CSC108H (StG, Summer 2011): Lectures

Lectures

This page will contain notes from lecture, mainly from code developed during lecture, as well as any slides we use. We will try to post these notes Tuesday before each lecture. It is not mandatory, (but is encouraged) to look at the lecture notes before lecture.

We post these materials to help you focus on thinking and participating in class without worrying about copying down every little detail. But a lot happens in lecture that will not be represented in these posted materials, and we urge you to augment them with your own personal notes. Research shows that students who take and study from their own notes consistently do better on tests than those who simply study from supplied notes. If you miss class, it would be a good idea to get notes from someone who was there.

Readings

Readings for each week are also listed below. You are responsible for keeping up with these during the term. Unlike lecture notes, the readings are mandatory. Note that some of the topics may shift around a bit, depending on how we progress.

Date	Readings	Slides	Code
May 19	chapter 1 (Introduction to Python)	Lecture 1.pdf Lecture 1.odp	The first shell where we used python as a calculator. The original plan. bio_calc.py bio_calc_better.py The second shell where we looked at variables. The original plan. function.py function_same_vars.py The third shell where we looked at types. The original plan. picture_display.py sunset.py
May 26	chapter 2 (Python basics) chapter 6 (Booleans)	Lecture 2.pdf Lecture 2.odp	The first shell where we played with booleans. bad_style.py better_style.py The second shell where we played with functions a bit. The original plan for the shell. sunset.py namespaces.py This is the original version of namespaces. We modified it by first reusing the variablename x. Then we modified it to have f call g inside of it. Then we modified it to use a global variable. Then we modified it to break by using a global variable in a local namespace. In all of these, we went through them roughly line by line on the board to see what happened to the memory.
June 2	chapter 3 (Strings) chapter 4 (Modules) chapter 7 (Loops)	Lecture 3.pdf Lecture 3.odp	The shell where we played with strings and modules The original plan for the shell. bad_beers.py beers1.py beers.py endless.py importer.py junk.py madlib.py A preliminary version of the Memory model as an odp. A preliminary version of the Memory model as a pdf.
June 9	chapter 5 (Lists)	Lecture 4.pdf Lecture 4.odp	The first shell where we played with lists The second shell where we played with range The original plan for the shell. for_example.py
June 16	chapter 9 (Dictionaries)	Lecture 5.pdf Lecture 5.odp	The shell where we played with lists and dictionaries. The original plan for the shell. dictionary_stuff.py
June 23	chapter 8 (Files)	Lecture 6.pdf Lecture 6.odp	The shell was lost this week. The original plan for the shell. story.txt midterm_review.py
July 7th	Chapter 13 (Classes)	Lecture 7.pdf Lecture 7.odp	The shell where we played with classes. The original plan for the shell. patient.py surgery_patient.py
July 14th	Chapter 4.5 (Nose), Chapter 12.3-12.4 (Debugging)	Lecture 8.pdf Lecture 8.odp	No shell this week, as rerunning nose each time kills the shell output. example1.py test__example1.py
July 21th	None. Chapter 14 is an advanced look at GUIs using Tkinter. It also introduces anonymous functions. We will not be covering either of these.	Lecture 9.pdf Lecture 9.odp	The shell where we played with easygui. clui_eg.py gui_library.py pickle_data.py recipe.py
July 28th	Chapter 11.3-11.4,(Sorting)	Lecture 10.pdf Lecture 10.odp	No shell this week, because we used pseudocode and the board. sorting.py
August 4th	Chapter 10 is somewhat tangentially related.	Lecture 11.pdf Lecture 11.odp	complexity.py
August 4th	No reading.	Lecture 12.pdf Lecture 12.odp	Another Final