| Lecture | Date | Topic | Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 04-09 | Introduction | No slides; presentation of course syllabus. |
| 2 | 06-09 | What is a computer: CPU, RAM, storage, communication. Binary numbers, instructions | Slides (updated on Sept. 6 2019) |
| 3 | 9-09 | Python programming: What is code? How write code? How to run it? Basic programs | Slides (updated on Sept. 8 2019) |
| 4 | 11-09 | Python programming: variables and types. Program execution. | Slides (updated on Sept. 11 2019). Python source files. |
| 5 | 13-09 | Python programming: Control flow: conditionals, boolean expressions | Slides (updated on Sept. 13 2019). Python source files. |
| 6 | 16-09 | Python programming: While loops | Slides (updated on Sept. 16 2019). Python source files. |
| 7 | 18-09 | Python programming: More loops, nested loops | Slides (updated on Sept. 18 2019). Python source files. |
| 8 | 20-09 | Testing and debugging code; Nested loops | Slides (updated on Sept 23 2019). Python source files. |
| 9 | 23-09 | Python programming: Lists | Slides (updated on Sept. 25 2019). Python source files. |
| 10 | 25-09 | Python programming: Control flow: for loops | Slides (from 2018). Python source files. |
| 11 | 27-09 | Putting it together: Nested loops and conditionals | Programming example done in class (Sept. 27 2019). Other examples (from 2018). Python source files. |
| 12 | 30-09 | Python programming: Functions I | Slides (updated on Sept. 29 2019). Python source files. |
| 13 | 2-10 | Python programming: Functions II - arguments, scope | Slides (updated on Sept. 29 2019). Python source files. |
| 14 | 4-10 | Program execution: Dictionaries | Slides (updated on Oct. 4 2019). Python source files. |
| 15 | 7-10 | Python programming: Dictionaries and sets | Slides (from 2018). |
| 16 | 9-10 | Python programming: Putting it together | Slides (updated on Oct. 9 2019). Python source files. | 17 | 11-10 | Review Session | Slides (from 2018).. Python source files. |
| 15-10 | Midterm exam | ||
| 18 | 16-10 | Exceptions | Slides (updated on Oct 16 2019). |
| 19 | 18-10 | Exceptions (continued) and Sets | Slides (updated on Oct. 18 2019). |
| 20 | 21-10 | Enumerate,zip, and comprehensions | Slides (updated on Oct. 20 2019).. Python source files. |
| 20 | 21-10 | Algorithm design: Linear and Binary Search | Slides (fupdated on Oct. 23 2019).. Python source files. |
| 21 | 23-10 | Algorithm design: Selection and Insert Sort | Slides (updated on Oct 25 2019).. Python source files. |
| 22 | 25-10 | Python programming: File IO | Slides (updated on Oct. 29 2019).. Python source files. | 23 | 28-10 | Using libraries: Data visualization with MatPlotLib (part one) | Slides (updated on Oct 30 2019).Python source files. |
| 24 | 30-10 | A simulation program | Slides (updated on Nov. 1 2019). Python source files. |
| 26 | 4-11 | Introduction to object-oriented programming | Slides (updated on Nov. 3 2019). Python source files. |
| 27 | 6-11 | Object-oriented programming - Part II | Slides (updated on Nov. 5 2019). Python source files. |
| 28 | 8-11 | Object-oriented programming: inheritance | Slides (updated on Nov 8 2019). Python source files. |
| 29 | 11-11 | Introduction to image analysis with scikit-image (part one) | Slides (updated on Nov. 11 2019). Python source files. |
| 33 | 13-11 | Introduction to image analysis with scikit-image (part two) | Slides (updated on Nov. 11 2019). Python source files. |
| 34 | 15-11 | Introduction to image analysis with scikit-image (part three) | Slides (updated on Nov. 15 2019). Python source files. |
| 30 | 13-11 | Machine learning - introduction | Slides (updated on Nov. 18 2019). |
| 31 | 15-11 | Machine learning (part 2) | Slides (updated on Nov 20 2019) |
| 32 | 15-11 | Machine learning (part 3) | Slides (updated on Nov 22 2019) Python source files. |
| 32 | 15-11 | Using Python modules, and iPython Jupyter Notebooks | Slides (updated on Nov 25 2019) Python source files. |
| 35 | 25-11 | Optional topic 1: Recursion | Slides unavailable. |
| 36 | 27-11 | Optional topic 2: Students' choice topic | Slides unavailable. |
| 37 | 29-11 | Review session #1 | Slides (from 2018). |
| 38 | 2-12 | Review session #2 | |
| 39 | 3-12 | Review session #3 |
Additional matieral we will not cover in the course but you may find useful as a programmer.
| OPTIONAL | TOPIC | Python programming: Internet IO | Slides |
| OPTIONAL | TOPIC | The Standard Library | Slides |
| OPTIONAL | TOPIC | Advanced Python: Generators, Decorators, and Context Managers | Slides |
| OPTIONAL | TOPIC | Regular expressions | Slides |