Spring 2012 CS2316 Calendar

References

Week 1: January 9th-13th - Introduction, Python, Conditionals

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Jan 9th	Course Syllabus Read: ThinkCS Chapters 1 & 2 Read: WhatIsAllowed.pdf	GIMP for windows GIMP for MacOSX CS 2316 - Workload.pdf CS2316 - Where it fits.pdf CS 2316 - Fall 2011 course website CS 2316 - Summer 2011 course website CS 1803 - Spring 2011 course website
Workshop	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 3 - Hello, little turtles!	Python (version 3.2.2) http://www.python.org If you have a Mac, read this: IDLE and tkinter with Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X and install the appropriate version of ActiveTcl for your Mac OS X version. A list of TK color "names"
Wednesday, Jan 11th	Read ThinkCS Chapter 4 - Functions Read: Differences Between Python 2 and Python 3	Reference: Python Language Reference: Function Definitions VariablesTypesMath.ppt Functions.ppt keywords vs. identifiers PIP3: Chapter 1
Friday, Jan 13th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 5 - Conditionals Read: ThinkCS Chapter 6 - Fruitful Functions	Reference: Python Language Manual: IF statement Python is #8 in the world!

Week 2: January 16th - 20th - Iteration, Strings, Lists & Recursion

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Jan 16th	School Holiday - No Classes! Read ThinkCS Chapter 7 - Iteration	Reference: Python Reference Manual: For & While statements
Workshop	HW 0 - Due Watch Video: Fun with Pair Programming
Wednesday, Jan 18th	Read ThinkCS Chapter 8 - Strings HW1 - Python Practice 1 Due	String Methods String Formatting Reference:Python 3 String Documentation PIP3: Chapter 2 Reference: Dive Chapter 2: Native Datatypes Reference: Dive Chapter 4: Strings lecture4_python.py
Friday, Jan 20th	Read ThinkCS Chapter 11 - Lists	lecture5_review.py Code: lecture6.py

Week 3: January 23rd - 27th - Lists, Recursion & Dictionaries

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, January 23rd
Workshop	list-RQ iteration-RA
Wednesday, Jan 25th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 18 & 19 - Recursion & exceptions HW2 - Python Practice 2 Due	lecture7.py Python-Review1.pdf PIP3: Chapter 3 Code: get_int.py Introduction to the Fibonacci sequence by Tool (Lateralus) Reference: Dive Chapter 7: Classes & Iterators
Friday, January 27th		Reference: Dive Chapter 11 - Files

Week 4: January 30th - February 3rd - Modules & File I/O

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Jan 30th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 20 - Dictionaries	filterFile.py feb_7th-lecture.py
Workshop	Exam Review	Exam 1 Vocabulary list feb11_lecture.py Python Review 2.pdf Fall 2010 Exam 1.pdf Fall 2010 Exam 1 - Answers cs1803-spring2011-exam1.pdf cs1803-spring2011-exam1-key.pdf
Wednesday, Feb 1st	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 12 & 13 - Modules & files HW3 - Enigma Fun Due	cs2316-exam1-fall2011.pdf cs2316-exam1-fall2011-answers.pdf
Friday, Feb 3rd	EXAM 1	cs2316-exam1-spring2012.pdf cs2316-exam1-spring2012-answers.pdf

Week 5: February 6th - 10th Basic Objects, Reading & Writing CSV files

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Feb 6th	Read DMSI:CSV Files	Pickle Module documentation
Workshop	Practice Timed Lab	cs2316-fall2011-tl1-string-stats.pdf
Wednesday, Feb 8th	HW4 - Lifeguard Ranker Due Read: ThinkCS Chapter 15 - Classes and Objects - the Basics Read 7.1-7.4 (Classes & Iterators) from Dive into Python 3.	PIP3: Chapter 6 (pgs.233-245) lecture_feb16.txt
Friday, Feb 10th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 16 - Classes - Digging a little deeper Read: ThinkCS Chapter 21 - Even more OOP	guiDemo.py parseMoney.py feb18_lecture.py

Week 6: February 13th - 17th - GUI's

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Feb 13th	Read DMSI: Graphical User Interfaces Read sections 1-5 of An Introduction to Tkinter	PIP3: Chapter 15 - Introduction to GUI Programming feb21_lecture.py Point.py
Workshop
Wednesday, Feb 15th	HW 5 - GUI File Reader (Joint Probability) Due Read sections 6-7 of An Introduction to Tkinter	labels_colors.py Code:tic-tac-toe GUI More Info: The game of Tic-Tac-Toe
Friday, Feb 17th	Read sections 8 & 9 of An Introduction to Tkinter Progress reports for 1000 & 2000 level classes due!	EntryDemo.py radioButtonDemo.py Exam 2 Vocabulary list 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 Summer 2011 Timed Lab 1 cs2316-exam2-fall2011.pdf cs2316-exam2-fall2011-answers.pdf cs2316-fall2011-tl2-element-finder.pdf tl2-test-file.csv

