CS 230: Programming in Python

The course objective is to introduce students to the Python programming language. Students will learn the fundamentals of strings, lists, objects, graphics, functions, decision structures, OOP, data collection, & algorithm design.

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Course Curriculum

1. Course Overview and Learning Outcomes
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1. Introduction
1. SDLC and Its Phases
2. Quiz 1.1
1. Key Steps in Program Design and Development
2. Quiz 1.2
1. Key Properties of Program Quality
2. Quiz 1.3
1. Understanding Pseudocode and Its Role in Program Design
2. Quiz 1.4
1. Understanding Flowcharts: Symbols, Usage, and Examples
2. Quiz 1.5
1. Comprehensive Guide to Software Testing and Program Design
2. Quiz 1.6
1. Overview of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and Software Development Processes
2. Quiz 1.7
1. Version Control, Git, and Input/Output in Software Development
2. Quiz 1.8
1. Introduction to Python
2. Quiz 1.9
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. Introduction to Python: A Modular and Scripting Language
2. Quiz 2.1
1. VIDEO: Displaying output to the user
2. VIDEO: Obtaining input from the user
3. Understanding Basic Input and Output in Python
4. Quiz 2.2
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. VIDEO: Assigning and using variables
2. Constants, Variables and Identifier : Definitions, Usage, and Best Practices
3. Quiz 3.1
1. VIDEO: Integer and floating-point
2. Understanding Basic Data Types and Operations in Python
3. Quiz 3.2
1. VIDEO: Using len() to get the length of a string
2. VIDEO: Concatenating multiple strings
3. VIDEO: String indexes
4. VIDEO: String indexing
5. VIDEO: Printing an f-string
6. VIDEO: Strings are immutable
7. VIDEO: What is in the phrase?
8. VIDEO: for loop using in operator
9. VIDEO: counting the number of occurrences of a substring
10. VIDEO: finding the first index of a substring
11. VIDEO: split() for breaking down the string
12. VIDEO: join() for combining tokens into one string
13. Comprehensive Guide to Strings, Formatting, and Operations in Python
14. Quiz 3.3
1. VIDEO: Implicit Type Conversion
2. VIDEO: Explicit Type Conversion
3. VIDEO: Converting integers, floats and string using bool()
4. VIDEO: Operations Combining Integers and Floats
5. VIDEO: Adding a string and an integer
6. Implicit and Explicit Type Conversion
7. Mixed data types
8. Quiz 3.4
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. VIDEO: Incorrect variable name
2. VIDEO: Examples of round() Function
3. How to Read Errors
4. Quiz 4.1
1. VIDEO: Comments in a program
2. VIDEO: Vacations docstring
3. Comments
4. Quiz 4.2
1. VIDEO: Running a Python Shell
2. VIDEO: Correcting a typo
3. The Python Shell
4. Quiz 4.3
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. Assignment and Arithmetic Operators
2. Quiz 5.1
1. VIDEO: Comparison Operators
2. Relational Operators: Overview and Discussion
3. Quiz 5.2
1. Logical Operators: Overview and Discussion
2. Quiz 5.3
1. VIDEO: Operator Precedence
2. VIDEO: Operation Precedence
3. VIDEO: Using Parentheses
4. Order of Operations: Overview and Discussion
5. Quiz 5.4
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. Structured Programming
2. Condition Examples
3. Quiz 6.1
1. VIDEO: if and if-else statement
2. VIDEO: Example: Trivia question
3. if and if-else statement
4. Quiz 6.2
1. VIDEO: Example: Livestream features
2. VIDEO: Example: Possible chess moves
3. Chained Decisions
4. Quiz 6.3
1. VIDEO: Example: Poisonous plant identification
2. Nested Decision
3. Quiz 6.4
1. VIDEO: Ternary operator: Example: Version Check
2. Conditional Expressions
3. Quiz 6.5
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. VIDEO: While loop
2. VIDEO: Counting with While Loop
3. While loop
4. Quiz 7.1
1. VIDEO: For Loop Example for Iterating Over a Container Object
2. For Loop
3. Quiz 7.2
1. VIDEO: Nested for loops
2. VIDEO: Nested While loops
3. Nested Loops
4. Quiz 7.3
1. VIDEO: Break Statement in a While Loop
2. VIDEO: Control Statement in a While Loop
3. Break and Continue Statement
4. Quiz 7.4
1. VIDEO: Loop else
2. Loop else
3. Quiz 7.5
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. VIDEO: Simple Math Program
2. VIDEO: Welcome Message Function
3. VIDEO: Improving a Program with a Function
4. Defining Function
5. Quiz 8.1
1. VIDEO: Control Flow: Calling a Brunch Menu Function
2. VIDEO: Book Club Email Messages
3. Control Flow and Functions
4. Quiz 8.2
1. VIDEO: Global Variables in a Program with a Function
2. VIDEO: Global and Local Variables in a Program with a Function
3. VIDEO: Editing Global Variables in a Program with a Function
4. Variable Scope
5. Quiz 8.3
1. VIDEO: Global and Local Variables in a Program with a Function
2. VIDEO: Exploring a Faulty Function
