Lectures
This page will contain notes from lecture, mainly from code developed during lecture. I will try to post these notes after each lecture. In addition the readings for each week will be listed. You will benefit the most by completing the reading the shortly before or after the lecture.
| Week | Topic | Notes | Textbook Readings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | types, operator, operand, functions | Intro: PPT PDF Code | 1 & 2 |
| 2 | Modules, strings, import,return, builtins | PPT PDF Code volume.py | 3 & 4 (except 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 3.3.1, 4.4, 4.5) |
| 3 | if statements, Progams, string methods | PPT PDF Code vol.py temp.py hello.py | 3.2.3,3.2.4,3.3.1 & 6.1 |
| 4 | lists, for loops, aliasing, string methods | PPT PDF Code functions.py | 4.3 (not 4.3.1), 5.1-5.8 |
| 5 | Testing with Nose, for loops using range, file operations | PPT PDF Code double.py test_double.py | 6.2, 4.5 |
| 6 | Writing programs to read process data files. | PDF Code file_ops.py | 7.1, 7.2, 5.10, |
| 7 | while loops, using the debugger, dictionaries | PDF remove.py CODE | 6.3, 8.2 |
| 8 | Inverting a dictionary, Intro to Databases | PDF dictionary.py test_dictionary.py setup_precip.py precipitation.txt CODE | 8.2, 8.3 |
| 9 | Databases: SELECT, WHERE, JOIN, GROUP BY, etc. | Worksheet precipitation.txt temperature.txt geography.txt database.py | 15 and 16 |
| 10 | GUIs | PDF Database Table Setup Module name.py CODE | 13 |
| 11 | More GUIs, checkbuttons, menus, file dialogs | worksheet 11 notepad.py checkbuttons.py grid.py | 13 |
| 12 | Plotting and Arrays, Final Review | PDF plotting.py Notes Final Info | Note view_fig has been changed from the lecture version. Please make sure you use the new version. Reading is Ch. 14 |
| Ramp Up to CSCA48 | Searching, Sorting, Object-Oriented Programming | PDF Handout dice.py dice_gui.py test_dice.py search.py sorting.py time_sorting.py | Chapters 11, 12 |