Class 1: Tuesday, September 2nd

• Course Description
• This Course Requires Work
• Texts
• Unix Account
• Programming Assignments
• Course Work
• Software Needed for the Course
• Laptops
• Phones
• Attendance
• Recorded Class Meetings
• Course Documents
• Grading Policy
• Exams and Your Grade
• Late Work
• Email Notification
• Gradescope
• If You Fall Behind See Me
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Accommodations for Disabilities
• Classroom Behavior
• Academic Integrity
• Reputation
• Academic Honesty
• Honesty Expected In This Class
• What Happens If You Are Caught Cheating?
• Use of Artificial Intelligence Programs
• Class Discussion Area
• Class Assistant
• Making the Class Interesting
• Taking Notes
• The Most Important Thing to Learn in This Class
• Learn to Read Carefully
• Who Am I
• Do You Have Enough Time to Do the Work for This Course?
• Your Mental Health
• Office Hours
• Academic Support Programs
• Other UMB Services
• Contacting Me
• First Class Exercise
• First Homework Assignment

Class 2: Thursday, September 4th

• Assignments
• Submitting Assignments
• Working on Assignments
• Software for the Class
• Class Assistant
• Files
• Directories (Folders)
• Working With Files
• Your Unix Course Directory
• Types of Programming Languages
• Python
• Downloading Python
• Running IDLE
• Syntax Highlighting
• Creating a Python Script
• Running a Script in IDLE
• Changing a Python Script
• Two Ways to Run Python
• Python in Class Exercises
• Running Python in Interactive Mode
• Scripts versus Interactive Mode
• Using FileZilla
• Today's Class Exercise

Class 3: Tuesday, September 9th

• Some Skills Only Come With Work
• Class Exercises
• Getting Help
• Describing a Problem
• Don't Use Screenshots in Piazza
• Output
• Literals
• Strings and String Literals
• Triple Quotes
• Characters
• ASCII
• Unicode
• Representing Unicode Values
• Ranges of Characters in ASCII
• Variables
• Creating Variables with Assignment Statements

Class 4: Thursday, September 11th

• Creating Directories with FileZilla
• Keeping Your Scripts Organized
• Using FileZilla to Fix Problems
• Use Flash Cards to Prepare for Graded Quizzes
• Expressions
• Comments
• Variable Naming Rules
• Choosing Good Variable Names
• Printing Multiple Values
• Numeric Data Types and Literals
• Why You Need to Know About Data Types
• Conversion Functions
• Reading Input from the Keyboard
• Reading Numbers with the input Function

Class 5: Tuesday, September 16th

• Importance of Exams
• Preparing for Exams
• Do Not Fall Behind in This Course
• Read the Homework Assignments Carefully
• Performing Calculations
• Decimal and Integer Division
• Exponent Operator
• Remainder Operator
• Operator Precedence
• Grouping with Parentheses
• Mixed-Type Expressions and Data Type Conversion
• Breaking Long Statements into Multiple Lines
• Expressions inside Expressions
• Converting Algebra Into Python

Class 6: Thursday, September 18th

• Converting Decimal to Integer
• More Expressions inside Expressions
• Whitespace Characters
• Escape Sequences
• Concatenation Operator
• Concatenating Strings with Numbers
• Using print without Going to a New Line
• print Item Separator
• F-strings
• Printing Numbers
• Format Specifiers in F-strings
• Using Format Specifiers with Scientific Notation
• Using Format Specifiers to Put Commas in Big Numbers
• Specifying Minimum Length for a Number
• Alignment with the format Function
• Formating Percentages
• Order of F-string Designators

Class 7: Tuesday, September 23rd

• Collecting and Testing Assignments
• Notifying You About Missing Work
• Late Work
• Help with Assignments
• No Appointment Needed For Office Hours
• What You Need to Remember
• Line Numbers In IDLE
• Control Structures
• Two Types of Control Structures
• if Statements
• Boolean Expression
• Relational Operators
• Precedence of Relational Operators
• if-else Statements
• Indentation in the if-else Statement
• Comparing Strings
• Nested if Statements
• Testing a Series of Conditions
• if-elif-else Statements

