COMPSCI 119

Spring 2018

Introduction to Programming with Python

Professor William T. Verts

Rooms, Email, Web

• Classroom: ILC S211, 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
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• 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
• Optional Textbook: Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python Fourth Edition (2015), by Mark Guzdial and Barbara Ericson
• Different Environments for running Python
• How to run Windows software when all you have is a Mac

Notes and Code

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• JES Reference (2 pages, February 18, 2014)
• Notes 1/29/2018 - Average1 (simple version)
• Notes 1/29/2018 - Average2 (complicated version)
• Notes 1/29/2018 - Average3 (version with functions)
• Notes 1/31/2018 - GradeBook1 (Function with while and several ifs)
• Notes 2/2/2018 - GradeBook2 (Replace if-else-if-else with if-elif-elif)
• Notes 2/2/2018 - GradeBook3 (Using string length instead of counter)
• Notes 2/5/2018 - GradeBook4 (Using a pair of lists for student names and scores)
• Notes 2/5/2018 - GradeBook5 (Using one list, each entry is a list of one name and one score)
• Notes 2/16/2018 - Building Lists
• Notes 2/16/2018 - For-Loops
• Notes 2/16/2018 - First intro to JES graphics
• Notes 2/21/2018 - Simple Image Processing
• Notes 2/28/2018 - Chaos Game (Sierpinski Gasket)
• Notes 3/2/2018 - Improved Chaos Game (Sierpinski Gasket)
• Notes 3/5/2018 - Simple Command Processor
• Notes 3/9/2018 - Command Processor updated to simple image processing
• Notes 3/19/2018 - Command Processor with more image processing, cleaned up
• Notes 3/23/2018 - Command Processor with global variables and new canvases
• Notes 3/26/2018 - Command Processor with neighborhood image filtering
• Notes 3/28/2018 - Command Processor with image dithering
• Notes 3/30/2018 - Bouncing a box around the screen - simple animation
• Notes 4/2/2018 - Bouncing a car around the screen - hierarchical decomposition
• Midterm 1 Solution Key Spring 2018
• Midterm 2 Review
• Notes 4/11/2018 - Geometry: Linear Blending between Two Points
• Notes 4/13/2018 - Geometry 3D: 3D Orthographic Projection
• Notes 4/16/2018 - Geometry 3D: 3D plus Linear Blending
• Notes 4/18/2018 - Geometry 3D: Parametric 3D Lines with Color Blending
• Notes 4/20/2018 - Synthesizing Sounds
• Notes 4/23/2018 - Intro to Python Polynomials
• Midterm 2 Solution Key Spring 2018
• Final Exam from last spring (as a study guide)
• Final Exam Solution Key for Spring 2015

Assignments

• Request My Grades
• On-Line Quizzes, Forms, and Homeworks
• Form to submit lab assignments for grading
• Lab Assignment #1 - First Python program: Hunt the Hurkle (due Wednesday, March 7)
  Scoring Codes for Lab #1
• Lab Assignment #2 - Anime Eyes (due Friday March 30)
• Lab Assignment #2 - Framework Code
• Lab Assignment #3 - Fish Tank (due Monday April 23)
• Lab Assignment #3 - Framework Code
• Lab Assignment #11 - EXTRA CREDIT Python program: Wiggle Stereoscopy (5 points) (Due May 12)
• Images.zip - Two pair of files needed for Lab #11
• Movie showing expected result of Lab #11
• Lab Assignment #12 - EXTRA CREDIT Python program: Bar Codes (15 points) (Due May 12)

Links

• Dr. Bill's home page
• JES Jython programming environment (NEW, JES 5.02, May 2015)
• My Software Page

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