Week 1

• Welcome, Administrivia
• What is Programming? What are Programs? How are they Born? Etc.
  Ints, Floats, Strings, Operators, Console Input, Type casts
• File Output, If-Elif-Else, While Loops, Functions
• Lists, Tuples, Sets, Dictionaries, For loops, Range, Command-Line Arguments
• Recitation, Reinforcement

Week 2

• No class - Memorial Day
• Exam #1
• continue, break, exceptions
• Strings in detail
• Exceptions
• Driving Deeper: Sets and Dictionaries

Week 3

• Recitation, Reinforcement
• Sorting, slicing, multiple assignment, etc
• Nesting collections
• Recursive programming, call stack, mechanics, possibly tail recursion and recursion removal
• Recursive thinking and problem solving

Week 4

• Recitation, Reinforcement
• Exam #2
• Tkinter Graphics
• Events and Animation
• Driving Deeper: File I/O, Pickling

Week 5

• Recitation, Reinforcement
• Generators and Coroutines
• Regular Expressions
• Object-Oriented Python
• Threads and Threaded Programming

Week 6

• Recitation, Reinforcement
• SQL, Databases, Interacting with databases
• Network and Web Programming
• Review, Course wrap-up
• Final Exam -- The best is saved for last