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References

Python.org's Python Tutorial
python.org
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist @ Open Book Project
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist @ Green Tree Press
Introduction to Computer Science via Robots
Building Skills in Python
Software:
- python/IDLE for windows
- python/IDLE for Mac Click on "an installer for the latest version", but then pick packages for version 2.4.
- Myro Robot Software: Windows Installation Instructions

Week 1: May 14-18 - Introduction & Simple Data Types

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, May 14th	Course Syllabus HW 1 Assigned Read chapter 1 - The way of the program from How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (thinkCSpy)	Class E-Mail List (Subscribe yourself!) Great article on O'Reilly's website Excellent Usenix article
Tuesday, May 15th Workshop	Read Chapter 1 - The World of Robots from Introduction to Computer Science via Robots (ICSR).	Myro Robot Reference Manual Functions and Commands used by Myro.
Wednesday, May 16th	Read Chapter 2 - Variables, expressions, and statements (thinkCSpy) Read Chapter 2 - Robots: Personal or Otherwise (ICSR)	keywords vs. identifiers monkeys.py - Code Sample: User Input, printing text & type conversion
Friday, May 18th	Read Chapter 3 - Functions (thinkCSpy) Download and run the monkeys.py code sample from Wednesday. Read the code and understand what it does. HW-1 DUE 10am	List of Python Modules (look at the math module) Scribbler Dancing video. dance.py temp_change.py

Week 2: May 21-25th - Control Statements (Execution flow)

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday May 21st	Read Chapter 4 - Conditionals and Recursion from thinkCSpy Read Chapter 3- Robot Brains from ICSR	recursion.py is_divisible.py
Tuesday, May 22th Workshop	Read about your robots sensors, Chapter 4 - Sensing the World from ICSR	Pop Quiz 1 Answers
Wednesday May 23rd	Read Chapter 5 - Fruitful Functions from thinkCSpy	Sample Exam Questions get_input.py
Friday May 25th	Read Chapter 6 - Iteration from thinkCSpy. Read Section 1 of Chapter 6 - Braitenberg Vehicles from ICSR. HW2 and Lab 1 Due 10am!	orient_to_light.py

Week 3: May 28th - June 1st

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, May 28th	School Holiday! NO CLASS!
Tuesday, May 29th	Workshop - The Maze!	Maze Assignment
Wednesday, May 30th	Review Day Read Sections 2-7 of Chapter 6: Behaviors from ICSR.	examples.py number.py
Friday June 1st	EXAM 1	EXAM 1 Answers Exam 1 Grade Distribution

Week 4: June 4-8th - Advanced Data Types

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, June 4th	Chapter 7 - Strings from ThinkCSpy. HW3 Due 10am	find_space.py
Wednesday, June 6th	Chapter 8 - Lists from ThinkCSpy. Chapter 5 - Making Decisions from ICSR.	pass_name_value.py loopwhile.py
Friday, June 8th	HW4 Due 10am Lab 2 Due 10am	Delete from List

Week 5: June 11-15th - Advanced Data Types, Week 2

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday June 11th	Chapter 10 - Dictionaries from ThinkCSpy. Chapter 7 - Control Paradigms from ICSR.	fibonacci.py fibonacci_fast.py
Wednesday, June 13th	Chapter 9 - Tuples from ThinkCSpy	global_variables.py
Friday June 15th	HW 5 Due 10am Read Chapter 6 - Behaviors from ICSR.	Python Data Types reference To_Binary list_examples.txt

Week 6: June 18th - 22nd - Software Engineering & Debugging

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday June 18th	Appendix A - Debugging from ThinkCSpy	pincode.py pincode_improved.py pop_quiz5.py
Wednesday June 20th	Watch Chapter 1 (A Hard Problem) of The Great Robot Race 6min 33sec.	find_space2.py
Friday June 22nd	EXAM 2	Exam2 Answers Exam2 Distribution Exam2.py question8.py reverseList.py

Week 7: June 25-29th - File Operations, Pickling, & Namespaces

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday June 25th	Read Chapter 11 - Files & Exceptions from ThinkCSpy	copyFile.py copyFile_nocomment.py write_to_file.py pickle_example.py
Wednesday June 27th	Read Sections 1 & 2 (Namespaces, and Namespaces in Python), of this Webpage HW6 Due, 10am	Team Assignments Question8.py
Friday, June 29th	Watch Chapter 2 (The Red Army) of The Great Robot Race 7min 41sec Lab 3 Due, 10am

Week 8: July 2nd - 6th - Review & Functional Programming

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday July 2nd	Review Day	Python Review 1.ppt review_session.py
Tuesday July 3rd Workshop	Take home Lab - NO WORKSHOP!
Wednesday, July 4th	School Holiday! - NO CLASS
Friday, July 6th	HW7 Due by 10am Read This webpage on Functional Programming.	python_review2.ppt map_filter_reduce.py

Week 9: July 9th-13th - Searching, Sorting, and Computational Complexity

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, July 9th	Lab 4 Due by 10am Read abut a Linear Search "algorithm" Read about the Binary Search Algorithm Play with the insertion sort Animator Read about the Insertion Sort Algorithm Then see an insertion sort implemented in python	EXAM 3-Sample Questions
Wednesday, July 11th	HW9 groups: Performance Names due today in class! Watch an animated merge sort Read about Merge Sort. Then look at this implementation of MergeSort in Python.	search_sort.py matrix_example.py
Friday, July 13th	HW 8 due, by 10am	file_robot.py myFile.txt sumabs.py

Week 10: July 16th-20th

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, July 16th	EXAM 3	Exam 3 - Answers.pdf Exam3-Distribution
Tuesday, July 17th	Workshop: HW9 groups: Oral Description of Performance
Wednesday, July 18th	Read Chapter 8 - Making Music from ICSR.	search_sort1.py
Friday, July 20th	Lab 5 Due by 10am	search_sort2.py

Week 11: July 23rd-27th

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, July 23rd
Tuesday, July 24th	HW 9 Exhibition	Video Clip (9MB DIVX .avi 320x240) Pictures
Wednesday, July 25th		Optional Parameters
Friday, July 27th	Exam Review	EC HW 11 samples

Week 12: Final Exam, Monday July 30th 2:50pm-5:40pm