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Schedule (subject to revision)
Text: Campbell - Practical Programming:
An Introduction to Programming using Python
Online: http://cscircles.cemc.uwaterloo.ca
A free online service from Waterloo University in Ontario, Canada
Homework: Blackboard
"mini-quizzes" on Campbell text,
can be retaken as needed.
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Date
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Lectures
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Reading
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Online
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Project
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9-25
Wk1-1
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Introduction to Programming
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C
1
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Campbell
Intro
0. Hello
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9-27
Wk1-2
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Hello, Python
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C
2.1-2.5, C3
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Campbell
1. variables
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Project
1
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10-02
Wk2-1
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Using Python Functions
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C
2.6
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Campbell
2. Functions
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Project 2
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10-04
Wk2-2
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Functions
you write
"""Docstring"""
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C
2.6
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Campbell
3. Comments
10.
def
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10-09
Wk3-1
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Turtle Graphics
"if" to choose an action
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Turtle
Graphics Basics
if: C 6
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Campbell
6. If
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Project 3 with Turtle Graphics
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10-11
Wk3-2
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Repetition via recursion
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Recursion
primer
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Campbell
16. Recursion
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10-16
Wk4-1
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More
on choosing courses of action:
if, else
if, elif, elif, else
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C
6.2 on
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Campbell
9. else, and , or
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Project 4
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10-18
Wk4-2
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Select first, Select all patterns,
use of and, or, not
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C
6
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10-23
Wk5-1
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Repetition,
Lists
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C
7
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Campbell
7C. Loops
13. Lists
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10-25
Wk5-2
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Midterm in Class
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10-30
Wk6-1
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Debugging , Kinds of errors
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Campbell
6D. Debug
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Project
5
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11-01
Wk6-2
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Error
patterns, widespread, personal, number of remaining bugs
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IBM
Researcher findings
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11-06
Wk7-1
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Use
of Python dictionaries
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C
9
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Project 6
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11-08
Wk7-2
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Sets
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C
9
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11-13
Wk8-1
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Recursion
again:
Fractals,
Sub-lists
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Recursion
primer, extended
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CSc
16.
Recursion
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Project 7
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11-15
Wk8-2
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Turtle
graphics fractals via recursion
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Turtle
graphics and recursion notes
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11-20
Wk9-1
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File processing
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C
8
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Project 8 – text files
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11-22
Wk9-2
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Thanksgiving
holiday
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(Turkey
/ Tofurkey graphics)
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11-27
Wk10-1
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Limits of Computation
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Alan
Turing handout
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Journal
of errors and insights due.
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10-yy
Wk10-2
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Final Review
Exercises Key
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Review
notes
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12-xx
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Final Exam 8AM Dec 3
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