Assignments

Every assignment arrives as your own private GitHub repository, created for you inside the course organization. Clone it and work in VS Code.

Your repository is checked automatically each time you push, and the tests tell you how you are doing. That score does not set your grade, assignments count as complete when you submit reasonable work, green tests or not. See Grading for how completion feeds into your final grade.

Before any of this can happen, you must send your GitHub username to your instructor and accept the invitation to the course organization, Getting Started walks you through it.

Assignments are grouped by the week they begin. Weeks carrying more than one assignment are marked with a heavier rule and a bold count, plan ahead for those.

Each assignment opens on the Monday of its week. You can see the whole term below, but a future assignment stays grayed out with its opening date until then.

Setup submitted, but not counted toward your grade Published open, ready to start Opens Oct 12 unlocks at the start of its week
Week 00 Aug 31 – Sep 5 2 assignments + 1 setup task
a00 Setup
Getting Started
The CS112 Oracle, set up your toolchain, compiler, and GitHub access before the first lab.
not counted toward your grade
a01 Published
RPG Character Creator
Variables, memory, control structures, and functions, in C++.
finish it at home during Week 00
Week 01 Sep 7 – Sep 12 1 assignment
a02 Published
Keystrokes
A programmable calculator with five faults in its firmware. Find them, then finish the machine.
Week 02 Sep 14 – Sep 19 1 assignment
a03 Published
Sandbox
A falling-sand simulator, file I/O, exceptions, and 2D arrays.
Week 03 Sep 21 – Sep 26 1 assignment
a04 Published
Qualifying
Two classes, a leaderboard, and the operator that prints it.
Week 04 Sep 28 – Oct 3 1 assignment
a05 Published
Telemetry
A container that owns its memory, and what that costs.
Week 05 Oct 5 – Oct 10 2 assignments
a06 Published
Channels
One container, three types, turning last week's class into a template.
a07 Published
Race Data
A season of results, and the container you did not have to write.
Week 06 Oct 12 – Oct 15 1 assignment
a08 Published
Finish the List
Four methods, a template, and a chain of Nodes that frees itself.
Week 08 Oct 23 – Oct 31 1 assignment
a09 Published
Stopwatch
Time eight operations at five sizes, and let the numbers name the growth class.
Week 09 Nov 2 – Nov 7 2 assignments
a10 Published
Stack and Queue
Two containers, nine TODOs, and one array bent into a circle.
a11 Published
HashTable
Stop searching for the index, compute it, on seventy-three thousand words.
Week 10 Nov 9 – Nov 14 2 assignments
a12 Published
Three Ways Through a Maze
One algorithm, two containers, and then no container at all.
a13 Published
Snake
The snake is a queue. Not like a queue: a queue.
Week 11 Nov 16 – Nov 21 1 assignment
a14 Published
Index
A tree that keeps its promise, and a shape that does not.
Week 12 Nov 23 – Nov 28 1 assignment
Coming soon
AVL Trees
Topic is set; the assignment opens before its week begins.
Weeks 13–14 Nov 30 – Dec 9 1 assignment
a15 Coming soon
Matrix Operations and OpenMP
Parallelising a loop, and measuring whether it actually helped.
spans both weeks · outline available now
Tip

Each assignment page lists the skills it gives you evidence for. If your submitted work clearly demonstrates a skill, you don’t need a check-in appointment for it, see Skills & Check-Ins.