CAPP 30122 - Computer Science with Applications 2

This course expands upon the computational thinking & skills taught in 30121, with a focus on applications to real world problems in policy-adjacent spaces. It consists of lectures, discussion sections, and programming assignments. The course culminates in a final project built on a team -- expanding & demonstrating the programming & data skills built through the first two quarters.

Prerequisite: CAPP 30121 or approved equivalent course.

Course Goals

Continue building general programming skills. Includes object-oriented programming, the structure of Python applications, and data structures.
Learn to work with real data: including APIs and web scraping.
Learn techniques & tools for data cleaning, merging, analysis, and visualization.
Gain experience building a project from scratch and working on a project as part of a team.

Course Staff

Instructor: James Turk

Email: jturk@uchicago.edu

Office: JCL 398E

Teaching Assistants

Caitlin Pratt
Daniel Muñoz Batista
Gregory Mitchell
Hieu Nguyen
Stacy George

Office Hours

(TA Hours start in Week 2, James' in Week 1)

Who	Where	When
Stacy George	JCL Common Area 2A	Monday 1pm-3pm
James Turk	JCL 398E	Tuesday 3pm-5pm
James Turk	JCL 398E	Wednesday 11am-noon
Caitlin Pratt	JCL Common Area 3A	Wednesday 1:30pm-3:30pm
Hieu Nguyen	JCL Common Area 3A	Thursdays 3-5pm
James Turk	JCL 398E	Thursdays 2-3pm and 5-6pm
Gregory Mitchell	JCL Common Area 2A	Friday 11am-1pm
Daniel Muñoz Batista	JCL Common Area 2A	Friday 3pm-5pm

Note

James is also available by appointment:

Schedule

Schedule subject to change, major changes will be announced in class and on Ed Discussion.

Week	TA Session	Topics	Assignments
1	Install Party / PA #1: Debugging & Testing	Course Intro Packages & Tools Testing & Debugging
2	PA #2: Application Structure & Data Formats	Data Formats HTTP & APIs	PA #1 Due - Friday, Jan 17 @ 11:59pm Project Milestone #1 Due - Sunday, Jan 19 @ 11:59pm
3	PA #3: Web Scraping	Web Scraping	PA #2 Due - Friday, Jan 24 @ 11:59pm
4	PA #4: Data Structures	Complexity Data Structures	PA #3 Due - Friday, Jan 31 @ 11:59pm Project Milestone #2 Due - Sunday, Feb 2 @ 11:59pm
5	PA #5: GIS	Object-Oriented Programming GIS	PA #4 Due - Friday, Feb 7 @ 11:59pm
6	PA #6: Record Linkage	Regular Expressions String Metrics Record Linkage	PA #5 Due - Friday, Feb 14 @ 11:59pm
7	PA #7: Graphs	Graphs	PA #6 Due - Friday, Feb 21 @ 11:59pm Project Milestone #3 Due - Sunday, Feb 23 @ 11:59pm
8	Project Check-Ins	Data Visualization Automation Data Pipelines	PA #7 Due - Friday, Feb 28 @ 11:59pm
9	TBA	Application Architecture Conclusion
10	Project Fair - Monday, Mar 10 @ 2pm-4pm in JCL 390 Final Commits Due - Tuesday, Mar 11 @ 11:59pm

Meeting Times

Each section will meet for lectures two days a week and with a teaching assistant for a discussion section one day a week.

Section	Time	Location
#1	Tue/Thu 11:00am-12:20pm	Ryerson 277
#2	Tue/Thu 12:30pm-1:50pm	Ryerson 277

Section	Time	Location	Instructor
1L01	Tue 10-10:50am	Ryerson 277	Daniel Muñoz Batista
2L01	Tue 10-10:50am	Saieh 242	Caitlin Pratt
1L02	Tue 2:10-3pm	Ryerson 178	Stacy George
2L02	Tue 2:10-3pm	Ryerson 176	Gregory Mitchell

Readings

There is no dedicated textbook for this course.

Each week I will share recommended readings & in some cases required readings that will be needed to supplement the content we can cover in class.

If you ever feel like additional outside content would be helpful, please ask on Ed and I am glad to find additional high-quality resources.

Server Environment

We have custom VMs for this course with the required version of required tools.

Please use these in lieu of the linux.cs.uchicago.edu servers to ensure assignments work as expected.

Pick your server based on the first letter of your CNetID:

First Letter	Server
A, B, C, D, E	capp30121-0.cs.uchicago.edu
F, G, H, I	capp30121-1.cs.uchicago.edu
J, K	capp30121-2.cs.uchicago.edu
L, M, N, O	capp30121-3.cs.uchicago.edu
P, Q, R, S	capp30121-4.cs.uchicago.edu
T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z	capp30121-5.cs.uchicago.edu