Schedule - CS303e - Summer 2024
This schedule and the information in it are subject to change.
All lectures are in person. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 11:30 am - 1 :30 pm, BUR 112
There shall be an in-class exercise
every day except exam days. 21 total. Refer to the
syllabus.
| Date | Lecture Topic(s) | 1. Readings: chapter and
section (complete before lecture on the given day) Readings and exercises are from the required textbook, Starting Out With Python, 4th Edition by Tony Gaddis, ISBN: 9780134444321 2. Programming Exercises from the Exercises section at the end of each chapter (complete after watching video) 3. Assignments, Exams, and Extra Credit Opportunities. |
| Thursday, June 6 | Course Introduction, Intro to
Python and Programming Course Intro Lecture Slides ppt, pdf, pdf-4 Basic Python Lecture Slides ppt pdf pdf-4 Sample program my_first_program.py Bill Young's Slides on Computing pdf Book Slides ppt, pdf, pdf-4 |
1. Reading: Chapter 1 2. Exercises: I suggest using PyCharm instead of IDLE. 1, 3, 4, 5 |
| Monday, June 10 | Input, Processing, Output,
and Variables Lecture Slides ppt pdf pdf-4 Sample program calculate_age.py Book Slides ppt, pdf, pdf-4 bmi.py (program developed in lecture) |
1.
Reading: 2.1 - 2.9 2. Chapter 2 Algorithm Workbench: 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 12 Chapter 2 Programming Exercises: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 13, 14 3. Program 1 due |
| Wednesday, June 12 |
Decision Structures Lecture Slides ppt pdf pdf-4 tax calculating program Book Slides ppt, pdf, pdf-4 |
1. Reading: 3.1 - 3.4 2. Chapter 3 Algorithm Workbench: 1, 3, 4, 5 Chapter 3 Programming Exercises: 1, 2, 3, 6 |
| Thursday, June 13 |
Boolean Logic, formatting output, f Strings Same slides as June 7 leap_year.py |
1. Reading: 2.10, 3.5 - 3.6 2. Chapter 3 Programming Exercises: 7, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16 3. Program 2 due Extra Credit background Survey on Canvas due. |
| Monday, June 17 |
Repetition Structures 1 Lecture Slides ppt pdf pdf-4 Book Slides ppt, pdf, pdf-4 not_throw_airplanes.py, is_prime_1.py, is_prime_2.py, square_root.py |
1. Reading: 4.1 - 4.4 2. Chapter 4 Algorithm Workbench: 1 (what happens if the user enters a value <= 0?), 2, 3, 5 3. Program 3 due |
| Wednesday, June 19 | Per UT Austin Calendar: Juneteenth holiday; no classes held, no help hours | |
| Thursday, June 20 |
Repetition Structures 2 Same slides as June 12 newton_square_root.py, generate_bmi.py |
1. Reading: 4.5 - 4.6 2. Chapter 4 Programming Exercises: 2, 4, 5, 7, 10 3. Program 4 due |
| Monday, June 24 |
Repetition Structures 3 Lecture will cover multiple examples of using loops to solve various problems and run simulations. All examples in this file: loop_examples.py |
1. Reading: 4.7 2. Chapter 4 Programming Exercises: 12, 13 (except truncate any fractional part), 14 (ask the user for the number of rows and generalize the output), 15 (ask user for number of rows and generalize the output) |
| Wednesday, June 26 |
Functions 1 Lecture Slides ppt pdf pdf-4 function_examples.py, function_examples_lecture.py Book Slides ppt, pdf, pdf-4 |
1. Reading: 5.1 - 5.5 2. Chapter 5 Algorithm Workbench: 1, 3, 4 Chapter 5 Programming Exercises: 1, 5, 6, 7, 11 |
| Thursday, June 27 |
Functions 2 Same slides as June 21 |
1. Reading: 5.7 - 5.10 2. Chapter 5 Programming Exercises: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20 3. Program 5 due |
| Monday, July 1 |
Files Lecture Slides ppt pdf pdf-4 line_count.py, write_coin_flips.py, write_read_numbers.py Book Slides ppt, pdf, pdf-4 |
1. Reading: 6.1 - 6.4 2. Chapter 6 Algorithm Workbench: 3, 4, 5 Chapter 6 Programming Exercises: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 3. Program 6 due |
| Wednesday, June July 3 |
Midterm exam in
class. Covers up to and including Chapter 5 of the textbook, Functions Sample Midterm and Suggested Solution |
