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

Class 5: Tuesday, September 22nd

• Learn to Read Carefully
• Graded Quiz Today
• Late Penalty
• Do Not Email Me about Missing Assignments
• Importance of Exams
• Preparing for Exams
• Do Not Fall Behind in This Course
• Read the Homework Assignments Carefully
• Representation of Data
• Operators
• New Arithmetic Operators
• Normal Division
• Integer Division
• Remainder Operator
• Exponent Operator
• Operator Precedence
• Grouping with Parentheses
• Expressions inside Expressions
• Converting Algebra Into Python

Class 6: Thursday, September 24th

• Attending Class
• Converting Decimal to Integer
• Resources
• Breaking Long Statements into Multiple Lines
• Whitespace Characters
• Escape Sequences
• Concatenation Operator
• Concatenating Strings with Numbers
• F-strings
• Paths Through a Program
• Control Structures
• Two Types of Control Structures

Class 7: Tuesday, September 29th

• Your Mental Health
• Collecting and Testing Assignments
• Notifying You About Missing Work
• Late Work
• Help with Assignments
• No Appointment Needed For Office Hours
• Checking Class Exercises
• Line Numbers In IDLE
• if Statements
• Simple if Statement
• Boolean Expression
• Relational Operators
• Precedence of Relational Operators
• if-else Statements
• Indentation in ifStatements
• Comparing Strings
• Nested if Statements
• Testing a Series of Conditions
• if-elif-else Statements

Class 8: Thursday, October 1st

• Keep Each Study Period Short
• Use Tabs in a Code Block
• Misleading Error Messages
• Logical Operators
• Short-Circuit Evaluation
• Checking Numeric Ranges with Logical Operators
• Precedence of Logical Operators
• Boolean Variables
• Keep Your Code Short

Class 9: Tuesday, October 6th

• If You Fall Behind See Me
• Comments
• Don't Use Whitespace at the Beginning of a Line
• Converting Results to Integer
• Use Spaces before and after =
• Loops
• while Loops
• Testing Variables in While Loops
• Infinite Loops
• Data Validation
• Data Validation Loops
• An Improved Data Validation Loop
• An Example of Input Validation
• Compound Statements

Class 10: Thursday, October 8th

• Read the Material Before Class
• The for Loop in Python
• for Loops in Other Languages
• for Loops
• The range Function
• Setting the First and Last Values with range
• Changing the Increment with range
• Reversing the range Values
• Why Does Python Have the range function?
• for Loops that Don't Use the Loop Value
• Nested Loops