15-112 Lecture Resources

Week 1 Welcome and administrivia Ints, Floats, Strings, Operators, Console Input, Type casts Comparison: If statements, while loops, break and continue (and, intro to Functions) Functions, the Call Chain, Stacks and the Runtime Stack, Recursion (leaning forward) Formatted Strings, Exceptions Week 2 Memorial Day-- No class Review Session Example Sheet (pdf) Exam #1 Lists, For Loops, sort(), sorted(), List Comprehensions Command-line arguments, Tuples, Sets, and Dictionaries Week 3 File input, String library functions, Nested Collections: Inverted Index Example Generators and Generator Expressions/Comprehensions, Co-Routines, Pipelining Generators and Co-Routines Recursive Thinking: Review, Backtracking, Flood-Fill More recursion, Recursion trees, and Memoization Exam review problem session (Sorry -- had to be there!) Week 4 Exam #2 Tkinter and Events: Dave Kosbie's Notes / effbot.org's An Introductyion to Tkinter Return exam, review answers, related reinforcement Tetris Lab Walk-Through, Animation/Event Example (.zip download) Simeon Franklin's Blog: Understanding Decorators [external window] Week 5 UsingPickle [PythonWiki] / Classes and Objects [tutorialspoint] How Networks Work The Socket API for Network Programming [TutorialPoint] / Linux Gazette's Understanding Threads in Python / IBM's Practical threaded programming with Python SQL Zoo Tutorial, Tutorials Point: Python + MySQL 3 Looking Ahead: Final Exam Preview Week 6 Regular Expressions Processes: Fork and Exec [Python course], Waiting [smherwig], Python Docs Lambdas, Final Exam Preview Reading Day Final Exam