COMPSCI 119

Fall 2017

Introduction to Programming with Python

Professor William T. Verts

Rooms, Email, Web

• Classroom: ILC S131, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1:25PM-2:15PM
  
• Me: William T. Verts verts@cs.umass.edu Office Hours LGRC A357: M/W/F 2:30-3:30
• TA: Shiva Ramezani sramezani@cs.umass.edu
• TA: Tengyang Xie txie@cs.umass.edu
• 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)
• 5000+ frame movie generated in JES showing search strategies.
• Notes 9/15/2017 - Square Roots
• Notes 9/18/2017 - BuildAListOfSquareRoots
• Notes 9/20/2017 - Building Lists, introduction to the for-loop
• Notes 9/22/2017 - More on Building Lists, List Comprehensions

Assignments

• Request My Grades
• On-Line Quizzes, Forms, and Homeworks
• Form to submit lab assignments for grading

Links

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

Copyright © 2011-2017 Dr. William T. Verts (All Rights Reserved)