Polytechnic Computer Science

Lectures

The course lectures are, for the most part, available here in HTML web-page format.

• Unit 1 - An introduction to the course, including:
  • Introduction to text editing
  • Introduction to programming
  • Introduction to the server
  • Programming Basics
  • Numeric Data Types
• Unit 2 - Programming Fundamentals, including:
  • Branching Structures
  • Indefinite Loops
  • Code Review
  • String Data Type
  • Program Design
  • Lists
  • Sorting, Searching
• Unit 3 - Program Structures and Computer Graphics, including:
  • Functions and Parameters
  • Introduction to Graphics (using Pygame)
  • Independent Project 2 (using graphics)
  • Unit 3a - Info on graphics.py and Pygame
  • Intro to Object-Oriented Programming
• Unit 4 - The World Wide Web, and HTML:
  • The World Wide Web, HyperText Markup Language
  • Cascading Style Sheets, sftp
  • Independent Project - Website
• Unit 5 - Databases:
  • External files and flat-file databases
  • AddressBook project
  • Relational DataBases
  • Intro to SQLite
  • Using Python with SQLite
• Unit 6 - Culminating Programs and Projects:
  • Programming exercises
  • Final Project