Additional Resources

Learning in 61A

Enrolled and waitlisted students have access to the screencasts through CalCentral by choosing COMPSCI 61A under "My Classes". There will be separate lecture videos as well. These differ from screencasts as they are created before lecture and will be linked on the main page. Section (lab/disc) videos will also be linked on the course website as well.

• Extra lectures. Information about extra topics in CS61A (Course CS198).

• Past Course Websites and Lecture Videos:

  • Fall 2016 website (video link under each lecture)
  • Spring 2016 website
  • Fall 2015 website (video link under each lecture)

• Past Screencasts:

  • Spring 2015 screencasts
  • Spring 2015 extra lecture screencasts
• Course Wiki with several Guides including one for Getting Unstuck
• Spring 2017 TA Slides

• Environment Diagrams:

  • The Online Python Tutor draws environment diagrams automatically

• Tutoring

  • HKN Tutoring
  • UPE Tutoring
  • College of Engineering CS 61A Tutoring

• Advising

  • Undergrad CS Advising, or
  • Sarah Van Nostrand
• Official Python3 Documentation

Programming in 61A

• Text editors:

  • Atom
  • Sublime Text
  • Emacs
  • Vim

• Online interpreters:

  • SQL
  • Scheme
• Debugging Guide
• Composition Guidelines
• Style guide

Using OK

CS 61A uses a program called ok to test and submit homework assignments, labs, and projects. Please see Using OK for more information on signing in with OK, troubleshooting, testing, viewing submissions, and adding partners.

Midterms and Final Resources

Past Exams

Older exams can be found in the CS 61A past exams page or the HKN and TBP exam banks.

Computer Science Mentors (CSM)

• Fall 2016 Released Worksheets, Solutions, and Videos
• Guided Practice Problems (through the Oppia platform)

Guerrilla Sections

• Higher Order Functions, Environment Diagrams, and Recursion and Solutions
• Trees, Linked Lists, and Mutable Values and Solutions
• Growth, OOP, Inheritance and Solutions
• Scheme, Tail Calls, SQL and Solutions and Slides

Midterm 1 Resources

• Midterm 1 Video Walkthroughs

  • Spring 2017 Video and annotated problems
  • Fall 2016 Video and annotated problems
  • Summer 2016 Video and annotated problems
  • Spring 2016 Video
  • Fall 2015 Video
  • Spring 2015 Video
  • Fall 2014 Video

• Review Material

  • Spring 2017 CSM Worksheet and Solutions and Slides
  • Spring 2017 HKN
  • Fall 2016 TA
  • Fall 2016 HKN
  • Summer 2015 CSM Worksheet and Solutions
  • Spring 2016 Tammy Nguyen's Midterm 1 Review Slides
  • Spring 2016 Jerry Chen's Midterm 1 Review Slides
  • Spring 2016 James Uejio's Midterm 1 Tips and Past Midterm Problems and Solutions
  • Andrew Huang's Midterm 1 Tips

Midterm 2 Resources

• Midterm 2 Video Walkthroughs

  • Spring 2017 Video and annotated problems
  • Fall 2016 Video and annotated problems
  • Summer 2016 Video and annotated problems
  • Spring 2016 Video and annotated problems
  • Fall 2015 Video
  • Spring 2015 Video
  • Fall 2014 Video
  • Spring 2014 Video

• Review Material

  • Spring 2017 CSM
  • Spring 2017 HKN
  • Fall 2016 TA
  • Fall 2016 HKN
  • Spring 2016 TA
  • Spring 2016 HKN
  • Fall 2015 CSM Worksheet and Solutions
  • Summer 2015 CSM Worksheet and Solutions

Final Resources

• Final Video Walkthroughs

  • Fall 2016 Video
  • Spring 2016 Video and annotated problems
  • Fall 2015 Video
  • Spring 2015 Video
  • Fall 2014 Video

• Review Material

  • Spring 2017 CSM and worksheet and solutions
  • Spring 2017 HKN
  • Spring 2016 HKN
  • Fall 2015 HKN
  • Spring 2015 HKN
  • Fall 2015 Worksheet and Solutions
  • Andrew Huang's Final Tips
  • Alvin Wan's Practice Problems and Solutions

More Resources by Topic

Make sure to check out CSM, Guerrilla Sections and the other links above before taking a look at the following. Do not feel like you have to solve all of them in order to feel sufficiently practiced. This is a convenience for you, so that you can reference a single page for your studying needs. Start with the ones you feel most weak in, and if you didn't happen to go through all of them, it's okay!

