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Description

Course Site

This course focuses on the fundamentals of computer programming using the Python interpreted programming language. Students will develop his or her problem solving skills using the divide and-conquer and top-down approaches to build real-world based software applications. Students will also learn the basics of the software development life-cycle: planning, development, testing, implementation and maintenance. Assignments will include individual coding assignments and weekly fundamental checkpoint quizzes culminating with an individual final project to test essential programming and problem solving skills.

Note: The course schedule and assignments are subject to change. Please see your Enterprise Learning Management System (e.g. Canvas, Blackboard, Desire2Learn) for the official schedule.

Lectures

Lectures will contain a mixture of content form this site and others.

1. Week 01 - Language basics, Generating Data, Storing Data
2. Week 02 - Processing files, Making Web Requests
3. Week 03 - Functions, Loops, Comprehensions and Generators
4. Week 04 - Data Processing and Visualization Part 1
5. Week 05 - Data Processing and Visualization Part 2
6. Week 06 - Web Scraping

Quizzes

Quizzes will be administered approximately every week on material from prior weeks. All quizzes are closed book and no materials may be used.

1. Week 2 - Quiz 1
2. Week 3 - Quiz 2
3. Week 4 - Quiz 3
4. Week 5 - Quiz 4
5. Week 6 - Quiz 5

Assignments

The project is a collection of individual programming assignments building towards delivery of a final product.

1. Week 2 - Assignment 1
2. Week 3 - Assignment 2
3. Week 4 - Assignment 3
4. Week 6 - Assignment 4

Grading

All assignments will be evaluated by 2 criteria:

• Correctness: The program produces the expected output or data.
• Proficiency: The program demonstrates a high degree of competence or skill.