Week 1

• Welcome, A lesson in indirection (Room change!), and Administrivia
• Representation -- More than notation, Structure drives thinking
• Algorithms -- Not all solutions are alike (but many problems are)
• Python -- Quick start
• Decision making -- Conditionals

Week 2

• No class -- Independence Day!
• Repetition -- Loops
• Getting Organized -- Functions and Code Reuse
• Pretty -- Tkinter
• Software Development -- Personal Process

Week 3

• Exam #1 -- Show your stuff
• Lists, 1D and 2D
• Tuples, Dictionaries
• Reinforcement
• Recursive thinking and problem solving

Week 4

• Recursive programming, call stack, mechanics
• Recursive programming, tail recursion, recursion removal
• Reinforcement
• Events and Animation
• Events and Animation

Week 5

• Databases, Interacting with databases
• SQL Primer
• Exam #2 -- A day to be proud of!
• Regular Expressions, Regular Languages, and Finite State Machines
• Files, Web Scraping

Week 6

• Data analysis, Mining, K-Means clustering
• Generators, Coroutines, and the Producer-Consumer Model
• Extra day
• Review, Recap
• Final Exam -- The best is saved for last