Fall Quarter 2012
| lec | date | topic | reading | due |
| 1. | Fri, Sep 28 | Course introduction, about computers and programming, binary and hex | § 1, 5 | |
| 2. | Mon, Oct 1 | Introduction to python; IDLE, PyScripter | ||
| 3. | Wed, Oct 3 | Basic python statements | § 2 | |
| 4. | Fri, Oct 5 | Functions | § 3 | |
| 5. | Mon, Oct 8 | For loops | § 4 | |
| 6. | Wed, Oct 10 | If statements, boolean expressions | § 6 | |
| 7. | Fri, Oct 12 | Relational operators, while loops | § 7 | Homework #1 |
| 8. | Mon, Oct 15 | Types, integers, floats, characters | § 5, 9, 13 | |
| 9. | Wed, Oct 17 | How to write a program | § 7 | |
| 10. | Fri, Oct 19 | Exception handling | ||
| 11. | Mon, Oct 22 | Turtle graphics | ||
| 12. | Wed, Oct 24 | Miscellaneous and misconceptions | Homework #2 | |
| 13. | Fri, Oct 26 | Midterm review | ||
| 14. | Mon, Oct 29 | midterm | ||
| 15. | Wed, Oct 31 | Recursion part 1 | ||
| 16. | Fri, Nov 2 | Recursion part 2 | ||
| 17. | Mon, Nov 5 | Strings part 1 | § 11 | |
| 18. | Wed, Nov 7 | Strings part 2 | § 12 | |
| 19. | Fri, Nov 9 | String methods | § 16 | Homework #3 |
| Mon, Nov 12 | no class (Veterans’ Day) | |||
| 20. | Wed, Nov 14 | Lists and tuples | § 14 | |
| 21. | Fri, Nov 16 | List methods | § 14 | |
| 22. | Mon, Nov 19 | Files and web pages part 1 | § 15 | |
| 23. | Wed, Nov 21 | Debugging | ||
| Fri, Nov 23 | no class (Thanksgiving) | |||
| 24. | Mon, Nov 26 | Files and web pages part 2 | § 15, 16 | |
| 25. | Wed, Nov 28 | Dictionaries part 1 | § 18 | Homework #4 |
| 26. | Fri, Nov 30 | Dictionaries part 2 | § 18 | |
| 27. | Mon, Dec 3 | Mutability | § 17 | |
| 28. | Wed, Dec 5 | To Be Arranged | ||
| 29. | Fri, Dec 7 | To Be Arranged | Homework #5 |
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ECS 10, Basic Concepts of Computing Fall Quarter 2012 |