Fall 2012 CS2316 Calendar

References

Week 1: August 20th-24th - Introduction, Python, Conditionals

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, August 20th	Course Syllabus Read: ThinkCS Chapters 1 & 2	GIMP for windows GIMP for MacOSX CS 2316 - Workload.pdf CS 2316 - Where it fits.pdf CS 2316 - Spring 2012 course website CS 2316 - Fall 2011 course website CS 2316 - Summer 2011 course website
Workshop	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 3 - Hello, little turtles!	Python (version 3.2.3) 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, August 22th	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 24th	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 27th - 31st - Iteration, Strings, Lists & Recursion

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, August 27th	Read ThinkCS Chapter 7 - Iteration	Reference: Python Reference Manual: For & While statements
Workshop	RA Coffee Watch Video: Fun with Pair Programming
Wednesday, August 29st	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, August 31st	Read ThinkCS Chapter 11 - Lists	lecture5_review.py Code: lecture6.py Code: calcListAvg.py

Week 3: September 3rd-7th - Lists, Recursion & Dictionaries

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, September 3rd	School Holiday - No Classes
Workshop	list-RQ iteration-RA
Wednesday, September 5th	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, September 7th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 20 - Dictionaries	Reference: Dive Chapter 11 - Files

Week 4: September 10th-14th - Modules & File I/O

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, September 10th	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 cs2316-exam1-fall2011.pdf cs2316-exam1-fall2011-answers.pdf cs2316-exam1-spring2012.pdf cs2316-exam1-spring2012-answers.pdf
Workshop	HW3 - Enigma Fun Due Sep 11th!
Wednesday, September 12th	EXAM 1	cs2316-exam1-fall2012.pdf cs2316-exam1-fall2012-answers.pdf
Friday, September 14th	Phase 1 Learning Objectives should be complete	filterFile.py feb_7th-lecture.py

Week 5: September 17th - 21st Basic Objects, Reading & Writing CSV files

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, September 17th	Read DMSI:CSV Files	Pickle Module documentation
Workshop	Practice Timed Lab	Summer 2011 Timed Lab 1 cs2316-fall2011-tl1-string-stats.pdf CS 2316 Fall 2012 Timed Lab 1 - Library Helper CS 2316 Spring 2012 TL1 - Python Fundamentals
Wednesday, September 19th	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, September 21st	Phase 1 Learning Objectives CLOSE 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: September 24th-28th - GUI's

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, September 24th	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, September 26th	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, September 28th	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 cs1803-spring2011-exam2.pdf cs1803-spring2011-exam2-answers.pdf cs2316-exam2-fall2011.pdf cs2316-exam2-fall2011-answers.pdf cs2316-fall2011-tl2-element-finder.pdf tl2-test-file.csv cs2316-exam2-spring2012.pdf cs2316-exam2-spring2012-answers.pdf

Week 7: October 1st-5th - Dynamic GUI's, Objects, & Exam 2

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 1st	Read about canvases. Read: ThinkCS Chaper 22 - Sets of Objects	Code: Radio Button Demo
Workshop	Timed Lab 2	TimedLabExam2Question7.pdf TimedLabExam2Question7-gradingKey.pdf Summer 2011 TL1 (equivalent to Spring/Fall TL2) Supply Chain Analysis cs-2316-timed-lab-1-string-stats.pdf fall2011-tl2-element-finder.zip Spring 2012 TL 2 - Access Analysis Fall 2012 TL2 - Stock Data Analysis
Wednesday October 3rd	EXAM 2	cs2316-exam2-fall2012.pdf cs2316-exam2-fall2012-answers.pdf
Friday, October 5th		PIP3: Chapter 6 - Object Oriented Programming Simple TTT game GUI: ttt-simple.py Code: ttt-smart.py Code: windowDemo.py

Week 8: October 8th - 12th - URLLib & Regular Expressions

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 8th	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 October 10th	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, October 12th	HW6 Box Packer Due! Read HOWTO: Fetch Internet Resources using the urllib Package	Code: readWeb_wsbtv.py Code: readWSB_regex.py The WSBTV.com Visitor Agreement image_download.py An example table of data on the web Last day to Withdraw from an individual course.

