| Week | Dates | Topic | Reading (optional in parens) | Homework |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sept 24, 26 Sep 25, 27 | Introduction to the Course, Computers, and Python. Operations on strings and lists. Version control. |
Zelle ch 1 Downey ch 2 |
HW0: SW installation; writing your first program HW1: String and list operations; setting up an svn repository. |
| 2 | Oct 1, 3 Oct 2, 4 | File operations; Iteration on sequences Supplement: Expressions and operator precedence; More on strings Conditionals |
Zelle ch 3 Zelle ch 7 |
HW2: Count chars, words, lines in a file. |
| 3 | Oct 8, 10 Oct 9, 11 | Dictionary data structure Mashups & APIs |
Zelle 11.6; Zelle 4.5 (Downey ch 5) |
HW3: Contributor counts P0: Adding value to data |
| 4 | Oct 15, 17 Oct 16, 18 | Functions. Parameter passing and returning values Indefinite iteration; nested data structure, and nested iteration |
Zelle ch 6 (Downey ch 6 & 7) |
HW4: Refactor HW3 using functions; output as .csv files; generate charts in Google Docs, Excel, or D3 |
| 5 | Oct 22, 24 Oct 23, 25 | JSON processing Objects and Classes |
Zelle ch 8 Zelle ch 10 |
HW5: Calculate likes and comment frequencies from a JSON feed |
| 6 | Oct 29, 31 Oct 30, Nov 1 | URL lib; Try/except; REST APIs; Mid-quarter course feedback Project intro (30 min) |
Tutorial on urllib2; |
HW6: Refactor HW5 using classes—some extra methods needed. |
| 7 | Nov 5, 7 Nov 6, 8 |
Tuples; Sorting; list comprehensions; enumerate; zip |
Tuples, sorting; List comprehensions: Wikipedia; another explanation w/ nice examples enumerate, zip |
P1: Project proposal. HW7: Fetching and processing a live feed. |
| 8 | Nov 14, 19 Nov 13, 15 | TBD | TBD | HW8: Sorting; more data processing. |
| 9 | Nov 21, 26 Nov 20, 27 |
HTML & CSS Review |
Severance ch 2; Review: exercises from Downey & Zelle. |
Review! |
| 10 | Nov 28, Dec 3 Nov 29, Dec 4 | Exam (in class) Project time / app engine? |
R1: Resource writeup HW9: Create a feed processor that displays a tag cloud as a web page | |
| 11 | Dec 5 Dec 6 | flex day | — | Project time |
| F | P2: Final projects due |