Week 1

• Welcome, Administrivia
• What is Programming? What are Programs? How are they Born? Etc.
  Ints, Floats, Strings, Operators, Console Input, Type casts
• If-Elif-Else, While Loops, continue, break
• Functions and the call stack
• Exceptions and a hint of Object-Oriented Python, Formatting Strings

Week 2

• Memorial Day -- No class
• Exam review/Slack
• Exam #1
• Lists, List Comprehensions, Tuples, Dictionaries, more Strings
• Sets, Tuples and Dictionaries

Week 3

• Nested collections, Files, Python libraries
• Generators and Generator Comprehensions, Co-Routines
• Recursive programming, call stack, mechanics, possibly tail recursion and recursion removal
• Recursive thinking and problem solving, Memoization
• Exam review/problem session

Week 4

• Exam #2
• Tkinter Graphics
• Return and Review exam, related reinforcement
• Events and Animation
• Driving Deeper: File I/O, Pickling

Week 5

• Command-line arguments, Decorators
• Object-Oriented Python
• Threads and Threaded Programming
• Network and Web Programming
• SQL, Databases, Interacting with databases

Week 6

• Regular Expressions
• Python as a tool for automation
• Exam Review/Reinforcement
• Exam Review/Reinforcement
• Final Exam -- The best is saved for last