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COMP118: Procedural Programming (F'05)
Class Notes
Lecture notes, handouts, and readings for upcoming classes will be posted here. Lecture notes are usually posted two or three days after class.
Week 14
- Lecture Notes: Finishing the Web Crawling Program
- Lab Notes: More Skeleton Code for the Yoink Server Assignment
- Python Cheatsheet: Final Draft
Week 13
- Lecture Notes: More Regular Expressions
- Lecture Notes: A Web Crawling Program
- Lab Notes: Skeleton Code for the Yoink Server Assignment
- Python Cheatsheet: Week 13 Draft
Week 12
- Lecture Notes: Regular Expressions
- Handout: Regular Expression Metacharacters
- Python Cheatsheet: Week 12 Draft
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Readings:
Learning to Program:
Regular Expressions;
Regular Expression - An Introduction;
Regular Expression HOWTO, skip sections 4.3 and 4.4;
Regular Expressions Tutorial including lots of examples.
Week 11
- Lecture Notes: Client-Server Network Programming
- Python Cheatsheet: Week 11 Draft
Week 10
- Lecture Notes: Network Programming
- Python Cheatsheet: Week 10 Draft
Week 9
- Lecture Notes: Image Manipulation
- Python Cheatsheet: Week 9 Draft
- Readings: Python Imaging Library (PIL) Handbook, Just Part I and the reference section for the Image module.
Week 8
- Lecture Notes: More Files
- Exercises: Processing Log Files
- Python Cheatsheet: Week 8 Draft
- Exercise Solutions: Processing Log Files
Week 7
- Lecture Notes: Modules and Files
- Handout: Sample Program: Lines of Code
- Exercises: Modules and Reading Files
- Exercise Solutions: Modules and Reading Files
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Readings:
A Byte of Python,
Chapter 8 (Modules) Introduction section,
Chapter 8 (Modules) The
dir()Function section, Chapter 14 (The Python Standard Library) Theosmodule section, Chapter 11 (Input/Output) Files section;
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Chapter 3 (Files and Exceptions) just up to the end of the 11.3 Directories section;
Learning to Program Programming with Modules, Handling Files
Week 6
- Lecture Notes: More Functions
- Python Cheatsheet: Week 6 Draft
Week 5
- Lecture Notes: Functions
- Handout: Sample Program: Month Information
- Exercises: Functions
- Python Cheatsheet: Week 5 Draft
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Readings:
A Byte of Python,
Chapter 7 (Functions);
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Chapter 3 (Functions)
Week 4
- Lecture Notes: Strings, Lists, and for Loops
- Handout: Sample Program: Class Average
- Exercises: Strings, Lists, and for Loops
- Python Cheatsheet: Week 4 Draft
- Exercise Solutions: Strings, Lists, and for Loops
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Readings:
A Byte of Python,
Chapter 4 (The Basics) Strings section,
Chapter 6 (Control Flow)
from "The
forloop" through the end, Chapter 9 (Data Structures) Using Lists section;
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Chapter 7 (Strings), Chapter 8 (Lists)
Week 3
- Lecture Notes: Decision and Repetition
- Handout: Sample Program: Amazing Kreskin
- Exercises: Decision and Repetition
- Exercise Solutions: Decision and Repetition
- Python Cheatsheet: Week 3 Draft
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Readings:
A Byte of Python,
Chapter 4 (The Basics) Indentation section,
Chapter 5 (Operators and Expressions),
Chapter 6 (Control Flow)
just up to the end of the section entitled "The
whileStatement";
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Chapter 4 (Conditionals and Recursion) just up to the end of section 4.7 (functions are mentioned quite a bit in the examples, so you'll have to skip by some of that for now)
Week 2
- Lecture Notes: Programming Fundamentals
- Handout: Sample Program: Calculate a Circle's Circumference
- Exercises: Programming Fundamentals
- Python Cheatsheet: Week 2 Draft
- Exercise Solutions: Programming Fundamentals
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Readings:
A Byte of Python,
Chapter 4 (The Basics);
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Chapter 2 (Variables, Expressions and Statements)
Week 1
- Lecture Notes: Introduction to Programming