CISC106 Section 11

Meeting Time and Place

Section 11

Lecture: Mon Wed 8:40 - 9:55 in Brown Lab 206

Lab (30L): Tues 9:05 - 9:55 in Spencer Lab 010

Lab (31L): Tues 10:10 - 11:00 in Spencer Lab 010

Instructors

Andrew Novocin

Office Hours: Mon 10-11:15, Tues and Thurs 8:30-9:15 in Smith 439

Bagel Office Hours: Thurs 1-2 at Newark Deli & Bagels

Empowerd Coding: Frid 1-5 in Lerner Trading Lab

Email: andynovo@udel.edu

Lei Huang

Office Hours: Thur. 1PM - 3PM in Smith 201

Email: leihuang@udel.edu

Mark Barbera

Office Hours: Fri. 11AM - 1PM in Smith 201

Email: mbarbera@udel.edu

Luke Szewczak

Office Hours: Wed 2:30PM - 4:30PM in Smith 201

Email: szewczak@udel.edu

Important Links

My Notes at py.prof.ninja/notes

HW assignments at py.prof.ninja/hw

Course Grades on SAKAI

Lab assignments at python.prof.ninja/labs

Group projects at python.prof.ninja/projects

In-class surveys at bhic.prof.ninja

Submission Guidelines

Class DJ site (Join and help DJ the room)

Samples of Python Scripts doing cool things

Super Powers I want you to gain

• Code Vision: see everything as a process
• Business Mind: imagine automagic tools everywhere
• Python Armor: add Python3 to your resume
• Telekinesis: use your brain to move sprites around a screen
• Matrix-esque Skill Download: we will install the following notions:
  • Program Design
  • Flow Control
  • Variables
  • Functions
  • File IO
  • Lists
  • Strings
  • Dictionaries
  • Classes
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Recursion
  • Polymorphism
  • Graphical User Interfaces GUIs
  • Modeling
  • MATLAB

Grades/Assessment

Opportunities to be evaluated, make adjustments, and grow:

• Two midterm tests 15% each
• One final exam 20%
• Two group projects 10% each
• Five Homework assignments 2% each
• Ten Lab Assignments 1% each
• ~20 daily challenges .5% each

Your final grade cannot be more than one letter grade higher than your test average.

Tentative Schedule:

• 09/01 Lab 1
• 09/08 Lab 2
• 09/14 HW 1
• 09/15 Lab 3
• 09/22 Lab 4
• 09/28 HW 2
• 09/29 Lab 5
• 10/06 Lab 6
• 10/14 Test 1
• 10/19 HW 3
• 10/20 Lab 7
• 10/27 Project 1
• 11/03 Lab 8
• 11/09 HW 4
• 11/11 Test 2 (Practice Test )
• 11/17 Lab 9
• 12/01 Lab 10
• 12/08 Project 2
• 12/10 CISC Showcase!
• Final exam 12/14 10:30am-12:30pm Brown 206

Helpful Resources

So I know that we are facing some difficult tasks everyday in class: just jumping, in embracing the discomfort, and flailing around until things make sense. (If I haven't told you my dark room analogy for learning technical material ask me to when you read this line.)

In light of that, here are some resources you might find very helpful in trying to find your way around these magic words:

• A Python3 Cheatsheet. Cheatsheets are very dense reminders of all of the notational aspects, you can google many others. If you look at this now, you can make it your goal to understand every part of the cheatsheet and then work through it slowly.
• How do I learn Python FAQ on Quora. There are tons of great books, resources, and bits of advice for people learning Python. Both from scratch and if you know some other language and are switching.
• How to think like a computer scientist. This is a great book on learning python, free, interactive, and online. It is listed in the Quora FAQ along with many other great resources.
• Pick a small topic, google it, read about it, think about it, imagine applications for it, and understand everything about it for one day. We can only move one day at a time, so if you want to master one tiny aspect at a time it might help to have a core foundation at your mental fingertips.