Assessments

Final 2	Thursday, June 3
Quiz 2-6	Friday, May 7	reviewed in class, 5/5
Quiz 2-5	Friday, April 16	reviewed in class, 4/21
Quiz 2-4	Friday, March 12	reviewed in class, 3/19
Quiz 2-3	Friday, February 26	reviewed in class, 3/3
Quiz 2-2	Thursday, February 11	reviewed in class, 2/17
Quiz 2-1	Friday, January 29	reviewed in class, 2/1
Final 1	Thursday, December 17	link to review
Quiz 1-6	Friday, November 20	reviewed in class, ~11/23
Quiz 1-5	Friday, October 30	reviewed in class, ~11/4
Quiz 1-4	Friday, October 16	reviewed in class, ~10/21
Quiz 1-3	Friday, October 2	reviewed in class, ~10/5
Quiz 1-2	Friday, September 18	reviewed in class, ~9/23
Quiz 1-1	Friday, September 4	reviewed in class, ~9/9

Assignments

All assignments are due on Sunday / Tuesday / Thursday nights by midnight before the next class.

99. Friday, May 29
    Class Recording Review for final - last day of class!


100. Wednesday, May 27
     Class Recording Review for final
     Assignment: End-of-year survey


101. Monday, May 24
     Class Recording Review for final
     Assignment: Revisit & Finalize Blog Post


102. Friday, May 21
     Class Recording Review for final
     Assignment: K-Means on Titanic Data


103. Wednesday, May 19
     Class Recording (note: most of the class was taking an AP test, so this was pretty much just a TA session. It's not necessary to watch the recording)
     Assignment: K-Means with Scikit-Learn


104. Monday, May 17
     No class, but there is an assignment.
     Assignment: Elbow Method


105. Friday, May 14
     Class Recording
     Assignment: Minimax Player - Tic-Tac-Toe


106. Wednesday, May 12
     Class Recording - tic-tac-toe presentations
     Assignment: Tic-Tac-Toe Game Tree


107. Monday, May 10
     Class Recording
     Assignment: K-Means Clustering, Pull Requests


108. Friday, May 7
     Class Recording
     Assignment: Tic-tac-toe implementation


109. Wednesday, May 5
     Class Recording - review quiz 2-6, review kNN normalization, demonstration of code efficiency
     Assignment: KNN Code Efficiency + Quiz Corrections


110. Monday, May 3
     No class, but there is an assignment
     Assignment: KNN and Normalization


111. Friday, April 30
     Class Recording
     Assignment: KNN on Titanic Data Set, K-Fold Cross Validation


112. Wednesday, April 28
     Class Recording - space empires presentations. (This was a really good class!)
     Assignment: Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation with K-Nearest-Neighbors


113. Monday, April 26
     Class Recording - switching to shared implementation of space empires
     Assignment: Space Empires Implementation Presentation; Game Trees


114. Friday, April 23
     Class Recording - sudoku solver review
     Assignment: Backward Selection


115. Wednesday, April 21
     Class Recording - quiz 2-5 review
     Assignment: Quiz Corrections; Continue Solving Mini Sudoku


116. Monday, April 19
     No class, but there is an assignment
     Assignment: Solving Mini Sudoku


117. Friday, April 16
     Class Recording - k-nearest neighbors implementation
     Assignment: K-Nearest Neighbors Implementation


118. Wednesday, April 14
     Class Recording - forward selection
     Assignment: Titanic Survival Prediction - Forward Selection


119. Monday, April 12
     Class Recording - review for Friday's quiz
     Assignment: Titanic Survival Prediction - Interaction Featurest


120. Friday, April 2
     Class Recording (C&M is first half)
     Assignment: Blog Post


121. Thursday, April 1
     No class (but there is a SHORT assignment)
     Assignment: Predicting Titanic Survival with Logistic Regressor


122. Friday, March 31
     No class (but there is an assignment)
     Assignment: Logistic Regression via Gradient Descent


