Class 1: Tuesday, September 2nd

• Course Description
• This Course Requires Work
• Texts
• Unix Account
• Programming Assignments
• Course Work
• Software Needed for the Course
• Laptops
• Phones
• Attendance
• Recorded Class Meetings
• Course Documents
• Grading Policy
• Exams and Your Grade
• Late Work
• Email Notification
• Gradescope
• If You Fall Behind See Me
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Accommodations for Disabilities
• Classroom Behavior
• Academic Integrity
• Reputation
• Academic Honesty
• Honesty Expected In This Class
• What Happens If You Are Caught Cheating?
• Use of Artificial Intelligence Programs
• Class Discussion Area
• Class Assistant
• Making the Class Interesting
• Taking Notes
• The Most Important Thing to Learn in This Class
• Learn to Read Carefully
• Who Am I
• Do You Have Enough Time to Do the Work for This Course?
• Your Mental Health
• Office Hours
• Academic Support Programs
• Other UMB Services
• Contacting Me
• First Class Exercise
• First Homework Assignment

Class 2: Thursday, September 4th

• Assignments
• Submitting Assignments
• Working on Assignments
• Software for the Class
• Class Assistant
• Files
• Directories (Folders)
• Working With Files
• Your Unix Course Directory
• Types of Programming Languages
• Python
• Downloading Python
• Running IDLE
• Syntax Highlighting
• Creating a Python Script
• Running a Script in IDLE
• Changing a Python Script
• Two Ways to Run Python
• Python in Class Exercises
• Running Python in Interactive Mode
• Scripts versus Interactive Mode
• Using FileZilla
• Today's Class Exercise

Class 3: Tuesday, September 9th

• Some Skills Only Come With Work
• Class Exercises
• Getting Help
• Describing a Problem
• Don't Use Screenshots in Piazza
• Output
• Literals
• Strings and String Literals
• Triple Quotes
• Characters
• ASCII
• Unicode
• Representing Unicode Values
• Ranges of Characters in ASCII
• Variables
• Creating Variables with Assignment Statements

Class 4: Thursday, September 11th

• Creating Directories with FileZilla
• Keeping Your Scripts Organized
• Using FileZilla to Fix Problems
• Use Flash Cards to Prepare for Graded Quizzes
• Expressions
• Comments
• Variable Naming Rules
• Choosing Good Variable Names
• Printing Multiple Values
• Numeric Data Types and Literals
• Why You Need to Know About Data Types
• Conversion Functions
• Reading Input from the Keyboard
• Reading Numbers with the input Function

Class 5: Tuesday, September 16th

• Importance of Exams
• Preparing for Exams
• Do Not Fall Behind in This Course
• Read the Homework Assignments Carefully
• Performing Calculations
• Decimal and Integer Division
• Exponent Operator
• Remainder Operator
• Operator Precedence
• Grouping with Parentheses
• Mixed-Type Expressions and Data Type Conversion
• Breaking Long Statements into Multiple Lines
• Expressions inside Expressions
• Converting Algebra Into Python