Spring 2024

6.S079 lectures are in 34-304 at 2:30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

MondayTuesday WednesdayThursday Friday
Feb 5
Feb 6
First day of classes

Release: Lab 1
Feb 7
Feb 8
Reading: Sections 8.1 - 8.3 and 8.7 of Chapter 8 of "Foundations of Computer Science”, by Al Ajo and Jeffrey Ullman.
Feb 9
Registration deadline
Feb 12
Feb 13
⛄️ ❄️ Snow day! ⛄️ ❄️
Feb 14
Feb 15
Reading: "Against SQL", by Jamie Brandon.
Feb 16

Feb 19
Presidents' Day
Due: Lab 1
Feb 20
Monday schedule
Feb 21 Feb 22
Reading: "Comparison With SQL", Pandas Documentation.
Release: Lab 2
Feb 23
Feb 26
Feb 27
Reading 1: grep, awk and sed – three VERY useful command-line utilities
Reading 2: Similarity Measures for Text Document Clustering
Feb 28
Feb 29

Reading: Chapter 1 of Big Data Integration (MIT Touchstone Authentication Required)
Mar 1

Mar 4
Mar 5

Due: Lab 2
Release: Lab 3
Mar 6

Release: Lab 4
Mar 7

Reading: Prologue and Chapter 1 (skip subsection on Probabilistic Models (pages 25-32)).
Mar 8
Add Date
Due: Project Proposal
Mar 11
Mar 12
Mar 13


Due: Lab 3
Mar 14
Mar 15
Mar 18
Mar 19


Release: Lab 5
Mar 20
Mar 21
Quiz 1
Mar 22
Mar 25
Spring Break
Mar 26
Spring Break
Mar 27
Spring Break
Mar 28
Spring Break
Mar 29
Spring Break
Apr 1
Apr 2
Apr 3
Due: Lab 4
Apr 4
Apr 5
Apr 8
Apr 9

Project Check-in 1 Week
Apr 10


Due: Lab 5
Apr 11


Reading: BlinkDB
Release: Lab 6
Apr 12
Apr 15
Patriots' Day
Apr 16

Apr 17
Apr 18

Apr 19
Apr 22
Apr 23
Drop Date
Due: Lab 6
Apr 24
Apr 25
Apr 26
Apr 29
Apr 30

Project Check-in 2 Week
May 1
May 2
May 3
May 6
May 7
May 8
May 9
Quiz 2
May 10
May 13
May 14
Last day of classes Project Presentation Session
May 15

Due: Project Report
May 16
May 17
Last change: 5/09/2022.