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Syllabus 📜

  • Syllabus
    • 1.0 Introduction
    • 2.0 Contact Information
    • 3.0 Student Learning Information
    • 4.0 Course Materials
    • 5.0 Course Schedule
    • 6.0 Earning Credit
    • 7.0 Expectations of Students
    • 8.0 Academic Policies
    • 9.0 Counseling Services
    • 10.0 Tips For Success

Week 1️⃣

  • Lecture 👩‍🏫
    • 📝 Why Computer Programming is an Essential Skill
    • 📝 Who is Professor Capps
    • 📝 Who is Professor Agar
    • 👨🏽👩🏾Engineering 131 Winter 2024 Instructors
    • 📝 Accessing Course Content
    • 📝 How to Use JupyterHub
    • 💻 Activity: Hello World JupyterHub
    • 📝Why Python?
    • 📝Modules and Packages
    • 📝Programming Basics
    • 📝 Python Operators
    • 📝 Variables and Objects
    • 💻 Activity: Practice with Variables and Operators
  • 🧪 Lab 1 Assignment Workflow
  • 🏡📝 Homework 1 Hello World Python
  • Guide to Re-running an Action in GitHub

Week 2️⃣

  • Lecture 👩‍🏫
    • 📝Modules and Packages
    • 📝Programming Basics
    • 📝 Python Operators
    • 📝 Variables and Objects
    • 💻 Activity: Practice with Variables and Operators
    • 📝Data Types
    • 📝 Dictionaries
    • 📝 Collections in Python
    • 📝 Working with Strings
    • 💻 Activity 3.2: Profanity & Word Count Detector
  • 📝 Week 2 - Lab Intro
  • 🧪 Lab 2 Scrabble
  • 🏡📝 Homework 2 Using Python to Solve Math Problems
  • 🤔❓ Quiz 2 Hello World Python

Week 3️⃣

  • Lecture 👩‍🏫
    • 📝 Numerical Data Types
    • 📝 Dictionaries
    • 📝 Collections in Python
    • 💻 Activity 3.1: Indoor Temperature Control with Lists
    • 📝 Introduction to NumPy
    • 💻 Activity 3.2: Drawing a Blue “L” on an Image using NumPy and Matplotlib
  • 📝Week 3 - Lab Intro
  • 🧪🖥 Lab 3: Image Processing
  • 🏡📝 Homework 3 - Understanding Data Types
  • 🤔❓ Quiz 3 Using Python to Solve Math Problems

Week 4️⃣

  • Lecture 👩‍🏫
    • 📝 Conceptual Overview
    • 📝 Introduction to Functions
    • 💻 Activity 4.1: Build a function to convert inches to feet
    • 📝Functions as Objects
    • 📝 Dynamic Behavior in Python
    • 💻 Activity 4.2: Solving an Old School Punishment With a New Trick
    • 📝 Debugging in Python
    • 📝 Return Output using Functions
    • 💻 Activity 4.3: Analyzing Text
    • 💻 Activity 4.4: Using Functions to Build the Game of Craps
  • 📝Week 4 - Lab Intro
  • Lab Activity: Training a Neural Network Classifier
  • 🏡📝 Homework 4 - Functions
  • 🤔❓ Quiz 4 DataTypes
  • 💪 Midterm Practice

Week 5️⃣

  • 📖😊🎓 Midterm Exam
  • 🧪🖥 Week 5 - Set up Local Jupyter Notebooks

Week 6️⃣

  • Lecture 👩‍🏫
    • 📝 Introduction to Branching
    • 💻 Activity 6.1: Nuclear Plant Temperature Alert
    • 📝 Introduction to Loops with Integrals
    • 💻 Activity 6.2: Taking integrals with loops
    • 💻 Activity 6.3: Advancing integral evaluations by combining loops and branches
  • 📝Week 6 - Lab Intro
  • Lab 6: Rock, Paper, Scissors Game
  • 🏡📝 Homework 6 - Branching

Lecture 7️⃣

  • 👩‍🏫 Lecture 7
    • Ordered Iteration
    • Accessing Items in a List
    • 💻 Activity: Accessing Items in a List
    • Interrupting Loops
    • 💻 Activity: Write the modulus operator using a while loop
    • Review of Enumerate
    • File Handling
  • 📝 Week 7 - Lab Intro
  • 🧪 Lab 7: DNA Analysis
  • 🏡📝 Homework 7 - Loops and Flow Control

Week 8

  • 👩‍🏫 Lecture 8
    • 📝Classes
    • 💻 Activity: Building a Sensor Class
    • 📝 Creating Multiple Objects of a Class
    • 📝 Inheritance
    • 📝 Creating a Class for Storing and Operating on Information
    • 💻 Activity: Create a Class for Parallel Circuits
    • 💻 Activity: Create a Class for Parallel Circuits (solution)
    • 💻 Activity: Building the game LCR
  • 🧪 📝 Week 8 - Lab Intro
  • 🧪 Lab 8: Audio Synthesis with Numpy
  • 🏡📝 Homework 8
  • 🤔❓ ⌛️ Quiz 8 Practice - Using Functions
  • 🤔❓ Quiz Link

week 9

  • 👩‍🏫 Lecture 9
    • 📝 Introduction to Plotting in Python
    • 💻 Activity: Refining a Simple Plot
    • 📝 Choices for Figures
    • 💻 Activity: Making a Updated Bubble Plot of Engineering Jobs
    • 📝 Curve Fitting
    • 📝 Interactive Plotting with Bokeh
  • 🧪 Lab 9: Pollutant Triangulation
  • 🧪 📝 Week 9 - Lab Intro
  • 🏡📝 Homework 9
  • 🤔❓ ⌛️ Quiz 9 Practice - Classes
  • 🤔❓ Quiz Link

week 10

  • 📚✍️🧠 Practice Final
  • 🧪 📝 Week 10 - Lab Intro
  • 💻🧪 Lab 10: Combining Concepts to Build Interoperable Code for Plotting
  • Repository
  • Open issue
  • .md

Lecture 7

Lecture 7#

  1. Ordered Iteration

  2. Accessing Items in a List

  3. 💻 Activity: Accessing Items in a List

  4. Interrupting Loops

  5. 💻 Activity: Write the modulus operator using a while loop

  6. Review of Enumerate

  7. File Handling

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By Shannon Capps and Joshua C. Agar

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