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Revision as of 08:54, 28 January 2015
--D. Thiebaut (talk) 15:00, 13 January 2015 (EST)
| Week 1 Jan 26 |
Topics: Introduction, Python, Idle, Piazza, Moodle submission Lab/Hw Reading - Monday
- Syllabus
- Introduction to CSC111
- Lecture notes
- 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.
- 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
- Lab #1 Prep.
- Lab #1
- Homework #1, due 2/3/15 at 11:55 p.m.
- Read Chapter 1 in Zelle (textbook)
- Monday
| Week 2 Feb 2 |
Topics: Lab/Hw Reading - Homework
- Lab
| Week 3 Feb 9 |
Topics: Lab/Hw Reading - Homework
- Lab
| Week 4 Feb 16 |
Topics: Lab/Hw Reading - Wednesday: Rally Day, no class, no labs.
- Homework
- No Labs this week
| Week 5 Feb 23 |
Topics: Lab/Hw Reading - Homework
- Lab
| Week 6 Mar 2 |
Topics: Lab/Hw Reading - Homework
- Lab
| Week 7 Mar 9 |
Topics: Lab/Hw Reading - Homework
- Lab
| Week 8 Mar 16 |
Topics: Lab/Hw Reading - SPRING BREAK
| Week 9 Mar 23 |
Topics: Lab/Hw Reading - Homework
- Lab
| Week 10 Mar 30 |
Topics: Lab/Hw Reading - Homework
- Lab
| Week 11 Apr 6 |
Topics: Lab/Hw Reading - Homework
- Lab
| Week 12 Apr 13 |
Topics: Lab/Hw Reading - Homework
- Lab
| Week 13 Apr 20 |
Topics: Lab/Hw Reading - Homework
- Lab
| Week 14 Apr 27 |
Topics: Lab/Hw Reading - Homework
- Lab
Links_and_Resources
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 homework assignments, you need to follow the protocol for 'pair programming' as discussed in this article.
- Video talks on Python:
- a video of digital horses: what we can do with lists of objects!
