CSC111 Class Page 2018

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

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

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Week 1 Jan 26

Topics: Introduction, Python, Idle, Piazza, Moodle submission	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday/Wednesday/Friday		Read Chapter 1 in Zelle (textbook) Read the article on Pair Programming

 

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Week 2 Feb 5

Topics: Chapter 2: variables, definite loops, input	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday/Wednesday/Friday		Read Chapter 2 in Zelle.

 

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Week 3 Feb. 12

Topics: Arithmetic operators, math functions, main().	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday/Wednesday/Friday		Read Chapter 3 in Zelle.

 

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Week 4 Feb. 19

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday/Wednesday/Friday	No Labs this week (Rally Day)	Read Chapter 6 in Zelle

 

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Week 5 Feb 26

Topics: Functions, Files.	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday/Wednesday/Friday		Chapter 6

 

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Week 6 March 5

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday/Wednesday/Friday

Spring Break

 

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Week 7 March 19

Topics: Processing Files	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday/Wednesday/Friday		Chapter 7 in Zelle

 

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Week 8 March 26

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
200px Monday/Wednesday/Friday		Indefinite loops are covered in Chapter 8 in Zelle.

 

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Week 9 Apr. 2

Topics: Exceptions, Classes, and Objects	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday/Wednesday/Friday		Section 7.4 in Zelle, on Exceptions Chapter 10: Defining Classes

 

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Week 10 April 9

Topics: Image Processing	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday/Wednesday/Friday

 

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Week 11 Apr 16

Topics: LAM, User Interface, Widgets, Button, digitizing and rendering a Map	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday/Wednesday/Friday

 

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Week 12 Apr 23

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday/Wednesday/Friday		Zelle, Section 11.6 on Dictionaries.

 

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Week 13 Apr 30

Topics: Lists of lists, Inheritance	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday/Wednesday/Friday		Chapter 11 on Lists of lists Chapter 12 in Zelle, on Objects and Inheritance

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)