# Group 39: [CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science](https://cs50.edx.org/) > - [Course introduction](https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:HarvardX+CS50+X/course/) > - [Discussion forum](https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:HarvardX+CS50+X/a7ec0c0a7b6e460f877da0734811c4cd/) > - [FAQs](https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2020/faqs/) > - [Syllabus](https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2020/syllabus/) # Goals in the next 3 months ## Jaryl - [ ] Remain able to code by finishing the final projects - Solving problems - Thinking logically - [ ] Successfully build a website myself, refine my website (back-end) - Be confident at using frameworks - [ ] Implement Linkedin course code - [ ] Pick up web scraping/ web automation, selenium, and beautiful soup ## Nut - (tbc) ## Daphne - My ultimate goal is to automate redundant stuffs in life to save 1 hour a day in the next 3 months. I manage to go through the foundation, and successfully re-implement some instruction to organize files in my Mac, and crawl a simple data set - [ ] Scrape data from Yahoo Finance, the FS release date - [ ] Scrape data from 10 most popular job listing sites - [ ] Scrapre data from Linkedin profiles # Knowledge progress ## Jaryl - [x] **Week 0: Scratch** - [x] Lecture - [x] Problem Set 0 - [x] **Week 1: C programming** - [x] Lecture - [x] Data types - [x] Operators - [x] Conditional statements - [x] Loops - [x] Command line - [x] Problem Set 1 - [x] **Week 2: Arrays** - [x] Lecture - [x] Functions - [x] Arrays - [x] Command line arguments - [x] Variables and scopes - [x] Problem Set 2 - [x] **Week 3: Algorithm** - [x] Lecture - [x] Linear search - [x] Binary search - [x] Bubble sort - [x] Selection sort - [x] Insertion sort - [x] Recursion - [x] Merge sort - [x] Algorithm summary - [x] Problem Set 3 - [x] **Week 4: Memory** - [x] Lecture - [x] Hexadecimal - [x] Pointers - [x] Dynamic Memory Allocation - [x] Call Stacks - [x] File Pointers - [x] Problem Set 4 - [x] **Week 5: Data Structures** - [x] Lecture - [x] Data Structures - [x] Singly-Linked Lists - [x] Hash Tables - [x] Tries - [x] Problem Set 5 - [x] **Week 6: Python** - [x] Lecture - [x] Python - [x] Problem Set 6 - [x] **Week 7: SQL** - [x] Lecture - [x] SQL - [x] Problem Set 7 - [x] **Week 8: Information** - [x] Lecture - [ ] **Final project** ## Nut - [x] **Week 0: Scratch** - [x] Lecture - [x] Problem Set 0 - [ ] **Week 1: C programming** - [ ] Lecture - [ ] Data types - [ ] Operators - [ ] Conditional statements - [ ] Loops - [ ] Command line - [ ] Problem Set 1 - [ ] **Week 2: Arrays** - [ ] Lecture - [ ] Functions - [ ] Arrays - [ ] Command line arguments - [ ] Variables and scopes - [ ] Problem Set 2 - [ ] **Week 3: Algorithm** - [ ] Lecture - [ ] Linear search - [ ] Binary search - [ ] Bubble sort - [ ] Selection sort - [ ] Insertion sort - [ ] Recursion - [ ] Merge sort - [ ] Algorithm summary - [ ] Problem Set 3 - [ ] **Week 4: Memory** - [ ] Lecture - [ ] Hexadecimal - [ ] Pointers - [ ] Dynamic Memory Allocation - [ ] Call Stacks - [ ] File Pointers - [ ] Problem Set 4 - [ ] **Week 5: Data Structures** - [ ] Lecture - [ ] Data Structures - [ ] Singly-Linked Lists - [ ] Hash Tables - [ ] Tries - [ ] Problem Set 5 - [ ] **Week 6: Python** - [ ] Lecture - [ ] Python - [ ] Problem Set 6 - [ ] **Week 7: SQL** - [ ] Lecture - [ ] SQL - [ ] Problem Set 7 - [ ] **Week 8: Information** - [ ] Lecture - [ ] **Final project** ## Daphne Milestone projects - [x] [Auto parsing and renaming files](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve2pmm5JqmI&t=353s) - [x] [Automate files in the local computer](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/using-python-for-automation/organizing-directories?u=2104756) - [x] [Web Scrapping with Beautiful Soup](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/using-python-for-automation/organizing-directories?u=2104756) - [x] [Automate Web Browsing with Selenium](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/using-python-for-automation/organizing-directories?u=2104756) - [ ] [Automate Tinder swiping](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvFAuUcowT4&t=2s) Knowledge checkpoints - [x] [**Milestone 0: Set up the environment**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYXdXT2l-Gg&list=PL-osiE80TeTt2d9bfVyTiXJA-UTHn6WwU&index=1) (You can skip this and come back later if the syllabus you are taking provies the coding editor) - [x] Install Python 3 - [x] Install the IDE (eg. Pycharm, Visual Studio Code, etc) - [x] Execute and run code with terminal commands (eg. cd, ls, python3, etc) - [x] **Milestone 1: Learning Basic Python syntax** - [x] get to know different data types (eg. `str()`, `int()`, `list()`) - [x] variables and naming convention - [x] comment # - [x] `print()` - [x] one variables - [x] multiple variables using `format()` - [x] read the input data from users using `input()` - [x] restrict the data type using `str()`, `int()`, `list()` ... - [x] **Milestone 2: Working with numeric data - integer and float** - [x] Arithmetic Operators (output: result) - [x] Comparison (output: True/ False) - [x] Shortcut. Eg. `num += 1` - [x] Commonly used methods: absolute `abs()`, `round()`, etc - [x] Work with numbers in string format. Eg. "3" - [x] Advanced math `import math` - [x] **Milestone 3: Working with textual data - string** - [x] Single quotes vs. Double quotes - [x] Create multi-line string using triple quotes `'''` or `\n` - [x] Commonly used functions and methods in string - [x] Check data types: `type()` - [x] Check string length: `len()` - [x] Index - [x] `lower()` or `upper()` - [x] Concatination - [x] `replace()` - [x] **Milestone 4: Working with boolean** - [x] **Milestone 5: Conditional statement** - [x] If Else - [x] If Elif Else - [x] **Milestone 6: Loops and iteration** - [x] While loop - [x] For loop - [x] **Milestone 7: Function** - [x] Write your own function - [x] 3rd party function - [x] Global and Local scopes - [x] **Milestone 8: Working with data in a container - list, tuple, set, dictionary** - [x] List - [x] access a list using loop - [x] `append()` - [x] list comprehension - [ ] Dictionary - [ ] understand key - value pair - [ ] access value from a key: dict['key'] - [ ] add new key to a dict - [ ] update many keys in one shot: `update()` - [ ] delete a key and its value: `pop()` or `del` - [ ] check what keys are there: `dict.keys()` - [ ] check what values are there: `dict.values()` - [ ] check what key-value pairs are there: `dict.items()` - [x] Tuple and Set - [ ] **Milestone 8: Modules, Libraries** - [ ] Modules - [ ] create modules - [ ] variables in module - [ ] name the module, create an alias for the module - [ ] import module - [ ] commonly used modules: OS, csv, etc - [ ] Libraries - [ ] import libraries, create an alias for the module - [ ] commonly used libraries for automation: beautiful soup, selenium, etc