ReadingsΒΆ
Zelle in the table below refers to Python Programming : An Introduction To Computer Science by John Zelle.
This page is a work in progress.
| Week | Date | Lecture | Readings | ||
| 1 | M | Sept 28 | 1 | Course Introduction | Computational Thinking, Jeanette Wing
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| W | Sept 30 | 2 | Introduction to Programming | Zelle 1.1-1.9, 2.2-2.5, 3.1, 8.4 | |
| F | Oct 02 | 3 | Conditionals, basic lists, for loops | Zelle 2.6, 7.1-7.3, 81.-8.2, 11.2 | |
| 2 | M | Oct 05 | 4 | Lists & strings | Zelle 5.1-5.6, 11.2 |
| W | Oct 07 | 5 | Functions | Zelle 6.1-6.7 | |
| F | Oct 09 | 6 | More functions | ||
| 3 | M | Oct 12 | 7 | Page rank example | S&W Page Rank |
| W | Oct 14 | 8 | Dictionaries | Zelle 11.6 | |
| F | Oct 16 | 9 | Data types | ||
| 4 | M | Oct 19 | 10 | Classes | Zelle 5.2, 10.1-10.5 |
| W | Oct 21 | 11 | More classes | ||
| F | Oct 23 | 12 | M/D/1 Queues | ||
| 5 | M | Oct 26 | 13 | Regular expressions | |
| W | Oct 28 | 14 | Functional programming | ||
| F | Oct 30 | 15 | More functional programming | ||
| 6 | M | Nov 02 | 16 | Recursion | Zelle 13.1-13.2 |
| W | Nov 04 | 17 | More Recursion | ||
| F | Nov 06 | 18 | Recursive data structures | ||
| 7 | M | Nov 09 | 19 | Plotting | |
| W | Nov 11 | 20 | File I/O, Exceptions & data formats | Zelle 4.6, 7.4 | |
| F | Nov 13 | 21 | More data formats | ||
| 8 | M | Nov 16 | 22 | Numpy | |
| W | Nov 18 | 23 | More Numpy | ||
| F | Nov 20 | 24 | Extended example | ||
| 9 | M | Nov 23 | 25 | Java | |
| W | Nov 25 | 26 | Java | ||
| 10 | M | Nov 30 | 27 | Java | |
| W | Dec 02 | 28 | Wrap-up | ||