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<center>[[CSC111 2018 | Main Page]] | [[CSC111_Syllabus_2018 | Syllabus ]] | [[CSC111_Class_Page_2018 | Weekly Schedule ]] | [[CSC111_Class_Page_2018#Links_and_Resources | Links & Resources ]] |[https://piazza.com/smith/fall2018/csc111/home Piazza]</center>
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<center>[[CSC111 2018 | Main Page]] | [[CSC111_Syllabus_2018 | Syllabus ]] | [[CSC111_Class_Page_2018 | Weekly Schedule ]] | [[CSC111_Class_Page_2018#Links_and_Resources | Links & Resources ]] |[https://piazza.com/smith/spring2018/csc111/home Piazza] | [http://www.science.smith.edu/classwiki/index.php/Computer_Science_TA_hours TA Hours] </center>
 
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[[CSC111_Final_Exam_2018 | Final Exam]]
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::* [[Media:CSC111_2018_Week1.pdf | slides]]
 
::* [[Media:CSC111_2018_Week1.pdf | slides]]
 
* '''Friday'''
 
* '''Friday'''
 +
::* The programming ''process''
 +
::* Variables and ''literals''
 +
::* Memory: ''what does it look like?''
 +
::* ''Overloaded'' operators
 +
::* Using the shell for quick testing
 +
::* Definite Loops (<font color="orange">for</font> ... <font color="orange">in</font> sequence: )
 +
::* Python documentation
 +
::* The ''range()'' function
 +
::* [[Media:CSC111_2018_Week1.pdf | slides]]
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* [[CSC111_Lab_1_2018 | Lab 1]]
 
* [[CSC111_Lab_1_2018 | Lab 1]]
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|width="60%"| '''Topics''':  Chapter 2: variables, definite loops, input
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|width="60%"| '''Topics''':  Chapter 2: variables, definite loops, input, the range function
 
|width="15%"| '''Lab/Hw'''
 
|width="15%"| '''Lab/Hw'''
 
|width="25%"| '''Reading'''  
 
|width="25%"| '''Reading'''  
 
|-valign="top"
 
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* '''Monday/Wednesday/Friday'''
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* '''Monday'''
 +
::* ''Counted'' loops and the ''range()'' expression
 +
::* Getting data from the user using the ''input()'' function
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::* Using ''eval()'' for numbers obrained from the keyboard
 +
::* Using the on-line [https://docs.python.org/3/ Python documentation]
 +
::* [[Media:CSC111_2018_Week2.pdf | Slides ]]
 +
::* [[CSC111 Programs Created in Class 2018| Programs created in class]]
 +
* '''Wednesday''': Snow day!
 +
[[Image:CalvinSnowDay.gif|center|500px]]
 +
* '''Friday'''
 +
::* A word from Faith
 +
::* Understanding eval( input() )
 +
::* Exercise 1
 +
::* Exercise 2
 +
::* [[CSC111 Programs Created in Class 2018| Programs created in class]]
 +
::* [[Media:CSC111_2018_Week2.pdf | Slides ]]
 
|
 
|
*
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* [[CSC111 Lab 2 2018| Lab 2]]
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* [[CSC111 Homework 2 2018 | Homework 2]]
 
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* Read Chapter 2 in Zelle.
 
* Read Chapter 2 in Zelle.
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::{| class="mw-collapsible " style="width:100%" border="1"
 
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|width="60%"| '''Topics''': Arithmetic operators, math functions, main().
 
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* '''Monday/Wednesday/Friday'''
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* '''Monday'''
 
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:* 4 minutes from Grier's video: When computers were human.  Start at time=28m12s.
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<br />
 +
<videoflash>YwqltwvPnkw</videoflash>
 +
<br />
 +
[[Image:WomenCalculatingWWII.jpg|right|150px]]
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::* Operators: * / + - ** // % abs()
 +
::* The <tt>type()</tt> function
 +
::* Writing a cash-machine[[CSC111 Teller Machine Program | program]]
 +
::* Formatting numbers (see Section 5.8.2 in Zelle), and [[CSC111 Formatting String Example | example program]]
 +
* '''Wednesday'''
 +
::* Formatting strings, ints and floats
 +
::* Using a main() function
 +
::* Accumulating results
 +
::* [[CSC111_Programs_Created_in_Class_2018 | Programs created in class]]
 +
* '''Friday'''
 +
::* Logistics
 +
::* Accumulating Results
 +
::* What are bits?
 +
::* [[Media:CSC111_2018_Week3.pdf | Slides ]]
 
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*
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* [[CSC111_Lab_3_2018 | Lab 3]]
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* [[CSC111_Homework_3_2018 | Homework 3]]
 
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* Read Chapter 3 in Zelle.  
 
