Calendar

This calendar outlines all topics of the course and has links to all lecture videos and slides.

Week 1

Aug 21

Intro, Logistics, Computers: slides

Aug 23

Languages, Hello World: slides

Aug 24

Lab Printing

Week 2

Aug 28: Memory, Variables, and Input
Aug 30: Data Types and Operators
Aug 31: Lab Variables and Expressions

Week 3

Sep 4: No lecture meeting - Labor Day
Sep 6: Intro to Logic, Conditionals and String Functions
Sep 7: Lab Conditionals

Week 4

Sep 11: Style, Conditionals, String Functions
Sep 13: For loops, Range, While
Sep 14: LabLab 4: Loops

Week 5

Sep 18: Functions
Sep 20: Exam 1
Sep 21: LabLab 5: Functions

Week 6

Sep 25: Functions Pt. 2, Scope
Sep 27: Lists, Mutable/Immutable
Sep 28: LabLab 6: List Functions

Week 7

Oct 2: Input/Output
Oct 4: Dictionaries
Oct 5: LabLab 7: Book Analysis

Week 8

Oct 9: Watch lecture on YT: 2-Dimensional Lists, Nested For Loops, Images
Oct 11: Image I/O, Docstrings
Oct 12: Project Details Coming Soon

Week 9

Oct 16: Destructive vs Non-Destructive Functions
Oct 18: Testing Code: Assert, Edge Cases
Oct 19: LabLab 8

Week 10

Oct 23: Pass-by-Reference vs Pass-by-Value
Oct 25: Intro to Algorithms, Runtime

Week 11

Oct 30: Tuples, Sets (Guest Lecture by Josh Vermette)
Nov 1: Time/Space Complexity, Big O
Nov 2: LabLab 9: Sets

Week 12

Nov 6: Exam 2
Nov 8: Runtime and Algorithms
Nov 9: LabLab 10: Wordle Game

Week 13

Nov 13: Tech Interviews and Career Paths
Nov 15: Syntactic Sugar: Comprehensions, Unpacking, Ternary Operator
Nov 16: Lab Lab 11: Syntactic Sugar

Week 14

Nov 20: Software Engineer Toolkit: Linux, Git, VSCode, StackOverflow, LinkedIn
Nov 22: No Class - Happy Thanksgiving
Nov 23: No Class - Happy Thanksgiving

Week 15

Nov 27: Syntactic Sugar: Comprehensions, Unpacking, Ternary Operator; Review for Final Exam; Keeping in touch
Nov 29: Review part II, How to Use Generative AI
Nov 30: Final Exam

Week 16

Exam week: Please reach out if your grade on Canvas needs to be updated: