Class 1: Tuesday, January 27th

• Prerequisites
• 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
• Getting Enough Sleep
• Office Hours
• Academic Support Programs
• Other UMB Services
• Contacting Me
• First Class Exercise
• First Homework Assignment

Class 2: Thursday, January 29th

• Assignments
• Submitting Assignments
• Working on Assignments
• Rules for Scripts
• Software for the Class
• Class Assistant
• The Python Interpreter
• Python Scripts
• Variables
• Creating Variables with Assignment Statements
• Data Types
• Integers and Floats
• Characters
• Strings and String Literals
• Expressions
• Comments
• Variable Naming Rules
• The input Function
• Operators
• Decimal and Integer Division
• Remainder Operator
• Exponent Operator
• Operator Precedence
• Grouping with Parentheses
• Mixed-Type Expressions and Data Type Conversion
• Escape Characters
• Concatenation Operator
• Boolean Expression
• Relational Operators
• Precedence of Relational Operators
• Comparing Strings
• Control Structures
• if Statements
• Code Blocks
• if-else Statements
• Nested if Statements
• Testing a Series of Conditions
• if-elif-else Statements
• Logical Operators
• Loops
• While Loops
• Infinite Loops

Class 3: Tuesday, February 3rd

• Class Exercises
• Getting Help
• Describing a Problem
• Don't Use Screenshots in Piazza
• Making Script Executable
• for Loops
• The range Function
• Augmented Assignment Operators
• Nested Loops
• Functions
• Function Names
• Defining a Function
• Calling a Function
• Parameters
• Local Variables
• Functions that Return Values
• Returning Multiple Values
• Standard Library Functions
• Objects
• Files
• Using Files
• Creating a File Object
• Writing Data to a File
• Using a File More Than Once
• Appending Data to a File
• Reading Files with a for Loop

Class 4: Thursday, February 5th

• Run Test Scripts in the Exercise Directory
• Creating Directories with FileZilla
• Keeping Your Scripts Organized
• Use Flash Cards to Prepare for Graded Quizzes
• Running a Script Without python3
• Records
• Errors
• Syntax Errors
• Logic Errors
• Runtime Errors
• Exception Objects
• Catching Exceptions
• The else Clause
• Sequences
• Indexing Sequence Objects
• Sequence Operators
• Empty Sequences
• The len Function
• Using a for Loop with Sequences
• Changing Values in a for Loop
• Slices
• The in Operator
• List Methods
• The del Statement
• The min and max Functions
• Negative Numbers as Indexes
• strip()
• Splitting a String

Class 5: Tuesday, February 10th

• Importance of Exams
• Preparing for Exams
• Read the Homework Assignments Carefully
• Sequences
• Dictionaries
• Dictionary Literals
• Getting Values from a Dictionary
• Empty Dictionaries
• Adding Entries to a Dictionary
• Changing a Dictionary Value
• Dictionaries Are Not Sequences
• Looping Through a Dictionary
• Tuples As Dictionary Values
• When To Use a Dictionary

Class 6: Thursday, February 12th

• Hashbang Problem with Windows Text Files
• Creating Lists
• Lists versus Dictionaries
• Deleting Elements from A Dictionary
• Getting the Number of Elements in a Dictionary
• Largest and Smallest Keys
• Sorting Dictionary Keys
• Hash Tables

Class 7: Tuesday, February 17th

• Collecting and Testing Assignments
• Notifying You About Missing Work
• Late Work
• Help with Assignments
• No Appointment Needed For Office Hours
• Line Numbers In IDLE
• Printing a Dictionary in Reverse Order
• Values in a Boolean Context
• Keys Are Immutable
• Values in a Dictionary
• Dictionary Methods
• The clear method
• The get Method
• The pop Method
• The popitem Method
• The items Method
• The keys Method
• The values Method
• Real World Dictionary Example

Class 8: Thursday, February 19th

• Sets in Mathematics
• Set Membership
• Subsets and Supersets
• Union of Sets
• Intersection of Sets
• Difference between Sets
• Symmetric Difference between Sets
• Sets in Python
• Set Literals
• Creating a Set in Python
• The Empty Set
• Adding Elements to a Set
• Removing Elements from a Set
• Why Must Set Elements Be Immutable?

Class 9: Tuesday, February 24th

• Never Assume Your Code Works
• An Example of Evaluation in a Boolean Context
• The Size of a Set
• When Are Sets Equal?
• Elements in A Python Set
• for Loops with Sets
• Testing for Set Membership
• Union of Sets in Python
• Intersection of Sets in Python
• Difference between Sets in Python
• Symmetric Difference between Sets in Python
• Augmented Set Operators
• Subsets and Supersets
• Disjoint
• The clear Method
• min And max with Sets
• When Sets Are Best
• Practical Example
• Another Example
• Sets More Efficient Than Lists

Class 10: Thursday, February 26th

• Working with the Operating System
• The os Module
• os.getcwd()
• os.listdir(path)
• os.chdir(path)
• os.rename(old_name, new_name)
• os.remove(path)
• os.rmdir(path )
• os.mkdir(path )
• Running Unix Commands within Python
• os.environ
• The os.path Module
• os.path.isfile(path) and os.path.isdir(path)
• os.path.basename(path)
• The sys Module
• Getting Values from the Command Line
• Leaving a Running Script
• Usage Messages
• The platform Module

Class 11: Tuesday, March 3rd

• Making Script Executable
• Getting Your First IT Job
• Keep In Contact
• Regular Expressions
• Working with Regular Expressions
• What You Need to Remember
• The Characters in Regular Expressions
• Ordinary Characters in Regular Expressions
• Using Regular Expressions to Find a Match
• Pattern Objects
• A Test Function for Regular Expressions
• Meta-characters in Regular Expressions
• The . Meta-character
• The * Meta-character
• The + Meta-character
• The ? Meta-character
• The \ Meta-character
• Character Classes
• \d and \D Character Classes
• The \w and \W Character Classes
• The \s and \S Character Classes