Week 1

• Welcome, Administrivia
• Python -- Quick start
• No class -- Independence Day!
• Decision making -- Conditionals
• Recitation, Reinforcement

Week 2

• Repetition -- Loops
• Getting Organized -- Functions and Code Reuse
• Getting Organized -- Exceptions
• Lists, 1D and 2D
• Tuples, Sets, Dictionaries

Week 3

• Exam #1 -- Show your stuff
• Exam post-mortem
• Recursive thinking and problem solving
• Recursive programming, call stack, mechanics
• Recursive programming, tail recursion, recursion removal

Week 4

• File I/O, Pickling
• Python Standard Library, Tkinter Graphics
• Events and Animation
• Debugging and Profiling, I
• Debugging and Profiling, II

Week 5

• Databases, Interacting with databases
• SQL Primer
• Regular Expressions, Regular Languages, and Finite State Machines
• Generators, Coroutines, and the Producer-Consumer Model, I
• Generators, Coroutines, and the Producer-Consumer Model, II

Week 6

• Object-oriented Python, I
• Object-oriented Python, II
• Monte Carlo
• Course wrap-up
• Final Exam -- The best is saved for last