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Prerequisites

• A computer/laptop. (Linux/Mac preferred, but I will allow Windows)
• Anaconda for Python 3.6
• Refer to email in regards to prior software/programming knowledge.

Week 1 (October 17) - Introduction to Python

• About this class
• Python History
• Python 2/3
• 4 ways to Python
  • as a script,
  • the python shell,
  • the ipython shell,
  • a jupyter notebook.

Week 2 (October 31) - Introduction to Python (continued)

• Python as a Calculator
• Data Types
• Commenting
• Variables
• Strings (Part 1)

Week 3 (November 7) - Online - [Strings, Imports, and Lists] (https://github.com/edmondb/pyto/blob/master/lectures/week_03/Strings%20Imports%20and%20Lists.ipynb)

• Strings
  • Slicing
  • Input/Output
  • Unicode
• Imports
• Lists

Homework 2 - Due March 14
Answers

Week 7 (November 14) - Online - Recap and More!

• Recap
• Sequences
• Loops
  • for loop
  • while loop
• List Comprehensions

Week 8 (November 21) - Conditionals

• Dictionaries
• Conditionals
  • if, elif, else

Homework 3 - Due April 25
Answers

Week 10 (November 28) - Functions

• Function Structures
• Types of Arguments

Week 11 (December 5) - OOP (Part 1) - Classes

• The object & class
• Attributes
• Methods

Week 12 (December 12) - OOP (Part 2) - Inheritance

• Inheritance
• Overloading

Week 13 (December 19) - Modules and Packages - End of Semester