CSC111 Class Page 2015b

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Week 1 Sept 7

Topics: Introduction, Python, Idle, Piazza, Moodle submission	Lab/Hw	Reading
Wednesday Syllabus Expectations Pair Programming \ A feel for coding in Python Lecture Notes Friday Review of the lab Variables assignment, variable names camelCase notation Exercises Lecture Notes	Preparation for Lab 1: you may want to do this before the first lab. Lab 1 Homework 1 Solution programs can be found at the end of the lab and homework pages	Read Chapter 1 in Zelle (textbook) Read the article on Pair Programming

 

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Week 2 Sept. 14

Topics: Chapter 2: variables, definite loops, input	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: (Lecture presented by Prof. Joe O'Rourke) 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 Wednesday Review & Prep for Lab 2 Exercises Lecture Notes Programs developed in class Friday Numbers of the day: 2,000,000,000 10 - 20,000,000 Printing, and the idea of emptiness: "" and [] Programming exercises from the Lecture Notes Programs developed in class	Lab 2 Homework 2 Solution programs can be found at the end of the lab and homework pages	Read Chapter 2 in Zelle.

 

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Week 3 Sept. 21

Topics: Arithmetic operators, math functions, main().	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Finish the grade program from Friday ( Programs developed in class) 4 minutes from Grier's video: When computers were human. Start at time=28m12s. Women at work tabulating during World War II (Shorpy) Operators: * / + - ** // % abs() The type() function tellerMachine.py example. Formatting numbers (see Section 5.8.2 in Zelle), and example program Lecture Notes Programs developed in class Wednesday Review the tellerMachine.py program. Review a student's solution using a loop. Printing formatted integers and floats with the { } format. Review the bar-graph problem and use the { } format to print the box. Program organization: from now on, we will be using a main() function. int(), round(), float(), abs() ==> the idea of robustness Rule for all programs: add a blank line between input section and output section. Accumulating results in loops. Example: computing the average age of students in the class. Accumulating strings in a loop: Generage a string of 5 groups: "**--**--**" Programs developed in class Friday Monday's class will be on video... stay tuned to Piazza Example of Midterm Exam: Warning: some of the questions refer to material that hasn't be covered as of 9/25/15, but will have been covered by the time the test is administered. Back to Accumulating results: debugging a loop Debugging the program printing alternating patterns Review Challenge #7 from Lab 3 Programs developed in class Lecture Notes & (exta)	Lab 3 Homework 3 Solution programs can be found at the end of the lab and homework pages	Read Chapter 3 in Zelle.

 

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Week 4 Sept. 28

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Video class today. The class is covered in 3 different videos. Click on the video icons below, from left to right, please!     Lecture Notes Wednesday Review & Q&A Strings are immutable String methods On-line documentation: docs.python.orgs Exercises Programs developed in class Lecture Notes Friday Split() Functions Lecture Notes A video with some words about real numbers and why they behave strangely: Programs developed in class Lecture Notes	Lab 4 Homework 4 Solution programs can be found at the end of the lab and homework pages	Read Chapter 6 in Zelle

 

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Week 5 Oct 5

Topics: Functions, Files.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Functions, review Functions returning values Exercises Writing robust programs: they don't crash! Lecture Notes Programs developed in class Wednesday Mountain Day? Friday Review: Functions, parameters, returned values Exercises Programs developed in class Lecture Notes	Lab 5 Homework 5	We are still working with material from Chapter 6.

 

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Week 6 Oct. 12

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Fall Break Wednesday Files: reading and writing text files Processing text information (playing with Sherlock) Lecture Notes Programs developed in class Friday: Midterm Exam Example of Midterm Exam	Lab 6 No homework this week

 

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Week 7 Oct 19

Topics: Processing Files	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Finish Dynamic Web Page example The IF statement Boolean values: True and False Lecture Notes Programs developed in class Wednesday Boolean operators: and, or, and not Graphics Graphics library Simple graphic programs Friday Graphic objects: everything is an object! Measuring distances between points on the graphic window. Something fun: Eliza	Lab 7 Homework 7	Chapter 7 in Zelle Documentation for the graphics.py library

 

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Week 8 Oct. 26

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Review if statements and Boolean variables Exercises on boolean variables and boolean functions is there a negative number in a list of numbers? count the number of negative numbers in a list of numbers Back to Eliza Lecture Notes Wednesday Exact and Inexact Matching Algorithms Break and Continue Lecture Notes Friday Exercise with While loop Programming patterns for looking at text data (review of Lab 8) Processing Text Man in the Hole (Kurt Vonnegut, Matthew Jokers) Memory Project (Tim O'Brien, Wordle) Lecture Notes	Lab 8 Homework 8	Indefinite loops are covered in Chapter 8 in Zelle.