123. Friday, March 26
     Class Recording (C&M is first half)
     Assignment: Predicting Titanic Survival with Linear Regressor: Pandas, Numpy, Sklearn


124. Wednesday, March 24
     Class Recording (C&M is first half)
     Assignment: Predicting Titanic Survival with Linear Regressor


125. Monday, March 22
     Class Recording (C&M is first half)
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Titanic Exploratory Analysis
     • Supplementary: SQL Parser (Order By)
     • Commit / Review


126. Friday, March 19
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - titanic exploratory analysis, quiz 2-4 review
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Space Empires Log Matchup with Random Seed
     • Supplementary: Quiz Corrections, C++
     • Commit / Review


127. Wednesday, March 17
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - pointers, space empires troubleshooting, sql query
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Space Empires Log Matchup with Random Seed
     • Supplementary: SQL Query String in DataFrame, C++
     • Commit / Review


128. Monday, March 15
     No class, but there is an assignment.
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Finish First Draft of Blog Post
     • Supplementary: SQL Primitives (Group By / Aggregate), SQL Query
     • Commit / Review


129. Friday, March 12
     Class Recording (C&M is first half)
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Logging Game Events
     • Supplementary: Titanic Dataset - Exploratory Analysis
     • Commit / Review


130. Wednesday, March 10
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - parser
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Game Level 0.2
     • Supplementary: Titanic Dataset Loading, SQL, Haskell
     • Commit / Review


131. Monday, March 8
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - parser
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Game Level 0.1 with Random Seeds, Writing
     • Supplementary: Titanic Dataset Parser, C++
     • Commit / Review


132. Friday, March 5
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - intro to Kaggle, review pointers
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Game Level 0.1
     • Supplementary: Loading Titanic Dataset into DataFrame, SQL, C++
     • Commit / Review


133. Wednesday, March 3
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - quiz 2-3 review
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Finish Game Level 0.0, Writing, Signal Separation
     • Supplementary: Quiz Corrections, C++
     • Commit / Review


134. Monday, March 1
     No class, but there is an assignment
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Space Empires Game Level 0.0


135. Friday, February 26
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - Test/Train Datasets, SQL
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Test/Train Datasets, Writing
     • Supplementary: Haskell, SQL
     • Commit / Review


136. Wednesday, February 24
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - Intro to Overfitting, Bisection Search
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Intro to Overfitting, Bisection Search
     • Supplementary: C++, SQL
     • Commit / Review


137. Monday, February 22
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - Shortest Path in Weighted Graph Using Dijkstra's Algorithm
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Shortest Path in Weighted Graph using Dijkstra's Algorithm, Logistic Regression
     • Supplementary: HashTable, SQL
     • QUIZ FRIDAY / Commit / Review


138. Friday, February 19
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - Dijkstra's Algorithm, Intro to Hash Tables
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Dijkstra's Algorithm
     • Supplementary: HashTable, SQL
     • Commit / Review


139. Wednesday, February 17
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - polynomial regression, review quiz 2-2
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: PolynomialRegressor
     • Supplementary: Quiz Corrections, Shell, SQL
     • Commit / Review


140. Tuesday, February 16
     Off day, but there is a (shorter) assignment due Tuesday night.
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Steepest Descent Optimizer for 8 Queens
     • Commit


141. Wednesday, February 10
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - Intro to Hodgkin-Huxley model, blog post preference rankings
     Note: Since we have Friday and Monday off, and there is an asynchronous quiz tomorrow (Thursday), this assignment will be due Monday night. There will be another assignment due Wednesday, which will be released this weekend.
     Assignment Problems:
     • Hodgkin-Huxley Model, Blog Post Preference Rankings
     • Supplementary: C++, Bash, SQL
     • Commit / Review


142. Monday, February 8
     No class, but there is an assignment
     Assignment Problems:
     • Polynomial Regression, Directed Graph
     • Supplementary: Haskell, Bash, SQL
     • Commit / Review
     • Preparation for Thursday Quiz


