Class 1: Tuesday, September 8th

• 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
• 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

• Class Directory for IT 117
• Assignments
• Submitting Assignments
• Rules for Scripts
• Software for the Class
• The Python Interpreter
• 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 Sequences
• 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
• Precedence of Logical Operators
• Loops
• While Loops
• Infinite Loops

Class 3: Tuesday, September 15th

• Do You Have Enough Time to Do the Work for This Course?
• Class Quizzes
• First Graded Quiz
• Class Exercises
• Getting Help
• Describing a Problem
• Don't Use Screenshots in Piazza
• Making Script Executable
• Login Failure
• Class Page for IT 116
• 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, September 17th

• Make a Study Schedule
• First Graded Quiz
• Gradescope
• Class Quizzes
• Rules for Homework Scripts
• 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, 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
• 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, September 24th

• Attending Class
• Hashbang Problem with Windows Text Files
• Creating Lists
• Lists versus Dictionaries
• The in And not in Operators
• Deleting Elements from A Dictionary
• Getting the Number of Elements in a Dictionary
• Largest and Smallest Keys
• Sorting Dictionary Keys
• Hash Tables