Topics Covered by Day

August

• 24: intro, asst1 (contest), str, int, len

  26: asst1 continued, open, close, next, readline, readlines, write, rstrip, s[::-1], split

  28: reverselines example, more on asst1, reading and writing files

• 31: exercise: smart quotes

September

• 2: asst1 checkprotect problem, % formatting, string slices

  4: asst2 intro, trees, objects, classes, methods, fields, __init__, self

• 9: objects, references vs containment metaphor, roll dice class exercise

  11: quiz1, review asst2, roll dice class exercise (adding set of dice)

• 14: solution to roll dice example, student class exercise

  16: SVG files and shape classes, intro to inheritence

  18: intro to gtk, glade, mock-up of animalgui

• 21: gtk calculator ui example

  23: temperature conversion ui example

  25: quiz2

• 28: animalgame solution, animalgui functionality, current and root

  30: multiplication quiz in-class exercise

October

• 2: intro to asst4: platformer

• 5: rotating tile example, intro to tiled

  7: map class for platformer asst

  9: quiz, intro to guy class

• 12: platformer questions, extra credit ideas

  14: guy class testing and debugging

• 19: inheritance, shape inheritance example

  21: animal gui solution

  23: canceled

• 26: intro to asst5: asteroids

  28: demo platformers

  30: asteroids part ii

November

• 2: bouncing ball exercise using asteroids starter code

  4: bouncing ball continued, winpdb debugger demo

  6: quiz, asteroids part iii

• 9: recursion, towers of hanoi, dragon fractal

  11: work on asteroids

  13: more recursion, factorial, fibonacci, dictionaries, using dictionaries to memoize fibonacci

• 16: HTML, preview of blog asst part I

  18: detailed intro to blog part I

  20: asteroids demos, quicksort

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