Class 1: Tuesday, September 8th

• Course Description
• This Course Requires Work
• Texts
• Unix Account
• Programming Assignments
• Course Work
• Software Needed for the Course
• Attention
• Laptops
• Phones
• Attendance
• Recorded Class Meetings
• Course Documents
• Grading Policy
• Exams and Your Grade
• Late Work
• Email Notification
• Gradescope
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Accommodations for Disabilities
• Classroom Behavior
• 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
• Who Am I
• Office Hours
• Contacting Me
• First Class Exercise
• First Homework Assignment

Class 2: Thursday, September 10th

• Unix Account
• Your Home Directory
• Your Class Directory
• Help with Unix Account or Class Directory
• Assignments
• Submitting Assignments
• Software for the Class
• Files
• Directories (Folders)
• Working With Files
• Types of Programming Languages
• Python
• Downloading Python
• The IDLE Program
• Running IDLE
• Syntax Highlighting
• Creating a Python Script
• Fixing Errors in a Script
• Changing a Python Script
• IDLE Has Two Different Parts
• Python in Class Exercises
• Using FileZilla
• Today's Class Exercise

Class 3: Tuesday, September 15th

• Do You Have Enough Time to Do the Work for This Course?
• Class Quizzes
• First Graded Quiz
• Homework and it116 Directories
• Some Skills Only Come With Work
• Class Exercises
• Getting Help
• Describing a Problem
• Don't Use Screenshots in Piazza
• Login Failure
• Statements
• Functions
• Data Types
• Strings
• Characters
• ASCII
• Unicode
• Representing Unicode Values
• Ranges of Characters in ASCII
• Variables
• Creating Variables with Assignment Statements
• More on Characters

Class 4: Thursday, September 17th

• Make a Study Schedule
• First Graded Quiz
• Gradescope
• Class Quizzes
• Homework and it116 Directories
• Creating Directories with FileZilla
• Keeping Your Scripts Organized
• Using FileZilla to Fix Problems
• Use Flash Cards to Prepare for Graded Quizzes
• Recorded Class Meetings
• Literals
• 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