Calendar

All materials we use in class are accessible via this page.

This is a temporary schedule for what we will do, subject to change!

Course Submission Guidelines & Deadlines

Reading Quizzes: Complete quizzes before their associated lectures, as marked on the course calendar.
Labs: Weekly labs have a standard deadline of Sunday at 11:59 pm.

Special Deadlines Due to Add/Drop:

In recognition of students who may join the course after it begins due to the add/drop period, we’ve adjusted some deadlines:

Reading Quizzes 2-5: extended to 9/12 at 11:59 pm.
Lab 1: extended to 9/12 at 11:59 pm.
Lab 2: extended to 9/17 at 11:59 pm.
Assignment 1: Blockly can be submitted by Sunday, 9/17, at 11:59 pm without penalty.

All other deliverables should be submitted by their specified deadlines.

Fall 2023 Course Calendar

Week	Date	Day	Type	Topics/Activity	Readings	Assignment/APT
1	08/29	Tuesday	Lecture	Lecture 1: First Day • Recording • Slides • Form 1	No Readings No Reading Quiz	Assignment 1: Blockly Released
	08/31	Thursday	Lecture	Lecture 2: Intro to Python • Recording • Slides • Form 1 • Form 2	Textbook: • 1.1-1.5 • 2.1-2.11 (exercises are optional) Reading Quiz
	09/01	Friday	Lab	Lab 1

2	09/05	Tuesday	Lecture	Lecture 3: 7-steps, Functions, Order of Execution • Recording • Slides • Code • Form 1 • Form 2	Textbook: • 6.1 (up to paragraph with "black-box diagram" text) • 6.2 • 6.4 • 6.10 Reading Quiz
	09/07	Thursday	Lecture	Lecture 4: Functions, Randomness, Selection • Recording • Slides • Code • No classwork	Textbook: • 5.4 • 6.6, 6.7 • 7.1-7.8 (7.8.1 not required) Reading Quiz	Assignment 1: Blockly Due APT 1 Released
	09/08 Add/Drop Ends	Friday	Lab	Lab 2

3	09/12	Tuesday	Lecture	Lecture 5: Lists, Sequences • Recording • Slides • Form 1 • Form 2	Textbook: • 6.9 • 9.1-9.4 • 9.6-9.8 • 9.13 • 10.1-10.7 Reading Quiz
	09/14	Thursday	Lecture	Lecture 6: Faces, Debugging, lists, mutation, objects • Recording • Slides • Form 1 • Form 2	Textbook: • 1.6-1.10 • 3 (entire chapter) • 10.6 • 10.10-10.13 Reading Quiz	Assignment 2: Faces Released
	09/15	Friday	Lab	Lab 3

4	09/19	Tuesday	Lecture	Lecture 7: List/String methods, for loop, Accumulator • Recording • Slides • Form 1 • Form 2	Textbook: • 4.4 • 4.5 • 6.5 • 9.5 • 9.10 • 10.14 • 10.16 • 10.24 Reading Quiz
	09/21	Thursday	Lecture	Lecture 8: Range, Loop Tracing • Recording • Slides • Form 1 • Form 2	Textbook: • 4.7 • 9.11 • 10.17 Reading Quiz	APT 1 Due APT 2 Released
	09/22	Friday	Lab	Lab 4

5	09/26	Tuesday	Lecture	Lecture 9: Bagels, Pancake APT • Recording • Slides • Form 1 • Form 2	Read the Pancake APT No Reading Quiz
	09/28	Thursday	Lecture	Lecture 10: Turtle, Files, Data • Recording • Slides • Code • Form 1 • Form 2	Textbook: • 4.1-4.3 • 4.6 • 4.8 • 4.9 • 11.1-11.6 Reading Quiz	Assignment 2: Faces Due Assignment 3: Turtles Released
	09/29	Friday	Lab	Lab 5

6	10/03	Tuesday	Lecture	Midterm 1
	10/05	Thursday	Lecture	Lecture 11: While loops, Parallel lists • Recording (because of tech issues, 14:30-40:00 does not have sound) • Slides • Code • No classwork due to tech issues.	Textbook: • 8.1 - 8.8 Reading Quiz	APT 2 Due APT 3 Released
	10/06	Friday	Lab	Lab 6

7	10/10	Tuesday	Lecture	Lecture 12: Short-circuiting, List comprehensions • Recording • Slides • Code • Form 1 • Form 2	Short-Circuiting Textbook: • 10.22 Reading Quiz
	10/12	Thursday	Lecture	Lecture 13: Transform, Images, Tuples • Recording • Slides • Form 1 • Form 2	Textbook: • 8.11 (but we will use the Pillow library, get the gist from textbook, functions from the library documentation) • 10.26 - 10.28 Reading Quiz • Follow these instructions for how to install the Pillow Library	Assignment 3: Turtles Due Assignment 4: Transform Released
	10/13	Friday	Lab	No Lab. Enjoy an early fall break!

