Arithmetic Operations

Development process, testing

Definite Loops
Zelle, Chapters 2-3

Lab 1 due Friday by 5 p.m.

Exam Preparation Document

Lab 3 due

String Methods
Zelle, Chapter 5.8

String formatting
Zelle, Chapter 5.5

Data Representations
ASCII table handout
Zelle, Chapter 5.4

Lists
Zelle, Chapter 5.3, 5.6

Building a Skittles sorting machine (practice with lists) -- Note that this is in Python 2, but you can adapt to Python 3 relatively easily.

Lab 5

Broader Issue: Read both Autonomous Vehicles Complete DARPA Urban Challenge -- An oldie but goodie -- and Self-Driving Cars Are Coming Soon to a Highway Near You

Functions - Passing parameters

Writing Files, Handling Numeric Data in files

Defining modules
Chapter 6

Exception handling
Chapter 7.4

Indefinite loops
Chapter 8

Lab 7

Read both articles and summarize together:

• Computer Science For All - written by Megan Smith, United States Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in the Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Computer Science: A Foreign Language Substitute?

Object-oriented Programming
Top-down design
Chapter 12

Command-line arguments

Lab 9 - Dictionaries and Defining Our Own Classes

Broader Issues: Read and summarize on Sakai: Do Computer Scientists Hold the Key to Treating Cancer? - poses some good questions.