Summer 2011 CS2316 Calendar

References

Week 1: May 16th-20th - Introduction, Python, Functions, Conditionals

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday, May 17th	Course Syllabus Read: ThinkCS Chapters 1 & 2 Read: Differences Between Python 2 and Python 3	GIMP for windows GIMP for MacOSX VariablesTypesMath.ppt CS2316 - Where it fits.pdf CS 1803 - Fall 2010 course website CS 1803 - Spring 2011 course website
Recitation	Watch Video: Fun with Pair Programming Read PIP3: Chapter 1 (for an overview of Python) Read: ThinkCS Chapter 3 - Functions Read: WhatIsAllowed.pdf	Python (version 3.2) http://www.python.org Reference: Python Language Reference: Function Definitions Functions.ppt
Thursday, May 19th	Read PIP3: Chapter 2 - Data Types Read ThinkCS Chapter 4 - Conditionals Read ThinkCS Chapter 5 - Fruitful Functions HW 0 - Due before 11:55pm!	Reference: Python Language Manual: IF statement Python is #7 in the world! Coffee RA

Week 2: May 23rd-27th - Iteration, Strings, Lists, Recursion & Exceptions

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday May 24th	Read PIP3 Chapter 3 - Collections Data types (Skip Set Types and Ordered Dictionaries) Read ThinkCS Chapter 6 - Iteration Read ThinkCS Chapter 7 - Strings HW 1 Due before 11:55pm!	Reference: Python Reference Manual: For & While statements String Methods String Formatting Reference:Python 3 String Documentation Reference: Dive Chapter 2: Native Datatypes Reference: Dive Chapter 4: Strings
Recitation - Wednesday, May 25th	Read PIP4: Control Structures p159-167, p171-177 Read ThinkCS Chapter 9 - Lists
Thursday, May 26th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 11 - Recursion & exceptions HW2 Due before 11:55pm!	Code: get_int.py Introduction to the Fibonacci sequence by Tool (Lateralus) Reference: Dive Chapter 7: Classes & Iterators Python-Review1.pdf

Week 3: May 30th-June 3rd - Dictionaries, File I/O & CSV Files

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday May 31st	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 12 - Dictionaries	Reference: Dive Chapter 11 - Files code: findLetter.py
Recitation - June 1st	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 10 - Modules & Files Read: PIP3: Chapter 5 (pgs. 195-199, 202-207) - Modules
Thursday June 2nd	HW 3 Due before 11:55pm Read: PIP3: Chapter 7 (pgs. 305-312) - Text Files Read DMSI:CSV Files	filterFile.py

Week 4: June 6th-10th - Modules, Basic Python Objects & GUI programming

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday June 7th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 13 - Classes and Objects Read: ThinkCS Chapter 14 - Classes and Functions Read: ThinkCS Chapter 15 - Classes and Methods PIP3: Chapter 6 (pgs.233-245)- Object Oriented Programming Read: ThinkCS Chaper 16 - Sets of Objects	Code: simple_object_demo.py Point.py Reference: Dive 7.1-7.4 (Classes & Iterators)
Recitation
Thursday, June 9th	HW 4 - Greedy Scheduler due before 11:55pm Read PIP3: Chapter 15 - Introduction to GUI Programming Read sections 1-5 of An Introduction to Tkinter	MyApp.py Python Review 2.pdf Fall 2010 Exam 1.pdf Fall 2010 Exam 1 - Answers cs1803-spring2011-exam1.pdf cs1803-spring2011-exam1-key.pdf Practice Exam 2.pdf Practice Exam 2 - Answers.pdf cs1803-exam2-fall2010.pdf cs1803-exam2-fall2010-answers.pdf TimedLabExam2Question7.pdf TimedLabExam2Question7-gradingKey.pdf cs1803-spring2011-exam2.pdf cs1803-spring2011-exam2-answers.pdf

TA Led Exam Review: Saturday June 11th - 3pm

Week 5: June 13th-17th - Exam 1, & GUI's and Event Driven Programming

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday June 14th	Exam 1	cs2316-exam1-summer2011.pdf cs2316-exam1-summer2011-answers.pdf
Recitation	Timed Lab 1	Timed Lab 1 PDF file
Thursday June 16th	Read DMSI: Graphical User Interfaces Read sections 6-7 of An Introduction to Tkinter	frame_pack_demo.py frame_grid_demo.py