 

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Week 9 Nov. 2

Topics: Exceptions, Classes, and Objects	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Exceptions Classes and Objects Programs developed in class Lecture notes Wednesday Cats, cats, cats Creating a Cat class Default string representation: __str__() A list of cats Reading cats from a CSV file Searching a list of objects Programs developed in class Friday Object-Oriented Graphics Creating a wheel class Moving the wheel Creating a car class Moving the car A list of cars... 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). Programs developed in class Lecture notes (You can go to this site to print graph paper)	Lab #9 Homework 9	Description of Graphics Library objects Section 7.4 in Zelle, on Exceptions Chapter 10: Defining Classes

 

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Week 10 Nov 9

Topics: Image Processing	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Image processing Displaying gif images Sweep through an image: vertical sweep, horizontal sweep Changing the color of a pixel Changing the color of all the pixels of an image Grey scales Saturation Lecture Notes Programs developed in class Wednesday Mirroring Displaying a chessboard Creating the graphics for a game of checkers Lecture Notes Programs developed in class Friday No class today (conference in Seattle), but there is a video lecture to watch on your own... Stay tuned! Slides for Video Presentation DT's video presentation Page with Prof. Helene Visentin's presentation Quiz: go to Moodle, and look for the Week 10 LAM section.	Lab 10 Homework 10

 

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Week 11 Nov 16

Topics: LAM, User Interface, Widgets, Button, digitizing and rendering a Map	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Introduction to the LAM project this week The problem we will solve this week User Interface: widgets and buttons Using buttons to control user interaction Polygons. Creating polygons, saving polygons to a CSV file Lecture Notes Programs developed in class Wednesday Crowd-Sourcing: assignment for the day: defining the format in the CSV flle. Sharing the CSV file Animation loop with win.checkMouse() ==> animation Lecture Notes Programs developed in class Friday Review Lab 11 Edit shared csv file with proper names Merging file information Color-coding by date Application: Fish in an aquarium Lecture Notes Programs developed in class	Lab 11 Homework 11

 

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Week 12 Nov 23

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: The new CSV File for Homework 11 A few words about filtering a CSV file Something different And now for something completely different... Lecture Notes Programs developed in class Wednesday: Thankgiving Break Friday: Thankgiving Break	No Lab No Homework. Just the continuation of Homework 11.	Zelle, Section 11.6 on Dictionaries.

 

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Week 13 Nov 30

Topics: Lists of lists, Inheritance	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Filtering and cleaning up text information. The data files for today can be found here. Introduction to Class Inheritance Programs developed in class Lecture Notes Wednesday Introduction to Class Inheritance Programs developed in class Lecture Notes Friday Continuation of the concept of Class Inheritance Introduction to Polymorphism Programs developed in class Lecture Notes	Lab #12 Homework 12	Chapter 11 on Lists of lists Chapter 12 in Zelle, on Objects and Inheritance

 

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Week 14 Dec 7

Topics: Recursion	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Introduction to Recursion and Recursive Functions Class exercise with a bunch of bananas. Everbybody's a minion... Finding a banana, recursively Programs developed in class Lecture Notes Wednesday A look at some of the Maps of HW 11. Visiting a Maze Fractal Trees Revisiting the Towers of Hanoi problem Programs developed in class Lecture Notes Friday No Class! A sample of wrapping paper styles...	Lab 13	Read Chapter 13 in Zelle.

 

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Week 15 Dec 14

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Last Class: Presentation of the take-home final exam, which will be due at 4:00 p.m. on the last day of exams.	Final Exam

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

• When you work in pairs during the labs, or on homework assignments, you need to follow the protocol for 'pair programming' as discussed in this article.

• Video talks on Python:
  • Guido van Rossum, and Python 3000

Maps of Smith College

This section contains various maps to be used in the Liberal Arts Module (LAM). If you want to use one of these images, and want the original, click twice on the image, until you get it by itself, full size, in your browser. Then you can either right click or control click on it to save it to your computer.

Original Map from GIS Center, Smith College

This map was generated by Emily Kim.
The original of the image below can be found here. It is huge, be careful!

Edited Full Map, Smith College, PNG format

Edited, Cropped Map, Smith College, GIF format

This image is 750 × 730 pixels.

Additional Maps from the Smith GIS lab

Thanks to Jon Caris, of the GIS Lab, for sending these maps.

(The darker trees are conifers)