Fall 2010 CS1803 Calendar

References

Week 1: August 23rd-27th - Introduction, Python

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, August 23rd	Course Syllabus Read: ThinkCS Chapters 1 & 2 Read: WhatIsAllowed.pdf	GIMP for windows GIMP for MacOSX CS1803 - Where it fits.pdf
Workshop	NO WORKSHOP THE FIRST WEEK OF CLASS!
Wednesday, August 25th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 3 - Functions	Reference: Python Language Reference: Function Definitions
Friday, August 27th	Read ThinkCS Chapter 4 - Conditionals Read: ThinkCS Chapter 5 - Fruitful Functions	Reference: Python Language Manual: IF statement

Week 2: August 30th - September 3rd - Iteration, Strings & Lists

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, August 30th	Read ThinkCS Chapter 6 - Iteration HW 0 - Due before 6pm	Reference: Python Reference Manual: For & While statements
Workshop	Watch Video: Fun with Pair Programming
Wednesday, September 1st	Read ThinkCS Chapter 7 - Strings Read ThinkCS Chapter 9 - Lists HW1 Due before 6pm!	String Methods String Formatting Reference: Dive Chapter 2: Native Datatypes Reference: Dive Chapter 4: Strings
Friday, September 3rd	Python Review 1	Python-Review1.pdf

Week 3: September 6th - 10th - Dictionaries, Exceptions, Recursion

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, September 6th	- School Holiday - No Classes
Wednesday, September 8th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 11 - Recursion & exceptions HW2 Due before 6pm	Code: get_int.py
Friday, September 10th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 12 - Dictionaries

Week 4: September 13th-17th - Files & Python Objects

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, September 13th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 10 - Modules & files	Reference: Dive Chapter 11 - Files Introduction to the Fibonacci sequence by Tool (Lateralus)
Workshop
Wednesday, September 15th	Read DMSI: Introduction to Python 3 HW 3 Due before 6pm
Friday, September 17th		Reference:Python 3.1.2 String Documentation

Week 5: September 20th - 24th - Reading & Writing CSV files

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, September 20th	Exam Review Read DMSI:CSV Files	Python Review 2.pdf
Workshop
TA Led Exam Review	Boggs B6 - Tuesday Sep 21st - 6pm
Wednesday, September 22nd	Exam 1	Exam 1.pdf Exam 1 - Answers
Friday, September 24th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 13 - Objects	Reference: Dive Chapter 7: Classes & Iterators parseMoney.py

Week 6: September 27th - October 1st - GUI's

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, September 27th	Read DMSI: Graphical User Interfaces Read sections 1-5 of An Introduction to Tkinter
Workshop
Wednesday, September 29th	HW4 Due before 6pm
Friday, October 1st	Read sections 6-7 of An Introduction to Tkinter	Code:tic-tac-toe GUI

Week 7: October 4th-8th - Exhaustive Search Spaces & Dynamic GUI's

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 4th	Read about The game of Tic-Tac-Toe
Workshop
Wednesday October 6th	Read sections 8 & 9 of An Introduction to Tkinter	Simple TTT code, demonstrating exhaustive search of all possible game outcomes: ttt-simple.py
Friday, October 8th	Read about canvases. HW 5 Due before 6pm	Code: ttt-smart.py

Week 8: October 11th-15th - Reading the Web

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 11th	Read HOWTO: Fetch Internet Resources using the urllib Package	Code: canvas_demo.py HTTP Web Services from DIVE.
Workshop
Wednesday October 13th	Read: Legal Issues with Web Scraping Read: Screen-Scraping Ethics Read: WSJ: 'Scrapers' Dig Deep for Data on Web	Code: readWeb_ajc.py The AJC's Terms of Service / Visitor Agreement
Friday, October 15th	~~HW 6 Due before 6pm~~ Last day to drop an individual course with a W grade	An example table of data on the web

Week 9: October 18-22nd - Review

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 18th	Fall Break - No classes or Workshop Extended Deadline for HW6 - Before 6pm
Wednesday October 20th
Friday, October 22nd	mini-HW 7 Due before 6pm Review	Practice Exam 2.pdf Practice Exam 2 - Answers.pdf

TA Led Exam Review: Sunday October 24th at 4pm - College of Computing room 16 (downstairs)

Week 10: October 25th-29th - Databases & SQL

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 25th	Exam 2 pair_programming_partner_review.pdf	cs1803-exam2-fall2010.pdf cs1803-exam2-fall2010-answers.pdf TimedLabExam2Question7.pdf TimedLabExam2Question7-gradingKey.pdf
Workshop
Wednesday October 27th	Read all of SQL Basic from the W3Schools SQL Tutorial Read about the Connection and Cursor objects from PEP 249 - Python Database API Spec v2.0
Friday, October 29th	Read about the SQL Like statement and wildcards.

Week 11: November 1st-5th - More SQL

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday November 1st	Read about the SQL Count function.	contacts_sqlite.py
Workshop	Install pymysql3: HOWTO_install_pymysql_windows.pdf. pymysql3-Mac-instructions.pdf. Zip file can be downloaded from here.
Wednesday November 3rd	Read about the SQL Sum and Avg functions, and the GROUP BY statement.
Friday, November 5th	HW 8 Due before 6pm	contacts_pymysql.py

Week 12: November 8th-12th - Software Engineering Practices & Object Oriented Programming

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday November 8th	Re-Read Section 5.2 and 5.8 (Program Development & Doctest) from ThinkCSpy. Read Chapter 13: Classes & Objects from ThinkCSpy.
Workshop
Wednesday November 10th	Read 7.1-7.4 (Classes & Iterators) from Dive into Python 3.
Friday, November 12th	Read this webpage on functional programming in Python. HW 9 due before 6pm	SimWorld.py

Week 13: November 15th-19th - Parsing XML & Exam Review

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday November 15th	Read Chapter 12. XML from Dive Into Python 3.	xml_weather.py xml_write.py
Workshop
Wednesday November 17th		PracticeExam3.pdf PracticeExam3-Key.pdf
Friday, November 19th	Review

TA Led Review Session: 4:30pm Sunday November 21st. Howey Physics Room L2

Week 14: November 22nd - 26th - Exam & Packaging Programs

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday November 22nd	Date for Exam 3	cs1803-exam3-fall2010.pdf cs1803-exam3-fall2010-answers.pdf
Workshop
Wednesday November 24th	HW 11 Due before 6pm Read: Py2EXE tutorial	Py2EXE demo files: canvasDemo24.py hello.py setup.py
Friday, November 26th	Thanksgiving Break - No Class

Week 15: Nov 29th-Dec 3rd - Practical Programs

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, November 29th	HW 10 Due before 6pm	Code Sample: weatherWebpage.py
Workshop
Wednesday December 1st		Code Sample: sql2xml.py
Friday, December 3rd		Code Sample: sqlVizTool.py

Week 16: Dec 6th - 10th - Review

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday December 6th	HW 12 - Your Program Due! No Late Turn-in!
Workshop
Wednesday December 8th		Code sample: example_xml_writer.py Data sample:exampleOUT.xml Code Sample: example_xml_reader.py
Friday, December 10th

TA Led Review Session: Sunday Dec 12th, 3pm - College of Computing Building, Room 16

Final Exam date/time: Period 3 - Monday December 13th 2:50-5:40pm