Week 7: February 20th-24th - Dynamic GUI's, Objects, & Exam 2

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Feb 20th		Code: Radio Button Demo
Workshop	Timed Lab 2
Wednesday Feb 22nd	Read about canvases. Read: ThinkCS Chaper 22 - Sets of Objects	PIP3: Chapter 6 - Object Oriented Programming Simple TTT code, demonstrating exhaustive search of all possible game outcomes: ttt-simple.py Code: ttt-smart.py
Friday, Feb 24th	EXAM 2	cs2316-exam2-spring2012.pdf cs2316-exam2-spring2012-answers.pdf

Week 8: February 27th - March 2nd - URLLib & Regular Expressions

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Feb 27th	Read: DIVE Chapter 5 Regular Expressions	Code: canvas_demo.py HTTP Web Services from DIVE. Read PIP: Pages 225-226
Workshop	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.
Wednesday Feb 29th	Read: DMSI: Web Scraping Read: Legal Issues with Web Scraping Read: Screen-Scraping Ethics Read: WSJ: 'Scrapers' Dig Deep for Data on Web	RegEx Practice Test RegExer practice site
Friday, Mar 2nd	HW6 Box Packer Due! Read HOWTO: Fetch Internet Resources using the urllib Package	Code: readWeb_ajc.py Code: readAJC_regex.py The AJC's Terms of Service / Visitor Agreement image_download.py An example table of data on the web Last day to drop an Withdraw from an individual course.

Week 9: March 5th - 9th - Databases

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Mar 5th		scrapeAddressData.py
Workshop
Wednesday Mar 7th	Mini-HW7 Simple Web Scraper Due Read: DMSI: Database Connectivity
Friday, Mar 9th	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 10: March 12th - 16th - Databases & SQL

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Mar 12th	Read about the SQL Like statement and wildcards. Read about the SQL Count function.	Read PIP3: Pgs 480-488 cs2316-fall2011-tl3-class-finder.pdf tl3.html tl3a.html
Workshop	Timed Lab 3 pair_programming_partner_review.pdf
Wednesday Mar 14th	EXAM 3	Exam 3 Vocab List cs2316-exam3-spring2012.pdf cs2316-exam3-spring2012-answers.pdf
Friday, Mar 16th 28th	HW8 - Data Merge Due Read about the SQL Sum and Avg functions, and the GROUP BY statement.	contacts_pymysql.py contacts_sqlite.py

Spring Break! March 19th-23rd!

Week 11: March 26th - 30th - Ant Farm & Functional Programming

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Mar 26th
Workshop
Wednesday Mar 28th	HW9 - GT Chat Login	cs2316-exam3-fall2011.pdf cs2316-exam3-fall2011-answers.pdf
Friday, Mar 30th	Read this webpage on functional programming in Python.	PIP3: Pgs 182-183 - Lambda Functions PIP3: Pgs 395-398 - Functional-Style Programming

Week 12: April 2nd - 6th - Parsing XML, Software Engineering Practices

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Apr 2nd	Re-Read Section 5.2 and 5.8 (Program Development & Doctest) from ThinkCSpy. Read Chapter 12. XML from Dive Into Python 3.	Read PIP3: Pgs 312-316. xml_weather.py weather_download.py
Workshop
Wednesday Apr 4th	HW9b-GT Chat Due	Code Sample: writeSimpleXML.py xml_demo.py
Friday, Apr 6th	Read DMSI: XML	Code sample: example_xml_writer.py Data sample:exampleOUT.xml Code Sample: example_xml_reader.py

Week 13: April 9th - 13th - Case Studies

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Apr 9th		delFromList.py SimWorld.py Code Sample:xml_write.py
Workshop
Wednesday Apr 11th	HW 10 - IBM-XML Due!	Code Sample: weatherWebpage.py DOTdisplay.py
Friday, Apr 13th

Week 14: April 16th - 20th - Review & Exam 4

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Apr 16th	Review	Code Sample: sql2xml.py cs2316-exam4-vocab.pdf cs2316-exam2-summer2011.pdf cs2316-exam2-summer2011-answers.pdf Exam4Review-SQL-pymysql-basicXML.pdf PracticeExam3.pdf PracticeExam3-Key.pdf cs1803-exam3-fall2010.pdf cs1803-exam3-fall2010-answers.pdf cs1803-spring2011-exam3.pdf cs1803-spring2011-exam3-key.pdf cs2316-exam4-fall2011.pdf cs2316-exam4-fall2011-answers.pdf cs2316-exam5-fall2011.pdf cs2316-exam5-fall2011-answers.pdf
Workshop	Timed Lab 4	cs2316-fall2011-tl5-xml-processing.pdf gamesdata.xml cs2316-fall2011-tl4-sql-manipulation.pdf
Wednesday Apr 18th
Friday, Apr 20th	EXAM 4	cs2316-exam4-spring2012.pdf cs2316-exam4-spring2012-answers.pdf

Week 15: April 23rd - 27th - Dead Week Review

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Apr 23rd		List of 32,000 common words Cheating_Hangman.py
Workshop
Wednesday Apr 25th	HW 11 - Ant Farm Due!	Read: Py2EXE tutorial Py2EXE demo files: canvasDemo24.py hello.py setup.py
Friday, Apr 27th

Final Exam - Period 15: Friday May 4th, 2:50-5:40pm, CULC 144