schedule.md

ECS 119 Course Schedule - Fall 2024

Important note: This schedule is subject to change. I will try to keep it up to date, but please see Piazza for the latest information and homework deadlines.

Section 1: Data Processing Basics

Week	Date	Topic	Readings & HW	Lecture #
0	Sep 25	Introduction		0
	Sep 27	Introduction to Data Processing Software		1
1	Sep 30			1
	Oct 2		HW0 Due	1
	Oct 4			1
2	Oct 7	The Shell		2
	Oct 9			2
	Oct 11			2
3	Oct 14	Data Operators		3
	Oct 16			3
	Oct 18			3
4	Oct 21	Parallelism		4
	Oct 23			4
	Oct 25			4
5	Oct 28		HW1 due (deadline extended)
	Oct 30			4
	Nov 1			4

Section 2: Parallelism

Week	Date	Topic	Readings & HW	Lecture #
6	Nov 4	Distributed Pipelines		5
	Nov 6	Review or Overflow		5
	Nov 8	Midterm
7	Nov 11	No Class (Veterans Day)
	Nov 13			5
	Nov 15			5
8	Nov 18			5
	Nov 20			5
	Nov 22			5

Section 3: Distributed Computing

Week	Date	Topic	Readings & HW	Lecture #
9	Nov 25	Streaming Pipelines		6
	Nov 27			6
	Nov 29	No Class (Thanksgiving)
10	Dec 2			6
	Dec 4	Selection of additional topics1		7
	Dec 6	Selection of additional topics1		7
11	Dec 9		HW2 due
	Dec 11	Final Exam (6-8pm)

Notes

Footnotes

1. Possible additional topics (depending on time and preference): web scraping; data validation and integrity; data cleaning; missing data; distributed programming: failures and consistency requirements; containerization and orchestration; cloud computing: platforms, services, and resources. ↩ ↩²