ENGG1003BB/1004A: Digital Literacy and Computational Thinking
Term 1, 2025-2026

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• Please read Guidelines To Academic Honesty for some more examples of improper usage of other's work.

• Please read Use of AI Tools in Teaching, Learning and Assessments – A Guide for Students for the University's policy on the use of AI in academic work.

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News

• (Oct 12) Several datasets to be used for data science demo are listed as follows:

  • book_price.csv

  • houseprice.csv

  • shark.csv

• (Oct 5) The completed demo files are available:

  • demo-A-v2.xlsx

  • demo-B-v2.xlsx

• (Sep 4) Two spreadsheet files to be used in class are now available:

  • demo-A.xlsx

  • demo-B.xlsx

• (Sep 1) Welcome to the course.

General Informaiton

Instructor: W.-Y. Keung

• Office: HCA320D

• Email: wykeung@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

• Office Hours: by appointment

Tutors

• ENGG1003BB: Bruce Liu

  • Office: HCA328

  • Email: yuqiliu@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

• ENGG1004A: Tommy Kwok

  • Office: HCA328

  • Email: tkwok@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

Time and Venue

• ENGG1003BB: Monday 11:30-14:15 @LSB C2

• ENGG1004A: Tuesday 14:30-17:15 @LSB C1

See the list of abbreviations here.

Course Descripton/ Learning Outcomes

• Office of Digital Literacy Education

• Blackboard

Assessment Scheme

• Weekly laboratory: 20%

• Online assignments: 40%

• Active participation: 10%

• Final project: 30%

Important: You shall pass (i.e., scoring at least 60%) in all the above listed assessment items to be eligible to obtain an overall passing grade in this course.

Lecture Slides

The main notes are provided on blackboard. We provide the presented (and very often abridged) version herein for your reference.

Course Overview and Logistics

• Course Information

• Digital Technologies

Software Installation Instructions

• MS Azure

  • Azure Lab Service

  • Microsoft Remote Desktop (for Mac users)

• Python IDLE

• R and RStudio

Digital Literacy (Common Slides for ENGG1003/1004)

• Spreadsheet

• Digital Literacy

• Information Security

• Data Science

  • Part 1: Misuse of Statistics

  • Part 2: Data Science

ENGG1003: Computational Thinking with Python

• Data Science: Modelling and Visualization

• Python Basics

• Branching in Python

• More on Python Coding

• Python on Jupyter Notebook

• A.I. and Large Language Model

ENGG1004: Computational Thinking with R

• R Basics

• R Iterations

• R Functions and Vectors

• Curve Fitting on R

• Machine Learning on R

• Machine Learning Applications

Slides in previous offering: To be updated

• Advanced Topics for ENGG1003

• Advanced Topics for ENGG1004