Week No.

Days

Topics to be covered

2

• CPSC lab and computing environment orientation
• Creating and running Python programs
• Input and output
• Common operators
• Variables
• Type conversions

Tutorial exercise 1 due

3

• Constants
• Program documentation
• Basic UNIX commands
• Using the electronic submission system 'submit'
• Working at home using SSH
• Basic Emacs editor commands

Tutorial exercise 2 due

4

• Defining and calling functions
• Declaring local variables
• Parameter passing
• Default parameters
• Return values

Assignment 1 due

5

• Monday: no class because of Thanksgiving holiday.
• Tuesday: open tutorial, TA will available in the lab to answer questions but no new material will be taught.

Second tutorial:

• Discussion of A2
• More on decomposition
• Scope: local vs. global variables and constants
• Answering questions about the third tutorial exercise
• Demo time for the third tutorial exercise

Tutorial exercise 3 due

6

• Debugging: rooting out worrisome syntax and logic errors
• Relational operators (review from lecture)
• Logical expression
• Branching (if, if-else, if-elif-else)

Assignment 2 due

7

First tutorial (example programs can be found under /home/231/tutorials/oct23_oct29):

• Discussion of A3 & Tutorial exercise 4
• Branching: exercises for finding logic errors and writing branching code

Second tutorial:

• Introduction to looping: for, while, sentinel-controlled, pre vs. post test

Tutorial exercise 4 due

• Loops and some debugging tips
• Nested loops
• Style: writing clear Boolean expressions and avoiding overly deep nesting

Assignment 3 due

• Discussion of Assignment 4 and the tutorial exercise
• Exceptions: ValueError and KeyError

Second tutorial, Wednesday (open tutorial); Thursday (no tutorial due to Reading Day)

Tutorial exercise 5 due

• Discussion of testing required for A4

Second tutorial, Wednesday, Thursday (open tutorial, TA available in lab for help but no new material will be taught)

Assignment 4 due

• Discussion of Assignment 5
• Discussion of Tutorial Exercise 6

Tutorial exercise 6 due

• Discussion of the bonus assignment
• Discussion of Tutorial Exercise 7
• Classes and objects (focus on concepts related to A5 e.g., __str__(), __eq__() methods).
• File input and output

Tutorial exercise 7 due

• Creating simple graphical user interfaces using Tkinter in Python (solution to A3)

Second tutorial: Wednesday, Thursday

• Open tutorial: TA's will be available to answer questions but no new material will be taught.

Assignment 5 & The bonus assignment due