CS2021: Python Programming

This is a course to learn beginning to intermediate Python Programming.

Week #0- Preliminaries:

• Welcome video

• Running the Python Interpreter 

• Modules in Python

• Lab #00: Setting up a productive Python workflow

Week #1 – Introduction to Python:

•  Python Names: Slide Show from Ned Batchelder

•   Exercise #1: Using the Interactive Interpreter

•   Common Errors and Debugging Python Programs

•   Python Coding Style

•  Reading Assignment3: Think Python – Chapter 1

•   Lab #01 – Expressions and Control Structures

 

Week #2- Testing and Control Flow:

• Test Driven Development

• Reading Assignment:
  Think Python – Chapter 2  Variables, expressions and statement

• Reading Assignment:
  Think Python – Chapter 3 Functions

 

Week #3- Functions:

• Course Notes:Week-3-notes

• Reading Assignment:Think Python Chapter 6 – Fruitful Functions

• Lab03 – Higher-Order Functions

• Lab03: Recursion

 

Week #4- Higher-OrderFunctions:

• Homework #1 Dice Game Simulation Project

 

Week #5- Data Abstractions, Lists and Dictionaries:

• Reading Assignment: Think Python – Chapter 10-Lists,

• Reading Assignment: Think Python Chapter 11 – Dictionaries

• Lab 04: Lists and Dictionaries

 

Week #6- Data Abstractions, Lists and Dictionaries:

• Homework Project #2

• Readings:

  • Composing Programs 2.1 Introduction
    http://composingprograms.com/pages/21-introduction.html 

  • Composing Programs 2.2 Data Abstraction
    http://composingprograms.com/pages/22-data-abstraction.htm

  • Composing Programs 2.3 Sequences
    http://composingprograms.com/pages/23-sequences.htm

  • Composing Programs 2.4 Dictionaries
    http://composingprograms.com/pages/24-mutable-data.html#dictionaries

 

Week #7- Linked Lists

• Readings:
  Composing Programs 2.3.7- Linked Lists:
  http://composingprograms.com/pages/23-sequences.html#linked-lists

• Lab 05 – Linked Lists

 

Week #8- Trees

• Reading Assignment: Composing Programs 2.3.6 – Trees:
  http://composingprograms.com/pages/23-sequences.html#trees

• Lab06 -Trees:

• Homework #3

 

Week #9- Python’s Module System

• Introduction to Pip:
  Blog: Introduction to pip and virtualenv in python

• Course Notes: Modules in Python

  Lab07 – Make America Tweet Again

 

Week #10 – OOP

• Reading Assignments for this Week:

  • Chapter 2.5: OOP http://www.composingprograms.com/pages/25-object-oriented-programming.html 

  • Chapter 2.6: Implementing Classes and Objectshttp://www.composingprograms.com/pages/26-implementing-classes-and-objects.html

  • Blogpost on Python Classes and Objects:
    https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/06/18/improve-your-python-python-classes-and-object-oriented-programming/

• Lab 08 – OOP 

 

Week #11 – Mutable, Recursive Data

• Reading Assignment: Chapter 2.9 Recursive Objects:
  http://www.composingprograms.com/pages/29-recursive-objects.html

• Lab09 – Mutable Linked Lists

 

Week #12 – Interfaces and Generators

• Readings: Chapter 4.2 Implicit Sequences:
  http://composingprograms.com/pages/42-implicit-sequences.html

• Lab #10: Python Iterators and Generators

• Homework #4

Week #13- Co-Routines

• Readings: Chapter 5: Streams and Co-routines

• Lab #11: Python Co-Routines

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Older Python Programming Lessons

Lesson  #Python Objects:

• Python Iterators, Containers, Sequences and Mappings

• Exercise in Basic Python Data Structures – Lists and Dicts

• Lab Problem Set #1:  ‘The Declaration of Independence’

Lesson #Looping:

• Patterns and Anti-patterns for Python For Loops

• Lab Problem Set#2: Computing Gas Mileage

 Lesson #Functions:

• Functions, Modules, and Types in Python

Lesson #OOP

• Introduction to Modules and OOP

• Defining Classes in Python

• Slice of Pi: ADTs and Operator Overloading

• 3D Graphics Programming using VPython

Lesson #Recursion 

• Drawing an N-dimensional Cube and an Introduction to Recursion

Lesson #Class Composition

•   Stacking the Deck: An Introduction to Class Composition and Data Structures

•   Computing the Election Winner: Representing and Counting Ballots

Lesson #Events, Networking, and Web Development

•     Event Driven Programming

•     Networking and Web Frameworks

Lesson #System Programming

•     System Programming in Python Notes

Lesson #Unicode Programming

•     Strings and Unicode in Python

Lesson #Collections and Itertools Modules

• Collections Module and Counters

•      Iteration Anti-Patterns and Intertools Module

•      Data Munging with Python

Lesson #Tkinter and GUI Programming

•      Intro to Tkinter and to GUIs

•      Core Tkinter

Lesson #Web Development Programming

•   Intro to Web Dev PPT cs2021-Week8c-webdev

•  Building Login Sys

•  MVC and templates

•  Webforms PPT: CS2021-Week8-webforms

•  Webforms(pdf)

•  Intro Web Dev (pdf) “Building a Weblog”

Lesson #Turtle Programming

• Turtle Programming