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 9/25 slides. Read pages 1-11 in the textbook. If you get to page 14, there is a typo: "raw input()" should be "raw_input()".
• Mon 9/28 slides. Read pages 18-35 in the textbook.
• Wds 9/30 slides. Read pages 35-37 and 40-50 in the textbook.
  formLetter.py
• Fri 10/2 slides. Read pages 51-61 in the textbook.
  nickname.py
• Mon 10/5 slides. Read pages 79-81 and 43-45.
  bmi.py
• Wds 10/7 slides. Read pages 65-72.
  eir.py
• Fri 10/9 slides.
  guessWeight.py. This program will not run properly unless it is in the same folder as the file conversionCheck.py, which contains the functions to check if a string can be safely converted to an integer or float.
• Mon 10/12 slides. Rock, paper, scissors.
  rps.py
• Wds 10/14 slides. Review for midterm.
• Fri 10/16. Midterm 1.
• Mon 10/19 slides. Lists and for loops. Read pages 89-106.
• Wds 10/21 slides. Go back to 37-40 to read about string methods.
  myUCbudget.py
• Fri 10/23 slides. The range function, more for loops, using string methods.
  counter.py, fossilStory.py
• Mon 10/26 slides. Files and dictionaries.
  StatePopulations.txt, readPopulations.py
• Wds 10/28 slides. Break, continue, and introduction to dictionaries.
  statePopDictionary.py
• Fri 10/30 slides. Dictionary of lists, strip method.
  carDictionary.py, EnergySources.csv, energyData.py
• Mon 11/2 slides. Concatenation on a list. Try-except construction.
  findSentences.py, dede.txt, corzine.txt
• Wds 11/4 slides. For loop on a dictionary.
  statePopDumpDictionary.py
• Fri 11/6 slides. Sort method, another for loop on a dictionary.
  statePopFileWrite.py
• Mon 11/9 slides. How do dictionaries actually work?
  reversePhoneBook.py
• Fri 11/13 slides. Midterm review.
• Mon 11/16. Midterm.
• Wds 11/18 slides. Graphics module.
  ecs10graphics.py contains the module, and pentagon.py uses it.
• Fri 11/20 slides. Introduction to functions. Functions in a module and functions in a program.
  myConversionCheck.py, tested by testModule.py.
• Mon 11/23 slides. When functions are run. Global and local variables in functions.
  snowflake.py
• Mon 11/30 slides. How to change global variables. Avoiding two variables with the same name.
  month.py
• Wds 12/2 slides. Using objects, and making classes.
  firstGui.py,snowflakeModule.py