* Read Chapter 3 in Zelle.  
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|width="60%"| '''Topics''': Strings, Lists, and Files
 
|width="15%"| '''Lab/Hw'''
 
|width="15%"| '''Lab/Hw'''
 
|width="25%"| '''Reading'''  
 
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|-valign="top"
 
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* '''Monday/Wednesday/Friday'''
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* '''Monday'''
 +
::* Strings, indexing
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::* positive and negative indexes
 +
::* lists, indexing lists
 +
::* string sections
 +
::* Concept of mutability and immutability
 +
* '''Wednesday'''
 +
::* We have class on Wednesday, but the afternoon labs are cancelled
 +
::* [[Midterm Prep 2018| Typical midterm exam questions]]
 +
::* slicing lists and strings
 +
::* the concepts of mutable and immutable lists/strings
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::* strings as objects
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::* [https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=upper#string-methods  String methods on Python.org]
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::* [[media:CSC111_2018_Week4.pdf | slides]]
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* '''Friday'''
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::* String methods
 +
::* [https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=upper#string-methods  String methods on Python.org]
 +
::* Working with text files
 +
::* [[media:CSC111_2018_Week4.pdf | slides]]
 +
::* [[CSC111 Programs Created in Class 2018| Programs created in class]]
 
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* <font color="magenta">No Labs this week (Rally Day)</font>
 
* <font color="magenta">No Labs this week (Rally Day)</font>
 +
* [[CSC111_Prep-Lab_4_2018| ''Optional'' Homework Prep]]
 +
* [[CSC111_Homework_4_2018| Homework 4]]
 
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* Read Chapter 6 in Zelle
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* Read Chapter 5 in Zelle
 
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* '''Monday/Wednesday/Friday'''
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* [[Image:DaveMinion.png|right|100px]] '''Monday'''
 +
::* [[CreateTextFile.py | CreateTextFile.py]]: a program to create simple text files
 +
::* Functions & minions
 +
::* [[CSC111 Programs Created in Class 2018| Programs created in class]]
 +
::* [[media:CSC111_2018_Week5.pdf | slides]]
 +
 
 +
* '''Wednesday'''
 +
::* Review. 
 +
::* A note about complex 1-liners versus multi-line statements: use whatever feels comfortable!
 +
::* Functions returning values
 +
::* Examples, and exercises
 +
* '''Friday'''
 +
::* Function Boot Camp!
 +
::* [[CSC111 Programs Created in Class 2018| Programs created in class]]
 +
::* [[media:CSC111_2018_Week5.pdf | slides]]
 
|
 
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*
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* [[CSC111_Lab_5_2018 | Lab 5 ]]
 +
* [[CSC111_Homework_5_2018 | Homework 5]], due the Thursday after spring break.
 
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* Chapter 6
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* Chapter 6: Defining Functions
 
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* '''Monday'''
 
* '''Monday'''
* '''Wednesday''': <font color="magenta">Midterm Exam</font>
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::* [[CSC111_Mid-Semester_Review_2018 |Review]]
 +
:::* <font color="green">"...{x:y}..."</font>.format( )
 +
:::* indexing in a list
 +
:::* how range() works
 +
:::* functions receiving parameters, &amp; returning values
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* '''Wednesday''': <font color="magenta">Midterm Exam</font>, in class, timed, on Moodle, closed notes, closed books, closed Idle.
 
* '''Friday'''
 
* '''Friday'''
 +
::* The concept of a Python library
 +
::* Comparing Python to Java
 +
::* Understanding the  [http://eightqueen.becher-sundstroem.de/ N-Queens problem]
 +
::* [[NQueens.py | Solving the N-Queens problem in Python]]
 +
::* [[N-Queens_Problem_in_Java | Solving the N-Queens problem in Java]]
 +
::* [[CSC111 Programs Created in Class 2018| Programs created in class]]
 +
::* [[CSC111_And_now,_something_completely_different|And now, for something completely different...]]
 +
::* [[media:CSC111_2018_Week6.pdf | slides]]
 
|
 
|
*
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* [[CSC111_Lab_6_2018| Lab 6]]
 +
* No new homework.  Homework 5 due after the break.
 
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*  
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* No new reading assignment this week. 
 
