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The Week # column indicates what week the class is in.

The Date column contains the day and date of the class.

The What are we doing today? column describes what we will do during that class. Classes may feature any or all of the following:

• Lecture involves me explaining a set of concepts relevant to the theoretical portion of the course.
• Demo features a demonstration of the technical processes required to complete exercises or projects. Often, step by step instructions are listed to assist in the completion of a task. It is highly recommended that a "dry run" of the classwork be completed prior to the start of the class. Classwork descriptions are typically written out here or provided via a link.
• Quiz/Exam may follow selected readings and lectures. All quizzes and exams will be conducted on Angel.
• Critiques will be held on exercise/project due dates. The first 10 or so students to hand in their assignments will receive critiques, so get your work in early.
• Lab work will be time for you to work on assignments, and have assistance from your classmates or me. There will often be lab work time after discussions.

The What's Due? column shows what readings and assignment(s) are due that class.

• Projects are extensive assignments that take several weeks or even a month. They serve to accompany a large portion of the course content and focus on a broad range of processes and concepts.
• Exercises are shorter, 1 or 2 week assignments that focus on a specific skill essential to each project.
• Classworks are step-by-step tutorials that are done alongside the professor, where students learn techniques and processes they will need wo complete projects.
• Readings are to be done outside of class time, and may be accompanied by a quiz or discussion forum on Angel. We will discuss readings and asking questions. Answering the questions will improve your participation grade.

Projects, exercises, and readings are due at the beginning of class—BEFORE the class begins, so that they may be discussed and critiqued. Classworks are due by the end of class. This should make sense, since we do the classworks as a group.