Summer Computing Academy Program, June 10-21, 2019

Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
from 9:00am to 4:30pm each day of the week

We will meet every day in Keller 2-260 (room opens at 8:30)
The program starts at 9:00 and ends at 4:30.
At the end of the day we go to Keller 2-260 (room open until 5:00)
Instructors: TBA

First Week

Monday June 10
9:00-10:00	Keller 2-260	Introductions, go to computer lab
10:00-12:00	Keller 1-250	Intro to linux and to python: math functions
12:00-1:30	Keller 1-250	lunch
1:30-4:30	Keller 1-250	Turtle graphics
Tuesday June 11
9:00-11:00	Keller 1-250	Python loops and strings. Caesar cyphrer.
11:15-1:30	Keller 2-260	Talk by Prof. Dan Knigths and lunch with REU students
1:30-4:30	Keller 3-115	ozobots
Wednesday June 12
9:00-12:00	Keller 2-260	Python: lists and list operations
12:00-1:30	Northrop plaza	lunch and music
1:30-4:30	Keller 1-250	Build a laser pointer
Thursday June 13
9:00-12:00	Keller 1-250	Python: dictionaries. Caesar cyphrer. List comprehension
12:00-1:30	Keller 2-260	lunch
1:30-4:30	Keller 1-250	Go to https://www.tinkercad.com/ and create an account. Follow the tutorial to learn the basic operations you can do in it. You can download samples from Minecraft_Tools_with_Keychain_Hole.zip and use them in tinkercad. You can use them to your key chain attachment for 3D printing. When done go to https://z.umn.edu/3DPrintsSCA19 and decide what you would like to do. We will do the 3D printing next week.
Friday June 14
9:00-12:00	Keller 1-250	more on lists and dictionaries
12:00-1:30	Keller 2-260	Lunch
1:30-4:30	Keller 1-250	practice on lists and dictionaries

Second Week

Monday June 17
9:00-12:00	Keller 1-250	Recursion and fractals
12:00-1:30	Keller 2-260	Lunch
1:30-4:30	Keller 2-260	Build your own arduino
Tuesday June 18
9:00-11:00	Keller 1-250	File i/o. Useful files: Somefile.txt, egrep.py, fileRead.py, fileReadv2.py, line_count.py, and starts_with_hash.py
11:00-1:30	Keller 3-215	Talk by Prof. Vipin Kumar and lunch with REU students
1:30-4:30		csv files and data analytics. Files to use cars_mpg.csv, census.csv
Wednesday June 19
9:00-11:00	Keller 1-250	TBA
11:00-12:00		visit to medical device center
12:00-1:30	Northrop Plaza	Lunch and music
1:30-4:30	Keller 1-250	image processing library
Thursday June 20
9:00-12:00	Keller 1-250	intro to deep learning. Try a demo where you can draw numbers at http://scs.ryerson.ca/~aharley/vis/conv/flat.html A detailed description of how the write the program using python is at https://machinelearningmastery.com/how-to-develop-a-convolutional-neural-network-from-scratch-for-mnist-handwritten-digit-classification/ Another demo using java script is at http://myselph.de/neuralNet.html
12:00-1:30	Keller 2-260	Lunch
1:30-4:30	Keller 1-250	3D printing and work on project
Friday June 21
9:00-12:00	Keller 1-250	Project time
12:00-1:30	Keller 2-260	Lunch
1:30-2:30	Keller 1-250	Time to finish project
2:30-4:30	Keller 3-115	Demonstration of projects and closing with parents and friends

Information and documentation on Python

For a reference manual of python 3, look at https://docs.python.org/3.5/
A Hands-on Python Tutorial. Simple, with many examples.
A complete online course on Python, Starts easy, goes quite advanced.
A more advanced Google Python class with more focus on data structures. For each data type (string, list, dict, files) include all the methods and simple examples.

Some sample problems you can look at for ideas for your own project.

Contact

Professor Maria Gini
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota
4-192 Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
email: gini@umn.edu