3. Arguments and Parameters
4. Quiz 8.4
1. VIDEO: Returning a Value from a Function
2. VIDEO: Using Function Calls in Expressions
3. Return Values
4. Quiz 8.5
1. VIDEO: Using Keyword Arguments
2. VIDEO: Using Default Parameter Values
3. Keyword Arguments
4. Quiz 8.6
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. VIDEO: Lists
2. Lists
3. Quiz 9.1
1. VIDEO: Mutability of a tuple vs a list
2. Tuples
3. Quiz 9.2
1. Dictionaries
2. Quiz 9.3
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. VIDEO: Importing area in a Python shell
2. Defining and Importing a Module
3. Quiz 10.1
1. Using Modules
2. Quiz 10.2
1. VIDEO: Importing Functions
2. VIDEO: Importing Modules
3. The from Keyword
4. Quiz 10.3
1. VIDEO: Sphere Test Code
2. VIDEO: The Main Module
3. Top-level code
4. Quiz 10.4
1. VIDEO: help function
2. The help function
3. Quiz 10.5
1. Finding Modules
2. Installing Third-Party Packages/Libraries
3. Quiz 10.6
1. Environments
2. Quiz 10.7
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. VIDEO: Using len() to Get the Length of a List
2. Modifying and Iterating a List
3. Quiz 11.1
1. VIDEO: Sorting
2. Sorting and reversing lists
3. Quiz 11.2
1. VIDEO: Copying a list
2. Common list operations
3. Quiz 11.3
1. VIDEO: List-of-lists
2. Nested Lists
3. Quiz 11.4
1. VIDEO: Filtering a list
2. List comprehensions
3. Quiz 11.5
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. VIDEO: Dictionaries
2. VIDEO: Dictionaries properties
3. Dictionaries Basics
4. Quiz 12.1
1. VIDEO: Creating a Dictionary Object
2. VIDEO: dict() for Dictionary Initialization
3. Dictionary Creation
4. Quiz 12.2
1. Video: Accessing Dictionary Items
2. VIDEO:Modifying Dictionary Items
3. Dictionary Operations
4. Quiz 12.3
1. Conditionals and Looping in dictionaries
2. Quiz 12.4
1. VIDEO: Nested Dictionaries - Squares of numbers
2. Nested Dictionaries and Dictionary Comprehension
3. Quiz 12.5
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. VIDEO: Using objects to model social media
2. VIDEO: Encapsulating concert ticket information
3. VIDEO: Abstracting data in a countdown calculator
4. Object-oriented programming basics
5. Quiz 13.1
1. VIDEO: Classes and Instances: Representing a coffee order with a class
2. VIDEO: Creating multiple coffee orders and changing attributes
3. VIDEO: Using class attributes for shared coffee order information
4. Classes and Instances
5. Quiz 13.2
1. VIDEO: Creating patient vital signs instances
2. Instance Methods
3. Quiz 13.3
1. VIDEO: Customizing __str__() in a user-defined class, Engineer
2. VIDEO: Overloading __add__() for a user-defined class, Account
3. Overloading Operators
4. Quiz 13.4
1. VIDEO: Importing classes from files
2. Using Modules with classes
3. Quiz 13.5
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. VIDEO: Three Towers
2. VIDEO: Solving Three Towers
3. Recursion Basics
4. Quiz 14.1
1. VDEO: Finding the Factorial of 5
2. VIDEO: Factorial Using Recursion
3. Simple math recursion
4. Quiz 14.2
1. VIDEO: Identifying a Palindrome
2. VIDEO: Checking List Permutations
3. Recursion with strings and lists
4. Quiz 14.3
1. VIDEO: Recursive Fibonacci Function
2. More math recursion
3. Quiz 14.4
1. VIDEO: Binary Search
2. Using recursion to solve problems
3. Quiz 14.5
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. VIDEO: is-a relationship between Employee and Developer
2. VIDEO: Using inheritance to create subclasses
3. Inheritance basics videos
4. Quiz 15.1
1. VIDEO: Defining a simple subclass
2. VIDEO: Defining __init__() in a subclass
3. Attribute access
4. Quiz 15.2
1. VIDEO: Overriding a superclass method
2. VIDEO: Using super() to call the superclass __init__() method
3. Methods
4. Quiz 15.3
1. VIDEO: Hierarchical organization and types of inheritance
2. Hierarchical Inheritance
3. Quiz 15.4
1. VIDEO: Multiple inheritance organization
2. Multiple Inheritance and mixin classes
3. Quiz 15.5
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. VIDEO: Opening a file
2. VIDEO: read() and readline()
3. Reading from files
4. Quiz 16.1
1. VIDEO: write() and close()
2. Writing to files
3. Quiz 16.2
1. Files in different locations and working with CSV files
2. Quiz 16.3
1. Handling Exceptions
2. Quiz 16.4
1. Raising Exceptions
2. Quiz 16.5
1. Summary
1. Introduction
1. VIDEO: Data Science Life Cycle
2. VIDEO: Google Colaboratory Ecosystem
3. Introduction to Data Science
4. Quiz 17.1
1. VIDEO: Creating an ndarray Object
2. VIDEO: NumPy Array Operations
3. Numpy
4. Quiz 17.2
1. Pandas
2. Quiz 17.3
1. VIDEO: Indexing a DataFrame
2. VIDEO: Indexing on a flight dataset
3. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
4. Quiz 17.4
1. VIDEO: Visualization Types
2. Data Visualization
3. Quiz 17.5
1. Summary
1. Assignment
2. Game.py
3. words.txt
4. Rubric for Assignment
1. Final Exam Instructions
2. Final Exam

