CSC111 Class Page 2015

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Week 1 Jan 26    


Topics: Introduction, Python, Idle, Piazza, Moodle submission Lab/Hw Reading
  • Wednesday
    • Introduction to Idle, the integrated development environment (IDE) for the class
    • Playing with our programming language, Python. The idea this week is to use intuition to put some Python code together and make it generate different outputs
    • We will use these concepts, that will be covered in details starting next week.
      • variables
      • strings of characters
      • loops
    • Introduction to the Lab (Wednesday and Thursday afternoon)
    • Lecture notes
  • Friday
    • Review of Lab 1
    • Introduction to Homework 1, Q&A
    • Go over a few problems, and understand how the def statement works.
    • Camels.png
      Variables
    • Rules for labeling a variable
      • CamelCase for regular variables, uppercase for constants
      • Thinking of a variable as a box, or drawer.
      • Variables can switch contents
    • Lecture notes




 

Week 2 Feb 2    


Topics: Chapter 2: variables, definite loops, input Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday: snow day!
  • Wednesday
    • Variables: simultaneous assignment
    • Where do variables live?
    • Programming: from problem to solution: an iterative process
    • definite loops:
      • looping through items in a list
      • the range() function: allows iteration through various lists of numbers
    • Input: getting information from the user (keyboard)
    • Lecture notes
  • Read Chapter 2 in Zelle.




 

Week 3 Feb 9    


Topics: Arithmetic operators, math functions, main(). Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday 2/9
  • 4 minutes from Grier's video: When computers were human. Start at time=28m12s.


WomenCalculatingWWII.jpg
Women at work tabulating during World War II (Shorpy)

  • Program organization: from now on, we will be using a main() function.
  • Operators: * / + - ** // % abs()
  • The type() function
  • tellerMachine.py example.
  • Formatting numbers (see Section 5.8.2 in Zelle), and example program
  • Wednesday 2/11
  • Friday 2/13
  • Review of Lab 3
  • Introduction to Homework 3
  • What are bits?
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  • You may find this paper more appropriate as an introduction to the field, or this one, as well.





 

Week 4 Feb 16    


Topics: Lists, Strings, Mutable vs. Immutable lists. File Processing. Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday
    • Introduction to indexing in strings and lists.
    • Introduction to slicing strings (and list)
    • Lecture notes
  • Wednesday: Rally Day, no class, no labs.
  • Thursday: no labs.
  • Friday
    • Strings an Lists, continued
    • Strings are immutable. Lists are not.
    • Introduction to the concept of objects and methods: String methods
    • Lecture notes
  • Chapter 5 in Zelle.




 

Week 5 Feb 23    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday: 2/23
  • Files (End of Chapter 5)
  • Wednesday:2/25
  • Friday: 2/27
  • Functions that return values
  • Writing a program that generates "personalized" poems (quotes?) for everybody in the class. (This program is available on Moodle, as it contains private information)
  • Lecture notes
  • Chapter 6 in Zelle: Functions




 

Week 6 Mar 2    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday 3/2
  • Wednesday 3/4
  • Friday 3/6
  • Homework #6
  • Lab #6 will be given out in class, and is a series of review questions to prepare for the midterm. You can find it on this page.
  • Finish reading Chapter 6 (functions) in Zelle.
  • Read Chapter 7 (If statements) in Zelle.




 

Week 7 Mar 9    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday 3/9
  • Wednesday 3/11
    • In Class Midterm (closed books, closed computers)
  • Friday 3/13
  • Indefinite loops are covered in Chapter 8.
  • Graphics is covered in Chapter 4.




 

Week 8 Mar 16    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • SPRING BREAK

 

 




 

Week 8 Mar 23    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday: 3/23
  • Review of Loops and Booleans
  • Robustness of input
  • While True loops
  • break and continue
  • Lecture notes
  • Wednesday: 3/25
  • Friday: 3/27
  • Review Lab 8
  • Man in Hole stories.
  • An introduction by Kurt Vonnegut
  • We're reviewing Chapter 8 in Zelle this week.




 

Week 9 Mar 30    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday: 3/30
Cats.jpg
  • Wednesday: 4/1
  • Creating a Cat class
  • Default string representation: __str__()
  • A list of cats
  • Reading cats from a CSV file
  • Searching a list of objects
  • Friday: 4/3
CarDimensions.jpg
  • Building a wheel, a car, a list of cars...
  • Graphic Objects
  • Horse objects. In the "Digital Horses" video, you get to see how the animators for the movie The Lord of the Rings create software objects to represent horses. In some parts of the video, below, you see that in some cases, horses are a collection of 3D shapes that are connected to each other, and move together around articulation points. This should remind you of how we built a car class around geometrical 2D objects.



  • The video below shows similar examples of 3D objects, and lists of 3D objects where objects have their own behavior (the same way that our car objects have their own speed and direction of movement).




 

Week 10 Apr 6    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday 4/6
  • A detour from classes and objects
  • Nested for-loops for processing images
  • RGB components
  • Simple image transformations: shifting colors, black-and-white, borders, diagonals.
  • Wednesday 4/8
  • Friday 4/10
Aquarium.png
  • Continue with checkers: adding interactivity
  • Removing checkers pieces with the mouse
  • Moving checkers pieces with the mouse
  • No new material this week. Just playing with classes, objects, and graphics.




 

Week 11 Apr 13    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday 4/13
  • Wednesday 4/15
  • Friday 4/17: Guest lecture: Matthew Cornell, Umass: Presentation of a Mobile App. in Python: PeepWeather.com
  • Chapter 11 in Zelle




 

Week 12 Apr 20    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday 4/20
AnimatedTowersOfHanoi.gif
  • Wednesday 4/22
  • Friday 4/24
  • Chapter 13 in Zelle.




 

Week 13 Apr 27    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday 4/27
  • Guest Lecture: Prof. Dana Leibsohn, Art Dept.
TkinterDemo.png
  • Wednesday 4/29
  • Introduction to GUI Programming with TKInter
  • Demo
  • Application
  • Friday 5/1
  • No homework assignments this week!
  • Lab 13
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Links and Resources


Graphics


  • Zelle's graphic library can be found here
  • A page with color names supported by the graphics library.


On-Line Python books


  • disocovermagazine.com blog. Check out the answers posted by many readers. They contain some interesting links that you may find useful!


Python keywords


The list of all the reserved words of the Python language
and del for is raise assert elif from lambda return break else global not try class except if or while continue exec import pass yield def finally in print.


Python Programs in Textbook


  • All the programs of Zelle's Python textbook


Misc


  • If you decide to work in pairs for the lab, you need to follow the protocol for 'pair programming' as discussed in this article.












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