143. Friday, February 5
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - magic square via intelligent search
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Magic Square via Intelligent Search
     • Supplementary: C++, Bash, SQL
     • Commit / Review


144. Wednesday, February 3
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - distance & shortest path in graph
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Distance & Shortest Path in a Graph
     • Supplementary: Haskell, Bash, SQL
     • Commit / Review


145. Monday, February 1
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - quiz 2-1 review
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Inferring Missing Observation Values in Predict Method, Quiz Corrections
     • Supplementary: Haskell, C++, Bash, SQL
     • Commit / Review


146. Friday, January 29
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - predator-prey, shortest distance in an undirected graph
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Interaction/Dummy Variables for Sandwich Dataset, Breadth-First and Depth-First Traversals in Undirected Graph
     • Supplementary: Haskell, C++, Bash, SQL
     • Commit / Review


147. Wednesday, January 27
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - SIR model, dummy variables, Haskell problem
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Dummy Variables, Predator-Prey Modeling
     • Supplementary: Haskell, C++, Bash, SQL
     • Commit / Review


148. Monday, January 25
     No class, but there is an assignment.
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: SIR Model
     • Supplementary: Haskell, C++, Bash, SQL
     • Commit / Review
     • Study Guide for Quiz Friday


149. Friday, January 22
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - space empires rules, node indices in tree
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Node Indices, Logistic Regression on Sandwich Dataset with Interaction Terms
     • Supplementary: Haskell, C++, Bash, SQL
     • Commit / Review


150. Wednesday, January 20
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - logistic regression implementation, space empires rules, refactoring practice
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: LogisticRegressor, Space Empires Rules
     • Supplementary: Haskell, C++, Bash, SQL
     • Commit / Review


151. Friday, January 15
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - Linear regression with interaction terms, refactoring practice
     Assignment Problems: (will be due Tuesday night instead of Sunday night, since Monday is a holiday)
     • Primary: Linear Regression with Interaction Terms
     • Supplementary: Refactoring Practice, Haskell, C++, Bash, SQL
     • Commit / Review


152. Wednesday, January 13
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - Intro to 8 queens problem, 45-2 probability
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Random Optimizer for 8 Queens Problem
     • Supplementary: Refactoring Practice, Haskell, C++, Bash, SQL
     • Commit / Review


153. Monday, January 11
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - 44-2 csv, probability, 45-1 breadth-first search and depth-first search
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Breadth-First and Depth-First Search
     • Supplementary: Numerical Integration, Haskell, C++, Bash, SQL, Probability
     • Commit / Review


154. Friday, January 8
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - 43-2 probability, intro to breadth-first search and depth-first search
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Final Corrections, Sandwich Regression 1
     • Supplementary: Reading CSV Into DataFrame, Haskell, C++, Bash, SQL, Probability
     • Commit / Review


155. Wednesday, January 6
     Class Recording (C&M is first half) - 42-2, roulette probability, Euler estimator plotting, code review
     Assignment Problems:
     • Primary: Euler Estimator - Plotting Systems
     • Supplementary: Roulette Probability Selection, Haskell, C++, Bash, SQL, Probability
     • Commit / Review


156. Monday, January 4
     No class, but there is an assignment.
     Assignment Problems:
     • SQL Zoo
     • Probability
     
     Student submissions for LaTeX portion - Anton, Charlie, Justin, Cayden, Maia, Nathan A, William, Nathan R


157. Monday, December 14
     Class Recording - 40-1. Unfortunately, audio was not recorded.
     Assignment Problems:
     • Semester Wrap-Up
     • Final Study Guide


158. Friday, December 11
     Class Recording: 40-2, 39-2
     Assignment Problems:
     • Generalizing the LinearRegressor
     • Extending EulerEstimator to Systems


159. Wednesday, December 9
     Class Recording: Quiz 6 Problem 3 & Bonus; 39-1
     Assignment Problems:
     • Building a Tree from Edges
     • Probability Review