• Environment Diagrams

  • Fall 2016 Samantha Wong's Environment Diagram Slides
  • Fall 2015 Kevin's Review
• Higher Order Functions

• Recursion and Tree Recursion

  • Spring 2017 Sequoia's Tree Recursion Note
  • Spring 2017 James' Recursion Worksheet
  • Fall 2015 Colin's Tree Recursion Review and Solutions

• Lists and Sequences

  • Fall 2016 Kevin's Lists and Sequences Worksheet and Solutions

• Mutable Objects

  • Fall 2016 Sydney's Mutable Object Slides
  • Spring 2016 Giorgia's Aggregated Final Problems and Solutions

• OOP

  • Fall 2016 Kunal's OOP Slides

• Linked Lists and Trees

  • Spring 2017 Katya's Linked List Worksheet and Solutions
  • Fall 2016 Manas' Linked Lists and Trees Slides
  • Fall 2016 Raymond Chan's Linked Lists and Trees Slides
  • Spring 2016 Linked List and Tree Worksheet and Solutions
  • Fall 2015 Meha's Linked Lists Worksheet

• Tail Calls and Tail Recursion

  • Spring 2016 Cale's Tail Recursion Slides
  • Fall 2015 Sherdil's Tail Recursion Slides
  • Fall 2015 Austin's Tail Recursion Slides

• Orders of Growth

  • Spring 2017 Sequoia's Orders of Growth Note
  • Fall 2016 Owen's Order of Growth Slides and associated worksheet
  • Spring 2016 Orders of Growth Worksheet and Solutions

• Scheme

  • Spring 2017 Sequoia's Scheme Note
  • Fall 2016 Kavi's Scheme Slides and Solutions
  • Fall 2015 Meha's Scheme Worksheet and Solutions
  • Fall 2015 Max's Scheme List Review
  • Fall 2014 Append vs cons vs List Guide
  • Fall 2014 Scheme Review Worksheet and Solution

• Iterators and Generators

  • Spring 2017 Sequoia's Iterator/Generator Note
  • Fall 2016 Nicole's Iterators/Generators Slides
  • Fall 2016 Peter's Iterators and Generators Slides
  • Spring 2016 Jason's Iterator and Generator Slides
  • Spring 2016 Iterator and Generator Slides
  • Spring 2016 Iterator and Generator WWPP Practice
  • Fall 2015 Tammy's Iterators Worksheet and Solutions and Script

• Interpreters

  • Fall 2016 Tammy's Interpreters Worksheet and Solutions and Review Slides
  • Fall 2015 Sumukh's Interpreters Review
  • Fall 2014 Interpreters Worksheet and Solutions

• Streams

  • Spring 2017 Tammy's Streams Worksheet and Solutions
  • Spring 2016 Jason's Stream Slides
  • Spring 2016 Stream Worksheet and Solutions
  • Spring 2016 Stream Slides
  • Fall 2015 Luise's Stream Worksheet
  • Fall 2015 Austin's Stream Worksheet and Solution
  • Fall 2015 Max Stream Video Review
  • Fall 2014 Stream Review Worksheet and Solutions

• SQL

  • SQL Past Exam Problems and Solutions
  • Fall 2017 Colin's SQL Worksheet and Solutions
  • Spring 2016 Kevin's SQL Slides
  • Spring 2016 James' SQL Slides
  • Fall 2015 Tammy's SQL Slides
  • Fall 2014 Andrew Huang's Quick Guide to SQL

• MapReduce

  • Spring 2017 Jerry's MapReduce Slides
  • Fall 2016 Jerry and David's MapReduce Slides

Staff Websites

• Chris Le
• Jack Thakar
• James Uejio
• Jerry Chen
• Kelly Liu
• Kevin Chen
• Kevin Lin
• Owen Jow
• Raymond Chan
• Tammy Nguyen
• Vivian Fang

• Past TAs

  • Albert Wu
  • Alvin Wan
  • Andrew Huang
  • Brian Hou
  • Kristin Stephens-Martinez
  • Mark Miyashita
  • Michelle Hwang
  • Sumukh Sridhara
  • Youri Park