Welcome!

Calvin (Deutschbein)

W1D1: 25 Aug

Announcements

Welcome to CS-151: Intro to Programming with Python!
By FRIDAY 11:59 PM: Fill out this survey
- There are weekly, 1 hour meetings with peer tutors on Wednesday or Thursday.
- Attending these is 10% of your grade.
- Read the instructions carefully and fill out as many times as you can!
By MONDAY 11:59 PM: "Introductions" assignment.
- A minimal problem set to familiarize yourself with how to submit coding assignments.
- Links will be posted on the course website and on the Discord.
  - They will not be posted on Canvas or via email to help encourage you to use the website and Discord

In general

Visit the webpage @ cd-public.github.io/courses/cs1f25
- Linked from Canvas
- 2nd Google result for "calvin deutschbein courses"
- 4th Google result for "calvin willamette courses" (easier to spell)
The syllabus and calendar are there for you - check exam days, mostly.
Join the Discord server - you got an email invite from me ("ckdeutschbein@")
Bring a computer if at all possible, or let me know to find you one.
- Set up your computer for the term.
- Website -> Resources -> Setup. Video guides.

About Me

Name: Calvin (Deutschbein)
Call me: (Professor) Calvin
Pronouns: they/them
Office: Ford 3rd Floor
Office Hours: Discord me between 12:00 AM and 11:59 PM; Catch me after CS151 (11:20-12:00) or my CC (1:00)
Email:: ckdeutschbein@willamette.edu; ~24 hour maximum response time, I do Discord before email
Website:: cd-public.github.io

Background

Thesis Title: Mining Secure Behavior of Hardware Designs
Plain English: Just as there are bugs in code that makes software, modern hardware is also written in code and therefore may contain bugs. I find these bugs.
Thesis: Specification mining can discover properties that can be used to verify the secure behavior of closed source CISC CPU designs, properties that can be used to verify the temporal correctness of CPU designs, and hyperproperties that can be used to verify that modules, SoCs, and CPUs have secure information flow.
Some partners: Intel Corporation, Semiconductor Research Corporation, Synopsys, MITRE, Cycuity

Course Structure

Class on MWF
Section on either W or Th.
- 10% of final grade for section attendance.
Code assignment every Monday 11:59 PM
- 5 problem sets - series of small puzzle-like programs
- Latter, 5 projects - one holisitic program
- 50% of final grade total (20 for problem sets, 30 for projects)
Two Midterms (open book/note)
- Friday of Week 6 - October 4
- Friday of Week 11 - November 8
- 10% of final grade each
Final exam (open book/note)
- 8 AM to 11 AM on either 11 Dec or 12 Dec
- 20% of final grade

All students who turned in every assignment earned B+ or higher last year.

Sections

Everyone will be placed into small sections of 8-10 students, with one section leader
All section leaders are students who recently took and excelled in this course
Will meet as a group with your section leader once a week for an hour to go over and work on problems
- These meetings will be on Wednesdays or Thursdays
- Poll out today, finalize by Friday.
Section leaders will also serve as a secondary source you can ask for help or guidance from throughout the week
- This tutoring is part of their job! Don’t hesitateto ask them for some extra assistance!
Planning to start section meetings next week

Small sections are mandatory. They help you, and your attendance helps your peers. As a result, we have a policy for attendance. Every unexcused absence after the third will result in a 5% deduction, per absence, to your final grade. If you cannot attend your section, reach out and we will place you in a section at another time.

Academic Honesty

You must write your code yourself.
- You may "use" AIs like ChatGPT, Gemini, to "write" your code. They are okay at it, but not great.
  - You must cite what you used with the prompt, both for honesty and so I can provide feedback.
- I will specifically be designing exams to be easy for humans and hard for AI.
- You may collaborate with your peers but may not copy their work.
- You must say who you worked with, again to help me understand how to provide feedback.
You may use online communities, most like Stack Overflow and GeeksforGeeks
- In fact, you should. They are better than the AIs, and learning to use them is more rewarding.
- Do not copy solutions from these sites, use them to learn how to solve a problem then write yourself.
- Please cite - I want you to learn to use these and will often have suggestions.
Dishonesty is when you take work (code) someone else did and claim you did yourself.

Citation

Professor Jed Rembold did most of the work to make these slides.
If you see him around ask him:
What is the square root of E over m?
(He was recently in the Washington Post for proving some of Einstein's work - fun!)

Speaking of Code

Python: It's the real deal.
- Python is my favorite to express ideas by typing
- It has notable advantage over unformated text or prose.
- Like speaking, writing, or typing it has a learning curve.
- Like speaking, writing, or typing, once I learned it I used it alot.
We start this class with a subset of Python called "Karel".
- This reminds me typing of while I had to look at the keyboard.

Karel 1

Calvin (Deutschbein)

W1D1: 26 Aug

Karel

Imagine a robot on flat surface, like my robot vacuum.
- The robot 'eats' socks and then needs rescued.
We assume the world is a grid.
Karel has a few actions:
- Can move forward one space
- Can turn left 90 degrees (just like NASCAR 🏎️)
- Can pick up a 'beeper'
- Can drop off a 'beeper'
We will be spending the first several class days getting Karel to solve a wide variety of problems
- This content is not in your book, but more in-depth descriptions can be found here

The World

Karel’s world is defined on a grid
Compass directions are maplike
- Up is North, Down is South
- Right is East, Left is West
- Oregon would be in the upper left #PNW
Walls are impassable
'Beepers' are diamonds
- Do not ask me why they are called beepers.
- I will make something up.
- We just had to call them something, okay?
Karel is an irregular pentagon.
- I have no idea what to call that shape.
- <checks notes> it says here "house-shaped"

Commands

Karel can perform 4 actions: Two to move, and two to beep.

Command	Action
`move()`	Moves Karel forward one intersection in whatever direction they are facing
`turn_left()`	Rotates Karel 90 deg counter-clockwise
`pick_beeper()`	Picks up a beeper on the ground
`put_beeper()`	Places a beeper on the ground

By performing a bunch of actions, one after another, Karel can get up to all manner of hijinks.

Example

Karel’s world is defined on a grid
Suppose Karel is in Oregon (the upper left)
Karel yearns for gatorque down in Florida.
The US interstate highway runs on a grid.
- There's also some missing connections e.g.:
- Boise, Idaho, to Las Vegas, Nevada, or
- Salem, Maine, to Richmond, Virginia.
We imagine a (very simplified) map as like so.
Take a moment to write out how to move, and left-turn, to get to the delicious gatorque.
pick-beeper could be named pick-gatorque in this instance.

Example

Start here...

Specify 2 actions...move() turn_left()
Each action gets its own line.

Karel is now here...
Karel! That way is poutine not gatorque!

Announcements

Welcome to CS-151: Intro to Programming with Python!
By FRIDAY 11:59 PM: Fill out this survey
- There are weekly, 1 hour meetings with peer tutors on Wednesday or Thursday.
- Attending these is 10% of your grade.
- Read the instructions carefully and fill out as many times as you can!
By MONDAY 11:59 PM: "Introductions" assignment.
- A minimal problem set to familiarize yourself with how to submit coding assignments.
- Links will be posted on the course website and on the Discord.
  - They will not be posted on Canvas or via email to help encourage you to use the website and Discord