Welcome to CS 61BL!

July 31, 2019

The final exam is Thursday, August 15, 6-9pm. Alternate exams will not be allowed except for DSP (Disabled Students’ Program) accommodations, for unforeseen emergency situations with documentation, or as required of us by university policy. If you have a direct conflict with another course, please fill out this form and we will do our best to accommodate.
Instructor office hours are Mondays and Thursdays from 10-11 am, and Tuesdays and Fridays from 4-5 pm. It will be held in 283E Soda.

Mon, Jun 24

Lab

Java & Git

Partnerships: Assigned by your lab TA. Partnerships are required. See the Collaboration Guide for more information.

Tue, Jun 25

Lab

Primitives & References

Partnerships: Assigned by your lab TA.

Project 0 released

Wed, Jun 26

Lecture

Welcome to CS 61BL

3–5 PM in 155 Dwinelle

Slides | Video

Thu, Jun 27

Lab

Conditionals, Loops, Arrays

Partnerships: Assigned by your lab TA.

Fri, Jun 28

Lab

OOP & Scope

Partnerships: Assigned by your lab TA.

Project 0 due Sat, June 29 @ 11:59pm

Mon, Jul 1

Lab

Naked Linked Lists

Partnerships: Commit to a partner for the duration of Proj 1 (locked through Jul 5 – you must work together until then on all the labs and the project).

Project 1 released

Tue, Jul 2

Lab

Linked List Enhancements

Wed, Jul 3

Lecture

Inheritance, Asymptotic Analysis, and Deques

3–5 PM in 155 Dwinelle

Slides | Video

Thu, Jul 4

Holiday

Independence Day

Fri, Jul 5

Lab

Runtime Analysis

Project 1 due Fri, Jul 5 @ 11:59pm

Mon, Jul 8

Exam

Midterm 1

Blank | Solution

Tue, Jul 9

Lab

Trees

Partnerships: You choose.

Wed, Jul 10

Lecture

Runtime Analysis, ADT's, and Project 2

3–5 PM in 155 Dwinelle

Slides | Video

Project 2 released

Thu, Jul 11

Lab

Tree Traversals

Partnerships: Commit to a partner for the duration of Proj 2 (locked through Jul 26).

Fri, Jul 12

Lab

BST's & Comparisons/Comparable

Mon, Jul 15

Lab

Project 2 Work Day

Design review meetings

Tue, Jul 16

Lab

Balanced Search Trees

Wed, Jul 17

Lecture

Tree Traversals, Iterators, Balanced Search Trees, and Game Trees

3–5 PM in 155 Dwinelle

Slides | Video | Code | Tester

Thu, Jul 18

Lab

Exceptions & Iteration

Fri, Jul 19

Lab

Project 2 Work Day

Weekly Reflection

Mon, Jul 22

Lab

Hashing

Tue, Jul 23

Lab

Heaps and Priority Queues

Wed, Jul 24

Lecture

Game Trees, Review

3–5 PM in 155 Dwinelle

Slides | Video

Thu, Jul 25

Lab

Project 2 Work Day

Fri, Jul 26

Lab

Project 2 Work Day

Weekly Reflection

Project 2 due Fri, Jul 26 @ 11:59pm

Mon, Jul 29

Exam

Midterm 2

Blank | Solution

Tue, Jul 30

Lab

Graphs

Partnerships: You choose.

Wed, Jul 31

Lecture

Dijkstra's, A*, Project 3, and k-d Trees

3–5 PM in 155 Dwinelle

Slides | Video

Project 3 released

Thu, Aug 1

Lab

Graph Algorithms

Partnerships: You choose.

Fri, Aug 2

Lab

KD-Trees and Tries

This is a two-in-one lab, due at the Monday lab’s regular due time.

Partnerships: Commit to a partner for the duration of Proj 3 (locked through Aug 13).

Mon, Aug 5

Lab

(continued from Friday)

Tue, Aug 6

Lab

Comparison-Based Sorts

Wed, Aug 7

Lecture

Sorting, MST's, and Regex

3–5 PM in 155 Dwinelle

Slides | Video | Code

Thu, Aug 8

Lab

Counting-Based Sorts

Fri, Aug 9

Lab

Project 3 Work Day

Weekly Reflection

Project 3 due Fri, Aug 9 @ 11:59pm

Mon, Aug 12

Lab

Disjoint Sets and MST's

Tue, Aug 13

Lab

Regex

Wed, Aug 14

Lecture

Final Exam Review

3–5 PM in 155 Dwinelle

Thu, Aug 15

Exam

Final Exam

Blank | Solution

Fri, Aug 16

Holiday

Non-Instructional Day

List of lab sections
#	Time	Location	Staff
101	8–11 AM	275 Soda	Alex Schedel, Claire Ko
102	11 AM–2 PM	275 Soda	Jonathan Murata
103	2–5 PM	275 Soda	Itai Smith
104	5–8 PM	275 Soda	Julianna White
105	9 AM–12 PM	277 Soda	Zoe Plaxco, Gi-Gi Lu
106	11 AM–2 PM	330 Soda	Joe Deatrick
107	2–5 PM	330 Soda	Gi-Gi Lu, Zoe Plaxco
108	5–8 PM	330 Soda	Lauren Hong, Wallace Lim
109	5:30–8:30 PM	277 Soda	Charles Hager, Won Ryu
110	4–7 PM	200 Sutardja Dai	Ryan Nuqui, Aditya Sengupta
111	11 AM–2 PM (Mon 10 AM–1 PM)	271 Soda	Ryan Purpura, Pranav Bhasin
112	7–10 PM (Fri 2–5 PM)	273 Soda	Brandon Fong

All labs meet on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. (Lectures are on Wednesday.)

200 Sutardja Dai is located next to Yali's Qualcomm Cafe. Tap your Cal1Card to the grey pad near the door for access.

Instructor office hours are Mondays and Thursdays from 10-11 am, and Tuesdays and Fridays from 4-5 pm. It will be held in 283E Soda