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Week 1 Sept 7    


Topics: Introduction, Python, Idle, Piazza, Moodle submission Lab/Hw Reading
  • Friday
    • Review of the lab
    • Variables
    • assignment,
    • variable names
    • camelCase notation
    • Exercises
    • Lecture Notes




 

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
  • Friday
  • Numbers of the day:
  • Read Chapter 2 in Zelle.




 

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.



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Women at work tabulating during World War II (Shorpy)

  • 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
  • Lab 3
  • Homework 3
  • Solution programs can be found at the end of the lab and homework pages
  • Read Chapter 3 in Zelle.




 

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!
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  • Wednesday
  • Friday
  • Lab 4
  • Homework 4
  • Solution programs can be found at the end of the lab and homework pages
  • Read Chapter 6 in Zelle




 

Week 5 Oct 5    


Topics: Functions, Files. Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday:
  • Wednesday
  • Mountain Day?
  • Friday

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  • We are still working with material from Chapter 6.




 

Week 6 Oct. 12    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday: Fall Break
  • Wednesday
  • Friday: Midterm Exam




 

Week 7 Oct 19    


Topics: Processing Files Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday:
  • Finish Dynamic Web Page example
  • The IF statement
  • Boolean values: True and False
  • Wednesday
  • Boolean operators: and, or, and not
  • Graphics
  • Friday
  • Graphic objects: everything is an object!
  • Measuring distances between points on the graphic window.
  • Something fun: Eliza

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Week 8 Oct. 26    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
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  • Monday:
  • Review if statements and Boolean variables
  • Exercises on boolean variables and boolean functions
  1. is there a negative number in a list of numbers?
  2. count the number of negative numbers in a list of numbers



  • 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)

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  • Indefinite loops are covered in Chapter 8 in Zelle.




 

Week 9 Nov. 2    


Topics: Exceptions, Classes, and Objects Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday:
  • Wednesday
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  • 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



  • Friday
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  • 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).




 

Week 10 Nov 9    


Topics: Image Processing Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday:
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  • 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
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  • Friday
  • No class today (conference in Seattle), but there is a video lecture to watch on your own... Stay tuned!
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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
  • Friday
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Week 12 Nov 23    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday:
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  • Wednesday: Thankgiving Break
  • Friday: Thankgiving Break
  • No Lab
  • No Homework. Just the continuation of Homework 11.
  • Zelle, Section 11.6 on Dictionaries.




 

Week 13 Nov 30    


Topics: Lists of lists, Inheritance Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday:
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  • Wednesday




  • Friday
  • Chapter 11 on Lists of lists
  • Chapter 12 in Zelle, on Objects and Inheritance




 

Week 14 Dec 7    


Topics: Recursion Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday:
  • Wednesday
  • Friday
  • Lab




 

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.


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!
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Edited Full Map, Smith College, PNG format


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Edited, Cropped Map, Smith College, GIF format


This image is 750 × 730 pixels.
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Additional Maps from the Smith GIS lab


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

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SmithMapBuildingsTrees.jpg


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(The darker trees are conifers)


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