| Week | Dates | Topic | Suggested Reading (complementary in parens) | Homework |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sept 30 | Introduction to the Course, Computers, & Python. |
Zelle ch 1 Downey ch 2, 6-7 On the Value of Command-Line “Bullshittery” (Eytan Adar) |
HW0: SW installation; basic string operations |
| 2 | Oct 5, 7 |
Operations on strings and lists. Iteration on sequences. File operations. Version control. |
Zelle ch 3 Zelle ch 7 Zelle 4.5 (Downey ch 5) |
HW1: Count chars, words, lines in a file. File operations. |
| 3 | Oct 12, 14 |
Conditionals Dictionary data structure Functions. Parameter passing and returning values Mashups & APIs |
Zelle ch 3 Zelle ch 7 Zelle 4.5 (Downey ch 5) |
P0: Find an interesting API HW2: Contributor counts |
| 4 | Oct 19, 21 |
Indefinite iteration; nested data structure, and nested iteration JSON processing Introduction to Objects Ideation & Prioritization |
Zelle ch 6 “The Art of Brainstorming” |
HW3: Do more than HW2, with less. Output as .csv files; generate charts in Google Docs, Excel, or D3 P1: Adding value to data |
| 5 | Oct 26, 28 |
Objects and Classes URL lib; Try/except; |
Zelle ch 8 Zelle ch 10 Tutorial on urllib; |
HW4: Calculate likes and comment frequencies from a JSON feed, use classes |
| 6 | Nov 2, 4 |
2 Nov: REST APIs 4 Nov: Lab time |
HW5: Fetching and processing a live feed. | |
| 7 | Nov 9, 11 |
9: Sorting & List Comprehensions 11: No class. Veteran's Day. |
List comprehensions: Wikipedia; another explanation w/ nice examples |
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| 8 | Nov 16, 18 |
16 Nov: Jinja Templates & Flask 18 Nov: HTML & CSS (briefly), Deploying Flask apps to App Engine. |
HW6: APIs, Sorting, more data processing. | |
| 9 | Nov 23, 25 |
23 November: Working with forms for user input in Flask. 25 November: Work day? |
P2: Project proposal. |
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| 10 | Nov 28, 30 |
28 Nov: App Engine & OAuth; App Engine Datastore 30: Location & maps (brief); project time |
TBD |
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| 11 | Dec 7, 9 |
7: Project time 9: Map-Reduce (brief); project time |
Map-Reduce: tutorial (don't worry too much about the syntax), App Engine Overview |
7 Dec: HW7: App Engine & APIs due 9 Dec - R1: Resource writeup |
| F | Dec 11 |
15 Dec - P3: Final projects due |