Notes for CISC 106

• Getting started with Python (This includes the first Daily Challenge)
• HW1 due September 14:
  1. Write a program that asks the user for their name and which displays the results of "The Name Game" when played with their name.
  2. Write a program which tells the time.
• Functions, Loops, and String Formatting (This includes the second Daily Challenge)
• True/False, If, Elif, Else, Logic (This includes the third Daily Challenge)
• Pseudo-Code, Thinking out a big task (This includes the fourth Daily Challenge)
• Lists, Contracts, Assert (This includes the fifth Daily Challenge)
• Dictionaries (This includes the sixth Daily Challenge)
• Local Scope (This includes the seventh Daily Challenge)
• Guest Lecture: Turtle Tic-Tac-Toe
• Aliases and Copies
• Review: Code Golf (for prizes!)
• Loops reloaded: Recursion
• Advanced Recursion
• Sign-up for a presentation slot
• In-Depth iterables
• Generators and Functional Coding
• File IO mini-lecture
• Code-Golf 2
• PyGame (an aside)
• OOP-lite
• Intro to MATLAB
• Project Check-in Day
• Big-Oh, Ballpark Analysis, Sorting Algorithms
• Semester Review and 40 Speed Problems