Semester Calendar
This page is a high level overview of the what the course will cover. Note that, because of the unusual nature of this semester, all dates are subject to change, and this page will be updated as changes are made. For a more detailed summary of the lecture presentations, including videos, slides, and demo code, you should refer to the Zoom presentations page.
| Week | Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lab | Getting Started | |
| 3 Sep | lecture | Course Overview | |
| lab | Expressions | ||
| 2 | 8 Sep | lecture | Visualizing Variables |
| lab | Assignments | ||
| 10 Sep | lecture | Functions and Modules | |
| lab | Modules | ||
| 3 | 15 Sep | lecture | User-Defined Functions |
| lab | Functions | ||
| 17 Sep | lecture | Strings | |
| lab | Strings | ||
| 4 | 22 Sep | lecture | Specifications and Testing |
| lab | Testing | ||
| 24 Sep | lecture | Conditionals | |
| lab | Conditionals | ||
| 5 | 29 Sep | lecture | Algorithm Design |
| lab | Assignment 1 | ||
| 30 Sep | assignment | Currency | |
| 1 Oct | lecture | Objects | |
| lab | Objects | ||
| 6 | 6 Oct | lecture | Memory in Python |
| lab | Debugging | ||
| 6 Oct | assignment | Call Frames | |
| 8 Oct | lecture | Asserts and Error Handling | |
| lab | Asserts | ||
| 7 | 13 Oct | lecture | Lists (and Sequences) |
| 15 Oct | lecture | For-Loops | |
| lab | Lists & Loops | ||
| 16 Oct | assignment | Color Models | |
| 8 | 18 Oct | exam | Prelim 1 |
| 20 Oct | lecture | Recursion | |
| lab | Recursion I | ||
| 22 Oct | lecture | More Recursion | |
| lab | Recursion II | ||
| 9 | 27 Oct | lecture | Nested Lists and Dictionaries |
| lab | Nested Lists & Dictionaries | ||
| 29 Oct | lecture | Classes | |
| lab | Blackjack | ||
| 10 | 2 Nov | assignment | Turtles |
| 3 Nov | lecture | Object-Oriented Design | |
| lab | Object-Oriented Design | ||
| 5 Nov | lecture | Inheritance | |
| lab | Subclasses | ||
| 11 | 10 Nov | lecture | Operators and Abstraction |
| lab | Abstraction | ||
| 10 Nov | assignment | Class Folders | |
| 12 Nov | lecture | Dynamic Typing | |
| lab | Typing & Exceptions | ||
| 12 | 15 Nov | assignment | Images |
| 13 | 19 Nov | exam | Prelim 2 |
| 24 Nov | break | THANKSGIVING | |
| 14 | 1 Dec | lecture | GUI Applications |
| lab | GUI Classes | ||
| 3 Dec | lecture | Generators | |
| lab | More GUI Classes | ||
| 15 | 8 Dec | lecture | Coroutines |
| lab | Coroutines (OPTIONAL) | ||
| 10 Dec | lecture | Course Wrap-Up | |
| 17 | 21 Dec | assignment | Froggit |