Welcome to CSE 163: Intermediate Data Programming! 🎉

What is this class? What will I learn?

The world has become data-driven. Domain scientists and industry increasingly rely on data analysis to drive innovation and discovery; this reliance on data is not only restricted to science or business, but also is crucial to those in government, public policy, and those wanting to be informed citizens. As the size of data continues to grow, everyone will need to use powerful tools to work with that data.

This course teaches intermediate data programming. It is a follow on to CSE122 (Introduction to Computer Programming II) or CSE160 (Data Programming).

The course complements CSE123 or CSE143, which focus more deeply on fundamental programming concepts and the internals of data structures. In contrast, CSE163 emphasizes the efficient use of those concepts for data programming.

In this course, students will learn:

  1. More advanced programming concepts than in CSE122 or CSE160 including how to write bigger programs with multiple classes and modules.
  2. How to work with different types of data: tabular, text, images, geo-spatial.
  3. Ecosystem of data science tools including Jupyter Notebook and various data science libraries including scikit image, scikit learn, and Pandas data frames.
  4. Basic concepts related to code complexity, efficiency of different types of data structures, and memory management.
Prerequisites and Expectations

This is class is designed as the second introductory programming course that focuses on writing programs that work with data. The prerequisites for the class require students having taken CSE 142 or CSE 160 and the class has been designed to be accessible to students from either of those backgrounds. Students that have taken 143 are welcome to take this class as it will serve as a complement to the material learned in 143 with only minor overlap.

Because this course will have students coming from many different class backgrounds, the first couple of weeks will be pretty different for students depending on what classes they have taken. Here is what we expect students to see in the first weeks based on their background:

  • 122/142: The first two weeks might go pretty fast, but will be doable since you already know all the concepts (loops, conditionals, methods) and you are just learning all the new “words” in Python to use those concepts. This might require a little bit of extra practice early in the quarter so you are familiar with translating all the ideas you have learned in 142 to this new language. The first week has been designed to be a recap of all things 142 so you don’t also have to be learning a ton of new material while learning a new language in the first week.
  • 160: The first week will just be a bit of a review for you, but the class will start covering material you haven’t seen before starting in the second week.
  • 123/143: You are in a similar boat as the 122/142 students, where you know a lot of the concepts but don’t know the Python language. You’ll probably see a few things that you saw in 123/143 in this class, but I think the new context of processing data in a new language will still keep it new, exciting, and challenging.

If you want to learn more about the course and its policies, please check out our course syllabus.

Feedback

Feedback is always welcome! You can contact the the course staff or submit anonymous feedback.

Registration

Do not email the course staff or instructor requesting an add-code for the course. The course staff do not have any add-codes. Please email ugrad-advisor@uw.edu.

Announcements

Aug 11

Course evals out

Final course evaluations are now open!

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Aug 10

Feedback for Proposals released

Feedback for the Project Proposal is now available on Gradescope!

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Aug 09

Resubmission (August 9 - August 15)

Resubmissions are now open for this week.

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Calendar

For students not currently in CSE 163, you can view the Lesson material here. For students who are in the class, you can find the link to the relevant lesson below.

Info

This is a rough sketch of the quarter and things are subject to change. We can accurately predict the past, but predicting the future is hard!

Lessons

Anything listed in the “Lesson” materials for a day should be read before attending class that day. We recommend doing all the slides before the “Pause and Think” slide. Each class session will start by reviewing what was in the Lesson and then most time will be spent on working on practice problems in the Lessons. See the syllabus for more info!

Topic THA CP Final Proj
Module 0 - Python Fundamentals
Mon 06/19
HOLIDAY Juneteenth

Note: Due to the Monday holiday, we included a video series on course logistics in the lesson instead of going over them as a class. All details outlined in syllabus. Feel free to post any questions on the discussion board!

Wed 06/21
LES 01 Intro to CSE 163; Intro to Python & Control Structures
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Thu 06/22
SEC 00 Welcome to Section!
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Fri 06/23
LES 02 Strings and Lists
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A0
I.S. 11:59 pm
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CP0
Due 11:59 pm
Module 1 - Data Structures and Files
Mon 06/26
LES 03 File Processing
Wed 06/28
LES 04 Data Structures
Thu 06/29
SEC 01 Python Practice
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Fri 06/30
LES 05 CSV Data
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Module 2 - Pandas
Mon 07/03
LES 06 pandas: DataFrames
Wed 07/05
LES 07 pandas: Group-by and Apply
Thu 07/06
SEC 02 pandas
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Fri 07/07
LES 08 Data Visualization
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Module 3 - Data Science Libraries
Mon 07/10
LES 09 Introduction to Machine Learning
Wed 07/12
LES 10 ML cont.; ML and Society I
Thu 07/13
SEC 03 Data Science Libraries
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Fri 07/14
LES 11 ML cont.; ML and Society II
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Module 4 - Classes and Objects
Mon 07/17
LES 12 Objects
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Wed 07/19
LES 13 More Objects
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Thu 07/20
SEC 04 Classes and Objects
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Fri 07/21
LES 14 Search Prep
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Module 5 - Geospatial Data
Mon 07/24
LES 15 Geospatial Data
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Wed 07/26
LES 16 Dissolve and Joins
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Thu 07/27
SEC 05 Geospatial Data
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Fri 07/28
LES 17 Algorithmic Efficiency
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Module 6 - Images
Mon 07/31
LES 18 numpy and Images
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Wed 08/02
LES 19 Convolutions
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Thu 08/03
SEC 06 Images
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Fri 08/04
LES 20 Machine Learning and Images
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PROJ P0
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Module 7 - Data Science and Society
Mon 08/07
LES 21 Algorithmic Fairness
Wed 08/09
LES 22 Algorithmic Privacy
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Thu 08/10
SEC 07 Statistics and Hypothesis Testing
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Fri 08/11
LES 23 Ethics Case Studies
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Module 8 - Final Week
Mon 08/14
LES 24 Special Topics 1
Wed 08/16
LES 25 Special Topics 2
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Fri 08/18
LES 26 Victory Lap & Next Steps
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