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Spring Break
 
Spring Break
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|width="60%"| '''Topics''': Processing Files, Graphics, If Statements
 
|width="15%"| '''Lab/Hw'''
 
|width="15%"| '''Lab/Hw'''
 
|width="25%"| '''Reading'''  
 
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* '''Monday/Wednesday/Friday'''
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* '''Monday
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::* Back to reading files
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::* Writing text files
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::* Graphics
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::* If statements.  Relational operators
 +
* '''Wednesday'''
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::* More graphics, with points, rectangles, circles, text
 +
::* Basics of animation
 +
::* Testing for conditions: the IF statement
 +
* '''Friday'''
 +
::* The If statements (Chapter 7)
 +
::* Examples
 +
::* [[CSC111_Exercises_with_If_Statements_(Python_3)| Exercises with If statements]]
 +
::* Rock, Paper, Scissors
 +
::* [[media:CSC111_2018_Week7.pdf | slides]]
 +
::* [[CSC111 Programs Created in Class 2018| Programs created in class]]
 
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*
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* [[CSC111_Lab_7_2018| Lab 7]]
 +
* [[CSC111_Homework_6_2018| Homework 6 (due 3/30)]]
 
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* Chapter 7 in Zelle
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* Graphics are covered in Chapter 4
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* If statements are covered in Chapter 7 in Zelle
 
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* '''Monday/Wednesday/Friday'''
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* '''Monday'''
 +
::* Boolean Operators (Chapter 8, Section 4)
 +
::* Organization of Graphic Program
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::* Dealing with Obstacles
 +
* '''Wednesday'''
 +
::* Eliza
 +
::* Indefinite loops: while loops
 +
* '''Friday'''
 +
::* Indefinite Loops (Chapter 8)
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:::* Review for-loops
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:::* Nested for-loops
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:::* Break &amp; Continue
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::* [[media:CSC111_2018_Week8.pdf | slides]]
 +
::* [[CSC111_Programs_Created_in_Class_2018| Programs created in class]]
 
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*
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* [[CSC111_Lab_8_2018| Lab 8]]
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* [[CSC111_Homework_7_2018| Homework 7]]
 
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* Indefinite loops are covered in Chapter 8 in Zelle.
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* Indefinite Loops and boolean operators are covered in Chapter 8.
 
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* '''Monday/Wednesday/Friday'''
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* '''Monday'''
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::* Exceptions
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::* Programming with Objects and Classes
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* '''Wednesday'''
 +
::* Continue with classes
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:::* Min/Max of tuples
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:::* Die class
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:::* Cat class
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:::* Global vs local
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* '''Friday'''
 +
::* Creating a graphic class for a car
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::* [[media:CSC111_2018_Week9.pdf | slides]]
 +
::* [[CSC111_Programs_Created_in_Class_2018| Programs created in class]]
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*
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* [[CSC111_Lab_9_2018 | Lab 9]]
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* [[CSC111_Homework_8_2018 | Homework 8]]
 
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* Section 7.4 in Zelle, on Exceptions
 
* Section 7.4 in Zelle, on Exceptions
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* '''Monday/Wednesday/Friday'''
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[[File:CatGlasses.gif|right|150px]][[File:flowersSmith.gif|right|150px]][[File:catHat.gif|right|150px]]
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* '''Monday'''
 +
::* Image Processing
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::* Nested for-loops for image processing
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::* Displaying gif images
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::* Sweep through an image: vertical sweep, horizontal sweep
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::* Changing the color of a pixel
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::* Changing the color of all the pixels of an image
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::* Grey scales
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::* Saturation
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* '''Wednesday'''
 +
[[Image:piece.gif|right]][[Image:piece2.gif|right]]
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::* More Image transformations
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:::* Copy an image
 +
:::* Mirror an image
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::* Displaying a chessboard
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::* Setting up a game of checkers
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<center><videoflash>KpMPHhzZzH4</videoflash></center>
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* '''Friday'''
 +
::* Continue with the game of checkers
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:::* Using objects made of 2 circles
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:::* Using a gif image for a piece
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:::* Moving checkers on the board
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:::* Removing checkers from the board
 +
:::* Adding a Quit button to the game
 +
::* Lists of Lists (Chapter 11)
 +
:::* Sorting
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:::* Reversing
 +
:::* Removing duplicates
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::* Sorting lists of objects (lists of cats)
 +
::* Filtering data
 +
::* [[CSC111 Programs Created in Class 2018| Programs created in class]]
 +
::* [[media:CSC111_2018_Week10.pdf | slides]]
 
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*  
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* [[CSC111_Lab_10_2018 | Lab 10]]
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* [[CSC111_Homework_9_2018 | Homework 9]]
 
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*  
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* Chapter 11, Designing with Lists and Classes
 