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Computer Science 230: Programming in Python

CHAPTER 1 - Introduction to Programming

Ch 1.1: Systems Development Life Cycle

Ch 1.2: Program Design

Ch 1.3: Program Quality

Ch 1.4: Pseudocode

Ch 1.5: Flowcharts

Ch 1.6: Software Testing

Ch 1.7 - Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Ch 1.8: Key Concepts in Software Development: Version Control, Git, and I/O Operations

Ch 1.9: Introduction to "Hello, World!" Program and Python IDEs

Summary of Chapter 1

CHAPTER 2- Introduction to Python: A Versatile Scripting and Modular Language

Ch 2.1: The Python language

Ch 2.2: Input/Output

Summary of Chapter 2

CHAPTER 3- Introduction to Basic Data Types and Operations in Python

Ch 3.1: Constants, Variables and Identifier

Ch 3.2: Data types in Python

Ch 3.3: Strings

Ch 3.4: Type Conversion in Python: Implicit and Explicit Conversions, Combining Data Types, and Best Practices

Summary of Chapter 3

CHAPTER 4- Understanding Python Errors, Comments, and Code Quality

Ch 4.1: Understanding and Managing Python Errors: A Comprehensive Guide

Ch 4.2: Comments, and Code Quality in Python

Ch 4.3: Understanding the Python Interpreter and Shell

Summary of Chapter 4

CHAPTER 5: Understanding Programming Fundamentals: Assignment, Arithmetic, Relational, and Logical Operations

Ch 5.1: Fundamental Programming Concepts and Operators

Ch 5.2: Relational Operators

Ch 5.3: Logical Operators

Ch 5.4: Order of Operations

Summary of Chapter 5

CHAPTER 6: Decision-Making in Python: If Statements, Elif, Nested Statements, and Conditional Expressions

Ch 6.1: Control Structures and Structured Programming

Ch 6.2: If, Elif, and Else Statements

Ch 6.3: Chained Decisions

Ch 6.4: Nested Decision Statements in Programming

Ch 6.5: Conditional Expressions in Python

Summary of Chapter 6

CHAPTER 7: Comprehensive Guide to Python Loops and Control Statements

Ch 7.1: While loop

Ch 7.2: For loop

Ch 7.3: Nested loops

Ch 7.4: Break and Continue

Ch 7.5: Loop else

Summary of Chapter 7

CHAPTER 8: Functions and Control Flow in Python

Ch 8.1: Understanding Functions in Programming

Ch 8.2: Understanding Control Flow and Functions in Programming

Ch 8.3: Understanding Global and Local Scope in Python Functions

Ch 8.4: Understanding Arguments, Parameters, and Mutability in Python Functions

Ch 8.5: Understanding Function Return Values and Usage in Python

Ch 8.6: Understanding Keyword and Positional Arguments in Functions

Summary of Chapter 8

CHAPTER 9: Introduction to Python Data Structures: Lists, Tuples, and Dictionaries

Ch 9.1: List

Ch 9.2: Tuples

Ch 9.3: Dictionaries

Summary of Chapter 9

CHAPTER 10: Mastering Python Modules: Techniques, Best Practices, and Advanced Concepts

Ch 10.1: Understanding and Utilizing Python Modules: Defining and Importing Functions for Geometric Calculations

Ch 10.2: Effective Usage of Python Modules and Best Practices

Ch 10.3: Managing Module Imports and Name Collisions in Python

Ch 10.4: Understanding Side Effects and __name__ in Python Modules

Ch 10.5: Understanding and Utilizing Colors in HTML and Python Modules

Ch 10.6: Python Modules: Built-in and Third-Party Options

Ch 10.7: Managing Python Environments and Seeking Help

Summary of Chapter 10

CHAPTER 11: Mastering List Operations, Iteration, and Comprehensions

Ch 11.1: Comprehensive Guide to List Operations and Iteration in Python

Ch 11.2: Sorting and reversing lists

Ch 11.3: List Operations and Copying in Python

Ch 11.4: Working with List-of-Lists in Python

Ch 11.5: Understanding and Utilizing List Comprehensions in Python

Summary of Chapter 11

CHAPTER 12: Mastering Python Dictionaries

Ch 12.1: Understanding Python Dictionaries: Concepts and Practice

Ch 12.2: Python Dictionary Creation and Usage

Ch 12.3: Python Dictionary Operations: Accessing, Modifying, and Managing Items

Ch 10.4: Understanding Side Effects and name in Python Modules

Ch 13.3: Understanding init() and Instance Methods in Python