1. Midterm in class.
50% short answer, 50% coding. No Help Hours Today Due to Midterm |
| Thursday, July 4 | Per UT Austin Calendar: Independence Day holiday; no classes held, no help hours | |
| Monday, July 8 |
Lists 1 Lecture Slides ppt pdf pdf-4 list_examples.py Book Slides ppt, pdf, pdf-4 |
1. Reading: 7.1 - 7.7 2. Chapter 7 Algorithm Workbench: 2, 3, 4, 7 Chapter 7 Programming Exercises: 1 - 4, 6, 7, 8 (GirlNames.txt, BoysNames.txt files) 3. Program 7 due |
| Wednesday, July 10 |
Lists 2 Same slides as Lists 1, June 28 Midterm returned at the end of class. |
1. Reading: review 7.5 - 7.7 2. Chapter 7 Programming Exercises: 9 (USPopulation.txt), 10 (WorldSeriesWinners.txt) |
| Thursday, July 11 |
Lists 3 Same slides as Lists 1, June 28 list_examples_2.py |
1. Reading: 7.8 2. Chapter 7 Programming Exercises: 11, Create a function that accepts a list of list of integers representing a Sudoku board. 0 represent a cell with no number currently. The function returns True if the set up is valid (no repeats besides 0 in any row, column, or subgrids), False otherwise. 3. Program 8 due |
| Monday, July 15 |
2D Lists, lists of lists 1 Lecture Slides ppt pdf pdf-4 game_of_life_part_1.py Wiki page on Conway's Game of Life Online version of Conway's Game of Life |
1. Reading: 9.1 2. Chapter 9 Algorithm Workbench: 1, 2, 3 Chapter 9 Programming Exercises: 1, 2 (use the capitals.txt file), 5 3. Program 9 due |
| Wednesday, July 17 |
Finish Lists of Lists Same slides as July 10 game_of_life.py Dictionaries (a.k.a. Maps) Lecture Slides ppt, pdf, pdf-4 word_count.py |
1. Reading: 7.9, 8.1 - 8.3 2. Chapter 8 Algorithm Workbench: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 Chapter 8 Programming Exercises: 1, 2, 4, 7, 10 |
| Thursday, July 18 |
Tuples and More About Strings Lecture Slides ppt, pdf, pdf-4 error_check_int.py (function to get a non negative int from a user) |
3. Program 10 due |
| Monday, July 22 |
Classes and Object Oriented Programming (Encapsulation, Programmer
defined data types) Lecture Slides ppt, pdf, pdf-4 Circle.py circle_client.py |
1. Reading: 10.1 - 10.4 2. Chapter 10 Algorithm Workbench: 1, 2, 3 Chapter 10 Programming Exercises: 1, 2, 4, 8, 9 3. Program 11 due |
| Wednesday, July 24 |
Sets Same slides as July 18 |
1. Reading: 9.2 2. Chapter 9 Algorithm Workbench: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Chapter 9 Programming Exercises: 4, 6 |
| Thursday, July 25 |
Recursion Slides ppt, pdf pdf-4 directory_size_example.py recursion_example.py |
1. Reading: 12.1 - 12.3 2. Chapter 12 Algorithm Workbench: 1, 2 Chapter 12 Programming Exercises: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 3. Program 12 due |
| Monday, July 29 |
Sorting and Searching Lecture Slides: ppt, pdf pdf-4 searching_and_sorting.py |
3. Program 13 due |
| Thursday, August 1 | Final exam Time: 7 - 10 pm Location: TBD Final exam is cumulative - Covers all topics from lecture and the book chapters 1- 10 and 12. |
3. Final exam Extra Credit Course and Instructor Survey completion due. See Canvas for instructions. |