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|width="60%"| '''Topics''': Class inheritance
 
|width="15%"| '''Lab/Hw'''
 
|width="15%"| '''Lab/Hw'''
 
|width="25%"| '''Reading'''  
 
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|-valign="top"
 
|-valign="top"
 
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* '''Monday/Wednesday/Friday'''
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* '''Monday'''
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::* Lists of Lists
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::* [[CSC111 Programs Created in Class 2018| Programs created in class]]
 +
::* [[media:CSC111_2018_Week11.pdf | slides]]
 +
* '''Wednesday'''
 +
::* Class Inheritance
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::* Example 1: Super class = GenericCar, derived classes = Taxi, CarWithTop
 +
;:* Example 2: Super class = Rectangle, derived class = RectLabel
 +
::* [[CSC111 Programs Created in Class 2018| Programs created in class]]
 +
::* [[media:CSC111_2018_Week11.pdf | slides]]
 +
* '''Friday'''
 +
[[File:JoeOrourkeQuantumComputing111.png|150px|right|link=https://www.facebook.com/264041891883/photos/a.267301956883.154614.264041891883/10155418103811884/?type=3&theater]]
 +
::* Guest lecture by Prof. Joseph O'Rourke on ''Quantum Computing''
 +
 
 
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*
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* [[CSC111_Lab_11_2018 | Lab 11]]
 +
* [[CSC111_Homework_10_2018 | Homework 10]]
 
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*  
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* Chapter 11 on Lists of lists
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* Chapter 12 in Zelle, on Objects and Inheritance
 
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|width="60%"| '''Topics''': Polymorphism, Dictionaries, and Recursion
 
|width="15%"| '''Lab/Hw'''
 
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* '''Monday/Wednesday/Friday'''
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[[File:WarppingPaper11.png|150px|right|link=http://www.science.smith.edu/dftwiki/index.php/Nice_Wrapping_Paper...]]
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* '''Monday'''
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::* [[Nice_Wrapping_Paper... | Wrapping paper...]]
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::* Polymorphism
 +
::* Dictionaries
 +
::* Recursion
 +
* '''Wednesday'''
 +
::* Dictionaries (cont'd)
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::* Recursion
 +
* '''Friday'''
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::* More recursion!
 +
::* A look at how recursion uses memory
 +
::* Back to minions and processing lists of bananas
 +
::* [[CSC111 Programs Created in Class 2018| Programs created in class]]
 +
::* [[media:CSC111_2018_Week12.pdf | slides]]
 
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*  
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* [[CSC111_Lab_12_2018 | Lab 12]]
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* [[CSC111_Homework_11_2018 | Homework 11]]
 
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* Zelle, Section 11.6 on Dictionaries.
 
* Zelle, Section 11.6 on Dictionaries.
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* Zelle, Chapter 13 on Recursion
 
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* '''Monday'''
 
* '''Monday'''
* '''Wednesday''': <font color="magenta">Final Take-Home Exam</font>
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[[File:maze.png|right|150px]]
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::* Visiting a maze
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::* Fractal trees
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::* [[CSC111_Programs_Created_in_Class_2018 | Programs created in class]]
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* '''Wednesday''': <font color="magenta">Final 1-week take-home exam</font>
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::* Towers of Hanoi
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::* [[CSC111_Programs_Created_in_Class_2018 | Programs created in class]]
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::* [[CSC111_Final_Exam_2018|Final Exam]]
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::* [[media:CSC111_2018_Week13.pdf | slides]]
 
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* <font color="magenta">No labs this week</font>
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* [[CSC111_Final_Exam_2018|Final Exam]]
 
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* Chapter 13 on Recursion
* Chapter 12 in Zelle, on Objects and Inheritance
 
 
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Latest revision as of 09:10, 3 May 2018

D. Thiebaut (talk) 12:58, 16 January 2018 (EST)



Main Page | Syllabus | Weekly Schedule | Links & Resources |Piazza | TA Hours





Final Exam



 


Week 0 Jan 26    


Topics: Overview of CSC111 Lab/Hw Reading
  • Friday
  • No homework assignment this week



 


Week 1 Jan 29    


Topics: Introduction, Python, Idle, Piazza, Moodle submission Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday
  • Wednesday
  • Friday
  • The programming process
  • Variables and literals
  • Memory: what does it look like?
  • Overloaded operators
  • Using the shell for quick testing
  • Definite Loops (for ... in sequence: )
  • Python documentation
  • The range() function
  • slides




 


Week 2 Feb 5    


Topics: Chapter 2: variables, definite loops, input, the range function Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday
  • Wednesday: Snow day!
CalvinSnowDay.gif
  • Friday
  • Read Chapter 2 in Zelle.