160. Monday, December 7
     No class, but there is an assignment
     Assignment Problems:
     • Covariance Proofs
     • Sololearn C++ Module 8


161. Friday, December 4
     Class Recording: Quiz 6 Problem 2; 37-1
     Assignment Problems:
     • Introduction to Trees
     • Multiple Linear / Logistic Regression
     • Joint Exponential Distribution


162. Wednesday, December 2
     Class Recording: 35-1, 35-2
     Assignment Problems:
     • Bayesian Inference: Estimating the Size of an Enemy Fleet
     • Grid Search
     
     Student submissions for LaTeX portion - Anton, Charlie, Justin, Cayden, Maia, Nathan A, William, Nathan R


163. Monday, November 30
     Class Recording: 34-1, 34-2, Quiz 6 Problem 1
     Assignment Problems:
     • Bayesian Inference of an Unknown Upper Bound
     • Introduction to Joint Distributions
     
     Student submissions for LaTeX portion - Anton, Charlie, Justin (1,2), Cayden, Maia, Nathan A, William, Nathan R


164. Friday, November 20
     Class Recording: 33-1, 33-2
     Note: This assignment is due on NEXT Sunday, 11/29, because of Thanksgiving Break.
     Assignment Problems:
     • Cartesian Product
     • GradientDescent (General Class)
     • Sololearn C++ Modules 7 and SQL Zoo Module 1
     • Resubmissions + Corrections


165. Wednesday, November 18
     Class Recording: 30-1, 31-1, 32-2
     Assignment Problems:
     • Logistic Regression by Hand
     • Short Proofs Involving Expectation; Expectation-Variance Identity
     • Sololearn C++ Module 6
     
     Student submissions for LaTeX portion - Anton, Charlie, Justin (1,2), Cayden, Maia, Nathan A, William, Nathan R (1,2)


166. Monday, November 16
     No class, but there is an assignment.
     Assignment Problems:
     • LinearRegressor
     • Review - Probability & Statistics (Pishro-Nik)
     • Sololearn SQL Module 4, C++ Module 5
     
     Student submissions for LaTeX portion - Anton, Charlie, Justin, Cayden, Maia, Nathan A, William, Nathan R


167. Friday, November 13
     Class Recording: 26-2, 29-1
     Assignment Problems:
     • Review - Probability & Statistics (Pishro-Nik)
     • Sololearn SQL Module 3, C++ Module 4
     
     Student submissions for LaTeX portion - Anton, Charlie, Justin, Cayden, Maia, Nathan A, William, Nathan R


168. Wednesday, November 11
     No class, but there is an assignment
     Assignment Problems:
     • Probability & Statistics Review
     • Doubly Linked List
     • Sololearn SQL Module 2, C++ Module 3
     
     Student submissions for LaTeX portion - Anton, Charlie, Justin, Cayden, Maia, Nathan A, William, Nathan R


169. Monday, November 9
     Class Recording: started 26-2
     Assignment Problems:
     • Intro to Poisson Distribution
     • DataFrame: loading from array, selecting, ordering
     • Sololearn SQL Module 1


170. Friday, November 6
     Class Recording: 26-3, 27-3, 28-1
     Assignment Problems:
     • Fitting a Linear Regression by Hand
     • DataFrame: Apply
     • Revisions: Introduction to Bayesian Inference
     • Sololearn C++ Modules 1 and 2
     
     Student submissions for LaTeX portion - Anton, Charlie, Justin, Cayden, Maia, Nathan A, William, Nathan R,


171. Wednesday, November 4
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • More Operator Overloading
     • EulerEstimator: Plotting
     • Introduction to Bayesian Inference
     • Submit a Link to your GitHub
     
     Student submissions for LaTeX portion - Anton, Charlie, Justin, Cayden, Maia, Nathan A, William, Nathan R,


