In this lab, students work through an introductory problem to have a simple conversation with a computer program they have written. The computer prints a greeting message, and then asks the user five questions, and responds in an appropriate manner. This activity is good to get students familiarized with simple i/o.

In this lab, students use a canvas provided to them to draw an image of their choice. The images students draw must satisfy certain basic requirements, to contain certain shapes, text, images, and custom colors.

In this activity, students build the game "Pig", and implement a computer player for the game. There are two rounds, where the human plays first in round 1 and the computer plays first in round 2, in order to eliminate any advantage.

In this assignment, students will be creating mosaics in Python. Students will work to generate tessellations, such as Ring and Hex. Functions must be composed to generate the various images.

In this project, students build a Java interpreter for a limited version of BASIC called Facile. The interpreter manages variables, mathematical operations, conditional statements, functional decomposition, and its own call-stack. As part of the activity students test the interpreter with JUnit. This project is for students that would like to explore building an interpreter, or for students that may have an interest in the general workings of compilers and programming languages on a smaller scale.

In this assignment students create a game called 'Cowboy, Ninja, Bear' in Python. By creating a game in segments, students are tasked with building and testing incremental features of the game until all possible permutations within the game (using the predefined win-state outcomes) have been successfully met. The activity requires students to use a design document to outline and support their development process.

In this assignment students work either individually or in pairs to manage and analyze stock prices via a text menu. Students must write a function that asks the user what they want to do, providing nine options: input a new list of stock prices, print the current list, find various statistics, find the best day to buy/sell the stock in question, and quit the menu. Students may not use built-in functions, and must therefore write functions like sum, min, and max themselves using loops. In addition to reviewing i/o and loops, this assignment requires students to decompose their code thoughtfully. It is particularly useful for students who are new to loops and need additional practice with decomposition.

In this assignment students work either individually or in pairs to write a series of image-processing functions. Using list comprehension, students must write functions that invert the colors of an image, change the colors to greyscale, change the image to black and white, flip the image, and mirror the image. Students are also encouraged to be creative and come up with their own alterations. This assignment covers list comprehension on multidimensional lists. It is particularly useful for students who are new to multidimensional lists and need additional practice using list comprehension on them.

In this assignment students work either individually or in pairs to write functions that encode and decode a Caesar cipher, along with several other sorting and string problems. Students must write functions that encipher a message by rotating the letters and decipher a message by looking at letter frequencies in the enciphered message. Additionally, students must write functions that sort a binary list, sort a general list, find the number of characters shared between two strings, and find the least common subsequence of two strings. In addition to requiring students to work with recursion, strings, and list comprehension, this assignment requires students to design their own algorithms. It is particularly useful for students who are comfortable with the topics covered but need additional practice designing algorithms.

In this assignment students work to write a program that simulates a random walk. Using recursion, students must write a function that continuously randomly selects left or right and keeps track of how far the random walker has moved. They must then analyze their random walks to find how far the random walker travels on average. In addition to reviewing recursion and random number generation, this assignment requires students to create debug statements that print additional information. It is particularly useful for students who are new to recursion and need additional practice debugging.