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Course Calendar
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| Richard White, Intro to Computer Science. Third Quarter, 2009-2010 | ||||||
| SUN | MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT |
| 1/24 | 1/25 | 1/26 | 1/27 | 1/28 | 1/29 | 1/30 |
| Unit 1, Day 1 Introduction to the course, the website, our computers. Intro to the Terminal, the shell/command line (ls, cd, ctrl-c) strong passwords. |
Unit 1, Day 2 More shell commands (mkdir); file system structure; intro to text editing (Notepad, TextEdit, nano, vim, emacs), file-naming conventions in this course. Text-editing: moving around, finding, inserting/deleting, copy/cut/paste, undo. More shell commands (mv, cp, rm). |
Unit 1, Day 3 Intro to Programming: high-level vs. low-level languages, compiled vs. interpreted languages. Running the Python interpreter. Print statements. First program ("Hello, world!"). Comments, defining and calling a function, spacing for suites, "for" loops, inputting numbers, assigning values to variables. |
Unit 1, Day 4 The Big Picture: Software development cycles, flowcharts, pseudocode, identifiers and reserved words, advanced "for" loops, intro to "while" loops. |
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| crashwhite.com/compsci | ||||||
| HW: Explore course website, fill out student info form, install Cygwin/Python on your home machine, get a 4 GB flash drive. Make sure you have textbook: John Zelle's Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science. | HW: Read Chapter 1, Sections 1.1-1.4 | HW: Read Chapter 1, Sections 1.5-1.8; do Chapter 1 programming exercises #1, #2, and #3. | HW: Read Chapter 2; do Chapter 2 programming exercises #2, #4, and #6. | |||
| 1/31 | 2/1 | 2/2 | 2/3 | 2/4 | 2/5 | 2/6 |
| Unit 2, Day 1: Branching structures: the "if" statement, boolean expressions, "if-else" statements, nested "if" statements, "elif". |
Unit 2, Day 2: Programming Day: Coin Flipper |
Unit 2, Day 3: Indefinite Loops: the "while" loop, interactive loops, sentinel loops. |
Unit 2, Day 4: Programming Day: Craps |
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| HW: Read Chapter 7, Sections 7.1-7.3; do Chapter 7 programming exercises #1, #3, #6. | HW: | HW: Read Chapter 8, Sections 8.1, 8.2, 8.3.1, 8.3.2; do Chapter 8 programming exercises #1, #5. | HW: | |||
| 2/7 | 2/8 | 2/9 | 2/10 | 2/11 | 2/12 | 2/13 |
| Unit 2, Day 5: Numeric Data Types: integers, floating, numeric operations, the math library, math library functions, converting numeric types. |
Unit 2, Day 6: String Data Type: raw_input(), string operations,"chr" and "ord" functions, formatting, intro to lists |
Unit 2, Day 7: Strong passwords; Network demo: "scp," "ssh," submitting files online. |
Staff Day: No classes | |||
| HW: Read Chapter 3, Sections 3.1-3.6, do Chapter 3 programming exercises #1, #3, #9, #15(optional). | HW: Read Chapter 4, Sections 4.1-4.5, do Chapter 4 programming exercises #3, #5, #7, #8. | HW: Take online quiz | ||||
| 2/14 | 2/15 | 2/16 | 2/17 | 2/18 | 2/19 | 2/20 |
| Holiday: President's Day | Unit 2, Day 8: Study in Design: Max of Three (whiteboard exercise); Basic List manipulation |
Unit 2, Day 9: Programming Day: Bubblesort |
Independent Project 1: Intro to First Independent Project. Introduction. Specs. Design. Coding. |
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| HW: Read Chapter 7, Section 7.5, 7.6. Read Chapter 11, Sections 11.1, 11.2 | HW: | HW: | ||||
| 2/21 | 2/22 | 2/23 | 2/24 | 2/25 | 2/26 | 2/27 |
| Independent Project 1: Coding |
Independent Project 1: Coding |
Independent Project 1: Coding |
Independent Project 1: Complete assignment |
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| 2/28 | 3/1 | 3/2 | 3/3 | 3/4 | 3/5 | 3/6 |
| Unit 3, Day 1: Structural
Elements: Functions, Classes, Objects, Methods: Functions, parameters, passing to a function, getting results from a function, modifying parameters, why use functions |
Unit 3, Day 2: Intro to Object: examples of objects, O-O design, example of O-O Python program (carddeck.py, dog.py). | Unit 3, Day 3: Intro to Graphics Programming: Download and install "graphics.py" module. Demonstration of some basic commands. | Unit 3, Day 4: Programming Day. Use Section 5.8 from textbook as a reference. Work on assignment visualcraps.py | |||
| HW: Ready Chapter 6, Sections 6.1-6.7, do Ch 6 programming exercises #1, #3, #7, #12. (Note that there is typo in #7. You should refer to Chapter 3, programming exercise #16, NOT #3!) | HW: Read Chapter 5, Sections 5.1-5.2. Do worksheet on Object-Oriented Design | HW: Read through Sections 5.3 through 5.6; work through the "Graphing Future Value" example | HW: | |||
| 3/7 | 3/8 | 3/9 | 3/10 | 3/11 | 3/12 | 3/13 |
| Unit 3, Day 5: Programming Day: visualcraps.py | Unit 3, Day 6: More on Graphics: Text, capturing click, GUIs. | Independent Project 2: randomWalker, spirograph, fractals. Intro, coding | Independent Project 2: Complete assignment | |||
| HW: Read Chapter 5, Section 5.7 | HW: Do Ch 5 programming exercises #2, #8 | HW: Begin working on IP2 | HW: Finish IP2 | |||
| 3/14 | 3/15 | 3/16 | 3/17 | 3/18 | 3/19 | 3/20 |
| Unit 4, Day 1: Larger Programs:
External Files, Program Design. File Processing, w/ multiline strings, external files, batch processing. |
Unit 4, Day 2: Intro to Databases: What is a database? Records, fields, "flat file" database. | Unit 4, Day 3: Program Development. Top-Down design, Bottom-Up implementation | LEC: TBA | |||
| HW: Read Chapter 4, Section 4.6.; do Programming Exercises #11, #14, #15. | HW: Develop Address Book Program | HW: Develop Address Book Program | HW: Relax! | |||
| 3/21 | 3/22 | 3/23 | 3/24 | 3/25 | 3/26 | 3/27 |
| Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break | ||
| Fourth Quarter, 2009-2010 | ||||||
| SUN | MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT |
| 3/28 | 3/29 | 3/30 | 3/31 | 4/1 | 4/2 | 4/3 |
| Spring Break | Unit 5, Day 1: Delivering Web
Pages: HyperText Markup Language. How webpages are delivered. Basic HTML. |
Unit 5, Day 2: CSS: Custom Style Sheets for HTML pages. Uploading pages to the server. | Unit 5, Day 3: Programming Day | |||
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