Lecture Schedule

Tue: (Sep 4)

No Class

Thu: Introduction + Terminal (Sep 6)

• Basics of computers (CPU, memory, disks)
• Main memory vs hard disk
• What is programming?
• Terminal basics
• Course overview

Link to Slides
Terminal basics

Tue: How computers work? (Sep 11)

• Shell commands (pwd, ls, cd, etc.)
• Absolute vs relative path
• Pseudocode
• State
• Flow of execution

Shell Commands
Link to Worksheet
Due (Wed): Project 0 (ungraded)

Thu: Basics of Programming (Sep 13)

• Interpreter, editor, and IDE
• Running python
• Arithmetic operators
• Logical operators
• Values and types
• Boolean logic
• Interactive vs. script mode

Operators
Link to Notes
Read: Think Python (Chapter 1)

Tue: Variables (Sep 18)

• Operator precedence
• Assignment operator
• Variables
• Naming variables
• Bugs (errors)

Link to Notes
Read: Think Python (Chapter 2)
Homework (not graded): Homework 1
Expressions (for practice): expressions.py
Due (Wed): Project 1

Thu: Functions (Sep 20)

• Why functions?
• In-built functions (e.g., input())
• Math functions (e.g., factorial())
• Writing your own functions
• Parameters and arguments
• Return values

Notes on Functions
Link to Notes
Code Snippets: quadratic_roots.py, quadratic_roots_input.py, inbuilt_functions.py, math_functions.py, write_functions.py
Read: Think Python (Chapter 3)
Read: Creating Fruitful Functions

Tue: More Functions (Sep 25)

• Control flow during a function call
• Scope of variables in a function
• Stack diagrams(Frames)

Link to Slides
Link to Notes
Code Snippets: More Functions
Read: Think Python (Chapter 3.6 - 3.12)
Due (Wed): Project 2

Thu: Conditionals and Iteration (Sep 27)

• Simple conditionals
• Chained conditionals
• Nested conditionals
• Loops
• While loop

Code Snippets: Conditionals & Loops
Link to Notes
Link to Slides
Read: Think Python (Chapters 5.1 - 5.7, 6.1 - 6.4, and 7)

Tue: Advanced Conditionals and Loops (Oct 2)

• Multiple elifs
• Nested if-else
• More on while loop
• break statement
• continue statement
• Nested loops

Code Snippets: Advanced conditionals + Loops
Link to Notes
Read: Think Python (Chapters 5.1 - 5.7, 6.1 - 6.4, and 7)
Due (Wed): Project 3

Thu: Strings (Oct 4)

• String basics
• Indexing
• len() function
• for loop
• String methods
• Searching
• Slicing

Code Snippets: Strings
Link to Notes
MIDTERM EXAM 1
Read: Think Python (Chapter 8)

Tue: Lists (Oct 9)

• Strings Review
• Sequences
• Indexing and Slicing
• Mutable vs Immutable

Read: Think Python (Chapter 10)
Link to Notes
Code Snippets: Lists
Due (Wed): Project 4

Thu: Lists and CSV Files (Oct 11)

• List methods
• Split and Join
• CSV files

Lecture Notes: Lists and CSVs
Code Snippets: Lists+CSVs
Read: Think Python (Chapter 10) and AutomateTheBoringStuff (Chapter 14 - upto but not including Writer Objects)

Tue: Dictionaries (Oct 16)

• Syntax
• Key-Value pairs
• Lookup
• Insert
• When is a dictionary useful?

Lecture Notes: Dictionaries
Code Snippets: Dictionaries
Read: Think Python (Chapter 11.1 - 11.3)
Due (Wed): Project 5

Thu: Advanced Dictionaries (Oct 18)

• Delete a Key-Value pair
• Nesting
• dicts with lists
• Dealing with JSON

Lecture Notes: Advanced Dictionaries
Lecture Slides: Table representation
Code Snippets: Advanced Dictionaries
Read: Think Python (Chapter 11.5 and 11.7) and AutomateTheBoringStuff (from "JSON and APIs" until "Writing JSON with the dumps() Function" (included))

Tue: JSON, Tuples, and Objects (Oct 23)

• Binning
• Deserialization
• Serialization
• Pretty Printing
• Tuples
• Intro to References

Lecture Notes: JSON & Tuples
Lecture Slides: JSON and Tuples
Code Snippets: JSON & Tuples
Read: Think Python Chapter 10 ("Objects and Values" and "Aliasing") and Ch 12
Due (Wed): Project 6

Thu: Objects, References, and Copying (Oct 25)

• Objects
• References
• Shallow Copy
• Deep Copy

Read: AutomateTheBoringStuff Chapter 4 ("References" through the end)
Code Snippets: Objects, References, Copying
Lecture Notes: Objects, References, Copying

Tue: Recursion (Oct 30)

• Base/Resursive Cases
• Lists of Lists
• More Stack Diagrams
• Stack Overflow

Code Snippets: Recursion
Lecture Notes: Recursion
Read: ThinkPython Ch 5 ("Recursion" through "Infinite Recursion"), Ch 6 ("More Recursion" through end)
Due (Wed): Project 7

Thu: Advanced functions (Nov 1)

• Iterators and generators
• References to functions

Read: Advanced Functions
Code Snippets: Adv funcs
Lecture Notes: Advanced Functions

Tue: Exceptions and Files (Nov 6)

• Handling exceptions
• Reading and writing files

Read: AutomateTheBoringStuff Ch 10 (beginning through "Assertions") and ThinkPython Ch 14
Lecture Slides: Exceptions and Files
Lecture Notes: Exceptions and Files
Code Snippets: Exceptions and Files

Thu: Pandas (Nov 8)

• iPython notebooks
• series
• element-wise operations

Reading: CS 301 Notes (Notebook)
Lecture Notes: Pandas
Ipython Notebook: Lecture19.html
MIDTERM EXAM 2

Tue: More pandas (Nov 13)

• Data Frames
• Reading CSVs
• Processing CSVs in Pandas

Ipython Notebook: Lecture20.html
Due (Wed): Project 8

Thu: Web (Nov 15)

• Servers/Clients
• URLs
• HTTP: GET and POST
• requests module
• Intro to HTML
• Generating HTML

Lecture Slides: Requests
Read: Sweigart Ch 11

Tue: More Web (Nov 20)

• Intro to HTML
• Generating HTML

Lecture Slides: HTML
Due (Wed): Project 9

Thu: ThanksGiving Break (Nov 22)

NO CLASS - Happy Thanksgiving! :)

Tue: Databases (Nov 27)

• tables
• SQLite
• queries
• where
• order by
• limit

Lecture Slides: Databases
Bus database:bus.db

Thu: More Databases (Nov 29)

• Querying from Python
• Querying from Pandas
• aggregates
• group by
• having

Lecture Slides: Advanced Databases
Movies database:movies.db

Tue: Plotting (Dec 4)

• pie charts
• scatter plots
• plot design

Reading: Pie chart and scatter plots (Notebook)

Thu: More Plotting (Dec 6)

• Axes subplot
• line plots
• bar plots

Reading: Line and bar graphs (Notebook)
Fire Hydrants CSV:Fire_Hydrants.csv

Tue: Advanced Plotting (Dec 11)

• axes
• adjacent plots
• design decisions

Reading: Axes (Notebook)
Due (Wed): Project 10 (Final Project)