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Welcome to ENGR 131!
Syllabus
Syllabus
👋 Introduction to Programming for Engineers
📨 Contact Process
📖 Student Learning Information
📚 Course Materials
📆 Course Schedule
💯 Earning Credit
⏰ Late Assignments
🎓 Expectations of Students
🛑 Academic Policies
💙 Counseling Services
💡 Tips for Success
🎓 How to Get an A
Course Content
Week 1️⃣
📖 Readings
📖 Guide for Reading Materials
📖 🧑💻 How to Use JupyterLab
📖 Making Sure You Get Credit
📖 The Programming Mindset 🧠
📖 Programming, Design, and Engineering 🛠️
📖 Python Programming Language 🐍
📖 What is a Program? 🤔
❓ What is a Program
📖 Formal and Natural Languages: The Engineer’s Playbook 📚
❓ Formal vs. Natural Languages
📖 📝 Python Modules and Packages
❓ What is a Python Module?
📖 📓 Python Variables
❓ Variables
📖 🏈 Python Operators
❓Python Operators
👩🏫 Lecture
📝 Why Computer Programming is an Essential Skill
👨🏽👩🏾Engineering 131 Winter 2024 Instructors
📝 Who is Professor Agar
📝🧪🔬 Scientific Research in Agar’s Lab
📝 Accessing Course Content
🚀 Activity: Hello, World! JupyterHub
📝 🐍 Why Python?
📝 Programming Basics
📝 🖥️✨Computer Components: What’s Inside That Magic Box?
📝 🐉 Python Modules for Engineers
📝 🎉 Welcome to Variable Wonderland!
📝 🛠️ Engineering with Python Operators
🥨 Philly Pretzel Challenge!
🧪 Lab: Building a Computer
🗓️📚 Week 1: Attendance ✅
❓ Calculating Total Credits at Drexel! 🎓
Calculate Drexel Basketball Player’s Game Stats! 🏀
🏠 🧠 Homework 1 - Python with “The Office”
Week 2️⃣
📖 Readings
📖 The One with Python Strings 🎉
❓Pootie Tang’s Wild String Manipulation Adventures
📖 Python Datatypes: The Many White Houses of Code🎉
❓ Python Datatypes: The Periodic Table Edition 🧪
📖 Comments: Talking to Your Future Self (and Others) 💬
❓ Commenting
📖 🎯 Lists and Tuples through a Bucket List Adventure!
❓ 🔬 Materials Design: Lists and Tuples
📖 Python Dictionaries and Bad Vexillology Design
❓ Dictionaries and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 👀
📖 🎮 Precision in Python: Fixed-Point, Floating-Point, and Integer Representation
❓ Precision in Python: NIST Laboratory Adventures 🧪
📖 Data Precision and Its Impact on Energy Efficiency and Cost 💡
📖 🎶 Understanding Quantization with the THX Deep Note 🎶
👩🏫 Lecture
📝 🎉 Welcome to String Wonderland!
📝 🔋 Data Types
📝 🖋️ Python Commenting and Docstrings
❓ 🦴 Hytrl Skull Collection Problem
⭐ 🕹️ Evolution of Computing Through Video Game History
📝 🔬 Python Lists
📝 🏗️ Python Dictionaries
📝 🔬 Precision in Python: Integers and Floating-Point Numbers
❓ 🩺 Chevalier Jackson Collection Problem
🧪 🎮 Lab 2: Scrabble Game Calculator
🧪 🎮 Building a Scrabble Word Finder
🗓️📚 Week 2: Attendance ✅
❓ Python Basics: Data Structures and Types Quiz 🐍
❓ Python Basics: Data Structures and Types Quiz 🐍
🏠 Python Programming: Explore the Nutshell Studies 🕵️♀️🔍
Week 3️⃣
📖 Readings
📖 🎮 Errors in the Negative World 🌌
❓💥 Errors and Exceptions
📖 Debugging: The Fine Art of Problem-Squashing 🐛🔍
📖 Debugger in Jupyterlab
❓🐞 Debugging
📖 🛠️ Python Engineer’s Toolbox: Essential Tools for Mathematical and Computational Engineering
❓🐍 Python Tools for Engineering 🛠️
📖 🌟 NumPy Guide 🌟
❓ 🌊 Lotl of NumPy 🧪🐾
📖 🤖 What is Symbolic Computation?
📖 🛠️ Basic Operations with SymPy
📖 ✨ Printing with SymPy
📖 🧮
SymPy Calculus: Driving Engineering Solutions
📖 🧩 Solvers in SymPy: Cracking the Code of Engineering Problems
❓ ❌ Eliminate or ✅ Evaluate: Surviving the Sympy 🦑 Challenge!
