Fall 2014 CS2316 Calendar

References

Week 1: August 18th - 22nd - Introduction, Python, Conditionals

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Aug 18th	Course Syllabus Read: ThinkCS Chapters 1 & 2 Read:WhatIsAllowed.pdf	GIMP download 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 3.4.1) 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. Video: How to install on a Mac A list of TK color "names"
Wednesday, Aug 20th	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, Aug 22nd	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 25th-29th - Iteration, Strings, Lists & Recursion

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Aug 25th	HW 0 Due Read ThinkCS Chapter 7 - Iteration	Reference: Python Reference Manual: For & While statements
Workshop	RA Coffee Watch Video: Fun with Pair Programming
Wednesday, Aug 27th	Read ThinkCS Chapter 8 - Strings Read ThinkCS Chapter 9 - Tuples HW 1 - 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 parseMoney.py lecture4_python.py
Friday, Aug 29th	Read ThinkCS Chapter 11 - Lists Read: ThinkCS Chapter 18 & 19 - Recursion & exceptions	Python Error Handling Techniques lecture5_review.py Code: lecture6.py Code: calcListAvg.py

Week 3: September 2nd-5th - Dictionaries, File I/O, CSV Files

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Sep 1st	School Holiday - No Classes
Workshop	Practice Timed Lab 0
Wednesday, Sep 3rd	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 20 - Dictionaries Read: ThinkCS Chapter 13 - Files HW 2 - Python Practice 2 Due	PIP3: Chapter 3 Code: get_int.py Introduction to the Fibonacci sequence by Tool (Lateralus) Reference: Dive Chapter 7: Classes & Iterators
Friday, September 5th	Read DMSI:CSV Files Read ThinkCS Chapter 12 - Modules	List of Python 3 Modules Reference: Dive Chapter 11 - Files Pickle Module documentation filterFile.py

Week 4: September 8th-12th - Modules, Timed Lab 1, Exam 1

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Sep 8th	Exam Review	Python-Review1.pdf Python Review 2.pdf Exam 1 Vocabulary list cs2316-exam1-fall2011.pdf cs2316-exam1-fall2011-answers.pdf cs2316-exam1-spring2012.pdf cs2316-exam1-spring2012-answers.pdf cs2316-exam1-fall2012.pdf cs2316-exam1-fall2012-answers.pdf cs2316-exam1-fall2013.pdf cs2316-exam1-fall2013-answers.pdf cs2316-exam1-spring2014.pdf cs2316-exam1-spring2014-answers.pdf 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 CS 2316 Fall 2013 TL1 - cs2316-tl1-fall2013-multitap.pdf cs2316-tl1-spring2014-contactbook.pdf
Workshop	Timed Lab 1
Wednesday, Sep 10th	EXAM 1	cs2316-exam1-fall2014.pdf cs2316-exam1-fall2014-answers.pdf
Friday, Sep 12th	HW 3 - Due Read: ThinkCS Chapter 15 - Classes and Objects - the Basics Read 7.1-7.4 (Classes & Iterators) from Dive into Python 3.	Point.py cashRegister,py DateTime / TimeDelta reference

Week 5: September 15th-19th - Basic Objects

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Sep 15th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 16 - Classes - Digging a little deeper	PIP3: Chapter 6 (pgs.233-245) "Magic" methods.
Workshop	Objects RQ
Wednesday, Sep 17th	Read: ThinkCS Chapter 21 - Even more OOP	PIP3: Chapter 6 - Object Oriented Programming
Friday, Sep 19th	HW 4-Hangman - Due Read DMSI: Graphical User Interfaces Read sections 1-5 of An Introduction to Tkinter	guiDemo.py EntryDemo.py radioButtonDemo.py

Week 6: September 22nd-26th - GUI's

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Sep 22nd	Read sections 6-7 of An Introduction to Tkinter	PIP3: Chapter 15 - Introduction to GUI Programming feb21_lecture.py labels_colors.py Code:tic-tac-toe GUI More Info: The game of Tic-Tac-Toe
Workshop	Timed Lab 2
Wednesday, Sep 24th	Review	Exam 2 Vocabulary list 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 cs2316-exam2-fall2012.pdf cs2316-exam2-fall2012-answers.pdf cs2316-exam2-fall2013.pdf cs2316-exam2-fall2013-answers.pdf 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 cs2316-exam2-spring2014.pdf cs2316-exam2-spring2014-answers.pdf
Friday, Sep 26th	EXAM 2 Progress reports for 1000 & 2000 level classes avaliable next week!	cs2316-exam2-fall2014.pdf cs2316-exam2-fall2014-answers.pdf

Week 7: September 29th - October 3rd - Dynamic GUI's, Objects

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Sep 29th	HW 5 - GUI Due Read sections 8 & 9 of An Introduction to Tkinter	Code: windowDemo.py Code: Radio Button Demo
Workshop
Wednesday Oct 1st	Read about canvases. Read: ThinkCS Chaper 22 - Sets of Objects	Code: canvas_demo.py
Friday, Oct 3rd	Read: WSJ: 'Scrapers' Dig Deep for Data on Web Read: Legal Issues with Web Scraping Read: Screen-Scraping Ethics	Simple TTT game GUI: ttt-simple.py Code: ttt-smart.py

