Week No.
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Days |
Topics to be covered
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1 |
September 12 - 18 |
No tutorials this week
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2
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September 19 - 25 |
Tutorial exercises commence this week! (It's a graded component)
- Introduction to the Computer Science network
- Creating programs with a text editor
- Creating and running Python programs
- Python: text output and input
- Python: Variables
- Python: Documenting programs
- Academic misconduct vs. collaboration
- Tutorial exercise 1 to be completed this week
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3
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September 26 - October 2 |
- Downloading and setting up the Quickdraw graphical library.
- How to get your Python programs to communicate to Quickdraw (via a
subprocess)
- Drawing primitive shapes (physical properties: size and layout)
- The Red-Blue-Green (RGB) color model and how to change colors in
Quickdraw
- Discussion of A1.
- Second tutorial exercise to be completed this week.
- Tutorial exercise 2 to be completed this week
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4
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October 3 - 9 |
- Review of programming style requirements for assignments.
- Formatting String and other output ("The practice of Computing
using Python" section 4.4)
- Commonly used UNIX commands.
- (If there is time): using the SSH file transfer program. [More
information]
- Tutorial exercise 3 to be completed this week
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5
|
October 10 - 16 |
First tutorial:
- No tutorials on Monday because of the Thanksgiving Holiday, Tuesday
tutorials are canceled.
- There is no tutorial exercise due this week, it will be due next
week.
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Second tutorial:
- Calling pre-created Python functions
- Defining and calling your own functions
- Using functions in conjunction with QuickDraw
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6
|
October 17 - 23 |
- Branching constructs: if, if-else, if-elif
- Tutorial exercise 4 to be completed this week
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7
|
October 24 - 30 |
- Recursion
- Animations in QuickDraw
- Functions with return values
- Scope: local vs. global
- Tutorial exercise 5 to be completed this week
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8 |
October 31 - November 6 |
Tutorial exercise 6 to be completed this week
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9 |
November 7 - 13 |
- QuickDraw events (needed for A4 and Tutorial exercise 7 so don't
skip out because the QuickDraw documentation on this is rather sparse).
- Strings and string operations.
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10 |
November 14 - 20 |
- Testing functions
- Brief introduction into using Exceptions to handle errors
- An introduction into encoding PPM image information (if there is
time)
- Tutorial exercise 7 to be completed this week
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11 |
November 21 - 27 |
First tutorial
- Introduction to 2D lists
- Tutorial exercise 8 and the starting code that you are provided.
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Second tutorial
- Description of A5
- Demos for this week's tutorial exercise.
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Tutorial exercise 8 to be completed this week |
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12 |
November 28 - December 4 |
- File input and output
- Modules: dividing program statements between different files.
- Tutorial exercise 9 to be completed this week
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13 |
December 5 - 11 |
- Review of classes and objects: defining a class, creating an
instance of a class, using the different parts, putting the definition
of a class into it's own module.
- Contrasting classes vs. objects, procedural vs. the Object-Oriented
approach.
- Testing classes.
- Tutorial exercise 10 to be completed this week
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