8	10/17	Tuesday	Lecture	No Lecture. Fall break.
	10/19	Thursday	Lecture	Lecture 14: Images • Recording • Slides • Code • Form 1 • Form 2	All the sections in Sets at wikibooks, except "frozenset" Reading Quiz	APT 4 Released
	10/20	Friday	Lab	Lab 7

9	10/24	Tuesday	Lecture	Lecture 15: Sets, Dictionaries • Recording • Slides • Form 1 • Form 2	Textbook: • 12.1-12.4 Reading Quiz
	10/26	Thursday	Lecture	Lecture 16: Dictionaries • Recording • Slides • No classwork	No reading, but there's still a reading quiz regarding old concepts. Reading Quiz	APT 3 Due Assignment 4: Transform Due Assignment 5: GuessWord Released
	10/27	Friday	Lab	Lab 8

10	10/31	Tuesday	Lecture	Lecture 17: Sorting, CSV, lambda • Recording • Slides • Code • Form 1 • Form 2	CSV Library DocumentationIntroduction • csv.reader • csv.writer • csvwriter.writerow • csvwriter.writerows First section on Lambdas of this Lambda Tutorial The following sections of Python.org's how-to on sorting: • Introduction • Sorting Basics • First 2 examples in Key Functions • Operator Module Functions: itemgetter • Ascending and Descending Reading Quiz
	11/02	Thursday	Lecture	Lecture 18: Stable Sorting • Recording • Slides • No Classwork	Wikipedia: Stable Sorting Python.org: Sorting Mini-HOW TO: Sort Stability and Complex Sorts Reading Quiz	APT 4 Due APT 5 Released
	11/03	Friday	Lab	Lab 9

11	11/07	Tuesday	Lecture	Midterm 2
	11/09	Thursday	Lecture	Lecture 19: Clever GuessWord and Greedy Algorithms • Recording • Slides • Form 1 • Form 2	Read the Clever GuessWord Assignment No reading quiz	Assignment 5: GuessWord Due Assignment 6: Clever GuessWord Released
	11/10 Last day to Withdraw	Friday	Lab	Lab 10

12	11/14	Tuesday	Lecture	Lecture 20: Modules, Exceptions • Recording • Code • Slides • No Classwork	Textbook: • 13.1 - 13.3 No Reading Quiz
	11/16	Thursday	Lecture	Lecture 21: Modules cont. • Recording • Code • Slides • No Classwork	No Reading Quiz	APT 5 Due APT 6 Released APT 7 Released (Extra Credit)
	11/17	Friday	Lab	Lab 11

13	11/21	Tuesday	No Lecture	No lecture. Enjoy an early Thanksgiving Break!
	11/23	Thursday	No Lecture	No lecture. Thanksgiving Break
	11/24	Friday	No Lab	No lab. Thanksgiving Break

14	11/28	Tuesday	Lecture	Lecture 22: Recommender • Recording • Slides • Form 1 • Form 2	Read the Recommender Assignment No reading quiz	Assignment 6: Clever GuessWord Due Assignment 7: Recommender Released Assignment 8: Create Released
	11/30	Thursday	Lecture	Lecture 23: When to use what? • Recording • Slides • Form 1 • Form 2	Reading quiz is a survey in Google Forms.	APT 6 Due
	12/01	Friday	Lab	Lab 12

15	12/05	Tuesday	Lecture	Lecture 24: Recursion • Slides • Form 1 • Form 2	Textbook • 16.1 - 16.7 No Reading Quiz
	12/07	Thursday	Lecture	Lecture 25: Recursion continued, beyond CS101	No Reading Quiz	Assignment 7: Recommender Due Assignment 8: Create Due APT 7 Due (Extra Credit)
	12/08	Friday	Lab	Lab 13

Finals	12/9 – 12/12	Saturday – Tuesday	Reading Period
Finals	12/16	Saturday	Final Exam: 2-5pm in Griffith Theater