| Week |
Dates |
Handouts / Notes / Addenda / Etc. |
Week
#1 |
Mon 23-Aug
to
Fri 27-Aug |
None
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Week
#2 | Mon 30-Aug
to
Fri 3-Sep | Solutions to Hw1
Getting Started with Python
Data and Expressions
Writing Functions
Writing Functions: Annotated Examples
The Shape of Div and Mod
Recitation 2: Practice Writing Functions |
Week
#3 | Mon 6-Sep
to
Fri 10-Sep | Mon 6-Sep: Labor Day (No Classes)
Solutions to Quiz1 and Hw2
Conditionals
Getting Started with While Loops
Recitation 3: Practice using "while" Loops
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Week
#4 | Mon 13-Sep
to
Fri 17-Sep | Solutions to Quiz2 and Hw3
"for" Loops and Infinite Loops
Week 4's Design Topics
Getting Started with Graphics (Tkinter)
Recitation 4: Practice using "for" Loops and Graphics Helper Functions
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Week
#5 | Mon 20-Sep
to
Fri 24-Sep | Solutions to Quiz3 and Hw4
Recursion (part 1)
Recitation 5: Practice using Recursion
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Week
#6 | Mon 27-Sep
to
Fri 1-Oct | Solutions to Quiz4 and Hw5
The Perils of Inventing Syntax: (day == 1 or 7)
The "Thin White Line" Problem
Midterm Practice
Midterm #1 (Wed 29-Sep, 7pm to 8:30pm)
Case Study (Using Lists): blackjack.py
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Week
#7 | Mon 4-Oct
to
Fri 8-Oct | One-Dimensional Lists
Two-Dimensional Lists
Recitation 7: Practice using Lists
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Week
#8 | Mon 11-Oct
to
Fri 15-Oct | Dictionaries
Events and Animations
Fri 15-Oct: Mid-Semester Break (No Classes)
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Week
#9 | Mon 18-Oct
to
Fri 22-Oct | More Events and Animations: The Snake Tutorial
Recitation 9: Practice Writing Arcade Games with Events and Animations
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| Week #10 | Mon 25-Oct
to
Fri 29-Oct | Style
Testing and Debugging
Monte Carlo Methods
Optional Excursion: Finding Pi
Recitation 10: Practice with Monte Carlo Methods
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Week
#11 | Mon 1-Nov
to
Fri 5-Nov | File and Web Scraping and saveList.py
Introduction to Data Analysis
Optional Excursion: oddOne.py
Data Analysis: K-Means Clustering
Recitation 11: Practice with File IO and Data Analysis
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Week
#12 | Mon 8-Nov
to
Fri 12-Nov | Midterm Review (Case Study: Minesweeper)
Midterm #2 (Wed 10-Nov, 7pm to 8:30pm)
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Week
#13 | Mon 15-Nov
to
Fri 19-Nov | Optional Excursion: Circuits and Logic (Computing Arithmetic with Logic Gates)
Optional Topics: More GUI, events+animations, modules, structs, calsses, sounds,... |
Week
#14 | Mon 22-Nov
to
Fri 26-Nov | Optional Topics (cont): More GUI, events+animations, modules, structs, calsses, sounds,...
Wed 24-Nov to Fri 26-Nov: Thanksgiving Holiday (No Classes)
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Week
#15 | Mon 29-Nov
to
Fri 3 Dec | Optional Topics (cont): More GUI, events+animations, modules, structs, calsses, sounds,...
py2exe Tutorial
Term Project Presentations |
| --- | Mon 6-Dec
to
Fri 10-Dec | Final Exam Review
Final Exam (Fri 10-Dec, 1pm to 4pm) |