COMPSCI 119

Spring 2019 (Still Being Updated)

Introduction to Programming with Python

Professor William T. Verts

Rooms, Email, Web

• Classroom: Goessmann 20, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1:25PM-2:15PM
  
• Me: William T. Verts verts@cs.umass.edu Office Hours LGRC A357: M/W/F 2:45-3:45
• Office Hours for all my Classes
• Semester Calendar


• Syllabus
• Textbook: Computer Science Companion Third Edition, Revised 2017 (by me)
  NOTE: the 2016 unrevised 3^RD edition is acceptable, but not preferred
  Order the Companion from Kendall/Hunt
• Different Environments for running Python
• How to run Windows software when all you have is a Mac

Notes and Code

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• Lecture on General Programming Concepts - Programs and Flowcharts
• Code: Hailstones (Friday, February 1)
• Code: Square Root (Monday, February 4)
• Code: Square Root and Distance (Wednesday, February 6)
• Code: Square Root, Distance, Taxes, with default parameters (Friday, February 8)
• Code: Functions calling functions, local variables (Friday, February 8)
• Code: Functions to get positive numbers, function to print grades (Monday, February 11)
• Code: Function PrintGrades, various solutions (Wednesday, February 13)
• Code: Function Bang: make strings of "!" of certain length, string lengths, counter loops (Wednesday, February 13)
• Code: Counter Loops, Introduction to Lists (Friday, February 15)
• Code: More lists and stepping through lists (February 20)
• Code: Building Lists by appending to end (February 22)
• Practice Exam for Midterm #1
• Command Processor #1: Basics, stubs (March 4)
• Command Processor #2: Basics, pass statement (March 6)
• Command Processor #3: Basics, string.upper() (March 6)
• Command Processor #4: Basics, writing a new function (March 6)
• Command Processor #5: Basics, strings that span lines (March 6)
• Time and Random functions (March 8)
• Solution to Midterm #1
• Test Dr. Bill's I/O Library
• Reading and Writing Files
• Characters and their Numbers
• IntToStr and IntToStrBases (converting numbers to strings) (March 25)
• Motivation for Dictionaries (April 1)
• Polynomials (April 2019)
• Practice Exam for Midterm #2
• Command Processor for Lists (April 24, 2019)
• DrBillsSVGwriter.py
• ObjectOrientedSVGWriter.py
• Solution to Midterm #2
• FALL 2018: Solution to Midterm #1 (Ignore questions about JES Graphics, remember these are Python 2)
• FALL 2018: Solution to Midterm #2 (Ignore questions about JES Graphics, remember these are Python 2)
• FALL 2018: Solution to Midterm #3 (Ignore questions about JES Graphics, remember these are Python 2)
• FALL 2018: Solution to Final Exam (Ignore questions about JES Graphics, remember these are Python 2)

Assignments

• Request My Grades
• On-Line Quizzes, Forms, and Homeworks
• Form to submit lab assignments for grading
• Lab Assignment #1 - First Python program: Printing Exam Grades (due on or before Friday, February 22)
• Lab Assignment #1 - Grading Rubric
• Lab Assignment #2 - Text Analysis (due on or before Wednesday, April 3)
• Gettysburg.txt (data file for Lab #2)
• Lab Assignment #2 - Grading Rubric
• DrBillsInputOutput.py
• DrBillsSVGwriter.py
• Lab Assignment #3 - Greebles (due on or before Friday, April 19)
• Lab #3 Framework
• Lab Assignment #4 - Hunt the Hurkle (due on or before Friday, May 3)
• Lab Assignment #5 - Testing Dice - 5 POINTS EXTRA CREDIT (due by end of finals week)

Links

• Dr. Bill's home page
• My Software Page

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