 


Week 3 Feb. 12    


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



WomenCalculatingWWII.jpg
  • Operators: * / + - ** // % abs()
  • The type() function
  • Writing a cash-machine program
  • Formatting numbers (see Section 5.8.2 in Zelle), and example program
  • Wednesday
  • Friday
  • Logistics
  • Accumulating Results
  • What are bits?
  • Slides
  • Read Chapter 3 in Zelle.




 


Week 4 Feb. 19    


Topics: Strings, Lists, and Files Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday
  • Strings, indexing
  • positive and negative indexes
  • lists, indexing lists
  • string sections
  • Concept of mutability and immutability
  • Wednesday
  • Friday
  • Read Chapter 5 in Zelle




 


Week 5 Feb 26    


Topics: Functions, Files. Lab/Hw Reading
  • DaveMinion.png
    Monday
  • Wednesday
  • Review.
  • A note about complex 1-liners versus multi-line statements: use whatever feels comfortable!
  • Functions returning values
  • Examples, and exercises
  • Friday
  • Chapter 6: Defining Functions




 


Week 6 March 5    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday
  • "...{x:y}...".format( )
  • indexing in a list
  • how range() works
  • functions receiving parameters, & returning values
  • Wednesday: Midterm Exam, in class, timed, on Moodle, closed notes, closed books, closed Idle.
  • Friday
  • Lab 6
  • No new homework. Homework 5 due after the break.
  • No new reading assignment this week.



Spring Break



 


Week 7 March 19    


Topics: Processing Files, Graphics, If Statements Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday
  • Back to reading files
  • Writing text files
  • Graphics
  • If statements. Relational operators
  • Wednesday
  • More graphics, with points, rectangles, circles, text
  • Basics of animation
  • Testing for conditions: the IF statement
  • Friday
  • Graphics are covered in Chapter 4
  • If statements are covered in Chapter 7 in Zelle




 


Week 8 March 26    


Topics: If-Statements, Eliza Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday
  • Boolean Operators (Chapter 8, Section 4)
  • Organization of Graphic Program
  • Dealing with Obstacles
  • Wednesday
  • Eliza
  • Indefinite loops: while loops
  • Friday
  • Indefinite Loops (Chapter 8)
  • Review for-loops
  • Nested for-loops
  • Break & Continue
  • Indefinite Loops and boolean operators are covered in Chapter 8.




 


Week 9 Apr. 2    


Topics: Exceptions, Classes, and Objects Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday
  • Exceptions
  • Programming with Objects and Classes
  • Wednesday
  • Continue with classes
  • Min/Max of tuples
  • Die class
  • Cat class
  • Global vs local
  • Friday
  • Section 7.4 in Zelle, on Exceptions
  • Chapter 10: Defining Classes




 


Week 10 April 9    


Topics: Image Processing Lab/Hw Reading
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  • Monday
  • Image Processing
  • Nested for-loops for 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
  • Wednesday
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Piece2.gif
  • More Image transformations
  • Copy an image
  • Mirror an image
  • Displaying a chessboard
  • Setting up a game of checkers
  • Friday
  • Continue with the game of checkers
  • Using objects made of 2 circles
  • Using a gif image for a piece
  • Moving checkers on the board
  • Removing checkers from the board
  • Adding a Quit button to the game
  • Lists of Lists (Chapter 11)
  • Sorting
  • Reversing
  • Removing duplicates
  • Chapter 11, Designing with Lists and Classes




 


Week 11 Apr 16    


Topics: Class inheritance Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday
  • Wednesday
  • Class Inheritance
  • Example 1: Super class = GenericCar, derived classes = Taxi, CarWithTop
  • Example 2: Super class = Rectangle, derived class = RectLabel
  • Programs created in class
  • slides
  • Friday
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  • Guest lecture by Prof. Joseph O'Rourke on Quantum Computing
  • Chapter 11 on Lists of lists
  • Chapter 12 in Zelle, on Objects and Inheritance




 


Week 12 Apr 23    


Topics: Polymorphism, Dictionaries, and Recursion Lab/Hw Reading
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  • Monday
  • Wednesday
  • Dictionaries (cont'd)
  • Recursion
  • Friday
  • Zelle, Section 11.6 on Dictionaries.
  • Zelle, Chapter 13 on Recursion




 


Week 13 Apr 30    


Topics: Advanced Topics: recursion Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday
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  • Wednesday: Final 1-week take-home exam
  • Chapter 13 on Recursion











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.

Fun Programming Ideas to Explore on Your Own


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