Week 6: June 20th-24th - GUI's, URLLib & Regular Expressions

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday June 21st	Read about canvases.	Code: canvas_demo.py Code: show_photo.py cg.gif Code:tic-tac-toe GUI More Info: The game of Tic-Tac-Toe Simple TTT code, with exhaustive search: ttt-simple.py Code: ttt-smart.py
Recitation	Read sections 8 & 9 of An Introduction to Tkinter New Partner Assignments pair_programming_partner_review.pdf
Thursday, June 23rd	HW5 - Factory due before 11:55pm Read PIP: Pages 225-226 - Network and Internet Programming Read: DMSI: Web Scraping Read: DIVE Chapter 5 Regular Expressions	Code: readWeb_ajc.py Read: PIP3: Chapter 13 - Regular Expressions Code: readAJC_regex.py Code: simple_object_demo.py Code: SimpleSimWorld2.py

Week 7: June 27th - July 1st - Reading the Web & SQL Basics

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday June 28th	Read: Legal Issues with Web Scraping Read: Screen-Scraping Ethics Read: WSJ: 'Scrapers' Dig Deep for Data on Web Read HOWTO: Fetch Internet Resources using the urllib Package	HTTP Web Services from DIVE. The AJC's Terms of Service / Visitor Agreement Code: Radio Button Demo
Recitation	Install pymysql3: HOWTO_install_pymysql_windows.pdf. pymysql3-Mac-instructions.pdf. Zip file can be downloaded from here. How to access the database from off campus.	Interactive RegEx tool An example table of data on the web
Thursday June 30th	HW 6 GUI-Scheduler Due before 11:55pm. Read: DMSI: Database Connectivity 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

Week 8: July 4th-8th - Databases, SQL & Software Engineering Practices

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday July 5th	Mini-HW 7 Due before 11:55pm! Read PIP3: Pgs 480-488 - SQL Databases Read about the SQL Like statement and wildcards. Read about the SQL Count function. Read about the SQL Sum and Avg functions, and the GROUP BY statement.	contacts_pymysql.py
Recitation	RA - SQL Practice	Local Databases: Sqlite example code: contacts_sqlite.py
Thursday July 7th	HW 8 - Web Table Reader Due before 11:55pm Re-Read Section 5.2 and 5.8 (Program Development & Doctest) from ThinkCSpy.	xml_weather.py weather_download.py

Week 9: July 11th-15th - Parsing XML

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday July 12th	Read Chapter 12. XML from Dive Into Python 3. Read PIP3: Pgs 312-316.	Code sample: example_xml_writer.py Data sample:exampleOUT.xml Code Sample: example_xml_reader.py Code Sample: weatherWebpage.py
Recitation
Thursday July 14th	In-Class Review HW 9 - NewsVender	Practice Exam 2.pdf Practice Exam 2 - Answers.pdf cs1803-exam2-fall2010.pdf cs1803-exam2-fall2010-answers.pdf TimedLabExam2Question7.pdf TimedLabExam2Question7-gradingKey.pdf cs1803-spring2011-exam2.pdf cs1803-spring2011-exam2-answers.pdf PracticeExam3.pdf PracticeExam3-Key.pdf cs1803-exam3-fall2010.pdf cs1803-exam3-fall2010-answers.pdf cs1803-spring2011-exam3.pdf cs1803-spring2011-exam3-key.pdf cs1803-timed-lab3-sql-chat.pdf

TA Led Review: Sunday 3pm

Week 10: July 18th-22nd - Exam 2

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday July 19th	Exam 2	cs2316-exam2-summer2011.pdf cs2316-exam2-summer2011-answers.pdf
Recitation	Timed Lab 2	Timed Lab 2.pdf
Thursday July 21st		Code Sample:xml_write.py Code Sample: sql2xml.py

Week 11: July 25th-29th - Review

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Tuesday July 26th	HW 10 - Using XML
Recitation
Thursday July 28th	Read: Py2EXE tutorial	Py2EXE demo files: canvasDemo24.py hello.py setup.py An alternate way to package scripts into executables is cx-freeze

Extra Material

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
	Read this webpage on functional programming in Python. Read PIP3: Pgs 182-183 - Lambda Functions Read PIP3: Pgs 395-398 - Functional-Style Programming	List of 32,000 common words Cheating_Hangman1.py SimWorld.py

Final Review: Sunday, 3pm Location College of Computing Building (CCB) Room 102

Final Exam date/time: Tuesday August 2nd 2:50-5:40pm