6.S079 lectures are in 34-304 at 2:30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | 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 Reading: Snowflake | 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.