Calendar

Week	Date	Topics	Assignments
1	9/8	Introduction, algorithms (slides)	Introduction Form
	9/10	Expressions, variables, functions (slides)	Practice problems 1
	9/12	Quiz 1: Algorithms, expressions, types (notes) Lab 1: Variables, assignment and functions	PA1: Functions
2	9/15	Style and Loops (slides)	Practice problems 2
	9/17	Loops, cont. (slides)
	9/19	Quiz 2: Functions, comments/docstrings, and for loops (notes) Lab 2: Loops	PA2: Turtle Graphics
3	9/22	Sequences I (strings, lists) (slides)	Practice problems 3
	9/24	Sequences II (methods) (slides)
	9/26	Quiz 3: Sequences, operators and slicing (notes) Lab 3: Sequences	PA3: Cryptography
4	9/29	Conditionals (slides)	Practice problems 4
	10/1	While loops (slides)
	10/3	Quiz 4 (+retake): Booleans, relational operators, conditional statements, while loops (notes)	PA4: Math game
5	10/6	Files, modules and the command line (slides)	Practice problems 5
	10/8	Midterm 1 review (with sample exams) (slides)
	10/9	Midterm 1 @ 7:30PM in 75SHS 102 (our classroom), cheat sheet
	10/10	No class (Fall Break)	PA5: Data for everyone
6	10/13	Objects, Sets, Dictionaries (slides)	Practice problems 6
	10/15	Tuples, References, Memory model (slides)
	10/17	Quiz 5: Sets, dictionaries (notes) Lab 4: Data Structures
7	10/20	Recursion	Practice problems 7
	10/22	Recursion, cont.
	10/24	Quiz 6: references and recursion Lab 5: Recursion	PA6: Recursion
8	10/27	Object-oriented programming (OOP)	Practice problems 8
	10/29	OOP, cont.
	10/31	Quiz 7: OOP Lab 6: OOP	PA7: OOP
9	11/3	Complexity analysis, Big-O, Numeric representation	Practice problems 9
	11/5	Searching, Sorting
	11/7	Quiz 8 + retake: complexity analysis, searching/sorting	PA8: Weather
10	11/10	Data analysis with numpy, datascience, matplotlib	Practice problems 10
	11/12	Midterm 2 review
	11/13	Midterm 2 7:30-10:00PM in 75SHS 102
	11/14	No class after Midterm 2	PA9: Zipf's Law
11	11/17	Data analysis: Simulation	Practice problems 10 Project
	11/19	Data analysis: Mathematical expressions
	11/21	Quiz 9 (vector execution, datascience tables) Lab 7 (Data analysis)
	Thanksgiving Break
12	12/1	Applications I
	12/3	Applications II
	12/5	No class, exam retake window
13	12/8	Final review
13		Final Exam TBD