15-112 Lecture Resources

Week 1 Welcome and administrivia Introducing Programming and Python If, Elif, Else, While, Break, Continue Functions, arguments (positionals, keyword/key-value, default values), locals vs. globals, call stack, recurison example Week 2 Lambdas, Formatting Strings, Exceptions Exceptions, cont Exam #1 Lists, List Comprehensions Command-line arguments, Tuples, Sets, Dictionaries Week 3 File I/O, String methods, Nested Collections, Inverted-List example Generators, Co-routines, Pipelines thereof, and some String function/methods along the way Simple Recursion Review, Flood-Fill, Backtracking, Blobs/Paint, 8-Queens Recursive Thinking Without Recursion, Memoization Exam Review Week 4 Exam #2 Review Exam #2 (Work problems in class) Tkinter and Events: Dave Kosbie's Notes / effbot.org's An Introductyion to Tkinter / animatekesden.zip UsingPickle [PythonWiki] / Classes and Objeccs [tutorialspoint] Simeon Franklin's Blog: Understanding Decorators [external window] / GraphicsExample.py / AnimationExample.py / Decorators.py Week 5 Tetris Lab Walk-Through Kesden's Brief Overview of Data Communication Networks, Sockets API [Tutorial Point] Linux Gazette's Understanding Threads in Python / IBM's Practical threaded programming with Python SQL Zoo Tutorial, Tutorials Point: Python + MySQL 3 Week 6 Processes: Fork and Exec [Python course], Waiting [smherwig], Python Docs