| Week | Date | Topics | Reading | Milestones | |
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| 1 | Mon. 28 Aug. | Introduction (slides) Python Basics Variables, input, and output (notes) Expressions Using PrairieLearn |
zyBook Sections 1.2 - 1.5; 1.9, 2.1, 2.2 |
Assign First Day Survey In-Class 1 |
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| Wed. 30 Aug. | Function basics (notes) | zyBook Sections 6.1 and 6.4 | In-Class 2 | ||
| 2 | Mon. 4 Sep. | Labor Day No Class | |||
| Tue. 5 Sep. | Review of programming basics | ||||
| Wed. 6 Sep. | Objects (notes) Div/Mod Using modules |
zyBook Sections 2.3-2.10 |
In-Class 3 |
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| 3 | Mon. 11 Sep. | Decisions (notes) "Stand Alone" Python (notes) Modules Unit testing |
zyBook Chapter 4 | In-Class 4 Assign Project 1: Simple Date Module |
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| Wed. 13 Sep. | String and List Basics Loops (notes) |
zyBook Sections 3.1 and 3.3 zyBook Chapter 5 ` |
In-Class 5 Assign Project 1: Simple Date Module |
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| 4 | Mon. 18 Sep. | GitHub GitHub Classroom |
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| Wed. 20 Sep. | More Loops Quiz: cd |
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| Fri. 22 Sep. | TBD | Due Project 1: Simple Date Module | |||
| 5 | Mon. 25 Sep. | Looping by index Additional loop techniques (break, continue, loop else) Enumerate with lists |
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In-Class 6 In-Class 7 (on your own) In-Class 8 |
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| Wed. 27 Sep. | Lists (notes) Tuples Quiz lp (cd) |
zyBook Chapter 8 zyBook Section 3.4 |
In-Class 9 | ||
| Fri. 29 Sep. | Due Project 1: Simple Date Module | ||||
| 6 | Mon. 2 Oct. | Dictionaries (notes) | zyBook Sections 8.12 - 8.14 | In-Class 11 | |
| Wed. 4 Oct. | Classes (notes) Quiz ut (lp, cd) |
zyBook Chapter 9 | Assign Project 2: Wordle v1 | ||
| 7 | Mon. 9 Oct. | Loop review | |||
| Wed. 11 Oct. | Sets Files Quiz ut |
zyBook Section 3.5 zyBook Chapter 12 |
In-Class 12 |
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| 8 | Mon. 16 Oct. | Files | |||
| Wed. 18 Oct. | Exceptions (notes) Quiz ds (lp, ut) |
zyBook Chapter 10 | |||
| 9 | Mon. 23 Oct. | Fall break. No class | |||
| Wed. 25 Oct. | Classes | zyBook Chapter 9 | Due Project 2: Wordle v1 | ||
| 10 | Mon. 30 Oct. | More classes | Assign Project 3: Simple Date Class | ||
| Wed. 1 Nov. | Review of dictionarys, file reading, and list comprehensions Quiz fc (ds, lp) |
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| 11 | Mon. 6 Nov. | Inheritance Recursion |
zyBook Chapter 13 zyBook Chapter 14 |
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| Wed. 8 Nov. | Inheritance | zyBook Chapter 13 | |||
| Fri. 10 Nov. | Due Project 3: Simple Date Class | ||||
| 12 | Mon. 13 Nov. | Recursion | zyBook Chapter 14 | Assign Project 4: "Choose your own" | |
| Wed. 15 Nov. | Recursion Algoritym Ananysis |
zyBook Chapter 14 Miller/Ranum Chapter 3 |
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| 13 | Mon. 20 Nov. | Searching and Sorting Algoritym Ananysis (notes) |
zkBook Chapter 16 Miller/Ranum Chapter 3 |
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| Wed. 22 Nov. | Thanksgiving No class | ||||
| 14 | Mon. 27 Nov. | Searching and Sorting | zkBook Chapter 16 | ||
| Wed. 29 Nov. | Searching and Sorting Linked lists |
zkBook Chapter 16 Miller/Ranum Chapter 4 |
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| 15 | Mon. 4 Dec. | Stacks, Lists, Queues | Miller/Ranum Chapter 4 | ||
| Tue. 5 Dec. | Due Project 4: "Choose your own" | ||||
| Wed. 6 Dec. | Stacks, Lists, Queues | Miller/Ranum Chapter 4 | |||
| 16 | Tue. 12 Dec. | Final Exam: 4:00 p.m. | |||
| Wed. 13 Dec. | Final Exam: 2:00 p.m. or 4:00 p.m. |
| Due | Name | Details |
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| Fri. 29 Sep. | Project 1: Simple Date Module | |
| Wed. 25 Oct. | Project 2: Wordle v1 | |
| Fri. 10 Nov. | Project 3: Simple Date Class | |
| Tue. 5 Dec. | Project 4: "Choose your own" |
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