Fall 2011 CS2316 Calendar

References

Week 1: August 22nd-26th - Introduction, Python, Conditionals

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, August 22nd	Course Syllabus Read: ThinkCS Chapters 1 & 2 Read: WhatIsAllowed.pdf	GIMP for windows GIMP for MacOSX CS2316 - Where it fits.pdf CS 2316 - Summer 2011 course website CS 1803 - Spring 2011 course website CS 1803 - Fall 2010 course website
Workshop	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 3 - Hello, little turtles!	Python (version 3.2.1) 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.
Wednesday, August 24th	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, August 26th	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: August 29th - September 2nd - Iteration, Strings, Lists & Recursion

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, August 29th	Read ThinkCS Chapter 7 - Iteration HW 0 - Due	Reference: Python Reference Manual: For & While statements
Workshop	Watch Video: Fun with Pair Programming Coffee RA
Wednesday, August 31st	Read ThinkCS Chapter 8 - Strings HW 1 Due before 11:55pm!	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, September 2nd	Read ThinkCS Chapter 11 - Lists	lecture5_review.py Code: lecture6.py

Week 3: September 5th-9th - Lists, Recursion & Dictionaries

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, September 5th	School Holiday - No Classes
Workshop	list-RQ iteration-RA
Wednesday, September 7th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 18 & 19 - Recursion & exceptions HW2 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, September 9th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 20 - Dictionaries	Reference: Dive Chapter 11 - Files

Week 4: September 12th-16th - Modules & File I/O

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, September 12th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 12 & 13 - Modules & files	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, September 14th	Exam 1	cs2316-exam1-fall2011.pdf cs2316-exam1-fall2011-answers.pdf
Friday, September 16th	HW 3 Due Read: ThinkCS Chapter 15 - Classes and Objects - the Basics Read 7.1-7.4 (Classes & Iterators) from Dive into Python 3.	feb9_lecture.py Point.py

Week 5: September 19th - 23rd - Basic Objects, Reading & Writing CSV files

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, September 19th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 16 - Classes - Digging a little deeper Read: ThinkCS Chapter 21 - Even more OOP
Workshop	Practice Timed Lab	cs2316-fall2011-tl1-string-stats.pdf
Wednesday, September 21st	HW 4 Due Read DMSI:CSV Files	PIP3: Chapter 6 (pgs.233-245) lecture_feb16.txt
Friday, September 23rd	Read DMSI: Graphical User Interfaces	parseMoney.py feb18_lecture.py

Week 6: September 26th-30th - GUI's

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, September 26th	Read sections 1-5 of An Introduction to Tkinter	PIP3: Chapter 15 - Introduction to GUI Programming feb21_lecture.py
Workshop
Wednesday, September 28th	Read sections 6-7 of An Introduction to Tkinter	feb23_lecture.py Code:tic-tac-toe GUI More Info: The game of Tic-Tac-Toe
Friday, September 30th	HW5 due Read sections 8 & 9 of An Introduction to Tkinter	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

TA led Review Session: CULC 152, Sunday 5-7pm

Week 7: October 3rd-7th - Exam, Dynamic GUI's & Objects

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 3rd	Exam 2	cs2316-exam2-fall2011.pdf cs2316-exam2-fall2011-answers.pdf
Workshop	Timed Lab	cs2316-fall2011-tl2-element-finder.pdf tl2-test-file.csv
Wednesday October 5th	Read about canvases. Read: ThinkCS Chaper 22 - Sets of Objects Read: ThinkCS Chapter 23 - Inheritance	PIP3: Chapter 6 - Object Oriented Programming Code: canvas_demo.py Simple TTT code, demonstrating exhaustive search of all possible game outcomes: ttt-simple.py Code: ttt-smart.py
Friday, October 7th		Code: Radio Button Demo Code: SimpleSimWorld.py

Week 8: October 10th - 14th - URLLib & Regular Expressions

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 10th	Read HOWTO: Fetch Internet Resources using the urllib Package Read: DIVE Chapter 5 Regular Expressions	Code: SimpleSimWorld2.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 October 12th	HW 6 Due! Read: Legal Issues with Web Scraping Read: Screen-Scraping Ethics Read: WSJ: 'Scrapers' Dig Deep for Data on Web
Friday, October 14th	Read: DMSI: Web Scraping Mini-HW 7 Due Last day to drop an individual course with a W grade	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

Week 9: October 17th - 21st - Break & Databases

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 17th	Fall Break - No classes!
Workshop	Fall Break - No Workshop!
Wednesday October 19th	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
Friday, October 21st

Week 10: October 24th - 28th - Databases & SQL

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 24th	Read about the SQL Like statement and wildcards.
Workshop	pair_programming_partner_review.pdf
Wednesday October 26th	Read about the SQL Count function.	Read PIP3: Pgs 480-488
Friday, October 28th	Read about the SQL Sum and Avg functions, and the GROUP BY statement.	contacts_pymysql.py contacts_sqlite.py

Week 11: October 31st - November 4th - Ant Farm & Functional Programming

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 31st	HW 8 Due
Workshop	Review	Exam 3 Vocab List
Wednesday November 2nd	Exam 3	cs2316-exam3-fall2011.pdf cs2316-exam3-fall2011-answers.pdf
Friday, November 4th	Read this webpage on functional programming in Python.	PIP3: Pgs 182-183 - Lambda Functions PIP3: Pgs 395-398 - Functional-Style Programming

Week 12: November 7th-11th - Parsing XML, Software Engineering Practices

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday November 7th	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	Timed Lab 3	cs2316-fall2011-tl3-class-finder.pdf tl3.html tl3a.html
Wednesday November 9th	HW 9 - GT Chat Login	Code Sample:xml_write.py Code Sample: weatherWebpage.py Code Sample: sql2xml.py
Friday, November 11th	Read DMSI: XML

Week 13: November 14th-18th - Object Oriented Programming, Exam 4

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday November 14th		delFromList.py SimWorld.py
Workshop
Wednesday November 16th	Review	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
Thursday, November 17th	TA Led Review Session(s): 3-4:30pm, and 4:30-6pm, CCB 116
Friday, November 18th	Exam 4	cs2316-exam4-fall2011.pdf cs2316-exam4-fall2011-answers.pdf

Week 14: November 21st-25th -

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday November 21st	HW 10 - IBM-XML Due!	xml_demo.py
Workshop	Timed Lab 4	cs2316-fall2011-tl4-sql-manipulation.pdf
Wednesday November 23rd
Friday, November 25th	Thanksgiving - No Class!

Week 15: November 28th- December 2nd - Exam 5

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday November 28th		Code sample: example_xml_writer.py Data sample:exampleOUT.xml Code Sample: example_xml_reader.py List of 32,000 common words Cheating_Hangman1.py DOTdisplay.py
Workshop	Timed Lab 5	cs2316-fall2011-tl5-xml-processing.pdf gamesdata.xml
Wednesday November 30th	TA Led Exam Review HW 11 - Ant Farm
Friday, December 2nd	Exam 5	cs2316-exam5-fall2011.pdf cs2316-exam5-fall2011-answers.pdf

Week 16: December 5th-9th : Dead Week

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday December 5th	Read: Py2EXE tutorial Py2EXE demo files: canvasDemo24.py hello.py setup.py
Workshop
Wednesday December 7th	Extra Credit Homework (GTChat2) due!
Friday, December 9th

TA Helpdesk: Open Thursday December 15th: 10am-7pm

Final Exam: Friday December 16th, 2:50-5:40pm, CULC 152