CSC111 Class Page 2015

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 15:00, 13 January 2015 (EST)

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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.	Lecture notes Read Chapter 1 in Zelle (textbook)

 

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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 Friday Julia Edwards and Marina Cheng, on Smithies in CS. Their presentation is available here. eval(input( "Enter number" ) ) vs input(eval( "Enter number" )) Programming Examples (see lecture notes) Lecture notes	Lab #2 Homework #2, due 2/10 at 11:55 p.m.	Read Chapter 2 in Zelle.

 

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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. 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 Accumulating results: summing up numbers, computing the factorial of a number. Programs developed in class Friday 2/13 Review of Lab 3 Introduction to Homework 3 What are bits? Lecture notes Additional lecture notes (Friday)	Lab #3 Homework #3	Chapter 3 in Zelle. Lecture notes Additional lecture notes (Friday) This section is only visible to computers located at Smith College You may find this paper more appropriate as an introduction to the field, or this one, as well.

 

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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	Homework #4 No Labs this week (because of Rally Day), but there is a Preparation page for the Homework (think of it as a lab to do on your own, and solution programs will be available).	Chapter 5 in Zelle.

 

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Week 5 Feb 23

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: 2/23 Files (End of Chapter 5) Functions (Chapter 6) Passing parameters to functions An example of a Python Utility with Functions Lecture notes Wednesday:2/25 Passing parameters to functions Functions returning values Programs developed in class 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	Lab #5, due 2/27 at 11:00 a.m. Homework #5, due 3/3 at 11:55 p.m.	Chapter 6 in Zelle: Functions

 

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Week 6 Mar 2

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday 3/2 Boolean operators: < <= > >= != == The if statement if / if else Making decisions in Python Teller machine program ready for if-statements Exercises Lecture notes Wednesday 3/4 Practicing with functions Continuation of if-statements Lecture notes Programs developed in class Friday 3/6 Continuation of if-statements: Boolean Operators On the Turing Test and Eliza Lecture notes and addition.	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.

 

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Week 7 Mar 9

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday 3/9 While Loops Graphics Programming Examples (see lecture notes) Lecture notes Wednesday 3/11 In Class Midterm (closed books, closed computers) Friday 3/13 Loops, Graphics, and more... and now, something completely different... Lecture notes	Lab #7 and accompanying submission page. No Homework 7 this week.	Indefinite loops are covered in Chapter 8. Graphics is covered in Chapter 4.

 

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Week 8 Mar 16

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
SPRING BREAK If you get bored and want to do some programming in Python

 

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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 Playing the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors Program developed in class Lecture notes Friday: 3/27 Review Lab 8 Man in Hole stories. An introduction by Kurt Vonnegut Gutenberg eBook Project Man in Hole article, Paris Review of Books, Feb. 2015 Only 6 book plots article, in Motherboard.vice.com. programs Lecture notes FYI: R Package from Matthew Jockers Matthew Jockers at U. Nebraska Looking for words is massive amounts of text: MIT Technology Review shows how data mining of twitter feed can reveal information about personal transformation.	Lab #8 Homework #8 Midterm solutions	We're reviewing Chapter 8 in Zelle this week.

 

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Week 9 Mar 30

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
	Homework Lab

 

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Week 10 Apr 6

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday 4/6 Wednesday 4/8 Friday 4/10 Guest lecture: Helene Visentin, French literature. Mapping Paris.	Homework Lab

 

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Week 11 Apr 13

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday 4/13 Wednesday 4/15 Friday 4/17: Guest lecture?	Homework Lab

 

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Week 12 Apr 20

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
	Homework Lab

 

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Week 13 Apr 27

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday 4/27 Guest Lecture: Prof. Dana Leibsohn, Art Dept. Wednesday 4/29 Friday 5/1	Homework Lab

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 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

• • a video of digital horses: what we can do with lists of objects!