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Syllabus (PDF)
Current topics:
- 11-13 OOP, Nov 12--Dec 8
- Final review and exam, Dec 10-13
Current assignments:
- Lab 9, due Nov 14
- Lab 10 Tree Recursion, due Nov 26, not accepted after Dec 10
- Lab 11, open Nov 12, due Dec 3, not accepted after Dec 10.
- Optional Lab 12: Wildlife Simulation
- Optional Lab 13: Using Inheritance

1 Computer Setup

To get your computer ready for this course, follow the Computer Setup Guide.

2 Introduction

Notes
Quiz 1, 2012 Aug 27-Sep 8
Lab 1 due 2012 Sep 12

3 Numbers

Notes
Quiz 2, 2012 Sep 10-15
Lab 2 due 2012 Sep 24

4 Strings

Notes
No quiz
Lab 3, due 2012 Oct 1

5 Data Collections

Notes
Quiz 3, on the Unix file system, 2012 Sep 24-29
Lab 4, due 2012 Oct 8

6 Files and URLs

Notes
Quiz 4, 2012 Oct 1-6

7 Midterm

Review and Testing Information

8 Image Processing

Notes
Lab 5, due Oct 29

9 Recursive Functions

Notes I
Lab 6, open Oct 22, due Nov 5
Lab 7, open Oct 24, due Nov 7
Notes II
Lab 8, open Oct 29, due Nov 12
Lab 9, open Oct 31, due Nov 14
Notes III
Lab 10 Tree Recursion, open Nov 5, due Nov 26, not accepted after Dec 10

11-13 Object-Oriented Programming

OOP I Notes
Lab 11, open Nov 12, due Dec 3, not accepted after Dec 10.
OOP II--III Notes
Optional Lab 12: Wildlife Simulation
Optional Lab 13: Using Inheritance

14 Events and Video Games

Not covered

15 Final

Revised Review and Testing Information

Reference

Studying

William J. Rapaport's How to Study: A Brief Guide

Python Style Guidelines

Coding Standards for Python Programs

Lab Guide

IUE Linux Lab Manual
Unix Tutorial for Beginners from the University of Surrey
Put Yourself in Command, a guide to Unix commands, deeper than the preceding
ROSCO Richmond Open Source Community

Recreation

Video Tutorials, (err, Turturiales?)

David Ranum's Python Programming Tutorials

Textbook

Unix Tutorial for Beginners
Python Programming in Context by Bradley N. Miller and David L. Ranum (publisher's catalog)
- Compare prices at DirectTextbook.com
- Campus bookstore
- Authors' blog with corrections, source files, data and image files, etc.
- Python Programming in Context (another page about this book) with downloads for cTurtle and cImage
- Prof. Weber's installer scripts: cturtle-installer/setup.py; cimage-installer/setup.py.

Python, Programming, and Computer Science

Python Home Page
Python Style Guide
"How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python" — online/print book by A.B. Downey, J. Elkner, and C. Meyers
Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python on Wikibooks
Learning to Program, by Alan Gauld, with Python and two other languages
A Byte of Python — online book by Swaroop
Python.org
Python 3 Tutorial, by Guido van Rossum.
Python 3 HOWTOs
Python 3 Library Reference, by Guido van Rossum.

Not Smoking

Learning to program can be stressful. Does stress make you want to smoke? ACS Guide to Quitting Smoking (why and how)

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