Week 8: October 6th-10th - URLLib & Regular Expressions

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 6th	Read: DMSI: Web Scraping Read HOWTO: Fetch Internet Resources using the urllib Package	HTTP Web Services from DIVE. Read PIP: Pages 225-226
Workshop	Read: DMSI: Installing Modules How to access the database from off campus.	Old (DO NOT USE!) pyMySQL zip file for Python 3.1 and 3.2 (ONLY!) can be downloaded from here.
Wednesday October 8th	HW 6-Wordsearch Due!	Code: readWeb_wsbtv.py Code: readWSB_regex.py The WSBTV.com Visitor Agreement image_download.py An example table of data on the web An example of address data on the web scrapeAddressData.py
Friday, October 10th	Read: DIVE Chapter 5 Regular Expressions Last day to Withdraw from an individual course.	RegexOne: Tutorial w/ interactive Examples RegExer practice site Debuggex Visual RegEx tool txt2re - RegEx Creater

Week 9: October 13th-17th - Fall Break & Databases

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Oct 13th	Fall Break, no classes!
Workshop	Fall Break, no recitation!
Wednesday Oct 15th	Read: DMSI: Database Connectivity
Friday, Oct 17th	HW7 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 20th-24th - Databases & SQL

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Oct 20th	Read about the SQL Like statement and wildcards. Read about the SQL Count function.	Read PIP3: Pgs 480-488
Workshop	SQL Practice
Wednesday Oct 22nd	Read about the SQL Sum and Avg functions, and the GROUP BY statement.
Friday, Oct 24th	HW 8 - Data Merge Due	contacts_pymysql.py contacts_sqlite.py

Week 11: October 27th - 31st - Exam 3 & Functional Programming

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday October 27th	Exam Review Read this webpage on functional programming in Python.	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 cs2316-exam3-fall2013.pdf cs2316-exam3-fall2013-answers.pdf cs2316-exam3-spring2014.pdf cs2316-exam3-spring2014-answers.pdf 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 Spring 2012 - Timed Lab 3 - email collector cs2316-tl3-spring2014-taFinder.pdf [ TL3_TA_Sample_Data.html ]
Workshop	Timed Lab 3
Wednesday Oct 29th	EXAM 3	cs2316-exam3-fall2014.pdf cs2316-exam3-fall2014-answers.pdf
Friday, Oct 31st		PIP3: Pgs 182-183 - Lambda Functions PIP3: Pgs 395-398 - Functional-Style Programming

Week 12: November 3rd - 7th - Parsing XML, Software Engineering Practices

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Nov 3rd	Read DMSI: XML Read Chapter 12. XML from Dive Into Python 3.	Read PIP3: Pgs 312-316. xml_weather.py weather_download.py
Workshop	SQL Practice 2
Wednesday Nov 5th	HW 9a - Room Reservation Login Due	Code Sample: writeSimpleXML.py xml_demo.py
Friday, Nov 7th	Read Section 5.2 and 5.8 (Program Development & Doctest) from ThinkCSpy.	Code sample: example_xml_writer.py Data sample:exampleOUT.xml Code Sample: example_xml_reader.py

Week 13: November 10th-14th -XML & Case Studies

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Nov 10th		Code Sample:xml_write.py Code Sample: weatherWebpage.py
Workshop	RA: Message getter.pdf
Wednesday Nov 12th	HW9b Room Reservation- Due	Code Sample: sql2xml.py
Friday, Nov 14th		delFromList.py

Week 14: November 17th - 21st- Case Studies & Exam Review

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Nov 17th		DOTdisplay.py
Workshop
Wednesday November 19th	HW 10 due	cs2316-exam4-spring2014.pdf cs2316-exam4-spring2014-answers.pdf
Friday, Nov 21st	Exam Review	cs2316-exam4-vocab.pdf Exam4Review-SQL-pymysql-basicXML.pdf PracticeExam3.pdf PracticeExam3-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 fall2011-TL4-sql-manipulation.zip fall2011-tl5-xml.zip Spring 2012 Timed Lab 4 - SQL Backup (to XML) cs2316-exam4-fall2012.pdf cs2316-exam4-fall2012-answers.pdf

Week 15: November 24th-28th- Exam 4 & Thanksgiving Break

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday November 24th	EXAM 4	cs2316-exam4-fall2014.pdf cs2316-exam4-fall2014-answers.pdf
Workshop	Timed Lab 4
Wednesday Nov 26th
Friday, Nov 28th	Thanksgiving Break - No classes

Week 16: December 1-5th- Dead Week

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Dec 1st	Scrollbars & Deployment	scrollbarExample.py Read: How To Use cx_Freeze and the main cx_Freeze website Working cx_freeze with python 3.4 windows binaries CX Freeze on the Mac instructions cx_Freeze demo files: cxFreeze-demo.zip canvasDemo.py hello.py setup.py nullsoft scriptable install system install_script.nsi
Workshop
Wednesday Dec 3rd	MatPlotLIB / numpy / optimization	SciPy Presentation SciPy.org website SciPi Stack installer for windows Sample code files: super_minimal_3d_plot.py surface3d_demo.py rosenbrock_demo.py rosenbrock_minimum.py
Friday, Dec 5th	Final Review

Final Exam - Monday December 8th, 11:30am-2:20pm (Period 2)