👩🏫 Lecture
📝 ✈️ Errors in the Skies: Debugging Like an Engineer 🛠️
📝 Your First Program: Hello, Engineering! 🚀
📝 🍺 Debugging in a Beer-Making Plant: Brewing Perfect Code 🐛🔍
⭐ 🖥️ Introduction to Operating Systems, BIOS, Command Line, and File Systems
📝 Super Debugging Troopers 🚔🐱👤
📝 NumPy Quickstart Guide with a Rainman Spin 🌟
❓ Sorting M&Ms with NumPy
📝 Symbolic Computation with SymPy
❓ Dodgeball: Simple Symbolic Projectile Motion
🧪 🔩⚙️💪 Designing Composites with Optimal Mechanical Properties
🏠 Homework The Flight of the Angry Bird 🚀🐦
🗓️📚 Week 3: Attendance ✅
❓ 🏎️ NumPy Drift: Speeding Through Arrays at Lightning Speed 🏁
Week 4️⃣
📖 Readings
📖 Boolean:
Squid Game
Red Light, Green Light Edition 🦑🚥
📖 🤥 If-Else Statements: The Tale of Pinocchio’s Nose
❓ 🏞️ South Park Adventures 🧢🌲
📖 🤖 Loops in Python: Westworld Edition
📖 🟡 For Loops in Python: Pac-Man Style
📖 🕶️ Nested Loops in Python: The Matrix Style
📖 🥣
continue
,
break
, and
else
: Snap, Crackle, Pop in Python Loops
❓ 📓 Mortified: High School Diaries 📔💔
📖 🎥 While Loops in Python: TikTok Reels Style
❓ 🌺 50 First Dates 🌴💞
👩🏫 Lecture
📝 🤖🔌 Welcome to Boolean Logic in Engineering!
📝 🔧🌐 Decision-Making with
if-else
Statements in Python
💻 Activity 5.1: Nuclear Plant Temperature Alert
📝🔬 Automating Electron Microscopy Data Analysis with
for
Loops
📝 🤖🔧 Programming an Assembly Line: Nested Loops in Action
Quick Guide to Interactive Development Environments (IDEs) and Git
📝 🧪 Quantum Control with
continue
,
break
, and
else
📝 🏗️ Civil Engineering and
while
Loops: Understanding Bridge Resonance
💻 Activity: Taking Integrals with Loops
❓ Practice Quiz: Control Structures for Renewable Energy Applications
🧪 🎮LAB 4 : BATTLESHIP🎮
🗓️📚 Week 4: Attendance ✅
🏠🧙♂️📜 Casting Spells and Conditional Loops: Homework That Taps Your Mana!
Week 5️⃣
📖 Readings
🛠️ Function Junction, What’s Your Function? 🚂💻
❄️ Let it Flow, Let it Flow! 🚦
❓ Functions and Flow Control in the Mall
🎲 What Happens in the Function, Stays in the Function – Vegas Rules of Scope 🃏
❓ Shrinkflation Function Scope
🖖 Arguments and Parameters: The Spock & Captain Kirk Duo
🤖 Return Statements: “I’ll Be Back”—Just Like the Terminator, but with Data!
❓ Norman Doors - How, “Not” to Design Arguments, Parameters, and Return Statements
🛠️ Args and Kwargs: The Art of Flexible Functions
❓
*args
and
**kwargs
in Brawl Stars
👩🏫 Lecture
📝 🏗️ Engineering Applications of Python Functions
📝 🌊 Flow Control in Functions & Nested Function Calls
📝 📡 Returning Information from Functions: Best Practices in Engineering
💻 Activity: Toynbee Tiles: Error Handling, Function Definitions, and Returns
📝 🚀 Function Scope & Variable Assignment: Lessons from the Mars Climate Orbiter
📝 🌐 Internet and Networking Overview
📝 🎮 Mastering
*args
and
**kwargs
: Flexible Functions in Game Development
📝 ⚙️ Lambda Functions in Engineering: The Power of One-Liners
💻 Activity Rube Goldberg Machine: Modular Functions with *args and **kwargs
❓ Practice Quiz: Kanye Says the Darndest Things! 🤔
Week 6️⃣
🏠 🚀 Homework: Build Your Own
Star Wars
Title Scene! 🌌
🕹️ Pac-Man Python Challenge: Master Code Modularity & Functions! 🍒👻
🗓️📚 Week 6: Attendance ✅
Week 7️⃣
📖 Readings
🚀 Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python: The Silicon Valley Edition 💻
🏎️Object-Oriented Programming & Sports Cars 🏎️
🏓 Classes and Instances in Headis
☕ Mastering Object-Oriented Programming with Kopelauac Coffee
✍️ Implementing Change Methods in Classes: The Evolution of Helvetica
🎩 Mastering Magic Methods & Operator Overloading in Python
🦀 Magic Methods and the “Blue Blood” of Horseshoe Crabs
🚀 Advanced Python Classes: Unlocking Their Power
