Introduction to Computing Lectures for Fall 2010
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Overheads |
Handouts |
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01 |
Aug 24 |
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02 |
Aug 26 |
Questions on Waterfall model, binary numbers, character sets |
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03 |
Aug 31 |
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04 |
Sep 02 |
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05 |
Sep 07 |
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Questions on format operator, If and while statements, random module |
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06 |
Sep 09 |
Continue discussion of If and while statements |
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07 |
Sep 14 |
Strings operations and methods. |
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08 |
Sep 16 |
Strings and Text Files |
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09 |
Sep 21 |
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10 |
Sep 23 |
More Practice with Top-down Design |
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11 |
Sep 28 |
Review for Test 1 |
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12 |
Sep 30 |
Test 1: Chapters 1 – 3 |
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13 |
Oct 05 |
List operations and methods. |
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14 |
Oct 07 |
Tuple and dictionary operations and methods. |
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15 |
Oct 12 |
Recursive functions |
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16 |
Oct 14 |
Identifier scope and lifetime, Higher-order functions and lambda expressions |
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17 |
Oct 19 |
Turtle graphics and Image processing modules |
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18 |
Oct 21 |
More Image Processing Examples |
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19 |
Oct 26 |
Introduction to classes |
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20 |
Oct 28 |
Try-except statement and Introduction GUI modules: Tkinter and Tix |
http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/ |
Questions on try-except statement and GUI modules: Tkinter and Tix |
21 |
Nov 02 |
Review for Test 2 |
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22 |
Nov 04 |
Test 2: Chapters 4 - 6 |
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23 |
Nov 09 |
More GUI widgets and handling keyboard and mouse events: Menu, Menubutton, Radiobutton, Scrollbar, Canvas |
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24 |
Nov 11 |
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25 |
Nov 16 |
GUI animation and Introduction to threads |
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26 |
Nov 18 |
Producer and Consumer synchronization methods; Intro. To Networked Client/Server Programming |
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Thanksgiving Break: 11/22 to 11/26 |
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27 |
Nov 30 |
Design Practice |
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28 |
Dec 01 |
Design Practice |
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29 |
Dec 07 |
Design Practice |
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30 |
Dec 09 |
Review for Final Exam |
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Final Exam, Thursday (December 16) 10-11:50 AM in ITT 328 |