Saint Louis University |
Computer Science 1300/5001
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Computer Science Department |
| Day | Topic | Before Class | In Class | Notes |
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| Monday, Aug 27 | Introduction, Course Administration | syllabus | ||
| Tuesday, Aug 28 | Getting Started with Python | Lecture/discussion | ||
| Wednesday, Aug 29 | Python expressions |
Chapter 01
Homework 01 |
Activities
Quiz 01 |
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| Friday, Aug 31 | Authoring scripts | Chapter 02 | Lecture/discussion | |
| Monday, Sep 3 | No Class: Labor Day | |||
| Tuesday, Sep 4 | Authoring scripts | Homework 02 |
Activities
Quiz 02 |
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| Wednesday, Sep 5 |
"Batteries Included"
Python's functions, modules Object-oriented programming |
Chapter 03 | Lecture/discussion | |
| Friday, Sep 7 | Intro to cs1graphics | Chapter 04 | Lecture/discussion | |
| Monday, Sep 10 | Intro to cs1graphics | Homework 03 |
Activities
Quiz 03 |
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| Tuesday, Sep 11 | Advanced graphics techniques | Chapter 05 |
Submitting with git
Lecture/discussion |
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| Wednesday, Sep 12 | Advanced graphics techniques | Homework 04 |
Activities
Quiz 04 |
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| Friday, Sep 14 | Python's list class | Chapter 06 | Lecture/discussion | |
| Monday, Sep 17 | Strings, tuples and lists | Revised Chapter 06 | Lecture/discussion | prog01 due |
| Tuesday, Sep 18 | Strings, tuples and lists | Homework 05 |
Activities
Quiz 05 |
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| Wednesday, Sep 19 | For Loops | Chapter 07 | Lecture/discussion | |
| Friday, Sep 21 | For Loops | Homework 06 |
Activities
Quiz 06 |
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| Monday, Sep 24 |
For Loops and Graphics
Nested loops |
Homework 07 |
Activities
Quiz 07 |
prog02 due |
| Tuesday, Sep 25 | Conditionals | Chapter 08 |
Lecture/discussion
(practice) |
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| Wednesday, Sep 26 | Conditionals | Homework 08 |
Activities
Quiz 08 |
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| Friday, Sep 28 | First Midterm Exam - info | |||
| Monday, Oct 1 |
Python's Syntactic Shorthands
list comprehension conditional expressions Functions: enumerate, zip, any all |
Chapter 09 | Lecture/discussion | |
| Tuesday, Oct 2 |
Python's Syntactic Shorthands
list comprehension conditional expressions Functions: enumerate, zip, any all |
Homework 09 |
Activities
Quiz 09 |
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| Wednesday, Oct 3 | While Loops | Chapter 10 | Lecture/discussion | |
| Friday, Oct 5 | While Loops | Homework 10 |
Activities
Quiz 10 |
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| Monday, Oct 8 | User-defined Functions | Chapter 11 | Lecture/discussion | prog03 due |
| Tuesday, Oct 9 | User-defined Functions | Homework 11 |
Activities
Quiz 11 |
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| Wednesday, Oct 10 | Case Study: Catenary Curve | Chapter 12 | Lecture/discussion | |
| Friday, Oct 12 | Case Study: Contest Problems | (no homework) | Activity: Quiz 12 | |
| Monday, Oct 15 | Error Checking and Exceptions | Chapter 13 |
Lecture/discussion
Case study: robust getInt(low, high) function |
prog04 due |
| Tuesday, Oct 16 | Error Checking and Exceptions | Homework 12 |
Activities
Quiz 13 |
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| Wednesday, Oct 17 | Input, Output, and Files | Chapter 14 | Lecture/discussion | |
| Friday, Oct 19 | Input, Output, and Files | Homework 13 | Activity: Quiz 14 | |
| Monday, Oct 22 | No Class: Fall Break | |||
| Tuesday, Oct 23 | ||||
| Wednesday, Oct 24 | Introduction to object-oriented programming |
Lecture/discussion
notes |
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| Friday, Oct 26 |
Object-oriented design
Television case study Class diagrams |
Lecture/discussion | ||
| Monday, Oct 29 |
Introduction to user-defined classes
Point class (simple and robust versions) |
Chapter 16 | Lecture/discussion | prog05 due |
| Tuesday, Oct 30 |
Implementation of a Television class
Implementaiton of a Fraction class |
Chapter 17 | Lecture/Discussion | |
| Wednesday, Oct 31 | Class Definitions | Homework 14 | Activity: Quiz 15 | |
| Friday, Nov 2 | Second Midterm Exam - info | |||
| Monday, Nov 5 | Good software practices |
Chapter 18
(but not assigned as official reading assignment) |
Lecture/Discussion | |
| Tuesday, Nov 6 |
Software Testing
Test-Driven Development and Python's unittest module |
Lecture/Discussion
Python's unittest module Revisiting unit tests for Quiz 15 |
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| Wednesday, Nov 7 | Inheritance | Chapter 20.1 |
Lecture/Discussion
Implementation of DeluxeTV |
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| Friday, Nov 9 | Inheritance | Chapter 20.2, 20.3 |
SortedSet model and implementations
When not to use inheritance |
prog06 due |
| Monday, Nov 12 |
Inheritance in cs1graphics
Preview of prog08 Multiple Inheritance |
Chapter 20.4-20.6 | Lecture/discussion | |
| Tuesday, Nov 13 |
Deeper understanding of objects
Objects that reference other objects |
Chapter 21.1, 21.2 | Lecture/discusison | |
| Wednesday, Nov 14 |
Deeper understanding of objects
Objects that reference other objects |
Homework 15 |
Experimenting with list.__contains__
Activity: Quiz 16 |
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| Friday, Nov 16 |
Objects in the context of a function
Copying objects |
Chapter 21.3-21.5 | Lecture/discussion | prog07 due |
| Monday, Nov 19 | Copying objects |
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Activity: Quiz 17 | |
| Tuesday, Nov 20 | Sets | Chapter 22 | Lecture/discusison | |
| Wednesday, Nov 21 | No Class: Thanksgiving Break | |||
| Friday, Nov 22 | ||||
| Monday, Nov 26 | Dictionaries |
Chapter 23
(ungraded optional reading) |
Lecture/Discussion | prog08 due |
| Tuesday, Nov 27 | Dictionaries | Homework 16 | Activities, Quiz 18 | |
| Wednesday, Nov 28 | Namespaces and Dictionaries | Chapter 24 | ||
| Friday, Nov 30 |
Structural Recursion
Bullseye class |
Chapter 26.1 |
Lecture/discussion
Tree.py example (partially developed) |
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| Monday, Dec 3 | Structural Recursion |
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Hands-on activity
OurList simultation |
prog09 |
| Tuesday, Dec 4 |
Structural recursion
OurList source code |
Chapter 26.2 | Lecture/discussion | |
| Wednesday, Dec 5 |
Functional Recursion
Binary Search, Prefix Search |
Chapter 27 | Lecture/discussion | |
| Friday, Dec 7 |
Functional Recursion
Range Searching |
Homework 17 |
Hands-on activity
Quiz 19 |
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| Monday, Dec 10 |
Course Evaluations
Review |
prog10 | ||
| Monday, Dec 17 | Final Exam (12:00-1:50) - info | |||