Lecture Schedule

Mon: (Jan 21)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!
No Class

Wed: Introduction (Jan 23)

• Class Overview
• Hardware
• Software
• Resources for getting help

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Watch: How to Setup Python
Read: Syllabus

Fri: The Terminal (Jan 25)

• Terminal Emulatation
• Shells
• Navigation
• Program Execution

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Mon: Pseudocode (Jan 28)

• Flow of Execution
• State

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No Slides

Wed: Programming (Jan 30)

• Syntax+Parsing
• Values+Types
• Calculation+Operators
• Boolean Logic
• Interactive vs. Script Mode, print

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Read: Downey Ch 1
Due: P1

Fri: Vars and Exprs (Feb 1)

• Naming Rules
• Assignment
• Types of errors
• Comments

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Read: Downey Ch 2

Mon: Using Functions (Feb 4)

• Functions
• input, str funcs, float funcs
• Arguments, Return Values
• Importing Modules
• Math Module

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Read: Downey Ch 3 ("Function Calls" to "Composition")

Wed: Creating Functions (Feb 6)

• Positional Params
• Keyword Params
• Return Values

Read: Downey Ch 3 ("Adding New Functions" to "Flow of Execution" and "Fruitful and Void Functions")
Read: Creating Fruitful Functions
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Due: P2

Fri: Function Scope (Feb 8)

• Local vs. Global
• Argument Passing
• Frames
• Stack Diagrams

Read: Downey Ch 3 ("Parameters and Arguments" to end)
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Interactive Exercises

Mon: Conditionals 1 (Feb 11)

• Boolean Logic
• if,elif,else
• Modular arithmetic

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Interactive Exercises
Read: Downey Ch 5 ("Floor Division and Modulus" to "Nested Conditionals" and "Keyboard Input" to end) and Ch 6 ("Return Values" to "Boolean Functions")
Optional: Downey Ch 4

Wed: Conditionals 2 (Feb 13)

• Refactoring
• Nesting

Due: P3
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Interactive Exercises

Fri: Iteration 1 (Feb 15)

• Reassignment
• While Loop
• Infinite Iteration

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Read: Downey Ch 7

Mon: Iteration 2 (Feb 18)

• Break
• Continue

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Interactive Exercises
Read (Optional): Sweigart Ch 2

Wed: Strings (Feb 20)

• Indexing/Slicing
• Sequences
• For Loop, range()
• Searching
• Comparison
• String formatting

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Read: Downey Ch 8
Optional: Downey Ch 9
Due: P4

Fri: Review Day (Feb 22)

Mon: Lists (Feb 25)

• Sequence, Like a String
• Indexing, Slicing
• sys.argv, dir()
• Mutable vs. Immutable
• List Methods

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Read: Downey Ch 10
Evening Exam 1!

Wed: CSV Tables (Feb 27)

• Comparison with Spreadsheets
• Format
• Headers
• Lists of lists

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Read: Sweigart Ch 14 (through "Reading Data from Reader Objects in a for Loop")
Due: P5

Fri: List Practice (Mar 1)

• Coding Demos

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No Slides

Mon: Dictionaries 1 (Mar 4)

• Syntax
• Lookup
• Insert
• Pop

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Interactive Exercises
Read: Downey Ch 11 ("A Dictionary is a Mapping" through "Looping and Dictionaries")

Wed: Dictionaries 2 (Mar 6)

• Nesting
• dicts with lists
• defaultdict

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Interactive Exercises
Read: Downey Ch 11 ("Dictionaries and Lists" and "Global Variables" to end)
Due: P6

Fri: JSON (Mar 8)

• Deserialization
• Serialization
• Pretty Printing

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Read: Sweigart Ch 14

Mon: Objects (Mar 11)

• namedtuple and recordclass
• Mutability
• References
• Python Tutor

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Interactive Exercises
Read: Downey Ch 10 ("Objects and Values" and "Aliasing") and Ch 12

Wed: Copying (Mar 13)

• References
• Shallow Copy
• Deep Copy

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Interactive Exercises
Read: Sweigart Ch 4 ("References" through the end)
Due: P7

Fri: Recursion (Mar 15)

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

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Interactive Exercises
Read: Downey Ch 5 ("Recursion" through "Infinite Recursion"), Ch 6 ("More Recursion" through end)

Mon: (Mar 18)

No Class -- Spring Break!

Wed: (Mar 20)

No Class -- Spring Break!

Fri: (Mar 22)

No Class -- Spring Break!

Mon: Advanced Functions (Mar 25)

• iterators and generators
• references to functions

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Interactive Exercises

Wed: Error Handling (Mar 27)

• Catching Exceptions
• Throwing Exceptions
• Asserts

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Interactive Exercises
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Read: Sweigart Ch 10 (beginning through "Assertions")

Fri: Files and Directories (Mar 29)

• Reading
• Writing
• Listing children

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Read: Downey Ch 14

Mon: Review Day (Apr 1)

Evening Exam 2!

Wed: Pandas 1 (Apr 3)

• iPython
• dataframe
• series
• reading CSVs
• element-wise operations

Due: P8
Reading: CS 301 Notes (Notebook)

Fri: Pandas 2 (Apr 5)

• practice

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Mon: Web 1 (Apr 8)

• Servers/Clients
• URLs
• HTTP: GET and POST
• requests module

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Read: Sweigart Ch 11

Wed: Web 2 (Apr 10)

• Intro to HTML
• Generating HTML

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Fri: Web 3 (Apr 12)

• Document Object Model
• Parsing HTML
• beautifulsoup

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Mon: Database 1 (Apr 15)

• schemas/types
• queries
• where
• SQLite
• Querying from Pandas

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Wed: Database 2 (Apr 17)

• aggregates
• group by

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Movie Notebook
Bus Notebook
Bus Answers Notebook
Due: P9

Fri: Database 3 (Apr 19)

• Worksheets

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Database 3 - Worksheet Answers
Database 3 - Perf Demo

Mon: Plotting 1 (Apr 22)

• pie charts
• scatter plots
• plot design
• AxesSublot

Reading: CS 301 Notes (Notebook)

Wed: Plotting 2n (Apr 24)

• line plots

Reading: CS 301 Notes (Notebook)

Fri: Plotting 3 (Apr 26)

• bar plots

Reading: same as for "Plotting 2"

Mon: Plotting 4 (Apr 29)

• axes
• adjacent plots
• design decisions

Reading: CS 301 Notes (Notebook)

Wed: Randomness (May 1)

• Debugging
• Simulation
• Significance

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Fri: Review/Catchup (May 3)

• Bring Questions

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Due: P10