Sections
Lectures are supplemented by weekly, 90-minute sections led by the teaching fellows. Different sections may be offered for those less comfortable, those more comfortable, and those somewhere in between, demand permitting. If so, that will be indicated in the titles of the events in the schedule below.
Attendance at sections (at least one section for each of Weeks 1 through 10) is expected.
Section Room
When sections are running (see the schedule below for a list of section times), use the below button to log in via HarvardKey and access the section room.
Please do not arrive in the Zoom meeting room more than 15 minutes before your section’s scheduled start time. Similarly, if you would arrive more than 15 minutes late for a section’s scheduled start time, please select a different section to attend, so as to minimize disruption to the ongoing class. Arriving more than 15 minutes late will not grant you credit for attending the section.
Watch Recordings of Past Sections
Schedule
The calendar below should be shown in your local time zone, you can confirm this by checking the calendar’s footer! A list of which calendar events correspond to which section number appears after the calendar.
Though not officially designated as such this semester, students who consider themselves among “those more comfortable” may particularly benefit from sections led by Daniel Chang, and students who consider themselves among “those somewhere in between” may particularly benefit from sections led by Guy White.
| TF | Day and Time (Eastern Time, U.S.) |
|---|---|
| Guy | Tuesdays, 17:00 to 18:30 |
| Daniel | Tuesdays, 19:00 to 20:30 |
| Margaret | Wednesdays, 16:30 to 18:00 |
| Christo | Wednesdays, 20:00 to 21:30 |
| Lecture | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Scratch | no section | |
| Section 1 | C | week of 3 February 2025 |
| Section 2 | Arrays | week of 10 February 2025 |
| Section 3 | Algorithms | week of 17 February 2025 |
| Section 4 | Memory | week of 24 February 2025 |
| Section 5 | Data Structures | week of 3 March 2025 |
| Section 6 | Python | week of 24 March 2025 |
| Section 7 | SQL | week of 31 March 2025 |
| Section 8 | HTML, CSS, JavaScript | week of 7 April 2025 |
| Section 9 | Flask | week of 14 April 2025 |
| Section 10 | Artificial Intelligence | week of 21 April 2025 |
| The End | no section |
Norms
All sections are held online via Zoom. Per the syllabus, you are expected to attend sections live, one per week. A calendar of sections will appear below once section times have been established.
Sections have no limit and you can attend any one you’d like in a given week, but we grab via an API your name and email attached to your Zoom account when you sign into the meeting for attendance so be certain that you can be properly and uniquely identified, if you want credit for attending the section! (You are free to switch to a pseudonym, if you wish, during the section meeting itself!) Watching a recording of a section does not substitute for the section attendance requirement in the course’s syllabus.
Section recordings will ordinarily be posted some time on Fridays.
The course treats Zoom just like a classroom. For any meeting that you attend, be sure to:
- Participate from a quiet space (and not from a bed, car, hammock, plane, or train), where can you listen and speak. If you participate from a more public space, just be sure you won’t be approached or disturbed by others while there.
- Be sure to participate with your camera turned on, using horizontal (not vertical) video, unless your circumstances don’t permit.
If unable to accommodate these norms for some meeting, please watch the recording (if any) thereof. And please forgive if the staff ask you to log out so that all attendees are those fully engaged!