This schedule will change and adapt as the term goes on. Readings are listed the day they're assigned; your work on them is due before the next class. For general information about the course, please see the Syllabus.
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| Week 1: Intro to Python Basic data types, arithmetic, functions | |||
| Date | Class Topic | Out | Reading |
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| 1. M 1/5 | Getting to know you: me, your classmates, computer science, and Python | HW0: Hello! | 1.1–1.4 |
| 2. W 1/7 | Using Python | 1.5 | |
| 3. F 1/9 | The Python REPL; the text editor | HW1: Command Line | 2.3–2.4 |
| Week 2: Weather Simulation For-loops, booleans, branching, functions w/ return values | |||
| 4. M 1/12 | Drawing a scene
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Project 1: Turtle Drawing | 2.5 |
| 5. W 1/14 | Quiz 1; Weather data | Project 2: Weather Simulation | 2.6 |
| 6. F 1/16 | More Weather Work | 3.1–3.4 | |
| Week 3: Cryptography String functions, iterators, modular arithmetic | |||
| 7. M 1/19 | Decrypting the 3-rail cipher
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3.5–3.6 | |
| 8. W 1/21 | Quiz 2; Substitution ciphers
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Project 3: Vigenère cipher | 3.7 |
| 9. F 1/23 | Vigenère cipher
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4.1–4.3 | |
| Week 4: Analyzing Large Datasets Lists, nested lists, file I/O | |||
| Date | Class Topic | Out | Reading |
| 10. M 1/26 | Password stats; Course feedback
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4.4—4.5.2 | |
| 11. W 1/28 | Quiz 3; More work on password stats
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4.7, 5.2 | |
| 12. F 1/30 | Password stats with frequencies | Project 4: Earthquake Data Visualization | 4.5.3, 4.6.1, 4.6.3 |
| Week 5: Text analysis Dictionaries, while-loops | |||
| 13. M 2/2 | Textual style analysis
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5.3–5.3.1 | |
| 14. W 2/4 | Quiz 4; While-loops vs. For-loops; Markov chains to build random text | Project 5: Random Sentence Generator | 6.1–6.3.2 |
| 15. F 2/6 | More random text work | 6.3.3–6.5.3 | |
| Week 6: Image Processing Nested loops, namespaces/scoping | |||
| XX. M 2/9 | No class (like a Marxist utopia) | ||
| 16. W 2/11 | Processing images
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Project 6: Green-Screening | 6.5.4 |
| 17. F 2/13 | Quiz 5; Picking apart cImage |
None | |
| Week 7: Physical Simulation Designing and writing classes | |||
| Date | Class Topic | Out | Reading |
| 18. M 2/16 | Functions and namespaces (left over from week 6) | 10.2–10.3.3 | |
| 19. W 2/18 | Quiz 6; The Hows and Whys of Object-Oriented Design
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10.3.4–10.5 | |
| 20. F 2/20 | Building with classes | Project 7: Lunar Lander Game | 10.6 |
| Week 8: Fractals Recursion | |||
| 21. M 2/23 | Final Project; Writing Interactive Programs
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Final Project Design Document | 9.2–9.3 |
| 22. W 2/25 | Quiz 7; Interactivity Redux; Anagrams
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9.4 | |
| 23. F 2/27 | More work on anagrams Reminder — comps gala tomorrow! |
Sup 1 | |
| Week 9: Data Organization Searching and sorting | |||
| 24. M 3/2 | Recursion: Towers of Hanoi
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Project 8: Recursion Pygame events tutorial |
Sup 2 |
| 25. W 3/4 | Searching and Selection Sort | Sup 3 | |
| 26. F 3/6 | Sorting |
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Sup 4 |
| Week 10: Hard Problems | |||
| 27. M 3/9 | Quiz 8; Analyzing running times; Programs that run on code
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| 28. W 3/11 | The Halting Problem; Course evals | ||
| Exam Period | |||
| Sat. 3/14 | Final demos during 4a Exam Period: 8:30am–11am | ||
| Mon. 3/16 | Final projects due at 5pm | ||
