| Week |
Dates |
Topics, class handouts. |
Required reading and practice problems |
Homework |
| 1 |
Jan 23
Jan 26
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Introduction to Python and the course.
Lab 1: Intro to course software
Eclipse programming environment and PyDev.
Elementary programming. Handout 1 [annotated]
Visual Debugger
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Chapters 1,2
Home practice and in-class examples.
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Software set-up
Assignment 1 due Feb 5
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| 2 |
Jan 30
Feb 2 |
Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration (no day classes)
Elementary programming continued.
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Chapters 1,2
Home practice and in-class examples.
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| 3 |
Feb 6
Feb 9 |
Conditional statements. Handout 2 [annotated]
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Chapters 3,4
Home practice and in-class examples.
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Assignment 2 due Feb 26
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| 4 |
Feb 13
Feb 16 |
Repetition. Handout 3 [annotated]
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Chapters 3,4
Home practice and in-class examples.
Quiz 1 guidelines and practice
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| 5 |
Feb 20
Feb 23 |
Strings. Handout 4
Quiz 1
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Chapter 8, up to page 125
Home practice and in-class examples.
Quiz 1 guidelines and practice
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| 6 |
Feb 27
Mar 1 |
Strings, continued. Handout 4
[annotated]
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Chapter 8, up to page 125
Home practice and in-class examples.
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| 7 |
Mar 5
Mar 8 |
Defining Functions Handout 5
[annotated]
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Chapter 5
Home practice and in-class examples.
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Mar 12
Mar 15 |
Spring break |
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| 8 |
Mar 19
Mar 22 |
Lists. Handout 6
toDebug1.py
toDebug2.py
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Chapter 6
Home practice and in-class examples.
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Assignment 3 due Mar 28 Apr 1
starterFiles.zip
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| 9 |
Mar 26
Mar 29 |
Files. Handout 7
[annotated]
On files and paths
Dictionaries
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Chapter 7
Home practice and in-class examples.
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| 10 |
Apr 2
Apr 5 |
File operations.
Dictionaries and Sets. Handout 8
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Chapter 9 Home practice and in-class examples.
Quiz 2 guidelines and practice
quiz2practicequestions.py
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Assignment 4 due Apr 18
hw4_data.zip
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| 11 |
Apr 9
Apr 12 |
Dictionaries, continued
Quiz 2
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Home practice and in-class examples.
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| 12 |
Apr 16
Apr 19 |
Streamlit
Handout 9
API Reference
Intro to Pandas Data Frames.
Handout 10
Pandas Cheat Sheet
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Chapter 10
Home practice and in-class examples.
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Project Data
Project Description
|
| 13 |
Apr 23
Apr 26 |
Pandas, continued. Visualization with Matplotlib and Streamlit.
Handout 11
(see also Streamlit instructions from Handout 9)
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Home practice and in-class examples.
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| 14 |
Apr 30 |
More on Pandas
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| Final exam period |
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Section 1 (9:30): Tue, May 7, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Section 2 (12:30): Mon, May 6, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Project presentations.
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