172. Friday, October 30
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Exponents of Matrices; Operator Overloading
     • Determinant via Cofactor Method, + Comparison to Determinant via RREF Method
     • Application of Uniform & Exponential Distributions
     
     Student submissions for LaTeX portion - Anton, Charlie, Justin, Cayden, Maia, Nathan A, William, Nathan R,


173. Wednesday, October 28
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • 2-Variable Gradient Descent
     • DataFrame: Select


174. Monday, October 26
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • EulerEstimator
     • Introduction to Likelihood
     
     Student submissions for LaTeX portion - Anton, Charlie, Justin, Cayden, Maia, William, Nathan R,


175. Friday, October 23
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Merge Sort
     • Expectation/Variance of General Exponential/Uniform Distributions
     
     Student submissions for LaTeX portion - Anton, Charlie, Justin, Cayden, Maia, Nathan A, William,


176. Wednesday, October 21
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Single-Variable Gradient Descent
     • Introduction to Merge Sort


177. Friday, October 16
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Merging Two Sorted Lists
     • Expectation and Variance of a Uniform Distribution
     • Determinant via RREF Operations
     
     Student submissions for LaTeX portion - Anton, Charlie, Justin, Cayden, Maia, Nathan A, William, Nathan R,


178. Wednesday, October 14
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Expectation and Variance of an Exponential Distribution
     • LinkedList: Delete, Insert
     
     Student submissions for LaTeX portion - Anton, Charlie, Justin, Cayden, Maia, William, Nathan R,


179. Monday, October 12
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Newton-Raphson Method for a General Function via Central Difference Approximation
     • Introduction to Expected Value and Variance
     
     Student submissions for LaTeX portion - Anton, Charlie, Justin, Cayden, Maia, Nathan A, William,


180. Friday, October 9
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Ranking Approximations of Randomness
     • Indexing a Linked List


181. Wednesday, October 7
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Newton-Raphson Method
     • Matrix Inverse via RREF on Augmented Matrix


182. Friday, October 2
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Huffman Compression
     • Linked List
     • Catch-Up: RREF


183. Wednesday, September 30
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Theory Questions Using LaTeX
     • Augmented Matrix Helper Functions


184. Monday, September 28
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Shape Classes: Everything Inherits from Shape
     • Card Sort


185. Friday, September 25
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Shape Classes: Square Inherits from Rectangle
     • Detecting Biased Coins


186. Wednesday, September 23
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Tally Sort
     • Shape Classes: Rectangles and Triangles


187. Friday, September 18
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Kullback–Leibler Divergence
     • Row Reduction Algorithm


188. Wednesday, September 16
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Plotting Probability Distributions
     • Unlisting


189. Monday, September 14
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Exploration of the Collatz Conjecture
     • Catch-Up


190. Friday, September 11
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Row Reduction Helper Methods
     • Matrix Elements via Comprehensions


191. Wednesday, September 9
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • MxN Matrix Class
     • Monte Carlo Simulations of Coin Flipping
     • SwapSort Theory


192. Friday, September 4
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • 2x2 Matrix Class
     • Iterative and Recursive Skip-Factorial
     • Elementary Sorting ("Simple" Sort and "Swap" Sort)


193. Wednesday, September 2
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • List and Dictionary Comprehensions
     • Iteratively Approximating the Square Root of 2
     • Implementing a Queue


194. Friday, August 28
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Flattening a Nested Dictionary
     • Converting Decimal to Binary
     • Linear Encoding Cryptography


195. Wednesday, August 26
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Converting Binary to Decimal
     • Turning a Flat Dictionary into a Nested Dictionary
     • Implementing a Stack


196. Monday, August 24
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Unions and Intersections
     • Character-Counting via Dictionary
     • Computing the Nth Term of a Recursive Sequence


197. Wednesday, August 19
     Class Recording
     Assignment Problems:
     • Getting Started with Repl.it and Github
     • Testing a String for Symmetry
     • Converting Between Letters and Numbers
     • Checking Whether a Number is Prime