| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| January 6 |
L0: Introduction (PDF, PPT) Read: ThinkP 1; PTut 1; ICPUP 1; What is Computational thinking? |
| January 8 |
L1: Intro to Python (PDF, PPT) Read: L2: the Python interpreter (PDF, PPT), Do: Reading quiz L2 |
| January 10 |
L3: Control flow (PDF, PPT) Read: ThinkP 5.1-5.7; PTut 4-4.5, 5.7; ICPUP 2.2-2.4; Eval 5, 7 Do: Reading quiz L3 |
| January 13 |
L4: Functions (PDF, PPT) Read: ThinkP 3; PTut 4.6-4.8; ICPUP 4.0-4.2; Eval 8 Do: Reading quiz L4 |
| January 15 |
L5: Functions and Lists (PDF, PPT) Read: ThinkP 10; PTut 5-5.1, 5.4; ICPUP 5.4 Eval 6 Do: Reading quiz L5 |
| January 17 |
L6: Lists; File IO (PDF, PPT) Read: ThinkP 5.3, 5.5, 14; PTut 7.2-7.2.1; ICPUP 4.6 Do:Reading quiz L6 |
| January 22 |
L7: Data structures (PDF, PPT): sets (PDF, PPT); dictionaries (PDF, PPT); Read: ThinkP 11, 12; PTut 5.4-5.8; ICPUP 5.1, 5.2, 5.5 Do: Reading quiz L7 Optional dictionary practice problems |
| January 24 |
L8: Dictionaries, Graphs (PDF, PPT), Sorting (PDF, PPT) Read: sorting 1-5 (do not worry about "lambda") Do: Reading quiz L8 |
| January 27 |
L9: Sorting & CELT Assessment Read: ThinkP Debugging sections of each chapter, Appendix A; ICPUP 6.2 Do: Reading quiz L9 |
| January 29 |
L10: Debugging (PDF, PPT) Read: PTut 5.3; Python Documentation Section 3.1 Do: Reading quiz L10 |
| January 31 |
L11: Sharing, mutability, and immutability (PDF, PPT) Read: Skim Python style and examples Do: Reading quiz L11 |
| February 3 |
L12: Review (come with questions) More info Do: Reading quiz L12 (optional) |
| February 7 |
L13: Interpreting Exceptions Do: Reading quiz L13 |
| February 10 |
L14: Testing (PDF, PPT) Read: ICPUP 6.1 |
| February 12 |
L15: Development Strategies, Function Design (PPT, PDF, Handout, Data) Read: ICPUP 4.2; ThinkP 3.12 |
| February 14 |
L16: Statistics (PDF, PPT, code) Read: Intro and examples section (only) of "Statistical hypothesis testing"; ICPUP 12-14, 16 |
| February 19 |
L17: Visualization (PDF, PPT, code 1, 2, 3, 4) Read: ICPUP 11; PyPlot Tutorial; watch Hans Rosling Do: Reading quiz L17 |
| February 21 | L18: Optional Quiz (Soln) |
| February 24 |
L19: Design exercise (PPT, PDF) Read: On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules |
| February 26 |
L20: Design exercise, continued (Ex1.py, foo2.txt, Ex2.py, quant.txt) Read: ThinkP 13, ThinkP 14.9 Do: Reading quiz L20 |
| February 28 |
L21: Data abstraction (PDF, PPT, WordCounts-dict.py, WordCounts-list.py) Read: Abstraction, ThinkP 13 Do: Reading quiz L21 |
| March 3 |
L22: List comprehensions (PDF, PPT) Read: ICPUP 8.0, 8.1, 8.3 (skim 8.2, 8.3.1, and 8.4), PTut 5.1.4, ThinkP 14.1-14.4, 14.11; Do: Reading quiz L22 |
| March 5 |
L23: Recursion (PDF, PPT, 23-recursion.zip) Read: ThinkP 5.8-5.10, 6.5; ICPUP 4.3, 4.3.1 Do: Reading quiz L23 |
| March 7 | L24: More recursion and review |
| March 12 |
L25: Algorithmic speed (PDF, PPT, code) Read: ThinkP Appendix B; ICPUP 9 Do: Reading quiz L25 |
| March 14 |
L26: Wrapup (PDF, PPT) Read: PTut 12 |