Week 9: October 15th - 19th - Databases

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 15th	Fall Break - No classes!	scrapeAddressData.py
Workshop	Fall Break - No Workshop!
Wednesday October 17th	Read: DMSI: Database Connectivity
Friday, October 19th	Phase 2 Learning Objectives should be demoed! Mini-HW7 Simple Web Scraper Due 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: October 22nd - 26th - Databases & SQL

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 22th	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	RA_webscraping.pdf
Wednesday October 24th
Friday, October 26th	Phase 2 Learning Objectives closed! HW8 - Data Merge Due Read about the SQL Sum and Avg functions, and the GROUP BY statement.	contacts_pymysql.py contacts_sqlite.py

Week 11: October 29th - November 2nd - Ant Farm & Functional Programming

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 29th
Workshop	Timed Lab 3	Spring 2012 - Timed Lab 3 - email collector cs2316-summer2011-tl2.zip (equivalent to Fall/Spring TL3) Fall 2011 TL3 Class Finder tl3.html tl3a.html cs-2316-timed-lab-3-address-verifier.pdf Fall 2012
Wednesday October 31st	EXAM 3	Exam 3 Vocab List cs2316-exam3-spring2012.pdf cs2316-exam3-spring2012-answers.pdf cs2316-exam3-fall2011.pdf cs2316-exam3-fall2011-answers.pdf cs2316-exam3-fall2012.pdf cs2316-exam3-fall2012-answers.pdf
Friday, November 2nd	HW9 - GT Chat Login Read this webpage on functional programming in Python.	PIP3: Pgs 182-183 - Lambda Functions PIP3: Pgs 395-398 - Functional-Style Programming

Week 12: November 5th-9th - Parsing XML, Software Engineering Practices

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday November 5th	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 November 7th	HW9b-GT Chat Due	Code Sample: writeSimpleXML.py xml_demo.py
Friday, November 9th	Read DMSI: XML Phase 3 demos should be completed!	Code sample: example_xml_writer.py Data sample:exampleOUT.xml Code Sample: example_xml_reader.py

Week 13: November 12th-16th - Ant Farm Intro

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday November 12th		delFromList.py SimWorld.py Code Sample:xml_write.py
Workshop
Wednesday November 14th	HW 10 - IBM-XML Due!	Code Sample: weatherWebpage.py
Friday, November 16th	Phase 3 Demos Closed!

Week 14: November 19th-23rd - Case Studies & Thanksgiving

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday November 19th		DOTdisplay.py
Workshop
Wednesday November 21st		Read: Py2EXE tutorial Py2EXE demo files: canvasDemo24.py hello.py setup.py
Friday, November 23rd	No Class - School Holiday!

Week 15: November 26th- 30th - Review & Exam 4

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday November 26th	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 cs2316-exam4-spring2012.pdf cs2316-exam4-spring2012-answers.pdf cs2316-fall2011-tl5-xml-processing.pdf gamesdata.xml cs2316-fall2011-tl4-sql-manipulation.pdf
Workshop	Timed Lab 4	fall2011-TL4-sql-manipulation.zip fall2011-tl5-xml.zip Spring 2012 Timed Lab 4 - SQL Backup (to XML)
Wednesday November 28th	EXAM 4	cs2316-exam4-fall2012.pdf cs2316-exam4-fall2012-answers.pdf
Friday, November 30th	Phase 4 demos should be completed!

Week 16: December 3rd - 7th - Dead Week Review

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday December 3rd		List of 32,000 common words Cheating_Hangman.py
Workshop
Wednesday December 5th	HW 11 - Ant Farm Due!
Friday, December 7th	Phase 4 demos closed

Final Exam - Friday December 14th, 2:50-5:40pm