Course Schedule

The following outlines the course coverage by term week:

Week	Concepts	Reading Exercises (due 11:59 am Tuesday)	Class Session	Homework (due the following Tuesday at 11:59 am)	Lab (due the following Tuesday at 11:59 am)
1-1/9	Beginning & Variables	Ch. 1	application	HW1 (Hello World)	Lab1 (Workflow)
2-1/16	Expressions & Modules	Ch. 2,3	application	HW2 (Mathematical Calculations)	Lab2 (Commenting Randomization Code: Modules)
3-1/23	Types & Strings	Ch. 4,5	application	HW3 (Types)	Lab3 (Scrabble)
4-1/30	Functions & Recursion	Ch. 6,7	application	HW4 (Functions)	Lab4 (Image Processing)
5-2/6	No Class	No Reading	Midterm	No HW	Midterm Recapitulation
6-2/13	Branching & Loops	Ch. 8,9	application	HW6 (Branching)	Lab6 (Rock, Paper, Scissors)
7-2/20	Flow Control & File Handling	Ch. 10	application	HW7 (Loops)	Lab7 (DNA Analysis)
8-2/27	Lists & Dictionaries	Ch. 11	application	HW8 (Strings)	Lab8 (Audio Signal Processing)
9-3/5	Classes	Ch. 12,13	application	HW9 (Classes)	Lab9 (Pollutant Tracking)
10-3/12	Visualization & Exceptions	Ch. 14,15	application	No HW	Lab10 (Plotting and Fitting)
11-3/19	Final Exam

Week	Concepts	detailed topics
1-1/9	Beginning, Variables, & Modules	Course introduction, general review of computer organization, program execution, importing packages, working in JupyterHub, objects and variables
2-1/16	Expressions & Modules	Assignments, name binding, numeric types, string introduction, module basics, finding modules, importing specific names from a module, execution modules as scripts, reloading modules, packages: bundles of modules, the standard library, high performance arrays using Numpy
3-1/23	Types	String basics, String formatting, List basics, Dictionary basics.  Container types, string slicing, advanced string formatting, strings as anonymous/nameless objects, string methods, splitting and joining strings, the string formatting method
4-1/30	Functions	User-defined functions, function parameters, returning values from functions, dynamic typing, functions as objects, scope, namespaces, function arguments, keyword arguments, defining default function parameter values, arbitrary argument lists, multiple function outputs
5-2/6	No Class	Review prior concepts
6-2/13	Branching & Loops & Exceptions	Code blocks, if-else statements, relational and equality operators, boolean operators and expressions, conditional expressions; while-loops, iterators, for-loops; handling exceptions using try-except, multiple exception handlers, raising exceptions, exceptions with functions.
7-2/20	Flow Control & File Handling	Multiple if-else statements, membership operators, iteration using the built-in range() function, while-loops vs for-loops, nested loops, modifying iteration using break and continue, iteration using by both index and value using enumerate()reading files; writing files, interfacing with the operating system and file systems, handling human-readable data, handling binary data, passing files via command-line arguments, using the with statement to create safe file handling contexts, parsing Comma Separated Value (CSV) files
8-2/27	Lists and Dictionaries	Lists, list methods, iterating over a list, nested lists, list slicing, loops that mutate lists, list comprehensions, sorting lists, command line arguments. dictionaries: dictionary methods, iterating over dictionaries, nested dictionaries
9-3/5	Classes	Intro to Object Oriented Programming (OOP), grouping data with classes, class methods, class and instance object types, class constructors, class interfaces, operator overloading and using classes to build complex custom numeric types
10-3/12	Visualization	Introduction to Matplotlib, plotting and visualizing data, styling plots, text and annotations