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Contact Information:

Instructor:	Zachary Kurmas	Office:	MAK C-2-316 / DCIH 530G
Phone:	(616)-331-8688	Office Hours:	MW 2:30-4:00 (DCIH)
Home page:	https://KurmasGVSU.github.io		TTh In Allendale by appointment

E-mail is the best way to contact me. During the week, expect a reply within 24 hours. Also, feel free to visit my office any time the door is open, even if it isn't officially office hours.

For Winter semester, I plan to be downtown in DCIH on Mondays and Wednesdays only. I will be in my Allendale office most Tuesdays and some Thursdays. If you already on the Allendale campus, feel free to drop by. However, before making a special trip to Allendale, I suggest emailing me to make sure I'm available.

Course Documents:

• Syllabus
• CIS Academic Honesty Policy

Announcements:

I will post announcements at Piazza. Please check there regularly.

Discussion Board:

Please post questions about homework, projects, etc. to Piazza. Doing so allows everybody to see the question and answer and saves me the time of answering the same question multiple times. Other students can also answer your question, which may help you get a faster response.

PrairieLearn:

To access the PrairieLearn module for this course, visit https://us.prairielearn.com/pl/course_instance/145814. Choose "Log in with Google" and use your GVSU gmail account credentials.

Grades:

I will push a grade report into your Progress Report git repository about once per week.

Text:

The official textbook for this class is

• Foundations of Python Programming: Functions First Edition by Matthew Hrehirchuk et al.. https://runestone.academy/ns/books/published/foppff/frontmatter-1.html?mode=browsing
  (This is an online textbook accessible through Runestone.)

These books are also recommended. Both are freely available through the library's subscription to O'Reilly books.

• The Linux Command Line (2nd ed.) by William E. Shotts. ISBN: 978-1-59327-952-3
• Efficient Linux at the Command Line by Daniel J. Barrett. ISBN: 978-1098113407

Reference:

• Online Python textbooks:
  • Foundations of Python Programming (the text on which our textbook is based).
  • How to Think Like a Computer Scientist.
  • The interactive textbook from the Python Bakery project.
  • The Python and Pandas Field Guide
  • Learn Python the Right Way (also available as a pdfa
• Other Python resources:
  • The official Python web site
  • Tutorial/Reference from W3Schools
  • Standard Library
  • Reference for format strings
• Git resources:
  • The official git web site
  • git for Windows (also called "git bash")
• Setting up an ssh public/private keypair for use with GitHub:
  • My video
• YouTube playlist containing videos about Linux by Philip Gao.

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Updated Friday, 26 April 2024, 12:02 PM