CS110 Winter '20
Intro to Computer Programming with Python

Schedule

This schedule is subject to change (as needed). In addition, unless otherwise indicated, homework and projects are always due on Thursday at 11:59PM.

Week Lecture Materials Readings & Resources Due
Week 1 Tu Jan 7
Introduction to programming with Python
slides 1 • slides 2
  1. Severance, Ch 1: Introduction
    videos | textbook
  2. Heinold, Ch 1: Introductory Samples
Th Jan 9
- Variables, operators, and data types
- Installing Anaconda + VS Code
slides • lecture files
  1. Severance, Ch 2: Variables
    videos | textbook
  2. ThinkCS, Ch 2: Variables
Week 2 Tu Jan 14
Functions and modules
slides • lecture files
  1. Severance, Ch 4: Functions
    videos | textbook
  2. ThinkCS, Ch 4: Functions
  3. ThinkCS, Ch 12: Modules
    Skim sections 12.1 through 12.4.
  4. What is PIP?
Th Jan 16
Functions continued; lists and tuples (sequences)
slides • lecture files
  1. Review Tuesday's readings (Jan 14)
  2. Python for Everyone: Lists [1]
    videos | textbook
  3. Python for Everyone: Tuples
    videos | textbook
 Homework 1
Week 3 Tu Jan 21
- Functions and Modules (more practice)
slides • lecture files
  1. Severance, Ch 3
    videos | textbook
  2. ThinkCS, Ch5
Th Jan 23
Conditional Execution
slides • lecture files
  1. Severance, Ch 5
    videos | textbook
  2. ThinkCS, Ch7
 Homework 2
Week 4 Tu Jan 28
More on Conditional Execution, Intro to While Loops
slides • lecture files
  1. Heinold, Ch 5
    More looping algorithm practice
Th Jan 30
Loops and Lists
slides • lecture files 		Homework 3
Week 5 Tu Feb 4
Iteration and looping algorithms (Continued)
slides • lecture files
Th Feb 6
User Input and Events[2]
slides • lecture files
  1. Heinold, Ch16.8-9
  2. Tkinter Documentation (skim)
Homework 4
Week 6 Tu Feb 11
Exam 1 review
slides • lecture files
Th Feb 13
Exam 1 		Exam 1 Practice Solutions
Week 7 Tu Feb 18
Data: Strings and files
slides • lecture files
  1. Severance, Ch 6: Strings
    videos | textbook
  2. Severance, Ch 7: Files
    videos | textbook
Th Feb 20
Data: Dictionaries and lists
slides • lecture files
  1. Severance, Ch 9: Dictionaries
    videos | textbook
Week 8 Tu Feb 25
Data: Dictionary algorithms
slides • lecture files
  1. Heinold, Ch 11
Th Feb 27
Dictionaries + Intro to Pandas & Matplotlib
slides • lecture files
  1. Severance, Ch 13: Web Services
    videos | textbook
 Project 1
Week 9 Tu Mar 3
Intro to cloud-based data services
slides • lecture files
Th Mar 5
Intro to the HTML file format: for outputting data presentations
slides • lecture files 		Note: Today we're going to:
  1. continue working through the examples from Tuesday
  2. learn about template strings
 Homework 5
Week 10 Tu Mar 10
Review: Project 2 and Exam 2
slides
Th Mar 12
Exam 2
Exam 2 Practice
Solutions 		Homework 6
Finals Week Tu Mar 17
 Project 2

Notes

[1] We will be covering loops in week 3, but for now, just focus on what lists and tuples are and how they can store and organize data.

[2] User input and events won’t be on the exam, but this information will be useful for Project 1.