
* On Monday Oct 5, the quiz will be available at 3:40pm Boston time and it will be taken down 14 hours later.
* You may begin the quiz within that time period but will have 45 minutes to complete it once you view the questions.
* Your quiz access ends when the 14 hours are up or when your 45 minutes are up, whichever is sooner.
* The quiz will cover material from Lectures 1-8.
* The quiz will be coding and multiple choice questions.
* You may use an IDE of your choice to write code but you must submit code on the quiz site.
* You are allowed to use materials provided in the course (slides or code) or the course textbook.
* You are NOT allowed to use the Internet or discuss the quiz with anyone for the 14 hours while the quiz is available. The one exception to this is we allow you to use Python Tutor to help you debug by yourself.
* If you have already given me your accommodations letter, your timer will be adjusted accordingly.
* To practice, I highly encourage you to do the practice finger exercises on MITx.
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Quiz Details and Logistics:
* By starting the quiz, you are automatically agreeing to an honor pledge.
* Each question has a separate Submit button, there is no overall Submit or checkout password.
* Submit early and often! The submission we grade is the last one submitted. When the timer gets down to 1 second, the Submit button becomes disabled.
* During the quiz you only see one or two, minimal, test cases and their correctness for the programming questions. They are there to avoid copy/paste errors from your IDE to the submission page. Your score will be based on how it performs on the test cases WE use.
* During the quiz you will not see whether your submission to non-coding questions are correct.
* Your score will be based on how many of our test cases you pass (i.e. no need to comment the code). In extreme circumstances, we will manually look at the code.
* If there is something confusing during the quiz, there will be a text box where you can write confusions/assumptions you made.
* To end the quiz, refresh the page to ensure your answers have submitted, and you can close the page and/or just let the timer run out.
Good luck everyone!

Announced on 04 October 2020  8:40  a.m. by Ana Bell

Microquiz 3 Results

The Microquiz 3 results are now available on the Microquiz 3 page.
Mean: 8.2
Median: 9.4
Standard Deviation: 2.6
We've made available the answers on that same page. Please make sure you understand where you went wrong and and bring any questions to office hours.

Announced on 30 September 2020  5:16  p.m. by Ana Bell