Class 8: Thursday, September 25th

• Use Tabs in a Code Block
• Misleading Error Messages
• Logical Operators
• Short-Circuit Evaluation
• Checking Numeric Ranges with Logical Operators
• Precedence of Logical Operators
• Boolean Variables
• Keep Your Code Short

Class 9: Tuesday, September 30th

• Comments
• Don't Use Whitespace at the Beginning of a Line
• Converting Results to Integer
• Use Spaces before and after =
• Loops
• while Loops
• Testing Variables in While Loops
• Infinite Loops
• Data Validation
• Data Validation Loops
• An Improved Data Validation Loop
• An Example of Input Validation
• Compound Statements

Class 10: Thursday, October 2nd

• The for Loop in Python
• for Loops in Other Languages
• for Loops
• The range Function
• Setting the First and Last Values with range
• Changing the Increment with range
• Reversing the range Values
• Why Does Python Have the range function?
• for Loops that Don't Use the Loop Value
• Nested Loops
• Totaling Numbers with a for Loop
• Finding the Average with a for Loop
• Using for Loop to Create a Table
• Only Two Loops in Python
• The for Loop in Python
• for Loops in Other Languages
• for Loops
• The range Function
• Setting the First and Last Values with range
• Changing the Increment with range
• Reversing the range Values
• Why Does Python Have the range function?
• for Loops that Don't Use the Loop Value
• Nested Loops
• Totaling Numbers with a for Loop
• Finding the Average with a for Loop
• Using for Loop to Create a Table
• Only Two Loops in Python

Class 11: Tuesday, October 7th

• Getting Your First IT Job
• Keep In Contact
• A Common Error
• Calculating a Running Total
• Augmented Assignment Operators
• Calculating Averages
• Sentinels
• Functions
• Using Functions in Writing Programs
• Two Types of Functions
• Function Names
• Defining a Function
• Calling a Function

Class 12: Thursday, October 9th

• Additional Rules for Homework Scripts Using Functions
• The pass Statement
• How the Python Interpreter Runs a Script
• Layout Rules for Functions
• Functions in Scripts
• Top Down Design
• Example of Top Down Design
• The Advantages of Isolation
• Specifying the Work for a Function
• Keep It Simple
• Running Programs and the Operating System
• How the Interpreter Uses Process Memory
• Parameters
• Local Variables
• Parameters Are Local Variables

Class 13: Tuesday, October 14th

• Script Requirements for Functions
• Make Sure You Driver Code is Not Indented
• The Two Parts of a Function Definition
• Formatting Functions for This Course
• Default Values for Parameters
• Named Arguments
• Global Variables
• Variable Shadowing
• Shadowing and Variable Names
• Global Constants
• Functions that Return Values
• Returning Multiple Values
• Standard Library
• Calling a Module Function
• Creating Random Numbers
• The random Module
• Other random Functions
• Random Number Seeds

Class 14: Thursday, October 16th

Class 16: Thursday, October 23rd

• Do Not Change the Test Code in Homework Scripts
• Scripts and Functions Need Comments
• Don't Comment the Obvious
• Returning Values That Are Not Numbers
• Boolean Functions and Data Validation
• Storing Functions in Modules
• Incremental Development
• An Example of Incremental Development
• Rock, Paper, Scissors - Step 1
• Rock, Paper, Scissors - Step 2
• Rock, Paper, Scissors - Step 3
• Rock, Paper, Scissors - Step 4
• Rock, Paper, Scissors - Step 5
• Refactoring

Class 17: Tuesday, October 28th

• Common Exam Mistake - Using Input in Functions
• Never Assume Your Code Works
• Files
• Types of Files
• Identifying a File
• Storing Data on a Hard Disk
• Files and the Kernel
• Working with a File in Python
• Objects
• Accessing the Data in Files
• Opening a File
• Specifying the Location of a File
• Writing Data to a File
• Reading Data From a File