Lecture Slides

Some of them are accompanied by the example Python programs we write in class. To put the example Python programs onto your computer (at least in Windows), right-click on the link for the program and select "Save target as.." or "Save as..".

• Fri 9/28 slides. Read pages 1-11 in the textbook.
• Mon 10/1 slides. Read pages 28-35 in the textbook.
• Wds 10/3 slides. Read pages 17-28 in the textbook. Also see page 47 on raw_input().
  
  form.py, the form letter program.
• Fri 10/5 slides. Read pages 51-61 in the textbook.
  
  welcome.py, greeting a contestant.
• Mon 10/8 slides. Pages 76-81.
• Wds 10/10 slides. Pages 65-75.
• Fri 10/12 slides.
  eir.py, calculating the effective interest rate.
  helper.py, functions for checking input.
• Mon 10/15 slides. Pages 95-99.
  prettyPrint.py, printing with two decimal places.
• Wds 10/17 slides. Pages 61-64.
  rps.py, Rock-paper-scissors.
• Fri 10/19 slides. Sample midterm questions.
• Wds 10/24 slides. Pages 89-95.
• Fri 10/26 slides. See the graphics module documentation.
  picture.py, picture of some points on a circle.
• Mon 10/29 slides.
  wave1.py, plot a sin wave.
• Wds 10/31 slides. Pages 159-169.
  funcDemo.py, a function example, and wave3.py, a sin wave and its derivative.
• Fri 11/02 slides. Pages 174-178.
  isInt2.py, a function using a global variable.
• Mon 11/05 and Wds 11/07 slides. Pages 179-182 on global and local variables.
  fun.py, global and local varaibles example.
  readcsv.py, a program that reads and pretty-prints the .csv file worldbas.csv.
• Fri 11/09 slides.
  txt2csv.py, program that reads the file billboard.txt, cleans it up, and writes it to a .csv file that can be opened in Excel.
• Mon 11/13 slides. Pages 213-218 on exceptions, but don't worry too much about specific exception types. Back to pages 38-41 for string methods.
  removeBlankLines.py, program that copys any file, removing blank lines.
  Python string methods, from the Python library reference, by Guido himself.
• Fri 11/16 slides. Midterm review.
  Many little programs: choosing.py, totals.py, stock.py, slice.py, summer.py, and gifts.py, which reads myFile.txt.
• Mon 11/26 slides. Pages 178-182 on global variables, pages 77-78 on the break statement, and start reading pages 147-155 on dictionaries in preparation for Wds. lecture.
  winners.py, program that answers queries about which district a representative comes from, break.py, program that demonstrates the break statement in a for loop.
• Wds 11/28 slides. Pages 147-155 on dictionaries.
  winners.py, program that answers queries about which district a representative comes from using a dictionary, and petDict.py, a small program demonstrating a dictionary.
• Fri 11/30 slides. Graphics and multiprocessing.
• Mon 12/3 slides. When to use a dictionary, a bit about how they work on the inside.
  secret.py, a program that displays a series of graphics windows. fakeDictionary.py, a program that demonstrates how to fake a dictionary with a list. This is actually how dictionaries work.
• Wds 12/5 slides. What you should have gotten out of this course, using URLs.
  getURL.py, a program that gets a file from a URL, scrapes out the names of links to Python programs, and get all the Python programs over the internet.
• Fri 12/7 slides. Review for final.