🥊 Python Inheritance & Methods: PowerSlap Edition
🏈 Inheritance in Python: Building NFL Madden Player Classes
🐱 Polymorphism in Python: Cat Breeds Edition
🔥 Polymorphism in Python: Pokémon Battle System
🦞 Abstraction in Python: Dali’s Lobster Telephone Edition
🚗 Abstraction in Python: The Single Bit Flip That Killed Toyota’s Accelerator
🐶 Multiple Inheritance in Python: Mixed Dog Breeds
⌚ Multiple Inheritance in Python: The Rolex GMT Master
👩🏫 Lecture
📝 🚀 Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Python
📝 Introduction to Classes and Instances in Python 🚀📚
📝 Change Methods in Python 🚀
📝✨ Magic Methods in Python ✨
💻 Engineering Material Simulation 🚀🔧
📝 Inheritance in Python 🚗📚👨👩👧👦
📝 Polymorphism in Python 🐍
✨ 🚀 Composable Software Deployments on Kubernetes✨
📝 Decorators and Abstraction in Python Classes 🎨📚
📝 Multiple Inheritance in Python 🐍✨
💻🦇 What We Code in the Shadows 💀💻
🗓️📚 Week 7: Lecture Attendance ✅
🧪🏠 Welcome to Azeroth! 🌍⚔️✨
❓A Manufacturing System using Object-Oriented Programming
🗓️📚 Week 7: Attendance ✅
Week 8️⃣
📖 Readings
📖 Principles of Effective Data Visualization
❓ Graphical Excellence Questions
📖 🐼
Pandas DataFrames: The Swiss Army Knife of Data!
📖 📊
Data Visualization with Seaborn: The Engineer’s Guide
🚀⚙️
❓ Seaborn Graphing Made Simple
📖 🦸
Superhero Analytics: The Data Tools Your Boss Doesn’t Know About!
🤫💻
❓ Welcome to the wild world of Zillow Gone Wild! 🏡✨
👩🏫 Lecture
📝 Introduction to Data Visualization 📈
💻 Activity: Refining a Simple Plot
📝 Choices for Figures 🎨
📝 Monte Carlo in a Circle ◯
📝Monte Carlo Math ≅
💻Activity: Curve Fitting 📊
📝Importance of Data Analysis and Visualization ❗
📝Deceptive data presentation 🛫 🛬
🗓️📚 Week 8: Attendance ✅
📝Cool Visualizations 🐝 🐊 🐏 🐢 🐬
🏗️ Mission: Bridge Safety Analysis – The Engineer’s Challenge! 🌉
🗓️📚 Week 8: Attendance ✅
🏠 Homework Week 8: Combining Concepts to Build Interoperable Code for Plotting 📊🔧
❓Quiz: Implicit Equation Plotting
Week 9️⃣
📖 Readings
🚀 Getting Started with scikit-image 🌟
🚀 A Crash Course on NumPy for Images
🧩 Image Segmentation: Dividing the World into Pixels of Interest
❓🧩 Survive in the World into Pixels of Interest
🤖 Welcome to the World of Machine Learning with Scikit-learn! 🎉
🎓 Supervised Learning with Scikit-learn: Teaching Machines Like an Engineer 🚀
🎯 Overfitting and Underfitting in Machine Learning: The Balancing Act ⚖️
🔍 Unsupervised Learning with Scikit-learn: Discovering Hidden Patterns 🎲
❓ Machine Learning with scikit-learn
👩🏫 Lecture
📝 🎨 Image Analysis in Python
📝 Image Filtering
📝 Analyzing Diatoms with scikit-image: A Classical Engineering Spin
Clash Royal Object Detection
📝 🤖 Introduction to Machine Learning: An Engineering Perspective
❓Machine Learning Fashion-MNIST 👗👖👕
🗓️📚 Week 9: Attendance ✅
Angry Birds Come Back!
Week 🔟
👩🏫 Lecture
Recommended Installation (Anaconda)
National Research Platform (NRP) - JupyterHub
📝 Visual Introduction to ML
📝 Overfitting
📝 Supervised Learning with Support Vector Machines (SVMs)
📝 🔍 Unsupervised Learning: K-Means Clustering in Engineering
📝 Dimensionality Reduction Using PCA: The Eigenfaces Example
📝 Pytorch Quickstart, a deep learning framework for Python 🤖
📝 What is a neural network
📝 Training a Classifier 🤖📚
📝 🌐 NLP From Scratch: Translation with a Sequence to Sequence Network and Attention 🌐
🗓️📚 Week 10: Attendance ✅
🗓️📚 Week 10: Attendance ✅
Practice Midterm
❓ ENGR131: Introduction to Programming for Engineers
❓ ENGR131: Practice Final: Introduction to Programming for Engineers
Viewing Your Grades 🚀
🚀 LockDown Browser Requirement 🖥️
🏈 Super Bowl Squares 🏈
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